Gene Cantamessa

Gene Cantamessa (February 17, 1931 – November 8, 2011)^[1] was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for his work on the 1982 Steven Spielberg film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.^[2] Cantamessa received six additional Academy Award nominations in the same category during his career.

Gene Cantamessa
Born	(1931-02-17)February 17, 1931 New York City, New York, United States
Died	November 8, 2011(2011-11-08) (aged 80) Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Sound engineer
Years active	1969–1999

Selected filmography

Cantamessa won an Academy Award and was nominated for six more:

Won

• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)^[2]

Nominated

• The Candidate (1972)^[3]
• Young Frankenstein (1974)^[4]
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)^[5]
• 1941 (1979)^[6]
• 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)^[7]
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)^[8]