title: Gene Cantamessa
text: # 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)
  