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cinematographer

especially British, ···ٴDz··󾱲

[sin-uh-muh-tog-ruh-fer]

noun

  1. a person whose profession is video photography, especially for feature-length movies.

  2. director of photography.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of cinematographer1

First recorded in 1895–1900; cinematograph + -er 1
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Example Sentences

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“He’s an enigmatic man of mystery who tries to do his work with the minimum amount of attention,” says cinematographer Christopher Ross, who lensed the first three episodes with director Brian Kirk.

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He pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter for the shooting that killed the 42-year-old cinematographer, a rising star in the industry, and wounded the film’s director, Joel Souza.

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It wouldn't have been possible to film a sequence quite like this five years ago, the show's cinematographer Matthew Lewis claimed in a recent interview.

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The props team would show me various table settings for certain scenes; I’d talk with my cinematographer about it.

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It’s the film on which up-and-coming cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was accidentally killed by a live round in a prop gun meant to hold blanks, discharged during a rehearsal by its star, Alec Baldwin.

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