MOVIE MAKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does movie maker mean? 

• MOVIE MAKER (noun)
  The noun MOVIE MAKER has 1 sense:

1. a producer of motion pictures

  Familiarity information: MOVIE MAKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOVIE MAKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A producer of motion pictures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

film maker; film producer; filmmaker; movie maker

Hypernyms ("movie maker" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "movie maker"):

director; film director (the person who directs the making of a film)

New Waver (a film maker who follows New Wave ideas)

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

Instance hyponyms:

George Lucas; Lucas (United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944))

Fred Zinnemann; Zinnemann (United States filmmaker (born in Austria) (1907-1997))

Louis B. Mayer; Louis Burt Mayer; 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))

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

Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell; Ken Russell; Russell (English film director (born in 1927))

Martin Scorsese; Scorsese (United States filmmaker (born in 1942))

David O. Selznick; David Oliver Selznick; Selznick (United States filmmaker noted for his film adaptations of popular novels (1902-1965))

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

Spielberg; Steven Spielberg (United States filmmaker (born in 1947))

George Stevens; Stevens (United States filmmaker (1905-1975))

Oliver Stone; Stone (United States filmmaker (born in 1946))

Quentin Jerome Tarantino; Quentin Tarantino; Tarantino (United States filmmaker (born in 1963))

Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky; Andrei Tarkovsky; Tarkovsky (Russian filmmaker (1932-1986))

Jacques Tati; Jacques Tatischeff; Tati (French filmmaker (1908-1982))

Francois Truffaut; Truffaut (French filmmaker (1932-1984))

Don Luchino Visconti Conte di Modrone; Luchino Visconti; Visconti (Italian filmmaker (1906-1976))

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

Andrzej Wajda; Wajda (Polish filmmaker (born in 1929))

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

George Orson Welles; Orson Welles; Welles (United States actor and filmmaker (1915-1985))

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

William Wyler; Wyler (United States filmmaker (1902-1981))

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

Ford; John Ford (United States film maker (1896-1973))

Allen; Allen Stewart Konigsberg; Woody Allen (United States filmmaker and comic actor (1935-))

Bernardo Bertolucci; 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; portrayed a downtrodden little man in baggy pants and bowler hat (1889-1977))

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))

Cecil B. DeMille; Cecil Blount DeMille; 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; founded Disneyland (1901-1966))

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))

Federico Fellini; Fellini (Italian filmmaker (1920-1993))

Ernst Lubitsch; Lubitsch (German filmmaker of sophisticated comedies (1892-1947))

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

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))

D. W. Griffith; David Lewelyn Wark Griffith; Griffith (United States film maker who was the first to use flashbacks and fade-outs (1875-1948))

Howard Hughes; Howard Robard Hughes; 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))

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; Sandor Kellner; Sir Alexander Korda (British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956))

Kubrick; Stanley Kubrick (United States filmmaker (born in 1928))

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

Lee; Shelton Jackson Lee; Spike Lee (United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957))