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noun
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 their works.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To work as an auteur.
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noun
a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: film maker, filmmaker, film producer, movie maker
History
Borrowed from French auteur (“author”). Popularised by François Truffaut in the 1954 essay “Une certaine tendance du cinéma français” (“A certain tendency in French cinema”) in the influential film journal Cahiers du Cinéma as the phrase “la politique des Auteurs”. Doublet of author.
Across languages
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