How to Use moviemaker in a Sentence

moviemaker

noun

• Since then, the story of Davy Crockett and the Alamo has proved irresistible to moviemakers ...
  — CBS News, 23 Feb. 2020
• The release of the documents owes as much to the moviemaker Oliver Stone as anyone else.
  — Peter Baker and Scott Shane, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
• No wonder novelists and moviemakers always blow up the town in Act Three.
  — Wired, 1 Nov. 2019
• Anna May would skip school to watch moviemakers at work in the neighborhood, hoping to get noticed.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• In a country where the lives of 1 million children are changed each year by divorce, the moviemakers could hardly have picked a more provocative theme.
  — Jim McKairnes, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2019
• Modern moviemakers who shoot on film, like Quentin Tarantino, use a 70mm gauge that’s too big for this projection room.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2018
• Griffith was a masterful moviemaker who pioneered the close-up, scenic long shot, and the crosscut.
  — Ainissa G. Ramirez, Scientific American, 8 July 2020
• There had been multiple versions of De Niro’s speech and there was a desire to focus solely on the moviemakers and their artistry, according to the source.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
• Lane plays Anne, a woman married to a famous moviemaker (Baldwin).
  — Gary Thompson, kansascity.com, 14 June 2017
• The difference is that Waititi is the better moviemaker.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• Michigan is attracting moviemakers with huge tax breaks to film in the state, and many see the movie business as the state's best hope for economic growth after the loss of so many factories.
  — David Kiley, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2010
• The awards season culminates this Sunday with the Oscars, the crème de la crème of prizes for many actors, directors and other moviemakers.
  — Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
• New Line is behind the feature, which has a script written by Zach Cregger, the actor turned moviemaker who is also sitting in the director’s chair.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2023
• The streaming service is also becoming a moviemaker of its own, creating or buying the rights to major movies this year.
  — Megan Friedman, Marie Claire, 21 Jan. 2016
• Later, the Army blamed the billionaire aviator-moviemaker-businessman for the crash.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2022
• Top Georgia lawmakers say moviemakers should be required to do more than just show a peach at the end of the credits to get the top benefit from Georgia’s lucrative film tax credit.
  — Jeff Amy, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024
• Peretti had been invited to speak at the moviemaker’s management retreat in front of 250 members of staff, and had asked to speak to Iger privately after his appearance.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2023
• The producers settled with Ellison out of court, but the terms forced the moviemakers to acknowledge the writer’s contribution, according to the Times.
  — Kyle Swenson, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
• This A-list-star-as-alpha-moviemaker methodology would become the blueprint — the Tom-plate — for almost everything that followed over the next 25 years of his screen career.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2022
• In fact, his goal with his directorial debut is not to beat action moviemakers and A-list asskickers at their own game but to work his way into their ranks.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2024
• But that doesn’t mean transitioning from working as an indie director to a Marvel moviemaker is easy.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
• More recently, paying the price for conduct, actual and alleged, in his private life, Allen has been exiled to the moviemaker equivalent of the Island of Misfit Toys.
  — Peter Tonguette, Washington Examiner, 18 Mar. 2021
• The new-age Barbie What’s beyond a doubt is that the moviemakers are going for representation of Barbie and Ken beyond the stereotypical white, blonde-haired dolls of their late 1950s heyday.
  — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 3 July 2023
• Biograph films were now the gold standard of movie production, sought out by the exchanges and imitated by moviemakers throughout the industry.
  — Longreads, 15 May 2018
• If playwrights and moviemakers can provide answers, then thank goodness, because the world knows all too well that reality, unlike fiction, can bite.
  — Bethany McLean, Town & Country, 29 Mar. 2019
• Why do moviemakers think that adding silly sound effects make their futuristic machines more rather than less plausible?
  — David Pogue, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2018
• So … other Marvel moviemakers, consider this a challenge for future movies.
  — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2017
• The moviemakers sell their messaging and their uplift as strenuously as the Nike executives boost Air Jordans.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2023
• The challenges of tracking down lost female moviemakers, on the other hand, have been both material and theoretical.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
• The Oscar-winning moviemaker discusses the films and filmmakers who most influenced his career.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024