filmmaker
Americannoun
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Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production.
the leading young filmmakers of France.
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a person who makes film, especially for use in photography.
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The actress bought the estate once owned by the filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille in 2017, the year after she divorced Brad Pitt, property records show.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
Talankin, 35, a videographer from a small-town Russian school, caused a sensation when he won the Academy Award for best documentary feature alongside US filmmaker David Borenstein in March.
From Barron's • May 1, 2026
They’re also, according to Dominican American filmmaker Joel Alfonso Vargas, an underground cultural touchstone, one he became familiar with as a teenager.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
At the time, Mattel had just passed on a toy licensing offer from filmmaker George Lucas.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
He gets invited on news shows and profiled in magazines, and he has been the subject of a documentary by the filmmaker Errol Morris, all because of a brain that appears to defy description.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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