M. Night Shyamalan - Wikipedia M. Night Shyamalan M. Night Shyamalan Shyamalan in 2016 Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan ( 1970 - 08 - 06 ) 6 August 1970 ( age 47 ) Mahé, Puducherry, India Residence Willistown, Pennsylvania, US Citizenship United States Alma mater Tisch School of the Arts, New York University Occupation Director, screenwriter, producer, actor Years active 1992 -- present Home town Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Spouse ( s ) Bhavna Vaswani ( m. 1993 ) Children Manoj Nelliyattu `` M. Night '' Shyamalan ( / ˈʃæməlɑːn / ; / ˈʃɑːməlɑːn / ; Maṉōj Nelliyāṭṭu Śyāmaḷaṉ ; Malayalam : മനോജ് നെല്ലിയാട്ട് ശ്യാമളന്‍ ; Tamil : மனோஜ் நெல்லியட்டு ஷியாமளன் born 6 August 1970 ) is an American film director, screenwriter, author, producer, and actor known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots and surprise endings. His most well - received films include the supernatural horror thriller The Sixth Sense ( 1999 ), the superhero thriller Unbreakable ( 2000 ), the science fiction horror Signs ( 2002 ), and the historical drama - horror film The Village ( 2004 ). Afterwards, Shyamalan released a series of poorly received but sometimes financially successful movies, including, the dark fantasy film Lady in the Water ( 2006 ), the horror thriller film The Happening ( 2008 ), the film adaptation of The Last Airbender ( 2010 ), and the science - fiction film After Earth ( 2013 ). Following the financial failure of After Earth, Shyalaman 's career was revived with the release of the found footage horror The Visit ( 2015 ) and the psychological horror Split ( 2016 ), the latter of which is set in the same universe as his previous film Unbreakable. He was a producer for Devil ( 2010 ) and was instrumental in the creation of the Fox science fiction series Wayward Pines. Shyamalan is also known for filming and setting his films in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was raised. Most of his commercially successful films were co-produced and released by the Walt Disney Studios ' Touchstone and Hollywood film imprints. In 2008, Shyamalan was awarded the Padma Shri by the government of India. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Sci - Fi Channel hoax 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 4.1 Films 4.2 Television 5 Critical analysis 5.1 Critical reception 6 Plagiarism accusations 7 Awards and nominations 8 References 9 External links Early Life Shyamalan was born in Mahé, a town in the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry. The son of Indian parents, his father, Nelliate C. Shyamalan, is a Malayali from Mahé and graduated with a medical degree from JIPMER, while his mother, Jayalakshmi, is an ethnic Tamil who is an obstetrician and gynecologist by profession. Shyamalan 's parents immigrated to the United States when he was six weeks old. Shyamalan was raised in his hometown of Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, an affluent suburb of Philadelphia. Shyamalan was raised Hindu. He attended the private Roman Catholic grammar school Waldron Mercy Academy, followed by the Episcopal Academy, a private Episcopal high school located at the time in Merion, Pennsylvania. Shyamalan earned the New York University Merit Scholarship in 1988. Shyamalan is an alumnus of New York University 's Tisch School of the Arts, in Manhattan, graduating in 1992. It was while studying there that he adopted `` Night '' as his second name. Shyamalan had an early desire to be a filmmaker when he was given a Super 8 camera at a young age. Though his father wanted him to follow in the family practice of medicine, his mother encouraged him to follow his passion. By the time he was seventeen, the Steven Spielberg fan had made forty - five home movies. On each DVD release of his films ( beginning with The Sixth Sense and with the exception of Lady in the Water ), he has included a scene from one of these childhood movies, which he feels represents his first attempt at the same kind of film. Career Shyamalan at a press conference for The Happening in 2008. Shyamalan made his first film, the semi-autobiographical drama Praying with Anger, while still a student at NYU, using money borrowed from family and friends. He wrote and directed his second movie, Wide Awake. His parents were the film 's associate producers. The drama dealt with a ten - year - old Catholic schoolboy ( Joseph Cross ) who, after the death of his grandfather ( Robert Loggia ), searches for God. The film 's supporting cast