Directors: Debuts–Stunning Beginning, Coen Brothers, Linklater, Lumet, Lynch, Peele, Romero

Directors who made extremely strong debut, in alphabetical order:

Amores Perros (Life Is a Bitch) (2000): Brilliant Debut from Mexico by Inarritu

“Amores Perros” signals the stunning debut of Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who, working with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, has made an audacious, sprawling narrative grounded in his fiercely human culture.