1
: a film director whose practice accords with the auteur theory
broadly
: director sense c
2
: an artist (such as a musician or writer) whose style and practice are distinctive
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After all, Netflix and Amazon also made series that were attached to auteurs, like House of Cards, whose first two episodes were directed by David Fincher, and Prime’s Too Old to Die Young, which was directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.
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Will Tavlin, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025
Economic pressures reshaping Hollywood have made copyright-free material newly attractive to prestige players looking for name recognition of all kinds, with auteurs frequently treating source works as creative and historical scaffolding.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Dec. 2025
Of the next-gen rap auteurs that characterize MIKE’s 10k label—Sideshow and Anysia Kym, to name two—Niontay has his finger on the wildest and weirdest pulses.
—Benny Sun, Pitchfork, 22 Dec. 2025
The Girls auteur and Not That Kind of Girl author returns to the page for another memoir, this one focused on her life between 2010 and 2020.
—Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 22 Dec. 2025
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Will Tavlin, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025
Economic pressures reshaping Hollywood have made copyright-free material newly attractive to prestige players looking for name recognition of all kinds, with auteurs frequently treating source works as creative and historical scaffolding.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Dec. 2025
Of the next-gen rap auteurs that characterize MIKE’s 10k label—Sideshow and Anysia Kym, to name two—Niontay has his finger on the wildest and weirdest pulses.
—Benny Sun, Pitchfork, 22 Dec. 2025
The Girls auteur and Not That Kind of Girl author returns to the page for another memoir, this one focused on her life between 2010 and 2020.
—Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 22 Dec. 2025
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“Auteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/auteur. Accessed 6 Jan. 2026.
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