included Dana Delany and Denis Leary as the boy 's parents, as well as Rosie O'Donnell, Julia Stiles, and Camryn Manheim. Wide Awake was filmed in a school Shyamalan attended as a child and earned 1999 Young Artist Award nominations for Best Drama, and, for Cross, Best Performance. Only in limited release, the film grossed $305,704 in theaters, against a $6 million budget. That same year Shyamalan co-wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little with Greg Brooker. In 2013, he revealed he was the ghostwriter for the 1999 film She 's All That, a teen comedy starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachel Leigh Cook. However, this statement has come into question as the credited screenwriter for the film, R. Lee Fleming Jr., denied Shyamalan 's involvement in a now deleted tweet. Shyamalan gained international recognition when he wrote and directed 1999 's The Sixth Sense, which was a commercial success and later nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. In July 2000, on The Howard Stern Show, Shyamalan said he had met with Steven Spielberg and was in early talks to write the script for the fourth Indiana Jones film. This would have given Shyamalan a chance to work with his longtime idol. After the film fell through, Shyamalan later said it was too `` tricky '' to arrange and `` not the right thing '' for him to do. Shyamalan followed The Sixth Sense by writing and directing Unbreakable, released in 2000, which received positive reviews and commercial success. Shyamalan 's name was linked with the 2001 film Harry Potter and the Philosopher 's Stone, but it conflicted with the production of Unbreakable. In July 2006, while doing press tours for Lady in the Water, Shyamalan had said he was still interested in directing one of the last two Harry Potter films : `` The themes that run through it... the empowering of children, a positive outlook... you name it, it falls in line with my beliefs '', Shyamalan said. `` I enjoy the humor in it. When I read the first Harry Potter and was thinking about making it, I had a whole different vibe in my head of it ''. His 2002 film Signs, where he also played Ray Reddy, gained both critical and financial success. His next movie The Village ( 2004 ) received mixed reviews from the critics, but turned out to be a financial success. M. Night Shyamalan and Bryce Dallas Howard at the Spanish premiere of The Village ( in the San Sebastián International Film Festival, 2006 ). After the release of The Village in 2004, Shyamalan had been planning a film adaptation of Yann Martel 's novel Life of Pi with 20th Century Fox, but later backed out so that he could make Lady in the Water. `` I love that book. I mean, it 's basically ( the story of ) a kid born in the same city as me ( Pondicherry, India ) -- it almost felt predestined '', Shyamalan said. `` But I was hesitant because the book has kind of a twist ending. And I was concerned that as soon as you put my name on it, everybody would have a different experience. Whereas if someone else did it, it would be much more satisfying, I think. Expectations, you 've got to be aware of them. I 'm wishing them all great luck. I hope they make a beautiful movie ''. Released in 2006, Lady in the Water performed worse critically and financially than his previous films. The film The Happening ( 2008 ) was a financial success but also received negative reviews. In 2010, he directed The Last Airbender, based on the Nickelodeon TV series Avatar : The Last Airbender. It received extremely negative reviews in the United States and won five Razzie Awards, but it made nearly $320 million internationally at the box office. In July 2008, it was announced that Shyamalan had partnered with Media Rights Capital to form a production company called Night Chronicles. Shyamalan would produce, but not direct, one film a year for three years. The first of the three films was Devil, a supernatural thriller directed by siblings John and Drew Dowdle. The script was written by Brian Nelson, based on an original idea from Shyamalan. The movie was about a group of people stuck in an elevator with the devil, and starred Chris Messina. The film was not previewed by critics before its release, eventually receiving mixed reviews. Devil was not a blockbuster hit, but has become a commercial success relative to its budget. The next film in the Night Chronicles series will be called Reincarnate. It will be scripted by Chris Sparling and directed by Daniel Stamm. In 2013, Shyamalan directed the