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The term '''auteur''' ([[French language|French]] for ''author'') is used to describe '''[[film director]]s''' (or, more rarely, producers, or writers) who are considered to have a distinctive, recognizable style, because they (a) repeatedly return to the same subject matter, (b) habitually address a particular psychological or moral theme, (c) employ a recurring style, or (d) demonstrate any combination of the above. In theory, an auteur's films are identifiable regardless of their [[genre]]. The term was first applied in its cinematic sense in [[François Truffaut]]'s 1954 essay "A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema" (see [[Auteur theory]]). |
The term '''auteur''' ([[French language|French]] for ''author'') is used to describe '''[[film director]]s''' (or, more rarely, producers, or writers) who are considered to have a distinctive, recognizable style, because they (a) repeatedly return to the same subject matter, (b) habitually address a particular psychological or moral theme, (c) employ a recurring visual and aesthetic style, or (d) demonstrate any combination of the above. In theory, an auteur's films are identifiable regardless of their [[genre]]. The term was first applied in its cinematic sense in [[François Truffaut]]'s 1954 essay "A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema" (see [[Auteur theory]]). |
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==List of auteurs== |
==List of auteurs== |
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- For the band, see The Auteurs.
The term auteur (French for author) is used to describe film directors (or, more rarely, producers, or writers) who are considered to have a distinctive, recognizable style, because they (a) repeatedly return to the same subject matter, (b) habitually address a particular psychological or moral theme, (c) employ a recurring visual and aesthetic style, or (d) demonstrate any combination of the above. In theory, an auteur's films are identifiable regardless of their genre. The term was first applied in its cinematic sense in François Truffaut's 1954 essay "A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema" (see Auteur theory).
List of auteurs
The following is a list of directors whose status as an auteur is supported by published studies of their body of work.
A
- Chantal Akerman (1950–). Belgian, makes films in France.[1]
- Fatih Akin (1973-). Turkish-German director.
- Robert Aldrich (1918–1983). American Hollywood director.[2]
- Woody Allen (1935–). American independent filmmaker.[3]
- Pedro Almodóvar (1949–). Spanish.[4]
- Robert Altman (1925-2006). American.
- Dev Anand (1923–). Indian. [citation needed]
- Paul Thomas Anderson (1970) American.[5]
- Wes Anderson (1969–). American.
- Theo Angelopoulos (1936–). Greek.[6]
- Hideaki Anno (1960–). Japanese, anime and live action director. [citation needed]
- Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–). Italian, makes film in Europe and the United States.[7]
- G Aravindan (1935–1991). Indian. [citation needed]
- Fernando Arrabal (1932). Spain.
- Dorothy Arzner (1897–1979). American, Hollywood 1920s-30s.[8]
- Hal Ashby (1929–1988). American, worked in Hollywood.[9]
B
- Luc Besson (1959–). French. [citation needed]
- Shyam Benegal (1934–). Indian.[10]
- Ingmar Bergman (1918–). Swedish.[11]
- Bernardo Bertolucci (1941–) Italian, makes films in Europe and the USA.[12]
- Robert Bresson (1901–1999). French.[13]
- John Boorman. (1933–). British. [citation needed]
- Mel Brooks (1926–). American, Comedy. [citation needed]
- Jan Bucquoy (1945-). Belgian, maker of cult movies.
- Luis Buñuel (1900–1983). Spanish, made films in Europe and Mexico.[14]
- Tim Burton (1958–). American, Hollywood filmmaker.[15]
C
- Jane Campion (1954–). New Zealander. [citation needed]
- John Carpenter (1948–). American. [citation needed]
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan (1959–). Turkish.
- Francis Ford Coppola (1939–). American. [citation needed]
- Sofia Coppola (1971–). American. [citation needed]
- Silvio Caiozzi (1944–). Chilean. [citation needed]
- Frank Capra (1897–1991). American. [citation needed]
- Marcel Carné (1906–1996). French.[16]
- John Cassavetes (1929–1989). American, independent filmmaker.[17]
- Youssef Chahine (1926–). Egyptian.[18]
- Claude Chabrol (1930–). French.[19]
- Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977). British, made films in Hollywood.[20]
- Chen Kaige (1952–). Chinese.
