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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These new auteurs are not playing.
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Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
But Marty Supreme also bears the stamp of a gifted auteur carving out his own space with his own signature and his own deep connection to New York past and present.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 1 Dec. 2025
Saving the finale for spring, the samurai epic proved auteurs could be series unto themselves.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 25 Nov. 2025
One of the medium’s great auteurs has created something wholly original and impressively unpredictable, with the mass gradually revealing vulnerabilities that feel truly unique in science fiction.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2025
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Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
But Marty Supreme also bears the stamp of a gifted auteur carving out his own space with his own signature and his own deep connection to New York past and present.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 1 Dec. 2025
Saving the finale for spring, the samurai epic proved auteurs could be series unto themselves.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 25 Nov. 2025
One of the medium’s great auteurs has created something wholly original and impressively unpredictable, with the mass gradually revealing vulnerabilities that feel truly unique in science fiction.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for auteur
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“Auteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/auteur. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.
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