film After Earth, based on a script by Gary Whitta and starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith. It was received poorly by critics, with Rotten Tomatoes giving the film a score of 11 % based on 180 reviews. Shyamalan announced in January 2014 that he would be working again with Bruce Willis on a film titled Labor of Love. By November of that year, Universal had picked up rights to a low - budget movie called The Visit that Shyamalan had shot in secret. The movie went on to become a relative critical and financial success. Universal released the movie on 11 September 2015. In 2016 TNT first announced that Shyamalan would be responsible for a reboot series for Tales from the Crypt. As of June 2017 the series has been cancelled due to a number of legal reasons. In 2017, Shyamalan released the movie Split, which garnered positive reviews and was a huge financial success. Sci - Fi Channel hoax In 2004, Shyamalan was involved in a media hoax with Sci - Fi Channel, which was eventually uncovered by the press. Sci - Fi claimed in its `` documentary '' special The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan, shot on the set of The Village, that as a child, Shyamalan had been dead for nearly a half - hour while drowned in a frozen pond in an accident, and that upon being rescued he had experiences of communicating with spirits, fueling an obsession with the supernatural. In truth, Shyamalan developed the hoax with Sci - Fi, going so far as having Sci - Fi staffers sign non-disclosure agreements with a $5 million fine attached and requiring Shyamalan 's office to formally approve each step. Neither the childhood accident nor a supposed rift with the filmmakers ever occurred. The hoax included a nonexistent Sci - Fi publicist, `` David Westover '', whose name appeared on press releases regarding the special. Sci - Fi also fed false news stories to the Associated Press, Zap2It, and the New York Post, among others. After an AP reporter confronted Sci - Fi Channel president Bonnie Hammer at a press conference, Hammer admitted the hoax, saying it was part of a guerrilla marketing campaign to generate pre-release publicity for The Village. This prompted Sci - Fi 's parent company, NBC Universal, to state that the undertaking was `` not consistent with our policy at NBC. We would never intend to offend the public or the press and we value our relationship with both. '' Personal Life Shyamalan married Bhavna Vaswani, a fellow student whom he met at New York University. The couple has three daughters. His production company, Blinding Edge Pictures, is located in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. Blinding Edge has produced The Happening, Lady in the Water, The Village, Signs, Unbreakable, The Last Airbender, After Earth and The Visit. It is run by Shyamalan and Ashwin Rajan. Shyamalan is a season ticket holder of the Philadelphia 76ers. Filmography Films Year Title Director Producer Writer Actor Role Notes 1992 Praying with Anger Yes Yes Yes Yes Dev Raman 1998 Wide Awake Yes No Yes No 1999 The Sixth Sense Yes No Yes Yes Dr. Hill Stuart Little No No Yes No 2000 Unbreakable Yes Yes Yes Yes Stadium Drug Dealer 2002 Signs Yes Yes Yes Yes Ray Reddy The Village Yes Yes Yes Yes Jay - Guard at Desk Also executive soundtrack producer 2006 Lady in the Water Yes Yes Yes Yes Vick Ran 2008 The Happening Yes Yes Yes Yes Joey ( voice ) The Last Airbender Yes Yes Yes Yes Firebender at Earth Prison Camp Uncredited Devil No Yes Yes No 2013 After Earth Yes Yes Yes No 2015 The Visit Yes Yes Yes No 2016 Split Yes Yes Yes Yes Jai 2019 Glass Yes Yes Yes -- Television Year Title Director Producer Actor Role Notes 2007 Entourage No No Yes M. Night Shyamalan 2015 -- 2016 Wayward Pines Yes Yes No Executive producer Critical analysis After the release of The Village, Slate 's Michael Agger noted that Shyamalan was following `` an uncomfortable pattern '' of `` making fragile, sealed - off movies that fell apart when exposed to outside logic. '' Shyamalan has also won the Golden Raspberry Awards on numerous occasions for worst director, screenplay and film in 2006 and 2010, whilst being nominated in 2008 for The Happening and 2013 for After Earth. In 2015, however, he was also nominated for The Razzie Redeemer Award. In 2008, Shyamalan said it was a common misperception `` that all my movies have twist endings, or that they 're all scary. All my movies are spiritual and all have an emotional perspective. '' Critical reception Year Film Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic 