Definition of "film director" [film director]

• The person who directs the making of a film (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "News International's chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, was at a summer garden party thrown by the PR guru Matthew Freud last weekend, where other guests included the BBC creative director, Alan Yentob, the film director Tim Burton, his wife, Helena Bonham-Carter, and the former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan."
• "One could quote such writers as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Vladimir Karpov, or film director Eldar Ryazanov, as well as athletes and military people — in other words, those whose work requires them either to collect all their spiritual strength or let all their feelings show."