moviemaker

American  

[moo-vee-mey-ker] / ˈmu viˌmeɪ kər /

noun

1. filmmaker.

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Other Word Forms

• moviemaking noun

Etymology

Origin of moviemaker

movie + maker

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From New York Times

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.

From Scientific American

Moviemaker James Cameron, who directed the 1997 Oscar-winning film "Titanic" that did much to revive global interest in the British ocean liner that sank in 1912, said he learned of the acoustic findings within a day and knew what it meant.

From Reuters

“I did some work with director Phil Kaufman on the Universal Studios lot as a writer while I was still trying to get into the Los Angeles camera guild,” Mr. Butler said in a 2005 Moviemaker magazine interview.

From New York Times