1992 Praying with Anger N / A N / A 1998 Wide Awake 39 % N / A 1999 The Sixth Sense 85 % 64 / 100 2000 Unbreakable 68 % 62 / 100 2002 Signs 74 % 59 / 100 The Village 43 % 44 / 100 2006 Lady in the Water 24 % 36 / 100 2008 The Happening 18 % 34 / 100 The Last Airbender 6 % 20 / 100 2013 After Earth 11 % 33 / 100 2015 The Visit 65 % 55 / 100 2016 Split 74 % 62 / 100 Plagiarism accusations This section needs to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( December 2016 ) Robert McIlhinney, a Pennsylvania screenwriter, sued Shyamalan in 2003, alleging similarities between Signs and his unpublished script Lord of the Barrens : The Jersey Devil. In 2004, Margaret Peterson Haddix claimed that The Village has numerous similarities to her young adult novel Running Out of Time, prompting discussions with publisher Simon & Schuster about filing a lawsuit. 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Night Shyamalan Praying with Anger ( 1992 ) Wide Awake ( 1998 ) The Sixth Sense ( 1999 ) Unbreakable ( 2000 ) Signs ( 2002 ) The Village ( 2004 ) Lady in the Water ( 2006 ) The Happening ( 2008 ) The Last Airbender ( 2010 ) After Earth ( 2013 ) The Visit ( 2015 ) Split ( 2016 ) Glass ( 2019 ) Awards for M. Night Shyamalan Empire Award for Best Director Danny Boyle ( 1996 ) Terry Gilliam ( 1997 ) Cameron Crowe ( 1998 ) Steven Spielberg ( 1999 ) M. Night Shyamalan ( 2000 ) Bryan Singer ( 2001 ) Baz Luhrmann ( 2002 ) Steven Spielberg ( 2003 ) Quentin Tarantino ( 2004 ) Sam Raimi ( 2005 ) Nick Park and Steve Box ( 2006 ) Christopher Nolan ( 2007 ) David Yates ( 2008 ) Christopher Nolan ( 2009 ) James Cameron ( 2010 ) Edgar Wright ( 2011 ) David Yates ( 2012 ) Sam Mendes ( 2013 ) Alfonso Cuarón ( 2014 ) Christopher Nolan ( 2015 ) J.J. Abrams ( 2016 ) Gareth Edwards ( 2017 ) Nebula Award for Best Script / Ray Bradbury Award Nebula Award for Best Script Soylent Green -- Stanley R. Greenberg ( 1973 ) Sleeper -- Woody Allen ( 1974 ) Young Frankenstein -- Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder ( 1975 ) Star Wars -- George Lucas ( 1977 ) The Sixth Sense -- M. Night Shyamalan ( 1999 ) Galaxy Quest -- David Howard and Robert Gordon ( 2000 ) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon James Schamus, Kuo Jung Tsai, and Hui - Ling Wang ( 2001 ) The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring -- Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson ( 2002 ) The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers -- Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, and Peter Jackson ( 2003 ) The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King -- Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson ( 2004 ) Serenity -- Joss Whedon ( 2005 ) Howl 's Moving Castle -- Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt, and Donald H. Hewitt ( 2006 ) Pan 's Labyrinth -- Guillermo del Toro ( 2007 ) WALL - E -- Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, and Pete Docter ( 2008 ) Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation Terminator 2 : Judgment Day -- James Cameron ( 1992 ) Babylon 5 -- J. Michael Straczynski ( 1999 ) 2000X -- Tales of the Next Millennia -- Yuri Rasovsky and Harlan Ellison ( 2001 ) Joss Whedon ( 2008 ) District 9 -- Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell ( 2009 ) Inception -- Christopher Nolan ( 2010 ) Doctor Who : `` The Doctor 's Wife '' -- Richard Clark and Neil Gaiman ( 2011 ) Beasts of the Southern Wild -- Benh Zeitlin, Lucy Alibar ( 2012 ) Gravity -- Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón ( 2013 ) Guardians of the Galaxy -- James Gunn and Nicole Perlman ( 2014 ) Mad Max : Fury Road -- George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, and Nico Lathouris ( 2015 ) Arrival -- Eric Heisserer ( 2016 ) Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Director 1980 -- 2000 Robert Greenwald ( 1980 ) Michael Cimino ( 1981 ) Ken Annakin / Terence Young ( 1982 ) Peter Sasdy ( 1983 ) John Derek ( 1984 ) Sylvester Stallone ( 1985 ) Prince ( 1986 ) Norman Mailer / Elaine May ( 1987 ) Blake Edwards / Stewart Raffill ( 1988 ) William Shatner ( 1989 ) John Derek ( 1990 ) Michael Lehmann ( 1991 ) David Seltzer ( 1992 ) Jennifer Lynch ( 1993 ) Steven Seagal ( 1994 ) Paul Verhoeven ( 1995 ) Andrew Bergman ( 1996 ) Kevin Costner ( 1997 ) Gus Van Sant ( 1998 ) Barry Sonnenfeld ( 1999 ) Roger Christian ( 2000 ) 2001 -- present Tom Green ( 2001 ) Guy Ritchie ( 2002 ) Martin Brest ( 2003 ) Pitof ( 2004 ) John Asher ( 2005 ) M. Night