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Gene Cantamessa
Born	(1931-02-17)February 17, 1931 New York City, New York, United States
Died	November 8, 2011(2011-11-08) (aged 80) Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Sound engineer
Years active	1969–1999

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)

References

"Gene Cantamessa Obituary". legacy.com. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
^ "The 55th Academy Awards (1983) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
"The 45th Academy Awards (1973) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 28, 2011.
"The 47th Academy Awards (1975) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
"The 50th Academy Awards (1978) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved October 5, 2011.
"The 52nd Academy Awards (1980) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
"The 57th Academy Awards (1985) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
"The 59th Academy Awards (1987) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved October 16, 2011.

External links

Gene Cantamessa at IMDb
Gene Cantamessa at Memory Alpha

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1929–1950	Douglas Shearer (1929/30) Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department (1930/31) Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department (1931/32) Franklin Hansen (1932/33) John P. Livadary (1934) Douglas Shearer (1935) Douglas Shearer (1936) Thomas T. Moulton (1937) Thomas T. Moulton (1938) Bernard B. Brown (1939) Douglas Shearer (1940) Jack Whitney (1941) Nathan Levinson (1942) Stephen Dunn (1943) Edmund H. Hansen (1944) Stephen Dunn (1945) John P. Livadary (1946) Gordon E. Sawyer (1947) Thomas T. Moulton (1948) Thomas T. Moulton (1949) Thomas T. Moulton (1950)
1951–1975	Douglas Shearer (1951) London Films Sound Department (1952) John P. Livadary (1953) Leslie I. Carey (1954) Fred Hynes (1955) Carlton W. Faulkner (1956) George Groves (1957) Fred Hynes (1958) Franklin Milton (1959) Fred Hynes and Gordon E. Sawyer (1960) Gordon E. Sawyer and Fred Hynes (1961) John Cox (1962) Franklin Milton (1963) George Groves (1964) James Corcoran and Fred Hynes (1965) Franklin Milton (1966) Samuel Goldwyn Studio (1967) Shepperton Studios (1968) Jack Solomon and Murray Spivack (1969) Douglas Williams and Don Bassman (1970) Gordon McCallum and David Hildyard (1971) Robert Knudson and David Hildyard (1972) Robert Knudson and Chris Newman (1973) Ronald Pierce and Melvin Metcalfe Sr. (1974) Robert Hoyt, Roger Heman, Earl Madery, and John Carter (1975)
1976–2000	Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, and Jim Webb (1976) Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler, and Derek Ball (1977) Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, and Darin Knight (1978) Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, and Nat Boxer (1979) Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, and Peter Sutton (1980) Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, and Roy Charman (1981) Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don Digirolamo, and Gene Cantamessa (1982) Mark Berger, Tom Scott, Randy Thom, and David MacMillan (1983) Mark Berger, Tom Scott, Todd Boekelheide, and Christopher Newman (1984) Chris Jenkins, Gary Alexander, Larry Stensvold, and Peter Handford (1985) John Wilkinson, Richard Rogers, Charles Grenzbach, and Simon Kaye (1986) Bill Rowe and Ivan Sharrock (1987) Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore, and Willie D. Burton (1988) Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg Rudloff, Elliot Tyson, and Russell Williams II (1989) Jeffrey Perkins, Bill W. Benton, Gregory H. Watkins, and Russell Williams II (1990) Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, and Lee Orloff (1991) Chris Jenkins, Doug Hemphill, Mark Smith, and Simon Kaye (1992) Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Shawn Murphy, and Ron Judkins (1993) Gregg Landaker, Steve Maslow, Bob Beemer, and David MacMillan (1994) Rick Dior, Steve Pederson, Scott Millan, and David MacMillan (1995) Walter Murch, Mark Berger, David Parker, and Christopher Newman (1996) Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, and Mark Ulano (1997) Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, and Ron Judkins (1998) John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David E. Campbell, and David Lee (1999) Bob Beemer, Scott Millan, and Ken Weston (2000)
2001–present	Michael Minkler, Chris Munro, and Myron Nettinga (2001) David Lee, Michael Minkler, and Dominick Tavella (2002) Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek (2003) Scott Millan, Greg Orloff, Bob Beemer, and Steve Cantamessa (2004) Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, and Hammond Peek (2005) Bob Beemer, Willie D. Burton, and Michael Minkler (2006) Kirk Francis, Scott Millan, and David Parker (2007) Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, and Ian Tapp (2008) Paul N. J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett (2009) Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo, and Ed Novick (2010) Tom Fleischman and John Midgley (2011) Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, and Simon Hayes (2012) Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, and Chris Munro (2013) Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins, and Thomas Curley (2014) Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff, and Ben Osmo (2015) Kevin O'Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie, and Peter Grace (2016) Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo, and Mark Weingarten (2017) Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin, and John Casali (2018) Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson (2019) Jaime Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortés Navarrete, and Michelle Couttolenc (2020) Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill, and Ron Bartlett (2021) Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon, and Mark Taylor (2022) Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn (2023)

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