Definitions for auteur

auteur au·teur

Spelling: [oh-tur; French oh-tœr]
IPA: /oʊˈtɜr; French oʊˈtœr/

Auteur is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in auteur (aertuu).

Definitions for auteur

noun

  1. a filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of production give a film its personal and unique stamp.

Origin of auteur

1960-65; French: literally, author, originator Latin auctor. See author

Examples for auteur

They seemed very much like auteur works—but the auteur works of a writer, not the auteur works of a director.

Jenks is instead a lanky, earnest, well-traveled (having lived in Nepal and Belgium) auteur from humble beginnings.

Does the Manhattan auteur's homage to the City of Light hold a candle to his classics?

But apparently the studio is aware of a possibility that its auteur prefers to ignore.

Taurus is tactile, sensual, lush—adjectives ascribed to this auteur.

(German auteur Tom Tykwer co-wrote and directed Cloud Atlas with the Wachowskis).

For auteur filmmaker David Lynch, she participated in sex scenes that shocked and traumatized American audiences.

You can see an animated depiction of them debating the auteur theory.

As an auteur, he sees packaging as the opening credits, the start of the storytelling.

Every film by Sofia Coppola, the Oscar-winning auteur behind Lost in Translation with the choice genes, is an event.

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