What is the best directorial debut film of the 2010s?

The 2010s produced a generation of debut filmmakers who immediately redefined their genres. From Get Out to Hereditary, which debut film of the decade left the most indelible mark?

1. 1
   Get Out

   Jordan Peele's 2017 social horror debut — a razor-sharp allegory about racism in liberal America.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Swiss Army Man

   The Daniels' 2016 debut — a surreal survival comedy featuring a flatulent corpse as a philosophizing companion.
   636pts
3. 3
   Short Term 12

   Destin Daniel Cretton's 2013 debut — a compassionate drama set in a foster care facility, led by Brie Larson.
   556pts
4. 4
   The Witch

   Robert Eggers' 2015 debut — a Puritan New England folk horror film of mounting existential dread.
   556pts
5. 5
   A Quiet Place

   John Krasinski's 2018 debut — a tense post-apocalyptic horror film where sound means death.
   537pts
6. 6
   Beasts of the Southern Wild

   Benh Zeitlin's 2012 debut — a magical-realist fable about a six-year-old navigating Louisiana's bayou community.
   537pts
7. 7
   Lady Bird

   Greta Gerwig's 2017 debut — a deeply personal coming-of-age film set in Sacramento with a luminous Saoirse Ronan.
   537pts
8. 8
   Ex Machina

   Alex Garland's 2014 debut — a chilling AI drama testing the Turing test with Alicia Vikander's mesmerizing performance.
   353pts
9. 9
   The Babadook

   Jennifer Kent's 2014 debut — an Australian psychological horror film about grief and single motherhood.
   353pts
10. 10
    Whiplash

    Damien Chazelle's 2014 debut — a white-knuckle drama about a jazz drummer and his abusive mentor.
    227pts
11. 11
    Blue Ruin

    Jeremy Saulnier's 2013 debut — a revenge thriller that deconstructs the genre through an ordinary man's incompetence.
    227pts
12. 12
    Moonlight

    Barry Jenkins' 2016 film (his breakthrough debut in the mainstream) — an Oscar-winning trilogy of a gay Black man's self-discovery.
    65pts
13. 13
    Hereditary

    Ari Aster's 2018 debut — a devastating family trauma horror film culminating in one of the most disturbing endings ever.
    65pts
14. 14
    It Follows

    David Robert Mitchell's 2014 debut — an original horror concept where a supernatural curse passes between people.
    1pts