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)

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