The Auteur’s Fingerprint
Fingerprint ridges encode a director’s repeating genres and collaborators — a signature you can see and feel.
Directors with more consistent signature patterns (genre + collaborator repetition) are more likely to accumulate recognition and sustained audience trust.
Question: Do directors with consistent “signatures” (genre + collaborator patterns) achieve higher awards or popularity?
Method: Compute a signature profile per director using genre variety and collaborator density; compare consistency proxies across the dataset.
Prediction: Directors with higher film counts and lower signature variety form a distinct band of strong, readable signatures.
Test: Compare signature consistency metrics across director quartiles by film count and collaborator density.
Each director is stamped as a fingerprint — a visual signature built from their filmography.
Repeated genres and collaborators deepen grooves, thickening the ridges into a recognizable pattern.
Strong signatures stand out: low entropy, high repetition — the shape of an auteur.
- imdb.film_crew
- imdb.film_genres
- imdb.genres
- imdb.person_collaborations
- imdb.films
- tmdb.movies
- 11_auteurs_fingerprint.json
- Genres are aggregated tags, not weighted by screen time or narrative emphasis.
- Collaborator counts reflect dataset coverage, which may be incomplete across eras.
- Film counts are within the dataset, not complete filmographies.
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