0 a film director who has a lot of influence on the making of their films, so that they can be considered as their author:
auteurs, such as Jean-Luc Godard or Lars von Trier
We keep hearing about the death of the auteur, the rebirth of the playwright, and so on.
That does push a lot further into auteur territory than directors of new plays are usually asked.
While this emphasis on the director as auteur decentres the place of music in the soundtrack, her concentration on music decentres the place of the auteur in film studies.
Key auteurs are represented alongside the newer and lesser known.
Her films display the obsessions and consistencies of a true auteur...
The award especially denotes recognition of auteur cinema and creative and audacious filmmaking.
Along with auteur films, commercial reels, music clips and television bumpers were in competition.
Sometimes, auteur film directors edit their own films.
