movie maker

Other forms: movie makers

Definitions of movie maker

1. noun

   a producer of motion pictures
   synonyms: film maker, film producer, filmmaker

   examples:

   Allen Stewart Konigsberg

   United States filmmaker and comic actor (1935-)

   Bernardo Bertolucci

   Italian filmmaker (born in 1940)

   Frank Capra

   United States film maker (1897-1991)

   Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin

   English comedian and film maker; portrayed a downtrodden little man in baggy pants and bowler hat (1889-1977)

   Jean Cocteau

   French writer and film maker who worked in many artistic media (1889-1963)

   Francis Ford Coppola

   United States filmmaker (born in 1939)

   Cecil Blount DeMille

   United States film maker remembered for his extravagant and spectacular epic productions (1881-1959)

   Vittorio De Sica

   Italian film maker (1901-1974)

   Walter Elias Disney

   United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966)

   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)

   Federico Fellini

   Italian filmmaker (1920-1993)

   John Ford

   United States film maker (1896-1973)

   Jean Luc Godard

   French film maker influenced by surrealism; early work explored the documentary use of film; noted for innovative techniques (born in 1930)

   Samuel Goldwyn

   United States film maker (born in Poland) who founded his own film company and later merged with Louis B. Mayer (1882-1974)

   David Lewelyn Wark Griffith

   United States film maker who was the first to use flashbacks and fade-outs (1875-1948)

   Howard Robard Hughes

   United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)

   John Huston

   United States film maker born in the United States but an Irish citizen after 1964 (1906-1987)

   Norman Jewison

   Canadian filmmaker (born in 1926)

   Krzysztof Kieslowski

   Polish filmmaker who made ten films based on the Ten Commandments (1941-1996)

   Sir Alexander Korda

   British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956)

   Stanley Kubrick

   United States filmmaker (born in 1928)

   Akira Kurosawa

   Japanese filmmaker noted for blending Japanese folklore with western styles of acting (1910-1998)

   Shelton Jackson Lee

   United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)

   Ernst Lubitsch

   German filmmaker of sophisticated comedies (1892-1947)

   George Lucas

   United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944)

   Louis Burt Mayer

   United States filmmaker (born in Russia) who founded his own film company and later merged with Samuel Goldwyn (1885-1957)

   Sydney Pollack

   United States filmmaker (born in 1934)

   Charles Robert Redford

   United States actor and filmmaker who starred with Paul Newman in several films (born in 1936)

   Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell

   English film director (born in 1927)

   Martin Scorsese

   United States filmmaker (born in 1942)

   David Oliver Selznick

   United States filmmaker noted for his film adaptations of popular novels (1902-1965)

   Mack Sennett

   United States filmmaker (born in Canada) noted for slapstick movies (1880-1960)

   Steven Spielberg

   United States filmmaker (born in 1947)

   George Stevens

   United States filmmaker (1905-1975)

   Oliver Stone

   United States filmmaker (born in 1946)

   Quentin Jerome Tarantino

   United States filmmaker (born in 1963)

   Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky

   Russian filmmaker (1932-1986)

   Jacques Tatischeff

   French filmmaker (1908-1982)

   Francois Truffaut

   French filmmaker (1932-1984)

   Don Luchino Visconti Conte di Modrone

   Italian filmmaker (1906-1976)

   Josef von Sternberg

   United States film maker (born in Austria) whose films made Marlene Dietrich an international star (1894-1969)

   Andrzej Wajda

   Polish filmmaker (born in 1929)

   Charles Dudley Warner

   United States filmmaker who with his brothers founded the movie studio that produced the first talking picture (1881-1958)

   George Orson Welles

   United States actor and filmmaker (1915-1985)

   Samuel Wilder

   United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002)

   William Wyler

   United States filmmaker (1902-1981)

   Darryl Francis Zanuck

   United States filmmaker whose works include the first full-length feature film with sound sequences (1902-1979)

   Fred Zinnemann

   United States filmmaker (born in Austria) (1907-1997)

   types:

   auteur

   a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works

   director, film director

   the person who directs the making of a film

   New Waver

   a film maker who follows New Wave ideas

   type of:

   producer

   someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work)