Shyamalan ( 2006 ) Chris Sivertson ( 2007 ) Uwe Boll ( 2008 ) Michael Bay ( 2009 ) M. Night Shyamalan ( 2010 ) Dennis Dugan ( 2011 ) Bill Condon ( 2012 ) Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner, and Jonathan van Tulleken ( 2013 ) Michael Bay ( 2014 ) Josh Trank ( 2015 ) Dinesh D'Souza and Bruce Schooley ( 2016 ) Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay 1980 -- 2000 Ca n't Stop the Music -- Bronte Woodard and Allan Carr ( 1980 ) Mommie Dearest -- Frank Yablans, Frank Perry, Tracy Hotchner and Robert Getchell ( 1981 ) Inchon -- Robin Moore and Laird Koenig ( 1982 ) The Lonely Lady -- John Kershaw, Shawn Randall and Ellen Shephard ( 1983 ) Bolero -- John Derek ( 1984 ) Rambo : First Blood Part II -- Sylvester Stallone, James Cameron and Kevin Jarre ( 1985 ) Howard the Duck -- Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz ( 1986 ) Leonard Part 6 -- Jonathan Reynolds and Bill Cosby ( 1987 ) Cocktail -- Heywood Gould ( 1988 ) Harlem Nights -- Eddie Murphy ( 1989 ) The Adventures of Ford Fairlane -- Daniel Waters, James Cappe & David Arnott ( 1990 ) Hudson Hawk -- Steven E. de Souza, Daniel Waters, Bruce Willis and Robert Kraft ( 1991 ) Stop ! Or My Mom Will Shoot -- Blake Snyder, William Osborne and William Davies -- ( 1992 ) Indecent Proposal -- Amy Holden Jones ( 1993 ) The Flintstones -- Jim Jennewein, Steven E. de Souza, Tom S. Parker and various others ( 1994 ) Showgirls -- Joe Eszterhas ( 1995 ) Striptease -- Andrew Bergman ( 1996 ) The Postman -- Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland ( 1997 ) An Alan Smithee Film : Burn Hollywood Burn -- Joe Eszterhas ( 1998 ) Wild Wild West -- Jim Thomas, John Thomas, S.S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman ( 1999 ) Battlefield Earth -- Corey Mandell and J. David Shapiro ( 2000 ) 2001 -- present Freddy Got Fingered -- Tom Green & Derek Harvie ( 2001 ) Star Wars : Episode II -- Attack of the Clones -- George Lucas and Jonathan Hales ( 2002 ) Gigli -- Martin Brest ( 2003 ) Catwoman -- Theresa Rebeck, John Brancato, Michael Ferris and John Rogers ( 2004 ) Dirty Love -- Jenny McCarthy ( 2005 ) Basic Instinct 2 -- Leora Barish and Henry Bean ( 2006 ) I Know Who Killed Me -- Jeffrey Hammond ( 2007 ) The Love Guru -- Mike Myers & Graham Gordy ( 2008 ) Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen -- Ehren Kruger, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci ( 2009 ) The Last Airbender -- M. Night Shyamalan ( 2010 ) Jack and Jill -- Steve Koren and Adam Sandler, story by Ben Zook ( 2011 ) That 's My Boy - David Caspe ( 2012 ) Movie 43 - Steve Baker, Ricky Blitt, Will Carlough, Tobias Carlson, Jacob Fleisher, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Claes Kjellstrom, Jack Kukoda, Bob Odenkirk, Bill O'Malley, Matthew Alec Portenoy, Greg Pritikin, Rocky Russo, Olle Sarri, Elizabeth Wright Shapiro, Jeremy Sosenko, Jonathan van Tulleken and Jonas Wittenmark ( 2013 ) Saving Christmas - Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey ( 2014 ) Fifty Shades of Grey - Kelly Marcel ( 2015 ) Batman v Superman : Dawn of Justice - Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer ( 2016 ) Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay John Sayles ( 1996 ) Matt Damon and Ben Affleck ( 1997 ) Gary Ross ( 1998 ) M. Night Shyamalan ( 1999 ) Kenneth Lonergan ( 2000 ) Milo Addica and Will Rokos ( 2001 ) Pedro Almodóvar ( 2002 ) Sofia Coppola ( 2003 ) James L. White ( 2004 ) George Clooney and Grant Heslov ( 2005 ) Peter Morgan ( 2006 ) Diablo Cody ( 2007 ) Tom Mccarthy ( 2008 ) Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber ( 2009 ) David Seidler ( 2010 ) Terrence Malick ( 2011 ) Mark Boal ( 2012 ) Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell ( 2013 ) Dan Gilroy ( 2014 ) Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer ( 2015 ) Barry Jenkins ( 2016 ) Padma Award winners of Kerala Padma Vibhushan Adoor Gopalakrishnan E.C. George Sudarshan E. Sreedharan G. Madhavan Nair John Mathai K.N. Raj K.R. Ramanathan K. Shankar Pillai Kottayan Katankot Venugopal M.S. Valiathan N.R. Pillai O.N.V. Kurup V.K. Krishna Menon V.R. Krishna Iyer Verghese Kurien K.J. Yesudas Padma Bhushan ( Male ) A.C.N. Nambiar Ammannur Madhava Chakyar A. Ramachandran A. Sreedhara Menon C.P. Krishnan Nair Chembai E.C. George Sudarshan Eledath Thaikkattu Narayanan Mooss G. Madhavan Nair G. Sankara Kurup Gabriel Chiramel George Joseph ( scientist ) Guru Kunchu Kurup Jacob Chandy K.G. Subramanyan K.J. 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