di‧rec‧tor S2 W1 / dərektə, dɪrektə, daɪ- $ -ər / 名词 [可数名词]

1 someone who controls or manages a company → executive

director of

a former director of Gartmore Pensions Ltd

The company is run by a board of directors (= a group of directors ) .

2 someone who is in charge of a particular activity or organization

director of

the director of education

finance/marketing/sales etc director (= the person in charge of the financial department etc )

3 the person who gives instructions to the actors and other people working on a film or play → producer

→ managing director , non-executive director

COLLOCATIONS

types of director

a film/movie director the film director Stephen Spielberg

a theatre director British English , a theater director AmE: Laura Thompson is a theatre director now in the middle of rehearsals for ‘Romeo and Juliet’.

an artistic director (= person who controls which plays a theatre produces and how they are produced ) The artistic director an 名词 ced that a new play would be staged next month.

a musical director He later became musical director of the London Symphony Orchestra.

THESAURUS

the people who make film

actor a man or woman who acts in a film : a previously unknown actor | Brando was one of Hollywood’s greatest actors.

actress a woman who acts in a film. Women who appear in films or plays usually prefer to be called actors : She was the actress who played Scarlet O’Hara in ‘Gone with the Wind’.

star a famous actor or actress : He looked liked a movie star. | a hotel which was used by the stars

director the person who tells the actors and actresses in a film what to do : The director of the film is Quentin Tarantino.

producer the person who makes the arrangements for a film to be made and controls the budget

film/movie crew the people operating the camera, lights etc who help the director make a film