About Gene Cantamessa
Gene Cantamessa, 80, American sound engineer (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Ghostbusters, Young Frankenstein), Oscar winner (1983).
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|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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