Kevin O'Connell

Biography

Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He held the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20 until he finally won his first Academy Award for Hacksaw Ridge (2016) at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017. O'Connell was born in Long Island, New York, and raised in Los Angeles, California. At 18, he became a projectionist at 20th Century Fox Studios, where his mother was a secretary for the head of the sound department. Subsequently, failing the trade union examination for the job, he became a Los Angeles County firefighter for a year. At the behest of his concerned mother, alarmed at his gaunt and charred appearance following a brush fire in Sylmar, Los Angeles, he obtained a job as a machine-room operator at Warner Hollywood Studios, also known as Samuel Goldwyn Studios, in 1978, where he worked on films including Grease (1978). Becoming a recording technician, he earned his first screen credit on The Empire Strikes Back (1980). His first credit as a sound mixer was on Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982). In 1993, O'Connell joined Sony Pictures as a supervising sound mixer, working on films including Armageddon (1998), Spider-Man (2002), and Transformers (2007). In October 2013, he was hired to provide mixing services and take a creative leadership role at Todd Soundelux, working in that company's Todd-AO division in Santa Monica, California. O'Connell returned to Sony Pictures Post Production Services in 2015. He served a term as the representative of the Sound Branch in the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. O'Connell held the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards." In 2017, he won his first Academy Award at the 89th Academy Awards for Hacksaw Ridge (2016). In his acceptance speech at the ceremony, held on February 26, 2017, O'Connell thanked his mother, Skippy, who had urged him into his profession. In 2001, Kevin and Heather O'Connell were married. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kevin O'Connell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Bad Boys: Ride or Die

