Auteur

Word AUTEUR
Character 6
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ɔːˈtɜː/

Definitions and meanings of "Auteur"

What do we mean by auteur?

A filmmaker, usually a director, who exercises creative control over his or her works and has a strong personal style. noun

A creative artist, especially a film director, seen as having a specific, recognisable artistic vision, and who is seen as the single or preeminent ‘author’ of his works. noun

A filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works noun

A creative artist, especially a film director, seen as having a specific, recognisable artistic vision, and who is seen as the single or preeminent ‘author’ of his works.

Féminin de auteur. Urban Dictionary

A term to denote films that are extra sexy, but people haven’t realized it yet Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Auteur

The word "auteur" in example sentences

The main auteur in this genre appears to be "ForrestFire101." ❋ Unknown (2008)

"And because he didn't think it was an award season movie, and didn't wear his Oscar hopes on his sleeve, the master auteur is easing on down the road to an Oscar win," adds Anne Thompson. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Not so coincidentally, her NYC-gone-Berlin auteur mentor Hal Hartley will share the program with his latest, Fay Grim, which will have its US premiere at the festival. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Either way, Crispin Hellion Glover, auteur, is a force to be reckoned with. ❋ Unknown (2006)

While he began directing in the early 1970s, Eastwood didn't become known as the auteur he is today until helming ❋ Dave McGinn (2010)

I can be credited (or maybe blamed) for introducing the word auteur into the English language and allegedly enshrining the director as the supreme, indeed the sole creator of meaning and style in the cinema. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Allen’s status as an auteur is pretty unparalleled for someone who has made as many mediocre films. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If I don’t believe in auteur theory, why am I obsessing on Orson Welles’ masterful technique? ❋ Unknown (2006)

The director, known for his work on British television, isn't a brand-name auteur like Pedro Almodóvar , or Roman Polanski , whose new films occupy other coveted gala slots in the festival. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

We will find more teams taking over in the days ahead -- and it is an incredibly refreshing antidote to the antiquated construct of pure "auteur" cinema. ❋ Ted Hope (2011)

ÂWe will find more teams taking over in the days ahead -- and it is an incredibly refreshing antidote to the antiquated construct of pure "auteur" cinema. ❋ Ted Hope (2011)

As a screenwriter I'm naturally very suspicious of the "auteur" theorybut as a writer/director I think you do get a bit closer to that perfect autonomy you have as a novelist: in film terms it's the best of all possible worlds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Because we respect Natalie Portman, everyone wanted to make certain this happened under artistic circumstances, so reviews of this movie were required to mention the word "auteur" at least five times, and the film itself was urged to advertise heavily on the New York Times website, thereby making it legitimate for us to ask our aunts to buy us tickets to it. ❋ Alexandra Petri (2011)

The director (well, he prefers "auteur"), Lee Breuer, and the composer, Bob Telson, began to transform Oedipus at Colonus 30 years ago, using a cut-about version of Sophocles's play and infusing it with gospel music. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I will be a lot happier when this "auteur" posier's career is over. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I understand that the word "auteur" has been horribly abused by those who, if they've read the Cahiers du Cinema critics or their American followers at all, have interpreted the notion of the cinematic "auteur" in the most simplistic and reductive ways. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The noun "auteur" was actually bestowed on American filmmakers like Robert Downey Sr. (the father of Junior), Hal Ashby, Arthur ❋ Unknown (2008)

French cinema has a long history of "auteur" films about sex and love, most of them made by men. ❋ Unknown (2008)

With this in mind, my company, The Auteurs, partnered with Pure Digital Technologies, makers of the Flip Video camcorder, and Short Film Corner, Festival de Cannes, to celebrate a new kind of auteur in a new kind of way -- the auteur on the fly, or in this case, on the Flip. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The reason directors start producing is that they want to have more control over their films in studio-system Hollywood, where producers held the power, any director who was any kind of auteur would want to produce his own movies eventually. ❋ Jaime J. Weinman (2008)

Cette auteure a é[crit] plusieurs best-sellers. ❋ SoWaffle (2016)

Nothing better than a night of [Resident Evil] and [vulgar auteurism] [with the boys] ❋ Sean333 (2021)

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