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debut Letterboxd Showdown is about the most Remarkable Debuts.

The first 10 in my list feature the debuts of directors which made a big impact on their first film and I still follow them today and they have not disappointed: Spike Jonze, Steve McQueen, Darren Aronofsky, Quentin Tarantino, the Coen brothers, Christopher Nolan, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Danny Boyle, Tom Ford and Ben Affleck who is a much better director than an actor (I have not seen his last film yet). The others are films that really impressed me and happen to be directorial debuts, but I have not consciously followed their work since.