(2024) Sound Re-Recording Mixer

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Barbie

(2023) Sound Re-Recording Mixer

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Venom

(2018) Sound Re-Recording Mixer

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Spider-Man: No Way Home

(2021) Sound Re-Recording Mixer

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Hacksaw Ridge

(2016) Sound Re-Recording Mixer

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Oppenheimer

(2023) Sound Re-Recording Mixer

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Madame Web

(2024) Sound Re-Recording Mixer

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Spider-Man: Far From Home

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Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2024	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Flight Risk 2024-10-17 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Bad Boys: Ride or Die 2024-06-05 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	This Is Me…Now 2024-02-15 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Madame Web 2024-02-14 Movie
2023	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Gran Turismo 2023-08-09 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Oppenheimer 2023-07-19 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Barbie 2023-07-19 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. 2023-03-29 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Cocaine Bear 2023-02-22 Movie
2022	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Man from Toronto 2022-12-23 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Woman King 2022-09-16 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Where the Crawdads Sing 2022-07-14 Movie
2021	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021-12-15 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Red Notice 2021-11-04 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Venom: Let There Be Carnage 2021-09-30 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Cinderella 2021-09-03 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Escape Room: Tournament of Champions 2021-07-01 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Fatherhood 2021-06-18 Movie
2020	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Roald Dahl's The Witches 2020-10-26 Movie
	Sound Mixer	Maggie Simpson in "Playdate with Destiny" 2020-02-29 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Bad Boys for Life 2020-01-15 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Underwater 2020-01-08 Movie
2019	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Little Women 2019-12-25 Movie
	Sound Mixer	6 Underground 2019-12-10 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Charlie's Angels 2019-11-14 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Zombieland: Double Tap 2019-10-09 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Spider-Man: Far From Home 2019-06-28 Movie
2018	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Girl in the Spider's Web 2018-10-25 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Venom 2018-09-28 Movie
2017	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 2017-12-09 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Wheelman 2017-10-20 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Shot Caller 2017-07-13 Movie
2016	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Passengers 2016-12-21 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Edge of Seventeen 2016-11-18 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Hacksaw Ridge 2016-10-07 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Ben-Hur 2016-08-17 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Miracles from Heaven 2016-03-17 Movie
2015	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Sisters 2015-12-18 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Hardcore Henry 2015-09-12 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Goosebumps 2015-08-05 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Self/less 2015-07-10 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Pitch Perfect 2 2015-05-07 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Boy Next Door 2015-01-23 Movie
2014	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	No Good Deed 2014-09-10 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Muppets Most Wanted 2014-03-20 Movie
2013	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	47 Ronin 2013-12-06 Movie
	Sound Supervisor	The Purge 2013-05-31 Movie
2012	Sound Supervisor	The Polar Bears 2012-12-31 Movie
2011	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Muppets 2011-11-22 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son 2011-02-16 Movie
2010	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Sorcerer's Apprentice 2010-07-13 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 2010-05-19 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010-04-30 Movie
	Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Back-Up Plan 2010-04-23 Movie
2008	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Ruins 2008-04-02 Movie
2007	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	National Treasure: Book of Secrets 2007-12-13 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Transformers 2007-06-27 Movie
2006	Sound mixer	Apocalypto 2006-12-07 Movie
	Sound Supervisor	RV 2006-04-28 Movie
2005	Sound Mixer	Memoirs of a Geisha 2005-12-06 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Island 2005-07-21 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Guess Who 2005-03-25 Movie
2004	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	National Treasure 2004-11-19 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Spider-Man 2 2004-06-25 Movie
	Sound Mixer	The Passion of the Christ 2004-02-25 Movie
2003	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Bad Boys II 2003-07-18 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Dreamcatcher 2003-03-21 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Hunted 2003-03-11 Movie
2002	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Men in Black II 2002-07-03 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Bad Company 2002-06-07 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Spider-Man 2002-05-01 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Dragonfly 2002-02-22 Movie
2001	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Pearl Harbor 2001-05-21 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Saving Silverman 2001-02-09 Movie
2000	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Patriot 2000-06-28 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000-06-09 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Rules of Engagement 2000-04-07 Movie
1999	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Story of Us 1999-10-14 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Wild Wild West 1999-06-30 Movie
1998	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Enemy of the State 1998-11-20 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Mask of Zorro 1998-07-16 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Armageddon 1998-07-01 Movie
1997	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Starship Troopers 1997-11-07 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Speed 2: Cruise Control 1997-06-13 Movie
1996	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Mirror Has Two Faces 1996-11-15 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Rock 1996-06-07 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Twister 1996-05-10 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Juror 1996-02-02 Movie
1995	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The American President 1995-11-17 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Net 1995-07-28 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Crimson Tide 1995-05-12 Movie
1994	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Wyatt Earp 1994-06-24 Movie
1993	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Tombstone 1993-12-25 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	True Romance 1993-09-09 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Sliver 1993-05-21 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Alive 1993-01-15 Movie
1992	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Trespass 1992-12-25 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Mr. Saturday Night 1992-09-23 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Raising Cain 1992-08-07 Movie
1991	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Grand Canyon 1991-12-25 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	City Slickers 1991-06-07 Movie
1990	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Misery 1990-11-30 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Blue Steel 1990-03-16 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Tremors 1990-01-19 Movie
1989	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Black Rain 1989-09-22 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	A Dry White Season 1989-09-20 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Cousins 1989-02-10 Movie
1988	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Child's Play 1988-11-09 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Big Top Pee-wee 1988-07-22 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Rambo III 1988-05-24 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Wrong Guys 1988-05-13 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Beetlejuice 1988-03-30 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Masquerade 1988-03-11 Movie
1987	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Broadcast News 1987-12-16 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	The Running Man 1987-11-13 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Best Seller 1987-09-25 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Who's That Girl 1987-08-07 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Beverly Hills Cop II 1987-05-18 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Morgan Stewart's Coming Home 1987-02-20 Movie
1986	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Tai-Pan 1986-11-07 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Ruthless People 1986-06-26 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	SpaceCamp 1986-06-06 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Top Gun 1986-05-16 Movie
1985	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Silverado 1985-07-10 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Secret Admirer 1985-06-14 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985-05-21 Movie
1984	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Dune 1984-12-14 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Starman 1984-12-13 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Gremlins 1984-06-08 Movie
1983	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Terms of Endearment 1983-11-20 Movie
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Breathless 1983-05-13 Movie
1982	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982-05-21 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv