auteur vs filmmaker

auteur and filmmaker both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
auteur	Yes	No	No	No
filmmaker	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, filmmaker is a hypernym of auteur; that is, filmmaker 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
filmmaker: a producer of motion pictures

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

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