noun
definition
A creative artist, especially a film director, seen as having a specific, recognisable artistic vision, and who is seen as the single or preeminent ‘author’ of his works.
Examples of auteurs in a Sentence
About this time he conceived the idea of his Bibliotheque universelle de tous les auteurs ecclesiastiques, the first volume of which appeared in 1686.
Featuring the films of emerging directors alongside the more established auteurs is a distinguishing factor of the Seagate Foyle Film Festival.
He is the most important Spanish director since Buñuel, and one of the greatest living auteurs.
All the major auteurs, now in Europe, are doing Royal Court plays.
You have a film, right, one by one of the few genuine auteurs of modern cinema.
If there is a case for considering actors as auteurs, Bogarde is probably one of the more interesting and complex of British auteurs.
He was the compiler of an immense Patrology, Histoire generale des auteurs sacres et ecclesiastiques (23 vols., Paris, 1729-1763), being a history and analysis of the writings of all the ecclesiastical writers of the first thirteen centuries.