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as in director
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Recent Examples of auteur
Hawke is currently making the awards rounds for his turn in Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, his ninth collaboration with the auteur, which follows the opening night of 1943 musical Oklahoma!
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Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 7 Dec. 2025
As soon as the acquisition was announced, industry observers began to speculate whether or not Netflix would, say, continue Warner Bros’ commitment to theatrical releases, something that’s important to its auteur directors like Dune filmmaker Denis Villeneuve.
—Angela Watercutter, Wired News, 5 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
Kier starred in the first half of legendary Hungarian auteur Miklos Jancsó's historical epic Magyar Rapszódia, or Hungarian Rhapsody, in 1979.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Nov. 2025
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Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 7 Dec. 2025
As soon as the acquisition was announced, industry observers began to speculate whether or not Netflix would, say, continue Warner Bros’ commitment to theatrical releases, something that’s important to its auteur directors like Dune filmmaker Denis Villeneuve.
—Angela Watercutter, Wired News, 5 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
Kier starred in the first half of legendary Hungarian auteur Miklos Jancsó's historical epic Magyar Rapszódia, or Hungarian Rhapsody, in 1979.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for auteur
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Famed writer and director David Mamet, who cameos in Marty Supreme, is also said to have attended Marty's clubs.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Jan. 2026
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Here's a look at those astronaut medical issues and others from the history of human spaceflight by our writer Josh Dinner.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
10 Jan. 2026
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Jeff Brady, executive director of communications for the district, said Tiger Team Two met at least once a month from September to December to discuss and evaluate school enrollment, the capacity and upkeep and condition of each campus, finances and boundaries for each school.—
Fousia Abdullahi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Jan. 2026
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Last week, former Marni creative director Francesco Risso was appointed creative director of casual wear brand GU, which is owned by Uniqlo’s Japanese parent company Fast Retailing.—
Maliha Shoaib,
Vogue,
13 Jan. 2026
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Other stylists, meanwhile, bank on the much finer details.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
9 Jan. 2026
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Demi Moore can’t remember the initial looks that kicked off her long-running collaboration with stylist Brad Goreski.—
Kristen Tauer,
Footwear News,
9 Jan. 2026
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The legal battle surrounding Ye’s former Malibu pad is the latest in a series of public and legal dramas that the music impresario has been involved in recent years.—
Stacy Perman,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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Heeding these cryptic words some three decades later, the audacious (and well-read) impresario Tony Wilson opened the Haçienda together with the circle of post-punk musicians and designers involved with his label, Factory Records.—
Boris Kachka,
The Atlantic,
9 Jan. 2026
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Rather the answer, according to Obama’s wordsmith, is to take cell phones away from American children who are seeing this carnage on social media and who are rightly horrified.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Dec. 2025
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Eventually, this wordsmith shows up as well: Eileen Lovberg (Tar‘s Nina Hoss).—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
29 Oct. 2025
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Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
7 Mar. 2025
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The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Mar. 2021
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After the Nazis confiscated the celebrated Austrian stage director Max Reinhardt’s theatres in Germany, Reinhardt came to Hollywood and directed this masterpiece for Warner Brothers.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
5 Dec. 2025
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Noel, now an in-demand stage director, is appointed founding director of the Globe.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Oct. 2025
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To become Florida law, bills need to survive committee hearings, pass votes in the House and Senate and avoid the governor’s veto pen.—
Ryan Ballogg,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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Common heights for outdoor pens for dogs are 24 inches, 30 inches, 36 inches, 42 inches and 48 inches.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Jan. 2026
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“Auteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/auteur. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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