Gene Cantamessa
# 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)
