I wonder how they define "breakthrough" since I would argue that Ryan Gosling did that years ago with The Believer and in mainstream film with The Notebook.
Oh, and I didn't like Thank You For Smoking so obviously I disagree with best directorial debut if there are other qualified candidates. And there are:
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris with Little Miss Sunshine. So far as I know, they only did music videos and TV before that.
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