filmmaker

[film-mey-ker]

noun

1. Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production.

   the leading young filmmakers of France.

2. a person who makes film, especially for use in photography.

Other Word Forms

• filmmaking noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of filmmaker¹

First recorded in 1905–10; film + maker

Example Sentences

“For a filmmaker like me, who loves to dig deep into someone’s mind and work, it was an incredible gift.”

From Los Angeles Times

In August, a documentary filmmaker, primary care physician and wildlife ecologist sued the government authorities overseeing the agencies, claiming the roundups will decimate the herd to the point where long-term survival is unlikely.

From Los Angeles Times

Safdie’s film seems to exist to assert the filmmaker’s style, now apparently separate from his former collaborator and brother, Josh.

From Salon

Documentaries have, not surprisingly, become a hearts-and-minds front in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with filmmakers from all sides trying to get their stories out that bring into particular focus a destructive war’s realities.

From Los Angeles Times

The filmmaker considers his career, which now stretches beyond seven decades, to be a kind of artistic quest for truth.

From Los Angeles Times