35 Award-Worthy Gifts For Filmmakers That Deserve Celebrity Status

The Stop Motion Animation Kit provides everything aspiring filmmakers need to create their own animated films. With easy-to-use tools and guides, it inspires creativity while teaching the art of stop motion. Perfect for beginners and film enthusiasts of all ages!

One thing you probably didn't know about Hollywood is that they're almost exclusively keeping the tobacco industry afloat. Filmmakers are plagued by stress and make up for it by chain-smoking like line cooks. Help them better their health with nicotine patches that'll get 'em off the Newports and onto something, ANYTHING else/.

Turn any backyard into a cinematic experience with the Anker Backyard Movie Projector. This compact, portable projector delivers up to 100-inch visuals, a 360-degree speaker, and a 4-hour battery – perfect for movie nights under the stars, no theater required!

The Fill-In Filmography will make a magnificent addition to any cinephile’s living room. This instant conversation starter divides 1,500 “must-see movies” into cinematic genres with representative films for each category while also allowing you to rate the flicks you’ve already seen.

Grab the controller for this drone and call yourself a pilot, it's time to fly! The ultralight device is fully-loaded with a 4K video camera, 12MP camera, and 3-axis gimbal. With a 31-minute flight time, you'll have plenty of time to shoot tons of footage.

Make your indie film look as authentic as possible by using the movie prop money stacks for any and all scenes dealing with cash. Each fat stack has been professionally dyed, stained, and given a distressed look to enhance its realism.

Defeat your insomnia once and for all by enjoying a nice deep sleep aided by these Bluetooth sleeping eye mask headphones. They provide true HD high fidelity sound so that you can comfortably drift off with a pleasant soundtrack of your choosing.

Fact: you’re not a true cinephile until you’ve completely conquered this 100 Must See Movies scratch-off poster. Each time you watch one of these classic films, you’ll get to scratch-off the silver surface and reveal the colorful graphic underneath.

The Filmmaker's Eye is regarded so highly it's effectively a Bible for filmmakers. The book teaches the rules of cinematic composition and how to successfully subvert and break them through a series of bite-sized lessons illustrated with fascinating photos. It will make any filmmaker at any point in their career smarter.

In the sport of movie trivia, filmmakers are cutthroat when it comes to being competitive. The card-based game Cinephile puts their know-how to the test and goes beyond the things that everybody knows into things like Steve Buscemi bit parts and Sean Connery's lesser-known parts for a brain-racking good time.

A filmmaker can't call himself a filmmaker if he's not wearing the right sunglasses. This pair of Ray-Ban Wafarers is part of the uniform. They're LA cool and New York chic and just weird enough for Austin. Thel lenses are polarized to protect eyes from the sun and paparazzi cameras.

Smartphone cameras these days are really good, for indie filmmakers, they've basically eliminated the need for large expensive cameras. Especially when there's equipment like this out there, which offers a stable, level, and multi-functional way to capture all kinds of angles and perspectives. It's got compatibility with tripod plates, too!

Every sees what's in front of the camera but everyone WANTS to see what goes on behind it. With this Polaroid iType instant camera, a filmmaker can capture literally every moment of being on set. The square-shaped photos they print from the camera are ideal for sharing with friends, displaying, or keeping as memories.

No boss can be mad when you show up for the first day in your new role with a cup of Starbucks in each hand (one's for the boss, obviously). Treat your newly promoted pal to the gift of caffeine with this gift card.

Chalk on a film slate might be the classic way to do it but even Orson Welles would have switched it to this 21st-century model for ease. The acrylic film slate is lightweight and dry-erase compatible while still maintaining the durability a slate needs to get lots of use on set.

Whether they need to break into the grip truck cuz you locked the keys inside or crack a bottle of beer to celebrate the end of the shoot, this pen has got a filmmaker covered. It's a real pen, too, so they can sign autographs, and has six other functions built into its body.

Filmmaking has evolved quite a bit in the last ten years and this book rises to the task of educating filmmakers at all levels. The book goes beyond techniques for making certain genres of film and shooting video into topics like the business aspects of filmmaking, how to get movies onto streaming platforms, and understanding formats.

Not only are black t-shirts the unofficial uniform of filmmakers, but they're an ideal shirt to wear on set. Sweat never shows on a black shirt, they always have an air of elegance about them (which helps if a studio big wig drops by), and they never seem to get dirty. This pack contains 12 of them, what luck!