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as in writer
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as in director
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Recent Examples of auteur
Part of the reason for this was to attract marquee auteur talent back to the Burbank, CA studio in the wake of Christopher Nolan departure to Universal.
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2025
That goes double for my thoughts on Tyler Perry, the prolific African-American auteur who ended his TV partnership with Oprah to co-create the BET+ video streaming service.
—PCMAG, 25 Mar. 2025
He’s become a true auteur, and like many great auteurs, the Greek director has taken his new caché to explore brand new mediums, via an emerging side-passion in still photography.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 31 Mar. 2025
Over his now decade-and-a-half-long career, fans of the alt-pop auteur—real name Mike Hadreas—have only seen his work grow in scale and power, evolving from twinkling piano bedroom ballads to ambitious blasts of sonic splendor that careen through the gray areas between genre.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2025
That goes double for my thoughts on Tyler Perry, the prolific African-American auteur who ended his TV partnership with Oprah to co-create the BET+ video streaming service.
—PCMAG, 25 Mar. 2025
He’s become a true auteur, and like many great auteurs, the Greek director has taken his new caché to explore brand new mediums, via an emerging side-passion in still photography.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 31 Mar. 2025
Over his now decade-and-a-half-long career, fans of the alt-pop auteur—real name Mike Hadreas—have only seen his work grow in scale and power, evolving from twinkling piano bedroom ballads to ambitious blasts of sonic splendor that careen through the gray areas between genre.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for auteur
Noun
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Honestly, this is the hardest this writer has laughed this season.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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The High Potential writers are currently mapping out the new season.—
Scott Huver,
Deadline,
6 Apr. 2025
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After the initial report of Pérez's survival, Juan Manuel Méndez, the director of the official Emergency Operations Center, later confirmed to the AP and the New York Times that Pérez had not been located.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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There is the theater made by playwrights and actors and directors.—
Frank Rich,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2025
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After consulting with Ritchie, Brosnan let his hair stylist go on a cutting spree.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2025
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Sophie Lopez, the fashion stylist behind Kate Hudson, is joining the Wishi Style Council.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
1 Apr. 2025
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After two days of sightseeing in Ulaanbaatar, wordsmiths head to Kharkhorin, the town that was the Mongol Empire’s capital in the 13th century, where the retreat truly begins.—
Ginanne Brownell,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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There, Brewer helped to launch the careers of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and wordsmith Shel Silverstein.—
Audrey Gibbs,
The Tennessean,
14 Mar. 2024
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Brandes credits Gigi Campi, an Italian architect and jazz impresario who ran an ice-cream parlor in Cologne that doubled as a music venue, as having built an audience for jazz in the city.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2025
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Paul Hawthorne / Getty Images file JOHNNY CANALES, 77, TV host and impresario.—
Raul A. Reyes,
NBC News,
28 Dec. 2024
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The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Mar. 2021
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Even his name, not to mention his author photo, had an aura of toughness more suggestive of a prizefighter than a litterateur.—
Geoffrey O’Brien,
The New York Review of Books,
18 Apr. 2019
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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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Presumed Innocent Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series starring and executive produced by Jake Gyllenhaal, hailing from David E. Kelley and executive producer J.J. Abrams and is based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name by Scott Turow.—
Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Apr. 2025
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Cruise is once again producing the Paramount and Skydance film, alongside executive producers David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, and Chris Brock.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Auteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/auteur. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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