The presumed or actual "author" of a film, usually identified as the director The term is also sometimes used in an evaluative sense to distinguish good filmmakers (auteurs) from bad ones Identifying the director as the film's "author" and evaluating the film as the work of an auteur has a long history but it became a prominent issue after the 1940s, particularly in French and English-language film criticism
The presumed or actual "author" of a film, usually identified as the director Also sometimes used in an evaluative sense to distinguish good filmmakers (auteurs) from bad ones
You can refer to a film director as an auteur when they have a very strong artistic influence on the films they make. a film director who has a strong influence on the style of the films that he or she makes