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
• None of this is to say that Pera is the hard-driving auteur of the series.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2019
• And then Allen as a comedic auteur, which is a genre of moviemaking.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 2 Feb. 2018
• 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
• 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
• By the early 2000s, Mel Gibson was a bona fide movie star/auteur at the top of his game.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 24 July 2018
• There’s nothing quite like the return of a beloved auteur to get the cinephile’s juices flowing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2023
• This time, the auteur is Frankie Shaw (Mr. Robot) who based the show loosely on her life.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2017
• First, a trip to the open house at the Bel-Air estate once owned by all-timer auteur Ernst Lubitsch.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
• The Atlanta auteur is already in the process of writing the finale.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2022
• As a matter of fact, the auteur known as the Pope of Trash has strong opinions on the subject of fashion.
  — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 29 Oct. 2020
• The beloved auteur still managed to walk away with the top prizes for best film and director.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 14 Mar. 2022
• But Truffaut said every auteur makes a movie, breaks it apart and then makes the same movie.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 29 Jan. 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
• Last Summer, a remake of a Danish film, is the 75-year-old auteur’s first project in a decade.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 29 June 2024
• Nolan isn’t the only auteur who gets rock star treatment at Imax.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 21 Apr. 2022
• This is a film by an auteur with a point of view, not a documentary.
  — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2021
• This is in part because of the whole auteur myth surrounding how games are made.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• The fate of Lubitsch is a familiar one for the comic auteur.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• But Steve Pink, the aforesaid auteur of the jacuzzi, wanted to get more personal than that.
  — Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2024
• This prompted a visit from the auteur himself to the Sun Theatre.
  — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 24 June 2024
• Wes Anderson is an auteur director in the truest sense of the term.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 14 June 2023
• The Room auteur took to Twitter over the weekend in a campaign to secure an invite to tonight's awards.
  — Gabrielle Bruney, Esquire, 4 Mar. 2018
• Even the auteur director of The Last Jedi loves them, so that should tell you something.
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 10 Oct. 2017
• Four decades and dozens of films on, Wenders remains a light-handed auteur open to the moment.
  — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
• What's Going On -- had largely been the province of rock auteurs.
  — Sal Cinquemani, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2019
• There was one problem: the lights were too bright, but Erdem, the careful auteur, had a vision.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2023
• The actor will re-team with the Greek auteur and Emma Stone for Bugonia.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 20 Jan. 2025
• That was an auteur take on the play that nearly drowned Marvel’s Blanche in a bathtub, but her performance was galvanized by the deconstructive assault.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
• Her big creative leap has delivered a sweet full-circle moment in a series of them, as Landecker is returning to Austin with the same credentials as the auteurs who got her there.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2025