filmography

American  

[fil-mog-ruh-fee] / fɪlˈmɒg rə fi /

noun

• filmographies
  plural

1. a collection of writings about motion pictures, especially detailed essays dealing with specific films.

2. a listing of motion pictures by actor, director, genre, etc., and usually including pertinent facts about the production of each film.

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filmography British  

/ fɪlˈmɒɡrəfɪ /

noun

1. a list of the films made by a particular director, actor, etc

2. any writing that deals with films or the cinema

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• filmographies
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of filmography

First recorded in 1960–65; film + (bibli)ography

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Explanation

A filmography is a list of all the movies a person has worked on. If you're a big fan of an actor, you might check out their filmography to see what else they've been in! If you're a beginning filmmaker, your filmography might include just one short film. An experienced director or actor who's been making movies for decades has a much longer (and more impressive) filmography. This term is also used for a collection of films that have something in common, like a filmography of 20th-century comedies. The word, modeled on bibliography, or "list of books," was first used in the 1960s.

Example Sentences

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You have a vast filmography featuring subjects who might have taken issue, or have taken issue, with what was said in your documentaries.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

American director Steven Spielberg made a surprise appearance at a central London pub during a quiz night focused on his own filmography.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

Jennifer Lopez may have starred in a recent Netflix action film called “The Mother,” but to me, her filmography is much more aligned with “aunt.”

From Salon ● May 10, 2026

But he’ll always have the memes, which, although premised on his past work, actually catapulted his name to a level of immortality that his filmography alone never could.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026

He’d never met anyone who could claim to have seen more of Boris Karloff’s filmography than he had.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

A good many brand-name directors made movies this year, fine films that don’t quite reach the first tier of their filmographies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

Puschak writes that “just as great movies shouldn’t have weak scenes, great filmographies shouldn’t have weak movies.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2022

The benefit of never casting the same people twice, besides enabling the actors to eventually hide this on their filmographies, is that the audience can treat them as singular and separate stories.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2021

The stars, with their unimpeachable talent, filmographies and feminist cred, are a shrewd way of blunting skepticism.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2019

I also absorbed the complete filmographies of each of his favorite directors.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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