moviemaker

[moo-vee-mey-ker]

noun

1. filmmaker.

Other Word Forms

• moviemaking noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of moviemaker¹

movie + maker

Example Sentences

"I was supposed to be a moviemaker," Trump said.

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Not just any bench, of course, just as the legendary Carter isn’t just any moviemaker.

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Nash cites some unusual influences for a midnight moviemaker, primarily Gus Van Sant’s methodical, early-2000s “death trilogy” — “Gerry,” “Elephant,” and “Last Days” — respectively, about a pair of friends lost in a desert; a school shooting inspired by the incident at Columbine; and Kurt Cobain’s suicide.

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As identifiable as he would become with genre movies, Romero — a Pittsburgh-based filmmaker who funded his projects by producing industrial films and commercials — went through what he called “a paranoid phase of not wanting to be a horror moviemaker” after the success of his first zombie feature.

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Creative license comes in to help: a nonfiction moviemaker might smooth out the rough edges of the truth, just a touch, to make the story flow a little better or to make it just a wee bit easier to understand.

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