Sentence examples for auteur from inspiring English sources

Mitchell, who turns 50 this September, has been hailed as the closest thing British theatre has to a genuine auteur: a director with a strong, uncompromising vision of how theatre should be.

Spielberg's underlings have yet to be announced but you can expect the usual quota of one huge Hollywood star, one auteur only the most cinephilic have heard of and at least two women.

It is a joy to see The Grand Budapest Hotel do so well in the Globes, with nominations for best comedy/musical, best actor for Ralph Fiennes and best director for that remarkable and singular auteur, Wes Anderson.

But today is a new day, and Amazon has announced in a press release that the famed auteur and director of Annie Hall, Manhattan and Scoop will be making an original program for the Amazon Prime Instant Video streaming service.

To make things even more unlikely, it's been written and produced by Ben Jacobs (AKA experimental pop auteur Max Tundra) and it's fantastic: an icy synthpop number that incorporates skittish beats and lyrical references to David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest and Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark, while retaining the playfulness of the duo's original hits.

The second is The Assassin from the great Taiwanese auteur Hou Hsiao-hsien, whose best director award for The Assassin honours a film-maker who has a hard-won reputation for brilliance and for artistry; the purest artistry, perhaps, to be rewarded at Cannes this year.

Germany's greatest living documentarian, feature film-maker and former Klaus Kinski wrangler has parlayed his cult auteur status into some juicy acting gigs.