If AI generation is not real art because "you commission a computer to do it", then can we consider movie directors to be artists?

The job of a movie director is basically to tell people what to do: actors, scriptwriters, cameramen, sound directors, costume directors, video editors, etc. If we don't count the cases where a director combines jobs like acting in their own movie or writing their own script - the movie director doesn't touch the medium that constitutes the final product. They only provide the general vision and direction for the product and "commission" other people on what to do. Moreover, they work not with files that you can download and run on your GPU, but with real people who have their own biases and lived experiences that they put into their work. Therefore, the claim that "the director isn't an artist" should be even stronger in this context. I'm not sure if movie directors are considered "artists" in the strict sense of the word, but I know some of them are highly revered for their work as if they are - like Quentin Tarantino or Peter Jackson. So, can we tell that movie directors are artists or do they just "commission" movies?