Sentence examples for acclaimed auteur from inspiring English sources

Luc Besson may once have been an acclaimed auteur, but in recent years he's spent his time writing and producing half-witted celebrations of racist violence.

If Fleming was so clearly admired by his contemporaries, why isn't he an acclaimed auteur with a name as familiar as Hitchcock and Spielberg?

In addition to Rozema's film, there's also Patrick Reed and Michelle Shephard's doc Guantanamo's Child: Omar Khadr; Beeba Boys, by acclaimed auteur Deepa Mehta; and film critic Brian Johnson's debut feature documentary, Al Purdy was Here, to name a few.

A modest American box office gross of around $1 million is out of the reach of even prizewinners from Cannes and masterworks by internationally acclaimed auteurs, most of whose names remain unknown even to movie buffs.

Movie star and rape survivor Gabrielle Union wrote movingly about the struggle to reconcile her role in the critically acclaimed Birth of a Nation with allegations against the film's auteur, Nate Parker.

I like being "acclaimed".

Russell acclaimed her own Braveheart.

His critically acclaimed merlot?

The game was critically acclaimed.

"Vow" was acclaimed by critics.

Their performance was critically acclaimed.