- Yash Chopra (1932–). Indian.[21]
- Stephen Chow (1962-). Hong Kong Chinese.
- René Clair (1898–1981). French.[22]
- Henri-Georges Clouzot (1904–1977). French.[23]
- Jean Cocteau (1889–1963). French.[24]
- Joel and Ethan Coen (1954–, 1957–). American, independent filmmakers.[25]
- David Cronenberg (1943–). Canadian, makes films in North America.[26]
- Alfonso Cuaron (1961–). Mexican.
D
- Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (1951–, 1951–). Belgian. [citation needed]
- Jules Dassin (1911–). American, made films in France after being blacklisted. [citation needed]
- Terence Davies (1945-). British.
- Jacques Demy (1931–1990). French, key New Wave filmmaker. [citation needed]
- Vittorio De Sica (1901–1974). Italian, key neorealist filmmaker. [citation needed]
- Alexander Dovzhenko (1894–1956). Soviet. [citation needed]
- Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889–1968). Danish. [citation needed]
- Bruno Dumont (1958–). French.
- Guru Dutt (1925–1964). Indian. [citation needed]
E
- Blake Edwards (1922–). American. [citation needed]
- Atom Egoyan (1960–). Canadian. [citation needed]
- Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948). Soviet. [citation needed]
F
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982). German, key New Wave filmmaker. [citation needed]
- Federico Fellini (1920–1993). Italian. [citation needed]
- David Fincher (1962–). American. [citation needed]
- Miloš Forman (1932–). Czech, makes films in Hollywood. [citation needed]
- John Ford (1894–1973). American. [citation needed]
- Stephen Frears (1941-). British
- Lucio Fulci (1927–1996). Italian. [citation needed]
- Samuel Fuller (1912–1997). American. [citation needed]
G
- Abel Gance (1889–1981). French. [citation needed]
- Costa Gavras (1933–) Greek, makes films in France and the United States. [citation needed]
- Ritwik Ghatak (1925–1976). Indian, independent Bengali filmmaker.[27][28]
- Terry Gilliam (1940–). American born British, makes films in the UK and US. [citation needed]
- Jean-Luc Godard (1930–). French, key New Wave filmmaker. [citation needed]
- Michel Gondry (1963–). French. [citation needed]
- Alejandro González Iñárritu (1963–). Mexican. [citation needed]
- Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941–). Indian, independent filmmaker.[29]
- Peter Greenaway (1942–). British, independant, avant-garde filmmaker. [citation needed]
- D.W. Griffith (1875–1948). American. [citation needed]
- Ruy Guerra (1931–). Mozambican, makes films in Brazil. [citation needed]
- Yilmaz Güney (1937–1984). Turkish.[30]
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (1928–1996). Cuban.[31]
H
- Michael Haneke (1942–). Austrian, makes films in France.[32]
- Howard Hawks (1896–1977). American. [citation needed]
- Werner Herzog (1942–). German, key independant New Wave filmmaker. [citation needed]
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980). British, made films in Hollywood. [citation needed]
- Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1947–). Taiwanese, key New Wave filmmaker. [citation needed]
- King Hu (1931–1997). Chinese, made films in Hong Kong and Taiwan. [citation needed]
- Danièle Huillet (1936–2006). French, collaborated with husband Jean-Marie Straub.
I
- Kon Ichikawa (1915–). Japanese, postwar New Wave filmmaker.[33][34]
- Shohei Imamura (1926–2006). Japanese, key New Wave filmmaker.[35][36]
- James Ivory (1928–). American, made films in the UK. [citation needed]
J
- Jim Jarmusch (1953–). American, independent filmmaker. [citation needed]
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953–). French. [citation needed]
- Jia Zhangke (1970–). Chinese.
- Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929–). Chilean, surrealist, makes films in Mexico and France. [citation needed]
K
- Aki Kaurismäki (Finland) [citation needed]
- Elia Kazan (Turkey, made films in the USA) [citation needed]
- Buster Keaton (USA) [citation needed]
- Abbas Kiarostami (1940- ) (Iran) Iranian filmmaker. [37]
- Krzysztof Kieslowski (Poland) [citation needed]
- Takeshi Kitano (Japan) [citation needed]
- Masaki Kobayashi (Japan) [citation needed]
- Harmony Korine (USA)
- Stanley Kubrick (1928 – 1999) (USA)
- Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) (Japan) Post-war Japanese filmmaker. [38][39]
- Emir Kusturica (Serbia) [citation needed]
- Stanley Kwan (Hong Kong) [citation needed]
- Im Kwon-Taek (South Korea) [citation needed]
L
- Fritz Lang (Germany) German and American (Hollywood) filmmaker. [citation needed]
- David Lean (UK) [citation needed]
- Ang Lee (Taiwan/USA)
- Spike Lee (USA) [citation needed]
- Mike Leigh (United Kingdom) [citation needed]
- Sergio Leone (Italy) [citation needed]
- Jerry Lewis (US) [citation needed]
- Richard Linklater (US)
- Ken Loach (UK) [citation needed]
- Joseph Losey (USA, made films in the USA and UK) [citation needed]
- Ernst Lubitsch (USA) [citation needed]
- George Lucas (USA) [citation needed]
- Baz Luhrmann (Australia) {fact}
- Ida Lupino (USA) [citation needed]
- David Lynch (1946- )(USA) [citation needed]
M
- Guy Maddin (Canada) [citation needed]
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Iran) [citation needed]
- Louis Malle (France) [citation needed]
- David Mamet (USA) [citation needed]
- Chris Marker (France) [citation needed]
- Julio Medem (Spain) [40]
- Jean-Pierre Melville (France) [citation needed]
- Hayao Miyazaki (Japan) [citation needed]
- Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956) (Japan) Key Japanese filmmaker. [41]
- Nanni Moretti (Italy) [citation needed]
- Kira Muratova - Russian film director
- F.W. Murnau (Germany) [citation needed]
- Michael Mann (USA) [citation needed]
- Terrence Malick (USA) [citation needed]
- Fei Mu (1906-1951) (China) Pre-revolutionary Chinese filmmaker. [citation needed]
N
- Mikio Naruse (1905-1969) (Japan) Key Japanese filmmaker. [42][43]
O
- Max Ophüls (Germany) [citation needed]
- Nagisa Oshima (1932-) Japanese, New Wave filmmaker, critic & theorist.[44][45]
- Idrissa Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso) [citation needed]
- Francois Ozon (France)
- Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963) (Japan) Key Japanese filmmaker. [46][47]
P
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst (Germany) [citation needed]
- Padmarajan (India) [citation needed]
- Jafar Panahi (Iran) [citation needed]
- Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy) [citation needed]
- Sergei Parajanov (USSR) [citation needed]
- Park Chan-wook (S Korea)
- Sam Peckinpah (USA) [citation needed]
- Nelson Pereira dos Santos (Brazil) [citation needed]
- Roman Polanski (Poland) [citation needed]
- Sally Potter (UK) [citation needed]
R
- Mani Ratnam (India) [citation needed]
- Nicholas Ray (USA) [citation needed]
- Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) (India) Indian (Bengali) filmmaker & writer. [48][49][50][51][52]
- Jean Renoir (France) [citation needed]
- Alain Resnais (France) [citation needed]
- Arturo Ripstein (Mexico) [53]
- Jacques Rivette (France) [citation needed]
- Glauber Rocha (Brazil) [citation needed]
- Ram Gopal Varma (India) [citation needed]
- Éric Rohmer(France) [citation needed]
- George Romero (USA) [citation needed]
- Roberto Rossellini (Italy) [citation needed]
- Robert Rodriguez (USA) [citation needed]
- Ken Russell (GB)
S
- Gus van Sant (USA) [citation needed]
- Carlos Saura (Spain) [citation needed]
- John Sayles (USA) [citation needed]
- Volker Schlondorff (Germany) [citation needed]
- Martin Scorsese (USA) [citation needed]
