How to Use auteur in a Sentence
auteur
noun-
There's a lot to be said for Harry's massive, mobilized fan base, and for his status as a burgeoning pop auteur in the modern era.
— Billboard Staff, Billboard, 11 Aug. 2020 -
Allen’s book would have required a different calculus; the exchange of a publisher’s imprimatur for the vision of an auteur.
— Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 1 Apr. 2020 -
The buyers want Cahiers to recover its central place in the community of French auteur cinema.
— Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2020 -
From major studios to independent releases, new voices and favored auteurs, winter has become one of the most exciting times of the year for horror.
— Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Jan. 2020 -
The forty-five-year-old showrunner, producer, and writer Kenya Barris wants to be the commercial auteur of this identity paranoia.
— Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020 -
Yet the last few years have marked a turning point for the auteur.
— William Earl, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022 -
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 -
There’s nothing quite like the return of a beloved auteur to get the cinephile’s juices flowing.
— Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2023 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
There was one problem: the lights were too bright, but Erdem, the careful auteur, had a vision.
— Ian Malone, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2023 -
Her Oscar journey began in the hands of the Spanish auteur.
— Clayton Davis, Variety, 8 Oct. 2021 -
Lucky for us, then, that there’s a trans auteur who is willing to spring the Joker from the prison of canon and send the character on an idol-killing spree.
— Abraham Josephine Riesman, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024 -
Watching the auteur shoot in her old stomping grounds of East Los Angeles gave her the idea to pick up the camera.
— Angelique Jackson, Variety, 19 Dec. 2023 -
My main goal is to show that Nicole is not just an actor, but also an auteur, a creator.
— Martin Dale, Variety, 15 Jan. 2023 -
Arnold, an auteur’s auteur, is always a threat to snag a top Cannes honor.
— Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024 -
On the flip side, if an auteur director makes a big-budget movie that seems destined to make no one happy, that film has a pretty good chance of failing at the box office.
— Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024 -
The marketplace is saturated and fatigue is starting to set in, but what other auteurs might weigh in with their own unique styles, voices, and stories?
— Kelly Goodner, IndieWire, 19 Oct. 2024
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