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as in writer
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as in director
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Recent Examples of auteur
The auteur’s newest film, The Phoenician Scheme, cowritten with Roman Coppola and out May 30, is set in 1950, but not in any place that existed then or does now.
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Rachel Wallace, Architectural Digest, 21 May 2025
French auteur filmmaker Bertrand Bonello will deliver this year’s ECAM Forum centerpiece masterclass on June 12, in partnership with Cineteca Madrid and Filmadrid Festival.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 19 May 2025
But The Hollywood Reporter and Threads gave the veteran auteur one more by hosting an early evening celebration for his Cannes Film Festival selection Highest 2 Lowest at Hyde Beach by Campari on Sunday.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2025
What was once a marketplace of faxes and frantic phone calls has become a digital, global arena — shaped by streaming platforms, changing release strategies and a new generation of auteurs redefining what cinema can be.
—Martin Moszkowicz, Deadline, 17 May 2025
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Rachel Wallace, Architectural Digest, 21 May 2025
French auteur filmmaker Bertrand Bonello will deliver this year’s ECAM Forum centerpiece masterclass on June 12, in partnership with Cineteca Madrid and Filmadrid Festival.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 19 May 2025
But The Hollywood Reporter and Threads gave the veteran auteur one more by hosting an early evening celebration for his Cannes Film Festival selection Highest 2 Lowest at Hyde Beach by Campari on Sunday.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2025
What was once a marketplace of faxes and frantic phone calls has become a digital, global arena — shaped by streaming platforms, changing release strategies and a new generation of auteurs redefining what cinema can be.
—Martin Moszkowicz, Deadline, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for auteur
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Lina Abascal is a writer and filmmaker born and raised in Los Angeles.—
Lina Abascal,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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Every Thursday during the regular season, Tribune baseball writers will provide an update on what happened — and what’s ahead — for the Cubs and White Sox.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
5 June 2025
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For Alexa Abitbol, director of the high jewelry workshops, the new collection reflects the expertise of the jeweler’s craftspeople, who spent nearly 100,000 hours overall on the collection.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
26 May 2025
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Jake Wood was executive director of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, what had been a troubled effort to get more aid into Gaza in a way that would be acceptable to Israel, which has sought to tightly control all aid deliveries.—
WAFAA SHURAFA,
Arkansas Online,
26 May 2025
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Ventura’s stylist and friend, Deonte Nash, recalled a pushy Combs yanking Ventura away from her 29th birthday celebration in 2015.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
1 June 2025
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Before breaking for lunch on May 28, jurors heard testimony from Nash, who worked as a stylist for Combs and Ventura Fine between 2009 and 2018.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
30 May 2025
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He might be best known as the Minnesota-via-Brooklyn frontman of the Hold Steady, a punk bar-band wordsmith specializing in down-and-out tales with a Midwest flavor.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
6 Apr. 2025
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Clad in vibrant orange — a color aligning with his most recent album, Toda Época Tiene Su Encanto, which dropped September 2024 — the Puerto Rican wordsmith and his 12-member troupe brought a genre-bending set to the stage.—
Isabela Raygoza,
Billboard,
1 May 2025
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Zsa-zsa has already convinced the necessary parties to agree: a prince (Riz Ahmed), two American industrialists (Tom Hanks and Bryan Cranston), a nightclub impresario (Mathieu Amalric), a sailor (Jeffrey Wright) and his cousin-slash-fiancée (Scarlett Johansson).—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2025
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Prosecutors paint a darker portrait of the music impresario who became as well-known for his rap career as for his A-list parties and many brands, from Ciroc to Sean John.—
Danielle Bacher,
People.com,
9 May 2025
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Clearly, by now — that is, 1835 — science had done enough to prove itself in the eyes of the litterateurs.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
7 Mar. 2025
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Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
7 Mar. 2025
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No matter how daffy some of it is, the production has the important factor of clarity; a quality that the great stage director Peter Hall used to say is a vital component of any revival of a classic.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
4 Apr. 2025
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That would be lyricist Fred Ebb, playwright Terrence McNally and original star Chita Rivera, key figures behind the 1993 Broadway musical, alongside composer John Kander and stage director Harold Prince.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Erickson would serve as writer, showrunner, and executive producer.—
Mekishana Pierre Updated,
EW.com,
6 June 2025
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Today, this husband and wife, Larry and MaryAnn Tsai, are making a stunning Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon as a wine producer under the name Moone Tsai Wines.—
Cathrine Todd,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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“Auteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/auteur. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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