English > filmmaker: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A producer of motion pictures. |
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| Synonyms | film maker, film producer, movie maker |
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| Instances | Allen, Woody Allen, Allen Stewart Konigsberg | United States filmmaker and comic actor (1935-) |
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| Bertolucci, Bernardo Bertolucci | Italian filmmaker (born in 1940) |
| Capra, Frank Capra | United States film maker (1897-1991) |
| Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin | English comedian and film maker |
| Cocteau, Jean Cocteau | French writer and film maker who worked in many artistic media (1889-1963) |
| Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola | United States filmmaker (born in 1939) |
| DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille, Cecil Blount DeMille | United States film maker remembered for his extravagant and spectacular epic productions (1881-1959) |
| De Sica, Vittorio De Sica | Italian film maker (1901-1974) |
| Disney, Walt Disney, Walter Elias Disney | United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck |
| Eisenstein, Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein | Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures (1898-1948) |
| Fellini, Federico Fellini | Italian filmmaker (1920-1993) |
| Ford, John Ford | United States film maker (1896-1973) |
| Godard, Jean Luc Godard | French film maker influenced by surrealism |
| Goldwyn, Sam Goldwyn, Samuel Goldwyn | United States film maker (born in Poland) who founded his own film company and later merged with Louis B. Mayer (1882-1974) |
| Griffith, D. W. Griffith, David Lewelyn Wark Griffith | United States film maker who was the first to use flashbacks and fade-outs (1875-1948) |
| Hughes, Howard Hughes, Howard Robard Hughes | United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer |
| Huston, John Huston | United States film maker born in the United States but an Irish citizen after 1964 (1906-1987) |
| Jewison, Norman Jewison | Canadian filmmaker (born in 1926) |
| Kieslowski, Krzysztof Kieslowski | Polish filmmaker who made ten films based on the Ten Commandments (1941-1996) |
| Korda, Sir Alexander Korda, Sandor Kellner | British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956) |
| Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick | United States filmmaker (born in 1928) |
| Kurosawa, Akira Kurosawa | Japanese filmmaker noted for blending Japanese folklore with western styles of acting (1910-1998) |
| Lee, Spike Lee, Shelton Jackson Lee | United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957) |
| Lubitsch, Ernst Lubitsch | German filmmaker of sophisticated comedies (1892-1947) |
| Lucas, George Lucas | United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944) |
| Mayer, Louis B. Mayer, Louis Burt Mayer | United States filmmaker (born in Russia) who founded his own film company and later merged with Samuel Goldwyn (1885-1957) |
| Pollack, Sydney Pollack | United States filmmaker (born in 1934) |
| Redford, Robert Redford, Charles Robert Redford | United States actor and filmmaker who starred with Paul Newman in several films (born in 1936) |
| Russell, Ken Russell, Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell | English film director (born in 1927) |
| Scorsese, Martin Scorsese | United States filmmaker (born in 1942) |
| Selznick, David O. Selznick, David Oliver Selznick | United States filmmaker noted for his film adaptations of popular novels (1902-1965) |
| Sennett, Mack Sennett | United States filmmaker (born in Canada) noted for slapstick movies (1880-1960) |
| Spielberg, Steven Spielberg | United States filmmaker (born in 1947) |
| Stevens, George Stevens | United States filmmaker (1905-1975) |
| Stone, Oliver Stone | United States filmmaker (born in 1946) |
| Tarantino, Quentin Tarantino, Quentin Jerome Tarantino | United States filmmaker (born in 1963) |
| Tarkovsky, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky | Russian filmmaker (1932-1986) |
| Tati, Jacques Tati, Jacques Tatischeff | French filmmaker (1908-1982) |
| Truffaut, Francois Truffaut | French filmmaker (1932-1984) |
| Visconti, Luchino Visconti, Don Luchino Visconti Conte di Modrone | Italian filmmaker (1906-1976) |
| Wajda, Andrzej Wajda | Polish filmmaker (born in 1929) |
| Warner, Charles Dudley Warner | United States filmmaker who with his brothers founded the movie studio that produced the first talking picture (1881-1958) |
| Welles, Orson Welles, George Orson Welles | United States actor and filmmaker (1915-1985) |
| Wilder, Billy Wilder, Samuel Wilder | United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002) |
| Wyler, William Wyler | United States filmmaker (1902-1981) |
| Zanuck, Darryl Zanuck, Darryl Francis Zanuck | United States filmmaker whose works include the first full-length feature film with sound sequences (1902-1979) |
| Zinnemann, Fred Zinnemann | United States filmmaker (born in Austria) (1907-1997) |
| von Sternberg, Josef von Sternberg | United States film maker (born in Austria) whose films made Marlene Dietrich an international star (1894-1969) |
| Narrower | New Waver | A film maker who follows New Wave ideas |
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| auteur | A filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works |
| film director, director | The person who directs the making of a film |
| Broader | producer | someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work) |
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| Spanish | cienasta, cineasta, movie maker, productor cinematográfico, productor de cine, productor |
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| Catalan | cineasta, movie maker, productor cinematogràfic |
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