biopic

noun

bio·pic ˈbī-(ˌ)ō-ˌpik

nonstandard bī-ˈä-pik

: a biographical movie

Examples of biopic in a Sentence

We watched a biopic about Beethoven.

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Last fall, a different Basquiat biopic, Samo Lives (named after his graffiti tag, Samo©), began filming in the East Village. — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2026 In 1996, Jeffrey Wright portrayed Basquiat in artist Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat biopic. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2026 Like Maya Rudolph sharing iconic stories from her childhood or Andrew Garfield making his plea to star in a Cat Stevens biopic. — Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026 Mendes is directing a quartet of biopics starring Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, Paul Mescal as McCartney and Barry Keoghan as Starr. — ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for biopic

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bi- entry 2 + pic entry 1

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1946, in the meaning defined above

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