Dictionary

filmmaker en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (US) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pel-der. Proto-Germanic *felma- Proto-Germanic *filmīn- Old English filmen Middle English filme English film Proto-Germanic *makaz Proto-West Germanic *mak Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-West Germanic *-ōn Proto-West Germanic *makōn? Old English macian Middle English maken Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere Middle English maker English maker English filmmaker From film + maker.

Meanings

1. A producer or director of films/movies.
   • I spent a couple of months all by myself building a set and had my filmmaker friends, nonactors, play the parts. 2007 March 11, Erik Piepenburg, “Reflections on Life as a Shaker-Upper”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
   • On some level, the filmmakers behind Monster Trucks must have recognized the ill fit of Till playing a teenager, because they cast Jane Levy, a 27-year-old who can pass for younger but not a decade younger, as Meredith, a nerdy classmate of Tripp’s who moons over him as she insists on making an appointment to tutor him in biology. […] Till is somewhere on the Hemsworth spectrum (more engaging than Liam; not as charismatic at Chris), but Levy is wholly charming as his enthusiastic sidekick. 2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2017:
   • Such prissy mollycoddlings of audience expectations were shortly to come under heavyweight siege from a variety of filmmakers in the 1950s – not least the aforementioned Otto Preminger. 2015, B. Forshaw, Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema:

Forms

Deriveds

cofilmmaker

Synonyms

moviemaker

Translations (36)

de Filmemacher (producer or director of films / movies) · de Filmschaffender (producer or director of films / movies) · se filbmadahkki (producer or director of films / movies) · ro cineast (producer or director of films / movies) · de Filmemacherin (producer or director of films / movies) · fa فیلمساز (producer or director of films / movies) · pt cineasta (producer or director of films / movies) · fi elokuvantekijä (producer or director of films / movies) · ja 映画製作者 (producer or director of films / movies) · sk filmár (producer or director of films / movies) · ru кинорежиссёр (producer or director of films / movies) · th ผู้ผลิตภาพยนตร์ (producer or director of films / movies) · sk filmárka (producer or director of films / movies) · ru кино́шник (producer or director of films / movies) · pl filmowiec (producer or director of films / movies) · ca cineasta (producer or director of films / movies) · nb filmmaker (producer or director of films / movies) · da filmmager (producer or director of films / movies) · gl cineasta (producer or director of films / movies) · de Filmschaffende (producer or director of films / movies) · ru созда́тель кинофи́льма (producer or director of films / movies) · ro cineastă (producer or director of films / movies) · nb filmskaper (producer or director of films / movies) · fr cinéaste (producer or director of films / movies) · ru кинематографи́ст (producer or director of films / movies) · de Filmerin (producer or director of films / movies) · sv filmmakare (producer or director of films / movies) · et filmitegija (producer or director of films / movies) · nn filmskapar (producer or director of films / movies) · cmn 製片人 /制片人 (producer or director of films / movies) · sw mtunga filamu (producer or director of films / movies) · sv filmskapare (producer or director of films / movies) · es cineasta (producer or director of films / movies) · nl filmmaker (producer or director of films / movies) · sms fiʹlmmraajji (producer or director of films / movies) · de Filmer (producer or director of films / movies)