Other forms: cinematographers
A cinematographer is the person responsible for how a film looks. The cinematographer's eye, hire a cinematographer, an award for the cinematographer.
The job is lighting above all, and the choices about it decide the mood of a scene more than the set or the costume do. In Britain the title is director of photography, and the same person holds it.
1nouncinematographerThe person responsible for how the film looks.
“The cinematographer used soft evening light to make every scene look like a painting.”
cinematographer is a film worker.
From cinematograph, from Greek kinema, movement, plus graphein, to write.
From cinematograph + er.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA