filmmaker

See also: film-maker and film maker

English

Alternative forms

• film-maker, film maker

Etymology

From film +‎ maker.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

filmmaker (plural filmmakers)

1. A producer or director of films/movies.
   • 2007 March 11, Erik Piepenburg, “Reflections on Life as a Shaker-Upper”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 January 2021:

     I spent a couple of months all by myself building a set and had my filmmaker friends, nonactors, play the parts.

   • 2015, B. Forshaw, Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema:

     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.

   • 2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[2], archived from the original on 27 January 2017:

     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.

Synonyms

• moviemaker

Derived terms

• cofilmmaker

Translations

producer or director of films / movies

• Catalan: cineasta (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 製片人 / 制片人 (zh) (zhìpiànrén)

• Danish: filmmager
• Dutch: filmmaker (nl) m
• Estonian: filmitegija
• Finnish: elokuvantekijä
• French: cinéaste (fr) m or f
• Galician: cineasta m or f
• German: Filmemacher (de) m, Filmemacherin (de) f, Filmer (de) m, Filmerin (de) f, Filmschaffender (de) m, Filmschaffende (de) f
• Japanese: 映画製作者 (えいがせいさくしゃ, eiga seisakusha)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: filmskaper m, filmmaker m

  Nynorsk: filmskapar m

• Persian: فیلمساز (filmsâz)
• Polish: filmowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: cineasta (pt) m or f
• Romanian: cineast (ro) m, cineastă (ro) f
• Russian: созда́тель кинофи́льма m (sozdátelʹ kinofílʹma), кинорежиссёр (ru) m (kinorežissjór), кинематографи́ст (ru) m (kinematografíst), кино́шник (ru) m (kinóšnik) (colloquial, also anyone working in the film industry or a moviegoer)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: filbmadahkki

  Skolt Sami: fiʹlmmraajji

• Spanish: cineasta m or f
• Swahili: mtunga filamu
• Swedish: filmskapare (sv) c, filmmakare c
• Thai: ผู้ผลิตภาพยนตร์

Dutch

Etymology

From film +‎ maker.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

filmmaker m (plural filmmakers, diminutive filmmakertje n)

1. filmmaker

Related terms

• filmmaakster f

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From film +‎ -maker.

Noun

filmmaker m (definite singular filmmakeren, indefinite plural filmmakere, definite plural filmmakerne)

1. a film-maker

References

• “filmmaker” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).