as in movie
a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track
a popular novel that was made into a major motion picture
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Recent Examples of motion picture
Since its inception in 1990, the PGA Award for best theatrical motion picture has gone to the subsequent Oscar winner for best picture on all but 10 occasions.
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Paul Grein, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2025
What should be an opportunity to elevate our craft, by an Academy tasked to represent the importance of music to a motion picture’s storytelling, will be lost.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 31 Jan. 2025
But celebrating the year in film is a challenging task at a time when the motion picture industry is hardly in a celebratory mood.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
Abraham’s performance in season 2 of The White Lotus earned him a Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actor in a limited series, anthology or motion picture made for television.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 16 Feb. 2025
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Paul Grein, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2025
What should be an opportunity to elevate our craft, by an Academy tasked to represent the importance of music to a motion picture’s storytelling, will be lost.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 31 Jan. 2025
But celebrating the year in film is a challenging task at a time when the motion picture industry is hardly in a celebratory mood.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
Abraham’s performance in season 2 of The White Lotus earned him a Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actor in a limited series, anthology or motion picture made for television.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 16 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for motion picture
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Nina Dobrev and Teresa Palmer also star in the ensemble movie which is filming in Australia.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
4 Mar. 2025
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The color-grading choice was particularly popular in movies at the turn of the millennium, a sickly tint that conveyed metropolitan gothic sensibilities and disaffection while amping up the physical sallowness of already-pallid leads.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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The story is deceptively simple, but the way the animators create moving pictures to mimic medieval-style stained glass is singular.—
Josh Spiegel,
Vulture,
24 July 2024
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Throughout all of his work, perhaps most memorably in the warped noir of his television series Twin Peaks, Lynch steered composers to create music as inexplicably haunting as his moving pictures.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
17 Jan. 2025
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Oberon had too many romances, too many films, too many unfortunate twists of fate to mention them all here.—
Carolyn Kellogg,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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The film is produced by Fernando Bovaira at Mod Producciones, Himenóptero and Misent Producciones in co-production with Propaganda Italia, with the participation of Netflix, RTVE and RAI Cinema, and the support of ICAA, Generalitat Valenciana and Eurimages.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
26 Feb. 2025
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In January, Swift fans reflected on the evolution — or lack of evolution — in the musician’s activism as her documentary Miss Americana marked its fifth anniversary.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
1 Mar. 2025
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Since the documentary premiered, he’s received many emails, texts and Facebook messages from those who are still searching for someone who vanished decades ago.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
Fox News,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Motion picture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motion%20picture. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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