filmmaking

noun

film·​mak·​ing ˈfilm-ˌmā-kiŋ How to pronounce filmmaking (audio)
: the making of movies

Examples of filmmaking in a Sentence

plans to attend New York University to learn filmmaking
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That’s the risk — and to some, the thrill — of vérité documentary filmmaking. Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025 Trained as a painter before breaking into filmmaking, Lynch always held space for other art forms. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2025 Director Len Wiseman is an old hand at franchise filmmaking, having made the first two Underworld films and Live Free or Die Hard (2007), which doesn’t stop everything from somehow feeling a tad chintzy. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2025 Ironically, given the rhetoric around tariffs and overseas filmmaking taking away American jobs, these resources would have provided a valuable foundation for more production to take place on the local level. Eric Kohn, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for filmmaking

Word History

First Known Use

1912, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of filmmaking was in 1912

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“Filmmaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/filmmaking. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.

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