film maker
Noun
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A producer of motion pictures (synset 110108159)
is a type of: producer - someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work)subtypes:
- auteur - a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works
- director, film director - the person who directs the making of a film
- new waver - a film maker who follows New Wave ideas
specific instances:- allen, allen stewart konigsberg, woody allen - United States filmmaker and comic actor (1935-)
- bernardo bertolucci, bertolucci - Italian filmmaker (born in 1940)
- capra, frank capra - United States film maker (1897-1991)
- chaplin, charlie chaplin, sir charles spencer chaplin - English comedian and film maker; portrayed a downtrodden little man in baggy pants and bowler hat (1889-1977)
- cocteau, jean cocteau - French writer and film maker who worked in many artistic media (1889-1963)
- coppola, francis ford coppola - United States filmmaker (born in 1939)
- cecil b. demille, cecil blount demille, demille - United States film maker remembered for his extravagant and spectacular epic productions (1881-1959)
- de sica, vittorio de sica - Italian film maker (1901-1974)
- disney, walt disney, walter elias disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966)
- eisenstein, sergei eisenstein, sergei mikhailovich eisenstein - Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures (1898-1948)
- federico fellini, fellini - Italian filmmaker (1920-1993)
- ford, john ford - United States film maker (1896-1973)
- godard, jean luc godard - French film maker influenced by surrealism; early work explored the documentary use of film; noted for innovative techniques (born in 1930)
- goldwyn, sam goldwyn, samuel goldwyn - United States film maker (born in Poland) who founded his own film company and later merged with Louis B. Mayer (1882-1974)
- d. w. griffith, david lewelyn wark griffith, griffith - United States film maker who was the first to use flashbacks and fade-outs (1875-1948)
- howard hughes, howard robard hughes, hughes - United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)
- huston, john huston - United States film maker born in the United States but an Irish citizen after 1964 (1906-1987)
- jewison, norman jewison - Canadian filmmaker (born in 1926)
- kieslowski, krzysztof kieslowski - Polish filmmaker who made ten films based on the Ten Commandments (1941-1996)
- korda, sandor kellner, sir alexander korda - British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956)
- kubrick, stanley kubrick - United States filmmaker (born in 1928)
- akira kurosawa, kurosawa - Japanese filmmaker noted for blending Japanese folklore with western styles of acting (1910-1998)
- lee, shelton jackson lee, spike lee - United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)
- ernst lubitsch, lubitsch - German filmmaker of sophisticated comedies (1892-1947)
- george lucas, lucas - United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944)
- louis b. mayer, louis burt mayer, mayer - United States filmmaker (born in Russia) who founded his own film company and later merged with Samuel Goldwyn (1885-1957)
- pollack, sydney pollack - United States filmmaker (born in 1934)
- charles robert redford, redford, robert redford - United States actor and filmmaker who starred with Paul Newman in several films (born in 1936)
- henry kenneth alfred russell, ken russell, russell - English film director (born in 1927)
- martin scorsese, scorsese - United States filmmaker (born in 1942)
- david o. selznick, david oliver selznick, selznick - United States filmmaker noted for his film adaptations of popular novels (1902-1965)
- mack sennett, sennett - United States filmmaker (born in Canada) noted for slapstick movies (1880-1960)
- spielberg, steven spielberg - United States filmmaker (born in 1947)
- george stevens, stevens - United States filmmaker (1905-1975)
- oliver stone, stone - United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
- quentin jerome tarantino, quentin tarantino, tarantino - United States filmmaker (born in 1963)
- andrei arsenevich tarkovsky, andrei tarkovsky, tarkovsky - Russian filmmaker (1932-1986)
- jacques tati, jacques tatischeff, tati - French filmmaker (1908-1982)
- francois truffaut, truffaut - French filmmaker (1932-1984)
- don luchino visconti conte di modrone, luchino visconti, visconti - Italian filmmaker (1906-1976)
- josef von sternberg, von sternberg - United States film maker (born in Austria) whose films made Marlene Dietrich an international star (1894-1969)
- andrzej wajda, wajda - Polish filmmaker (born in 1929)
- charles dudley warner, warner - United States filmmaker who with his brothers founded the movie studio that produced the first talking picture (1881-1958)
- george orson welles, orson welles, welles - United States actor and filmmaker (1915-1985)
- billy wilder, samuel wilder, wilder - United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002)
- william wyler, wyler - United States filmmaker (1902-1981)
- darryl francis zanuck, darryl zanuck, zanuck - United States filmmaker whose works include the first full-length feature film with sound sequences (1902-1979)
- fred zinnemann, zinnemann - United States filmmaker (born in Austria) (1907-1997)
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