biopic
[bahy-oh-pik]
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noun
a biographical movie or TV show.
Origin of biopic
1950–55; bio(graphy) + (motion) pic(ture)
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Examples from the Web for biopic
Contemporary Examples of biopic
Selma becomes a biopic in which the hero shines while those who worked beside him are overlooked or relegated to the sidelines.
We live in a world where a J. Edgar Hoover biopic got made before a Martin Luther King Jr. one.
Ava DuVernay on ‘Selma,’ the Racist Sony Emails, and Making Golden Globes HistoryMarlow Stern
December 15, 2014
One of the more fascinating projects I read about that never came to fruition was your Howard Hughes biopic starring Jim Carrey.
Christopher Nolan Uncut: On ‘Interstellar,’ Ben Affleck’s Batman, and the Future of MankindMarlow Stern
November 10, 2014
In a strange coincidence, the Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything opened the same weekend as Interstellar.
Christopher Nolan Uncut: On ‘Interstellar,’ Ben Affleck’s Batman, and the Future of MankindMarlow Stern
November 10, 2014
Just because it is a biopic, sometimes people take liberties.
biopic
noun
Word Origin for biopic
C20: from bio (graphical) + pic (ture)
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