How to Use auteur in a Sentence

auteur

noun

• Because every auteur writes his point of view into a zombie film.
  — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 8 Apr. 2018
• And both movies are directed by auteurs whose work is always welcome in theaters.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 7 Apr. 2018
• The teasers even got multiple comparisons to the work of film auteur Terrence Malick.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2018
• Washington stands in a long line of auteurs who have a holistic approach to wardrobing in film while also embodying stellar personal style.
  — Shelton Boyd-Griffith, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2025
• That film catapulted Nyoni into the rare status of rising British auteur.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
• For nearly a century, the Maid of Orléans has fascinated auteurs.
  — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
• Despite the obvious homage, this is a Ramsay film, rooted in the Glaswegian auteur's feverish, kaleidoscope style.
  — Leah Pickett, Chicago Reader, 12 Apr. 2018
• The controversial auteur apologized soon after, as always.
  — Anna Silman, The Cut, 4 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Her Oscar journey began in the hands of the Spanish auteur.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 8 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 3 Feb 2025