In July 2000, on The Howard Stern Show, Shyamalan said he had met with Spielberg and was in early talks to write the script for the fourth Indiana Jones film. The Sixth Sense was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
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Shyamalan gained international recognition when he wrote and directed 1999's The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis, and which became the second-highest grossing horror movie of all time. Lechner reiterated that content from both writers was included in the final cut of the film. contributed to the script: Fleming wrote the initial script that Miramax bought while Shyamalan did an uncredited rewrite (doing more than "a polish") that got the film green-lit. On June 17, 2013, Jack Lechner (who served as Miramax's head of development in the late 1990s) confirmed that both Shyamalan and R. In 2013, he revealed he was the ghostwriter for the 1999 film She's All That, a teen comedy starring Freddie Prinze Jr. That same year Shyamalan co-wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little with Greg Brooker. Only in limited release, the film grossed $305,704 in theaters, against a $6 million budget. 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. 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. The drama dealt with a ten-year-old Catholic schoolboy ( Joseph Cross) who, after the death of his grandfather ( Robert Loggia), searches for God. His parents were the film's associate producers. He wrote and directed his second movie, Wide Awake. 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. Career Film Shyamalan at a press conference 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. By the time he was seventeen, he had made forty-five home movies. Though his father wanted him to follow in the family practice of medicine, his mother encouraged him to follow his passion. Shyamalan had an early desire to be a filmmaker when he was given a Super 8 camera at a young age. It was while studying there that he adopted "Night" as his second name. Shyamalan is an alumnus of New York University Tisch School of the Arts in Manhattan, graduating in 1992.
Shyamalan earned the New York University Merit Scholarship in 1988, and was also a National Merit Scholar. When he was a student there, a teacher once became upset because he "got the best grade and wasn't Catholic".
He felt like an outsider and remembers that teachers would say that whoever was not baptized would go to hell. 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 Station, Pennsylvania. Shyamalan was raised in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania. Shyamalan's parents immigrated to the United States when he was six weeks old. Shyamalan, is a Malayali neurologist from Mahé and a JIPMER graduate his mother, Dr. Shyamalan was born in Mahé, India to ethnic Indian parents in a town in the Union Territory of Pondicherry.
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Shyamalan is also one of the executive producers and occasional director of the 20th Television science fiction series Wayward Pines (2015–2016) and the Apple TV+ psychological horror series Servant (2019–2023), for which he also serves as showrunner. Following a period of setbacks which include several poorly received films like The Happening (2008), The Last Airbender (2010), and After Earth (2013), he found a career resurgence with the films The Visit (2015), Split (2016), Glass (2019), Old (2021), and Knock at the Cabin (2023). He then released Unbreakable (2000), Signs (2002) and The Village (2004). His early films include Praying with Anger (1992) and Wide Awake (1998) before his breakthrough film The Sixth Sense (1999), which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Shyamalan was born in Mahé, India, and raised in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania. The cumulative gross of his films exceeds $3.4 billion globally. He is best known for making original films with contemporary supernatural plots and twist endings. Night " Shyamalan ( / ˈ ʃ ɑː m ə l ɑː n/ SHAH-mə-lahn born August 6, 1970) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
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