moviemaker

English

Etymology

From movie +‎ maker.

Noun

moviemaker (plural moviemakers)

1. A person who makes movies as a profession; a cinematographer.
   • 2007 May 6, Charles Mcgrath, “A Prince of Pulp, Legit at Last”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Part of why Mr. Dick’s work appeals so much to moviemakers is his pulpish sensibility.

   • 2010, Maaret Koskinen, Ingmar Bergman's The Silence, →ISBN:

     The outrage that greeted The Silence—howls of bishops, scissorings of censors, even feces-smeared toilet paper sent to the director—denoted public horror at a morally serious moviemaker surrendering (it seemed) […]

Translations

a person who makes movies as a profession — see filmmaker