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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This is purposeful filmmaking, firm in its convictions. Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 15 May 2025 His gaze has reinvented the forms of contemporary filmmaking, creating a historiography in images that has exerted an incalculable influence on countless film directors. Leo Barraclough, Variety, 15 May 2025 More than any of his movie star peers, Cruise seems aware that someone has to symbolize an increasingly bygone era of filmmaking, to be this century’s Charlie Chaplin. Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025 If the goal is to rejuvenate American filmmaking, there's a better way forward. Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 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 23 May. 2025.

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