1
: a film director whose practice accords with the auteur theory
broadly
: director sense c
2
: an artist (such as a musician or writer) whose style and practice are distinctive
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Economic pressures reshaping Hollywood have made copyright-free material newly attractive to prestige players looking for name recognition of all kinds, with auteurs frequently treating source works as creative and historical scaffolding.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Dec. 2025
Hip-Hop In the late nineties, the brothers Terrence and Gene Thornton, who rapped as Pusha T and Malice, surfaced from Virginia Beach as the coke-rap auteurs Clipse, under the stewardship of the Neptunes production team.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
In the early ‘90s, most Spanish film festivals drew much of their big plays from Europe’s grand auteurs.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Dec. 2025
Since Accident won the Palme d’Or in May, the year has essentially functioned as one long living wake for the sunglass-loving Iranian auteur.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Dec. 2025
Hip-Hop In the late nineties, the brothers Terrence and Gene Thornton, who rapped as Pusha T and Malice, surfaced from Virginia Beach as the coke-rap auteurs Clipse, under the stewardship of the Neptunes production team.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
In the early ‘90s, most Spanish film festivals drew much of their big plays from Europe’s grand auteurs.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Dec. 2025
Since Accident won the Palme d’Or in May, the year has essentially functioned as one long living wake for the sunglass-loving Iranian auteur.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
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“Auteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/auteur. Accessed 31 Dec. 2025.
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