How to Use moviemaker in a Sentence

moviemaker

noun
  • Oscar adds a new honor, not for moviemakers, but rather the theaters that show their films.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 1 June 2026
  • She was considered an up-and-coming moviemaker and is survived by a husband and young son.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 8 July 2024
  • Instead, it was rediscovered, not least by all the moviemakers.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Shorewood High School is the alma mater for a trio of moviemakers, two of whom are brothers.
    — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • No wonder novelists and moviemakers always blow up the town in Act Three.
    — Wired, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Griffith was a masterful moviemaker who pioneered the close-up, scenic long shot, and the crosscut.
    — Ainissa G. Ramirez, Scientific American, 8 July 2020
  • Instead, the moviemakers found a controversial work-around.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Lane plays Anne, a woman married to a famous moviemaker (Baldwin).
    — Gary Thompson, kansascity.com, 14 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Scorsese attests to the fact that seeing (and re-seeing, and re-re-seeing) those films changed him as both a moviegoer and a moviemaker.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2024
  • 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
  • Matera has been rediscovered, not the least by moviemakers and tourists who come for the breathtaking, biblical look of the place.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Hundreds of moviemakers applied to be in the competition, and 50 were chosen.
    — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Ethan Hawke is urging you to demand offensive art from moviemakers in a world with a tense political landscape.
    — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • So … other Marvel moviemakers, consider this a challenge for future movies.
    — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2017
  • But that doesn’t mean transitioning from working as an indie director to a Marvel moviemaker is easy.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Later, the Army blamed the billionaire aviator-moviemaker-businessman for the crash.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2022
  • 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
  • There, surrounded by mobsters, the future moviemaker embraced Catholicism and the Italian code of omertà.
    — Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Oscar-winning moviemaker discusses the films and filmmakers who most influenced his career.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
  • 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

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