Gene Cantamessa
American sound engineer
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| Intro | American sound engineer | ||
| Places | United States of America | ||
| was | Audio engineer Engineer | ||
| Work field | Engineering Music | ||
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| Birth | 17 February 1931, Queens, New York City, New York, USA | ||
| Death | 8 November 2011Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA (aged 80 years) | ||
| Star sign | Aquarius | ||
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The details
Biography
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)