filmmaker

[ film-mey-ker ]

/ ˈfɪlmˌmeɪ kər /

noun

Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production: the leading young filmmakers of France.

a person who makes film, especially for use in photography.

Origin of filmmaker

First recorded in 1905–10; film + maker

OTHER WORDS FROM filmmaker

film·mak·ing, noun

Words nearby filmmaker

filmi, filmic, filming, filmization, filmland, filmmaker, filmography, filmset, filmsetting, filmstrip, filmy

Example sentences from the Web for filmmaker

In “Steal This Episode,” the filmmaker denounces Homer Simpson as an “enemy of art.”

Here’s the Lost Judd Apatow ‘Simpsons’ Episode, Penned by Judd Apatow |Asawin Suebsaeng |January 6, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
Yet, for god knows what reason, his name is never brought up in the “Great American Filmmaker” conversation.

Oscars 2015: The Daily Beast’s Picks, From Scarlett Johansson to ‘Boyhood’ |Marlow Stern |January 6, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
Hitchcock saw the work of, and probably met, Murnau, the great German filmmaker--the earliest master of bleak light and shadow.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days |David Freeman |December 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
I just felt myself getting better and better, stronger and stronger as a filmmaker, and that is sort of embedded in the movies.

‘No Regrets’: Peter Jackson Says Goodbye to Middle-Earth |Alex Suskind |December 4, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

“My films are always held to a weirdly high standard,” filmmaker Christopher Nolan told The Daily Beast.

Christopher Nolan Explains Interstellar’s Big, Hotly Debated Twist |Marlow Stern |November 19, 2014 |DAILY BEAST