Gene Cantamessa

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)^[1] 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.^[2] 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)^[2]

Nominated

The Candidate (1972)^[3]
Young Frankenstein (1974)^[4]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)^[5]
1941 (1979)^[6]
2010 (1984)^[7]
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)^[8]

References

↑ "Gene Cantamessa Obituary". legacy.com. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
1 2 "The 55th Academy Awards (1983) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
↑ "The 45th Academy Awards (1973) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
↑ "The 47th Academy Awards (1975) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
↑ "The 50th Academy Awards (1978) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-05.
↑ "The 52nd Academy Awards (1980) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
↑ "The 57th Academy Awards (1985) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-13.
↑ "The 59th Academy Awards (1987) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-16.

External links

Gene Cantamessa at the Internet Movie Database

Gene Cantamessa at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)

Academy Award for Best Sound

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, Gordon E. Sawyer (1960) Gordon E. Sawyer, Fred Hynes (1961) John Cox (1962) Franklin Milton (1963) George Groves (1964) James Corcoran, Fred Hynes (1965) Franklin Milton (1966) Samuel Goldwyn Studio (1967) Shepperton Studios (1968) Jack Solomon, Murray Spivack (1969) Douglas Williams, Don Bassman (1970) Gordon McCallum, David Hildyard (1971) Robert Knudson, David Hildyard (1972) Robert Knudson, Chris Newman (1973) Ronald Pierce, Melvin Metcalfe, Sr. (1974) Robert Hoyt, Roger Heman, Earl Madery, John Carter (1975)

1976–2000	Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Jim Webb (1976) Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler, Derek Ball (1977) Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Darin Knight (1978) Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, Nat Boxer (1979) Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Peter Sutton (1980) Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Roy Charman (1981) Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don Digirolamo, Gene Cantamessa (1982) Mark Berger, Tom Scott, Randy Thom, David MacMillan (1983) Mark Berger, Tom Scott, Todd Boekelheide, Chris Newman (1984) Chris Jenkins, Gary Alexander, Larry Stensvold, Peter Handford (1985) John Wilkinson, Richard Rogers, Charles Grenzbach, Simon Kaye (1986) Bill Rowe, Ivan Sharrock (1987) Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore, Willie D. Burton (1988) Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg Rudloff, Elliot Tyson, Russell Williams (1989) Jeffrey Perkins, Bill W. Benton, Gregory H. Watkins, Russell Williams (1990) Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Lee Orloff (1991) Chris Jenkins, Doug Hemphill, Mark Smith, Simon Kaye (1992) Gary Summers, Gary Rydstrom, Shawn Murphy, Ron Judkins (1993) Gregg Landaker, Steve Maslow, Bob Beemer, David MacMillan (1994) Rick Dior, Steve Pederson, Scott Millan, David MacMillan (1995) Walter Murch, Mark Berger, David Parker, Chris Newman (1996) Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, Mark Ulano (1997) Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Ron Judkins (1998) John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David E. Campbell, David Lee (1999) Bob Beemer, Scott Millan, Ken Weston (2000)

2001–present	Michael Minkler, Chris Munro, Myron Nettinga (2001) David Lee, Michael Minkler, Dominick Tavella (2002) Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Hammond Peek, Michael Semanick (2003) Scott Millan, Greg Orloff, Bob Beemer, Steve Cantamessa (2004) Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, Hammond Peek (2005) Bob Beemer, Willie D. Burton, Michael Minkler (2006) Kirk Francis, Scott Millan, David Parker (2007) Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, Ian Tapp (2008) Paul N. J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett (2009) Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick (2010) Tom Fleischman, John Midgley (2011) Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Simon Hayes (2012) Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro (2013) Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley (2014)

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