bio-pic
bio-pic is the alternative form of biopic.
Meaning of biopic
Noun
biopic (plural biopics)
- A motion picture based on the life (or lives) of a real, rather than fictional, person (or people).
- This truism helps explain why the music biopic is stuck in such a compromising loop. […] Between 2000 to 2019, 55% of leading actor and actress Oscars went to performances in a biopic. Over the past four years, the genre has been responsible for 63 Oscar nominations. Yet at the same time...2026 April 26, Catherine Shoard, “Bad movies, good business: how sanitised biopics became a Hollywood staple”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2026
Forms of bio-pic
| plural | bio-pics |
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Questions about bio-pic
- What is bio-pic the alternative form of?
- Bio-pic is the alternative form of biopic.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bio-pic (page history and authors); biopic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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