How to Use cinematographer in a Sentence

cinematographer

noun
  • Her father was a cinematographer for the team as well.
    — Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 21 June 2026
  • Eclipse is also a case study in light — the type of film that could only be made by a cinematographer.
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2026
  • My cinematographer would tell me, and my colorist would tell me that red bleeds so badly.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
  • And like many, the film has become a rite of passage for cinematographers.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Englert was the cinematographer for all three films.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Decades ago, a cinematographer advised me to pay as much attention to actors’ hands as to their faces.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The cinematographer’s name is written on a camera and the screenwriters’ on a page of a script.
    — Chris Hewitt, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • So the cinematographer and I went back to our room that night and essentially rewrote the script.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Arkapaw is also the first Black cinematographer to win this award.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Watching that again, the way John Toll, our cinematographer, shot it.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Davies and her team built in in a way that cinematographer Linus Sandgren could light through it.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Feb. 2026
  • What actors and the director and the cinematographer are usually able to do is bring the script to life.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Directors and cinematographers need to train in it, need to want to understand it.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The director, the cinematographer, the sound man, and one actor were with Panahi in a van when the set called.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The cinematographer is Moder, and Roberts came to show moral support to the buzzy film.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 25 Jan. 2026
  • In a stroke of luck, a cinematographer struck McNutt within a few jabs.
    — Amelia Arvesen, Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The actor was practicing a cross-draw when the gun fired, striking the cinematographer.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Lukasz Zal, his cinematographer, arrived early to the shoot and made some initial studies of the house.
    — Giles Harvey, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The guy who shot that was Harris Savides, a brilliant cinematographer who has since passed away.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Fuller and the cinematographer Joseph Biroc give much of the film a noirish cast, which only ratchets up the tension.
    — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 27 July 2022
  • The film is composed entirely of her decades-old snapshots, and credits her as cinematographer.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 5 Nov. 2025
  • His son, Jackson James, a cinematographer on the series, has been shooting some of the protests there.
    — USA TODAY, 16 June 2020
  • So how can Chris [Blauvelt, her longtime cinematographer] whip up a recipe with his team to try to make something look of the era?
    — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Robert Brinkmann was our cinematographer.
    — Simon Bland, IndieWire, 12 June 2026
  • The cinematographer who shot these scenes was named Willy Zielke, and Riefenstahl worked closely with him.
    — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
  • There are so many people to help you—the editor, the cinematographer, the music, the sound engineers.
    — John Lahr, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Our cinematographer, Oscar Jimenez, can talk for an hour on camera, looks, and lenses.
    — Daren Smith, IndieWire, 29 Apr. 2026
  • And also Tim Cragg, our cinematographer, who had the wisdom to keep the camera going back and forth.
    — Rance Collins, IndieWire, 26 July 2025
  • Friends and students held three memorials for the cinematographer, whose death was a stark reminder of the dangers of the film industry.
    — Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
  • The actors completely pulled off this kind of tricky scene and Jasper Spanning the cinematographer got the mood just right.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026

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