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:

• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

• The Candidate (1972)
• Young Frankenstein (1974)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• 1941 (1979)
• ' (1984)
• ' (1986)

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