as in movie
a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track
a popular novel that was made into a major motion picture
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Recent Examples of motion picture
One of Oakland Park’s first development ventures involved Screen Talent Studios Inc., a motion picture outfit that gave away lots to subscribers of its new movie magazine.
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Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2025
Further disruption came Monday, when the motion picture academy again delayed the announcement of nominees for the 97th Academy Awards until Jan. 23.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
Netflix’s The Piano Lesson leads the motion picture categories with 14 nominations and Peacock’s Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist leads television with nine.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2025
The producer was in attendance at the Jan. 5 ceremony, where his fiancée Selena Gomez was nominated for best supporting actress motion picture for Emilia Pérez and best actress in a television series for Only Murders in the Building.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2025
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Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2025
Further disruption came Monday, when the motion picture academy again delayed the announcement of nominees for the 97th Academy Awards until Jan. 23.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
Netflix’s The Piano Lesson leads the motion picture categories with 14 nominations and Peacock’s Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist leads television with nine.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2025
The producer was in attendance at the Jan. 5 ceremony, where his fiancée Selena Gomez was nominated for best supporting actress motion picture for Emilia Pérez and best actress in a television series for Only Murders in the Building.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for motion picture
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Combined, Focus and parent studio Universal landed a leading 32 nominations as distributor for such movies as The Brutalist (nine), Anora (seven), Wicked (seven), Nosferatu (five), The Wild Robot (three) and Monkey Man (one).—
Nancy Tartaglione,
Deadline,
15 Jan. 2025
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The closest analogy to what Whannell is trying to do here isn’t a werewolf movie so much as David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986), which turned a ’50s B-movie into a gory, gooey interpretation of the havoc disease wreaks on those suffering from both sides of the hospital bed.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
15 Jan. 2025
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Throughout all of his work, perhaps most memorably in the warped noir of his television series Twin Peaks, Lynch steered composers to create music as inexplicably haunting as his moving pictures.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
17 Jan. 2025
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He himself is represented in moving pictures as a conductor.—
Cuneyt Dil,
Axios,
6 Sep. 2024
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Purple: Medical professionals that may appear in film or on other products.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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Melanie rose in notoriety as an actress in the 1988 film Working Girl and earned an Oscar nomination for her performance.—
Luke Chinman,
People.com,
21 Jan. 2025
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Questlove’s Oscar-winning documentary about the festival illustrated how the sonic diversity of the lineup was partly a microcosm for the big-tent nature of late-1960s Black consciousness.—
Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2025
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The documentary significantly adds to the origin story, tracing Reubens’ early days and infatuation with TV kids’ shows and Disney movies — Pollyanna was a favorite — and fleshing out the family’s move to Florida.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Motion picture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motion%20picture. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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