scenarist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of scenarist
First recorded in 1915–20; scenar(io) + -ist
Example Sentences
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At the time, few knew that the creators of Superman, the scenarist Jerry Siegel and the draughtsman Joe Shuster, were children of Jewish immigrants.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2020
For all of Sorrentino’s prodigious gifts as a scenarist, “Loro” is a disturbing movie, for all the wrong reasons and, despite its self-consciously arty pretensions, a breathtakingly callow one.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2019
“The predilection of the director, producer and scenarist for the unusual in mood, background music and characterization makes this chase more confusing than suspenseful,” a film critic for The New York Times wrote in 1946.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2016
The forty-eight-year-old black American playwright Tracey Scott Wilson is the real thing—a real scenarist with an ear and a solid sense of how to tell a story.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
He is now feeding a scenarist pages of the novel as he completes them.
From Time Magazine Archive
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