How to Use auteur in a Sentence

auteur

noun

• Only breakout or star-auteur art films sell well these days.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 24 Sep. 2021
• But Steve Pink, the aforesaid auteur of the jacuzzi, wanted to get more personal than that.
  — Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2024
• Her Oscar journey began in the hands of the Spanish auteur.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 8 Oct. 2021
• The other thing is that his Westerns are the films in which Corbucci was truly an auteur.
  — WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
• Melvin Van Peebles, an iconic auteur of Black cinema, has died.
  — Alexia Fernández, PEOPLE.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• The quirky Australian auteur starred as a young man who is suddenly tasked with raising his two half-sisters after the death of their father.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 Aug. 2021
• Every auteur sings the song of themselves, but not many do it with as much frank, familial tenderness as Mike Mills.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2021
• And not just big Hollywood movies but documentaries or auteur and all spectrum of cinema.
  — Joshua James Richards and Christopher Sherman, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Sep. 2021
• In the auteur’s next film, two women—one a matador gored during a bullfight and the other a ballerina hit by a car—fall into comas and become voyeuristic objects of desire for two men.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2021
• Yet the last few years have marked a turning point for the auteur.
  — William Earl, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022
• Just an auteur singing her songs, dancing like a sea anemone in the darkness of the ocean floor.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• That said, the late auteur’s ditch-day classic routinely finds its way to the head of the class.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 May 2023
• There’s nothing quite like the return of a beloved auteur to get the cinephile’s juices flowing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2023
• First, a trip to the open house at the Bel-Air estate once owned by all-timer auteur Ernst Lubitsch.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
• The Atlanta auteur is already in the process of writing the finale.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2022
• The beloved auteur still managed to walk away with the top prizes for best film and director.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 14 Mar. 2022
• Last Summer, a remake of a Danish film, is the 75-year-old auteur’s first project in a decade.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 29 June 2024
• Nolan isn’t the only auteur who gets rock star treatment at Imax.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 21 Apr. 2022
• This is a film by an auteur with a point of view, not a documentary.
  — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2021
• This is in part because of the whole auteur myth surrounding how games are made.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• The fate of Lubitsch is a familiar one for the comic auteur.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• This prompted a visit from the auteur himself to the Sun Theatre.
  — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 24 June 2024
• Wes Anderson is an auteur director in the truest sense of the term.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 14 June 2023
• Four decades and dozens of films on, Wenders remains a light-handed auteur open to the moment.
  — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
• There was one problem: the lights were too bright, but Erdem, the careful auteur, had a vision.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2023
• Lucky for us, then, that there’s a trans auteur who is willing to spring the Joker from the prison of canon and send the character on an idol-killing spree.
  — Abraham Josephine Riesman, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
• Watching the auteur shoot in her old stomping grounds of East Los Angeles gave her the idea to pick up the camera.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 19 Dec. 2023
• My main goal is to show that Nicole is not just an actor, but also an auteur, a creator.
  — Martin Dale, Variety, 15 Jan. 2023
• Arnold, an auteur’s auteur, is always a threat to snag a top Cannes honor.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024
• But in those cases, which definitely yielded their share of masterpieces as well, the director was the auteur and the actress his muse.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024