ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Filmmaker

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Filmmaker is a noun meaning A producer or director of films/movies.

Meaning

A producer or director of films/movies.

Example Sentences

I spent a couple of months all by myself building a set and had my filmmaker friends, nonactors, play the parts.
Such prissy mollycoddlings of audience expectations were shortly to come under heavyweight siege from a variety of filmmakers in the 1950s – not least the aforementioned Otto Preminger.
On some level, the filmmakers behind Monster Trucks must have recognized the ill fit of Till playing a teenager, because they cast Jane Levy, a 27-year-old who can pass for younger but not a decade younger, as Meredith, a nerdy classmate of Tripp’s who moons over him as she insists on making an appointment to tutor him in biology. […] Till is somewhere on the Hemsworth spectrum (more engaging than Liam; not as charismatic at Chris), but Levy is wholly charming as his enthusiastic sidekick.

Word Forms

Synonyms for filmmaker

Depending on context, synonyms include moviemaker.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include film-maker, director, cineaste, cinema, movie, producer.

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