- Ridley Scott (GB) [citation needed]
- Ousmane Sembene (Senegal) [citation needed]
- Mrinal Sen (1923- ) (India) [54]
- Kirill Serebrennikov - Russian film director
- M. Night Shyamalan (USA)
- Douglas Sirk (USA) [citation needed]
- Victor Sjöström (Swedish) [citation needed]
- Kevin Smith (USA)
- Steven Soderbergh (USA)
- Alexander Sokurov (Russia)
- Todd Solondz (USA) (1959)
- Aaron Sorkin (USA) [citation needed]
- Steven Spielberg (USA) [citation needed]
- Josef von Sternberg (USA) [citation needed]
- Oliver Stone (USA) [citation needed]
- Jean-Marie Straub (France)
- Erich von Stroheim (USA) [citation needed]
- Preston Sturges (USA) [citation needed]
- Seijun Suzuki (1923–). Japanese, B-movie and independent New Wave filmmaker.[55]
- Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (Germany)
- István Szabó (Hungarian)
T
- Quentin Tarantino (USA)
- Andrei Tarkovsky (USSR) [citation needed]
- Bela Tarr (Hungary)
- Jacques Tati (France) [citation needed]
- Julie Taymor (USA)
- Hiroshi Teshigahara (Japan) [citation needed]
- Johnnie To (Hong Kong)
- Lars von Trier (Denmark) [citation needed]
- Jan Troell (Sweden) [citation needed]
- François Truffaut (France)
- Ming-liang Tsai (Taiwan) [citation needed]
- Tsui Hark (Hong Kong)
V
- Agnès Varda (France)
- Paul Verhoeven (Holland)
- Dziga Vertov (USSR) [citation needed]
- Jean Vigo (France)
- Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark) [citation needed]
- Luchino Visconti (Italy) [citation needed]
W
- Wong Kar-wai (Hong Kong) [citation needed]
- Andrzej Wajda (Poland) [citation needed]
- John Waters (USA) [citation needed]
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand) [citation needed]
- Orson Welles (USA) [citation needed]
- Wim Wenders (Germany) [citation needed]
- Bo Widerberg (Sweden)
- Billy Wilder (USA)[56]
- John Woo (Hong Kong) [citation needed]
Y
- Edward Yang (Taiwan) [citation needed]
- Yuen Woo-ping (Hong Kong)
Z
- Robert Zemeckis [citation needed]
- Yimou Zhang (China) [citation needed]
- Tian Zhuangzhuang (China) [citation needed]
- Fred Zinnemann (American) [citation needed]
- Andrey Zvyagintsev - Russian film director
Notes
- ^ Gwendolen Audrey Foster, ed. Identity and Memory: The Films of Chantal Akerman (Southern Illinois UP, 2003)
- ^ Tony Williams, Body and Soul: The Cinematic Vision of Robert Aldrich (Scarecrow Press, 2004)
- ^ Mary P. Nichols, Reconstructing Woody: Art, Love, and Life in the Films of Woody Allen (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998)
- ^ Mark Allinson, A Spanish Labyrinth : The Films of Pedro Almodovar (Tauris, 2001)
- ^ ""Punch Drunk Love: The Budding of an Auteur"". Retrieved 2007-01-14.
- ^ Andrew Horton. The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation (Princeton UP, 1999)
- ^ Peter Brunette, The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni (Cambridge UP, 1998)
- ^ Mayne, Judith. Directed By Dorothy Arzner, 1994 (Indiana U Press)
- ^ Biskind, Peter. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, 1998 (Simon & Schuster)
- ^ Datta, Sengeeta. Shyam Benegal (BFI World Directors), 2003 (BFI)
- ^ Jesse Kalin, The Films of Ingmar Bergman (Cambridge UP, 2003)
- ^ Claretta Micheletti Tonetti, Bernardo Bertolucci: The Cinema of Ambiguity (Twayne, 1995)
- ^ Joseph Cunneen, Robert Bresson: A Spiritual Style in Film (Continuum, 2004)
- ^ Gwynne Edwards, The Discreet Art of Luis Buñuel: A Reading of His Films (Marion Boyars, 1991)
- ^ Alison McMahnan, The Films of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Contemporary Hollywood (Continuum, 2005)
- ^ Edward Turk, Child of Paradise : Marcel Carne and the Golden Age of French Cinema (Harvard UP, 1989)
- ^ Carney, Ray. The Films of John Cassavetes, 2005 (Cambridge U Press)
- ^ Fawal, Ibrahim. Youssef Chahine (BFI World Directors), 2001 (BFI)
- ^ Guy Austin, Claude Chabrol (Manchester UP, 1999).
