Director and Lead

Director

Director noun - A person who manages or directs something.

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Lead and director are semantically related in show topic. In some cases you can use "Lead" instead a noun "Director".

Lead noun - The person who has the most important role in a play, movie, or TV show.

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Director and lead are semantically related in show topic. Sometimes you can use "Director" instead a noun "Lead".

Nearby Words: leading, leader, leaden, leadership, leaded

good	good director	good lead
female	female director	female lead
particular	particular director	particular lead
certain	certain director	certain lead
Other adjectives: current, original, actual, real, big, great, black, main, young, new, sole, former, primary, occasional, previous.

Can you, along with the creative director, lead designers, art director and lead producer, salvage the game and your reputations?

Source: Video Game / The Writer Will Do Something
Still, as of 2014, they still haven't quite gotten a director or a lead starring actor on board (though the rumor mill is still churning and Sony retains the film rights).

Source: Development Hell / Live-Action Film
However, this wasn't due out-sourcing animation, but because it had a completely different storyboarder/director/lead animator, so it could be considered more of an full-episode Art Shift.

Source: Off Model / Anime and Manga

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