auteur
[oh-tur; French oh-tœr]
- a filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of production give a film its personal and unique stamp.
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Origin of auteur
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They seemed very much like auteur works—but the auteur works of a writer, not the auteur works of a director.
But apparently the studio is aware of a possibility that its auteur prefers to ignore.
Every film by Sofia Coppola, the Oscar-winning auteur behind Lost in Translation with the choice genes, is an event.
(German auteur Tom Tykwer co-wrote and directed Cloud Atlas with the Wachowskis).
You can see an animated depiction of them debating the auteur theory.
auteur
- a director whose creative influence on a film is so great as to be considered its author
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Word Origin
French: author
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Word Origin and History for auteur
n.
1962, from French, literally "author" (see author (n.)).
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