How to Use auteur in a Sentence

auteur

noun
  • Yet the last few years have marked a turning point for the auteur.
    — William Earl, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022
  • These new auteurs are not playing.
    — Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • But this just feels like a Spielberg auteur film to me.
    — Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026
  • And then Allen as a comedic auteur, which is a genre of moviemaking.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Great auteurs and directors don’t fall from a tree.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • This is a film by an auteur with a point of view, not a documentary.
    — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2021
  • What’s going to happen to these auteurs?
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 1 June 2026
  • This is in part because of the whole auteur myth surrounding how games are made.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Nolan isn’t the only auteur who gets rock star treatment at Imax.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 21 Apr. 2022
  • None of this is to say that Pera is the hard-driving auteur of the series.
    — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • The beloved auteur still managed to walk away with the top prizes for best film and director.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 14 Mar. 2022
  • There’s nothing quite like the return of a beloved auteur to get the cinephile’s juices flowing.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2023
  • But Truffaut said every auteur makes a movie, breaks it apart and then makes the same movie.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • But sometimes a song is just so amazing, its auteurs have to return to it a second time.
    — Dan Weiss, Billboard, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Arnold, an auteur’s auteur, is always a threat to snag a top Cannes honor.
    — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024
  • 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
  • Those were auteurs dipping their toes in the small screen at a time when most filmmakers looked down on the medium.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The brassy, flashy American auteur has made a movie in a fugue state about the world's current state.
    — Steven Zeitchik, latimes.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Eleanor Coppola, the auteur’s wife of 61 years, died last year.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Wes Anderson is an auteur director in the truest sense of the term.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 14 June 2023
  • Perhaps someone will adapt the story into a tongue-in-cheek horror film that would make the auteur proud.
    — Erin Blakemore, Longreads, 20 July 2017
  • The Atlanta auteur is already in the process of writing the finale.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Minus Reeves, his dreams of a career as a movie auteur were spiraling down the drain once more.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
  • What's Going On -- had largely been the province of rock auteurs.
    — Sal Cinquemani, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2019
  • What drives your initiative to support auteurs and bring them together?
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 1 June 2026
  • This prompted a visit from the auteur himself to the Sun Theatre.
    — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 24 June 2024
  • Saving the finale for spring, the samurai epic proved auteurs could be series unto themselves.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 25 Nov. 2025
  • But Steve Pink, the aforesaid auteur of the jacuzzi, wanted to get more personal than that.
    — Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2024

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