Gene Cantamessa

Gene Cantamessa (February 17, 1931 – November 8, 2011) 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. Cantamessa received six additional Academy Award nominations in the same category during his career.

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


 * Won
 * E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)


 * Nominated
 * The Candidate (1972)
 * Young Frankenstein (1974)
 * Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
 * 1941 (1979)
 * 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
 * Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)