filmmaker
filmmaker noun: a producer or director of films/movies.
Noun
filmmaker (plural filmmakers)
- A producer or director of films/movies.
- I spent a couple of months all by myself building a set and had my filmmaker friends, nonactors, play the parts.2007 March 11, Erik Piepenburg, “Reflections on Life as a Shaker-Upper”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021
- 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.2015, B. Forshaw, Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema
- Synonyms:
- moviemaker
filmmaker meaning in Punjabi, Persian and Thai
filmmaker in Punjabi
- filmmaker
- ਫ਼ਿਲਮਸਾਜ਼ filmasāz
filmmaker in Persian
- producer or director of films / movies
- فیلمساز filmsâz
filmmaker in Thai
- producer or director of films / movies
- ผู้ผลิตภาพยนตร์
Examples of filmmaker in a sentence
- The filmmakers licensed several iconic 80's songs for the soundtrack.
- Matte painting is a tool that filmmakers can use to create a scene that is impossible to achieve with conventional cinematographic means.
- What happens, though, if you, the filmmaker, can't get the malevolence to work?
Synonyms of filmmaker
Forms of filmmaker
| plural | filmmakers |
|---|---|
| alternative form | film-maker |
| alternative form | film maker |
Origin of filmmaker
From film + maker.
Words formed from filmmaker
Questions about filmmaker
- What does filmmaker mean?
- Filmmaker means a producer or director of films/movies.
- What is filmmaker in Punjabi?
- Filmmaker in Punjabi is ਫ਼ਿਲਮਸਾਜ਼ (filmasāz). See Filmmaker meaning in Punjabi.
- What part of speech is filmmaker?
- Filmmaker is a noun.
- What is the plural of filmmaker?
- The plural of filmmaker is filmmakers.
Words near filmmaker in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: filmmaker (page history and authors); ਫ਼ਿਲਮਸਾਜ਼ (Punjabi) (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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