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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
auteur
noun
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▪ By the middle of the decade, they had formulated their auteur theory, which gave a new gloss to film studies.
▪ How Dustin would have managed to submit himself to a real auteur like Bergman must remain a matter for conjecture.
▪ Its auteur was a wispy, bearded engineer in his twenties named Mike Dhuey.
▪ With Marcus you have one auteur coming to another auteur.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
auteur

1962, from French, literally "author" (see author (n.)).

Wiktionary
auteur

n. 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.

WordNet
auteur

n. a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works

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Usage examples of "auteur".

Madame Psychosis as bizarre that it was she, Madame Psychosis, whom the Auteur kept casting as various feminine instantiations of Death when he had the real thing right under his nose, and eminently photogenic to boot, the widow-to-be, apparently a real restaurant-silencer-type beauty even in her late forties.

And that the Auteur had apparently remained alcohol-free for the whole next three-and-a-half months, from Xmas of the Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad to 1 April of the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar, the date of his suicide.

That, no, rather the consuming guilt had been over the condition that the Auteur suspend the ingestion of spirits, which it turned out, M.

This was to acquire members of the immediate family of the auteur, perhaps in public.

Omdat Anne Supaari zo graag mocht, stelde ze voor hem als tweede auteur bij elk artikel te vermelden.

De auteur van de sublieme liederen die Emilio Sandoz en zijn metgezellen naar Rakhat had gebracht.

Ze hebben allemaal heel hard aan dit boek gewerkt en de bezorgdheid van een beginnend auteur vriendelijk getolereerd.

Morele verontwaardiging over het seksleven van de auteurs is niet ter zake doend.

Ovide, Tibulle, Properce, pour ne nommer que les plus connus, Dante, Petrarque, Boccace, tous ces auteurs Italiens qui deje souillaient les ames et ruinaient les moeurs, en creant ou perfectionnant la langue.

And that the Auteur had apparently remained alcohol-free for the whole next three-and-a-half months, from Xmas of the Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad to 1 April of the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar, the date of his suicide.

You work by your wits and experience, not by the politique des auteurs.

Human auteurs were putting it together, very deliberately, swiftly, and deftly assembling it with their own busy human fingertips.

All New Russians had home theaters, as if they were auteurs on the side.

Fortier was required to absent himself for a period, in the search's middle, to help facilitate Southwest ops, the infiltration of that relative of the auteur felt most strongly (according to Marathe) to have knowledge or possession of a duplicable copy.

Indie films, once the refuge of the auteur, have become little more than a farm system for Hollywood.