Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound is a 2019 documentary film about the history of sound design in cinema of the United States. It is directed by Midge Costin.

Interviewees

 * Walter Murch
 * Ben Burtt
 * Gary Rydstrom
 * George Lucas
 * Steven Spielberg
 * Robert Redford
 * Barbra Streisand
 * Ryan Coogler
 * Christopher Nolan
 * Hans Zimmer
 * David Lynch
 * Ang Lee
 * Sofia Coppola
 * Peter Weir

Critical reception
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes wrote of the critics' consensus, "Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound pays an all-too-rare tribute to an aspect of filmmaking that's utterly fascinating but often overlooked." The website assigned the film an approval rating of, based on reviews assessed as positive or negative; the average rating among the reviews is. The similar website Metacritic surveyed 12 critics and assessed 11 reviews as positive and 1 as mixed. It gave a weighted average score of 80 out of 100, which it said indicated "generally favorable reviews".