Word: auteurist
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...Dayton and Faris didn't get nominated, and that's a bad sign for Sunshine's Best Picture chances. Oscar, you see, was an auteurist long before the French critics of Cahiers du Cinema proclaimed that the director was the author of his films. The winner of the Best Director statuette has made film named Best Picture 76% of the time - 53 of the 70 possible years - since 1937, when the Academy standardized the category with five nominations...
With Gods and Monsters, a fictionalized biography of the last days of Frankenstein director James Whale, and Kinsey, Condon aligns himself with the great pantheon of directors like John Ford, Douglas Sirk and Francis Ford Coppola who bring auteurist pizzazz to classical Hollywood filmmaking structures...
...office takings (which in 2002 were €5.6 billion), directors and producers need to better understand the business of moviemaking. "It's the perpetual struggle between art and commerce," says Colin Vaines, executive vice president of European production and development at Miramax. "In Europe, where there is such an auteurist culture - the director is king or queen and they drive everything along - it isn't always possible to contemplate the marketplace alongside the art." It's not as if European cinema lacks funds; on the contrary, many European films are government-subsidized in ways that Hollywood can only envy. France...