# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gene-cantamessa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:25:21.068Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gene-cantamessa"
name: "Gene Cantamessa"
slug: "gene-cantamessa"
description: "Gene Cantamessa 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."
tagline: "Sound engineer (1931-2011)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1931-02-17"
deathDate: "2011-11-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.65
  momentum:             8.297872340425533
  historical:           8.939489333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134481/"
    handle:    "nm0134481"
sources:
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    title: "吉恩·坎塔梅萨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Cantamessa"
    title: "Gene Cantamessa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Cantamessa"
    title: "Gene Cantamessa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Cantamessa"
    title: "Gene Cantamessa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Cantamessa"
    title: "Gene Cantamessa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Cantamessa"
    title: "Gene Cantamessa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%A1%E3%83%83%E3%82%B5"
    title: "ジーン・キャンタメッサ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Cantamessa"
    title: "Gene Cantamessa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Cantamessa"
    title: "Gene Cantamessa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q957361"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1559479"
    title: "Gene S. Cantamessa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump