auteur vs film maker

auteur and film maker both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
auteur	Yes	No	No	No
film maker	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, film maker is a hypernym of auteur; that is, film maker is a word with a broader meaning than auteur:

auteur: a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works
film maker: a producer of motion pictures

Other hypernyms of auteur include film producer, filmmaker, movie maker.

auteur (noun)	film maker (noun)
a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works	a producer of motion pictures