Kevin O'Connell to Finally Win One?

Thursday, February 21st, 2008 6:34am CST

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An article featuring Kevin O'Connell has appeared on The Peninsula website. Kevin O'Connell has been nominated 19 times in a row for a Sound Mixing Acadamy Award Oscar and never won it. This year he is nominated for the same Oscar for his work on the Michael Bay Transformers movie.

"If I win this year I plan to say the first thing that comes into my head"

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Re: Kevin O'Connell to Finally Win One? (637728)
Posted by Liege Evilmus on February 21st, 2008 @ 7:05am CST

Well if that counts as Transformers winning an Oscar, someone's gotta eat their collection!

Re: Kevin O'Connell to Finally Win One? (637748)
Posted by Ultra Magnus on February 21st, 2008 @ 8:19am CST

I'm never really a Negative Nancy about things, but I was grossly disappointed with the overall Sound Editing in the movie. Their misuse of(or TOTAL lack of) the Transformation sound effect seriously disappointed me to no end. The Voices lacked the characteristic 'Robot speech' effect that normally accompanies creatures that synthesize their voices through artificial means. Both of these items are relative contrivances of course, and there were some cool sound effects(mostly at the very beginning of the movie), but overall Transformers leaves SO MUCH room for awesome sound effects, and this was just not up to par. I'll admit they gave it a good shot, but but the whole Transformers Sound experience was still left a bit wanting for me.

Now, Jablonsky's Score is another story...

Re: Kevin O'Connell to Finally Win One? (637801)
Posted by Dozertron on February 21st, 2008 @ 9:38am CST

Get your fork, knife, and bib ready!

Re: Kevin O'Connell to Finally Win One? (637810)
Posted by Bouncy X on February 21st, 2008 @ 9:57am CST

well they used the transformation sound 4 times throughout the movie, thats 4 times more than i expected them to use it. lol

Re: Kevin O'Connell to Finally Win One? (637970)
Posted by First-Aid on February 21st, 2008 @ 1:08pm CST

I'm still ticked that Steve Jablonsky's score didn't get nominated. For pete's sake, EVERYONE is using the soundtrack now...NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, the major networks...it's just insane. I haven't seen a soundtrack go mainstream (orchestral soundtrack) since John Williams' biggest scores...

Re: Kevin O'Connell to Finally Win One? (638107)
Posted by Bouncy X on February 21st, 2008 @ 3:07pm CST

wow this must be a big deal, the radio mentioned his story earlier today. apparently at the last oscars he left soon as his category was up cuz his mom was sick and she died like 90mins after he arrived. and she's responsible for him being in the business and her dream was for him to win an oscar and thank her in front of the world.

is he canadian? cuz i'm in ottawa, canada ...i found it odd that the radio would mention this, especially like shortly after i read this article here.....eerie

Re: Kevin O'Connell to Finally Win One? (638414)
Posted by Skowl on February 21st, 2008 @ 7:07pm CST

Good luck man, really hope you get it this time.

Re: Kevin O'Connell to Finally Win One? (638448)
Posted by Autobot Snake Eyes on February 21st, 2008 @ 8:06pm CST

I thought they used the transformation sound three times bouncyx.
I only remember the phone one the blackout one and ironhides transformation in the final battle.
Please tell me what im missing.

....OH! yeah i forgot. I think this guy deserves the award 100%!
excellent sound work on the movie.