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 Words From

• filmmaking noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of filmmaker¹

First recorded in 1905–10; film + maker

Example Sentences

Simultaneously, she began contacting filmmakers on the ground in Wuhan who might be able to film what was going on.

From Vox

So the age-old question of whether critics are just failed filmmakers turns up early in the movie, which then keeps transitioning into other age-old questions.

From Vox

Poitras denied this, saying she had been active on several films in production when she was fired as well as making an online security guide for filmmakers.

From Washington Post

It served its purpose well, allowing filmmakers to layer spectacular landscapes and futuristic settings onto its blank canvas in post-production.

From Quartz

Vimeo, the video-sharing platform originally created by filmmakers is building a large community of creative marketers producing content.

From Search Engine Watch

In “Steal This Episode,” the filmmaker denounces Homer Simpson as an “enemy of art.”

From The Daily Beast

Yet, for god knows what reason, his name is never brought up in the “Great American Filmmaker” conversation.

From The Daily Beast

Hitchcock saw the work of, and probably met, Murnau, the great German filmmaker--the earliest master of bleak light and shadow.

From The Daily Beast

I just felt myself getting better and better, stronger and stronger as a filmmaker, and that is sort of embedded in the movies.

From The Daily Beast

Long gone are the days of the Young British Artists movement: now a salt-and-pepper-haired filmmaker is the artist of the moment.

From The Daily Beast