# Auteur | | An **Auteur** is an artist with a distinctive approach, usually a film director whose filmmaking control is so unbounded and personal that the director is likened to be the "author" of the film, thus manifesting the director's unique style or thematic focus. As an unnamed value, auteurism originated in French film criticism of the late 1940s, and derives from the critical approach of André Bazin and Alexandre Astruc, whereas American critic Andrew Sarris in 1962 called it auteur theory. Yet the concept first appeared in French in 1955 when director François Truffaut termed it policy of the authors, and interpreted the films of some directors, like Alfred Hitchcock, as a body revealing recurring themes and preoccupations. | | --- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | wikipedia:: [Auteur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auteur) | ## List ```dataview TABLE WITHOUT ID file.link AS Name, born AS Born FROM #Type/Identity/Individual WHERE contains(as, [[Auteur]]) SORT born DESC ``` ## Inbox - [[Charlie Kaufman]] - [[Wes Anderson]] - [[Steven Spielberg]] - [[Stanley Kubrick]] - [[Quentin Tarantino]] - [[Paul Thomas Anderson]] - [[Jim Jarmusch]] - [[David Lynch]] - [[Federico Fellini]] - [[Terrence Malick]] - [[Orson Welles]] - [[Jean-Luc Godard]] - [[Francis Ford Copola]]