- film-maker (n.)
- also filmmaker, 1859 as a solution used in developing photographs, later "a producer of film for cameras" (by 1889), from film (n.) + maker. As "producer of a cinematographic work, movie-maker," from 1905.
- cineaste
- "A filmmaker", 1920s: from French cinéaste, from ciné (from cinéma), on the pattern of enthousiaste 'enthusiast'.