- ^ Jeffrey Vance, Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema (Abrams, 2003)
- ^ Dwyer, Rachel. Yash Chopra (BFI World Directors), 2001 (BFI)
- ^ R.C. Dale, The Films of René Clair: Exposition and Analysis : Documentation (Scarecrow, 1986)
- ^ José-Louis Bocquet, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Cinéaste (La Sirène, 1993)
- ^ Dominique Paini, et al. Cocteau. (Centre Pompidou, 2004)
- ^ Carolyn R. Russell, The Films of Joel and Ethan Coen. (McFarland, 2001)
- ^ William Beard, The Artist as Monster: The Films of David Cronenberg (U of Toronto P, 2005).
- ^ Hood, John W. Essential Mystery: The Major Filmmakers of Indian Art Cinema Orient Longman, 2000
- ^ Ghatak, Ritwik. Rows and Rows of Fences: Ritwik Ghatak on Cinema, 2000 Seagull Press (posthumous translations)
- ^ Hood, John W. Essential Mystery: The Major Filmmakers of Indian Art Cinema Orient Longman, 2000
- ^ http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/05/guney.html
- ^ Berthier, Nancy (2005), 'Tomás Gutiérrez Alea et la révolution cubaine', Corlet.
- ^ Christian Wessely, Michael Haneke und seine Filme. Eine Pathologie der Konsumgesellschaft (Schüren Presseverlag, 2005)
- ^ Quandt, James. Kon Ichikawa, 1982 (Cinematheque)
- ^ Mellen, Joan. Waves At Genji's Door: Japan Through Its Cinema, 1976 (Pantheon)
- ^ Quandt, James. Shohei Imamura, 1982 (Cinematheque)
- ^ Mellen, Joan. Waves At Genji's Door: Japan Through Its Cinema, 1976 (Pantheon)
- ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan and Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa. Abbas Kiarostami, 2003 (U of Illinois Press)
- ^ Richie, Donald. The Films Of Akira Kurosawa, 1965 & 2000 (UC Press)
- ^ Prince, Stephen. The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa, (Princeton)
- ^ Ramisa, Joan-Lluís (2002). “Julio Medem and Auteur Theory”, http://www.talkingpix.co.uk/ArticleJulioMedemAuteurTheory.html)
- ^ LeFanu, Mark. Mizoguchi and Japan, 2005 (BFI)
- ^ Bock, Audie. Naruse: A Master Of The Japanese Cinema, 1985 (Japan Society Gallery)
- ^ Mellen, Joan. "Waves At Genji's Door: Japan Through Its Cinema pp. 270-289, 1976 (Pantheon)
- ^ Oshima, Nagisa and Annette Michelson. Cinema, Censorship and the State: The Writings Of Nagisa Oshima, 1993 (MIT Press)
- ^ Sato, Tadao. Currents In Japanese Cinema pp. 213-221, 1983 (Kodansha America)
- ^ Richie, Donald. Ozu, 1974 (U of California Press)
- ^ Bordwell, David. Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema, (BFI)
- ^ Robinson, Andrew. Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye, 1989 & 2004 (I. B. Tauris)
- ^ Tesson, Charles. Satyajit Ray (Cahiers du Cinema), 1992 (Diffusion Seuil)
- ^ Ganguly, Suranjan. Satyajit Ray, 2000 (Scarecrow Press)
- ^ Cooper, Darius. The Cinema of Satyajit Ray: Between Tradition and Modernity, 2000 (Cambridge U Press)
- ^ Ray, Satyajit. Our Films, Their Films: Essays, 1976 & 1992 (Hyperion)
- ^ Schwartz, Ronald, 'Latin American Films, 1932-1994: A Critical Filmography', 2005, McFarland & Company
- ^ Hood, John W. Chasing the Truth: The Films of Mrinal Sen, South Asia Press 1993
- ^ Zorn, John. "Branded to Kill". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2006-12-17.
- ^ Axel Madsen, Billy Wilder (Indiana University Press, 1969)