filmmaker

nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,877 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: filmmakers

A filmmaker is somebody who makes motion pictures. An independent filmmaker.

The word covers directing, producing and everything between, which is why small crews use it. A filmmaker with a phone can now do what needed a van of equipment in 1990.

Definitions of filmmaker

1nounfilmmakerSomebody who makes motion pictures.B1+
“The filmmaker shot the whole thing over four winters.”

filmmaker is a person.

Where it comes from

From film + maker.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

filmmaker in the wild

Frank Richard Oznowicz, known professionally as Frank Oz, is an American puppeteer, filmmaker, and actor.
Frank Oz
John Wilden Hughes Jr. was an American filmmaker.
John Hughes
Sir Christopher Edward Nolan is a British and American filmmaker.
Christopher Nolan
John Samuel Waters Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and artist.
John Waters
Michael Christopher White is an American filmmaker and actor.
Mike White (filmmaker)

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