Haley Joel Osment made his screen debut in the 1994 Robert Zemeckis-directed American comedy-drama film ‘Forrest Gump’ where he portrayed ‘Forrest Gump Jr.’ The film received mostly positive reviews from critics and was a major box office success, grossing over $678.2 million on a budget of $55 million. Osment also became a recipient of the ‘Young Artist Award’ for his performance in the film. The same year, he was also seen in the American Christmas dark comedy film ‘Mixed Nuts’ directed by Nora Ephron. The film was panned by critics and was a commercial failure. He went on to star in films like ‘For Better or Worse’ (1995), ‘Bogus’ (1996), ‘Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas’ (1997), and ‘The Ransom of Red Chief’ (1998). In 1999, he played the role of ‘Cole Sear’ in the M. Night Shyamalan-directed American supernatural psychological thriller film ‘The Sixth Sense.’ The film received a positive response from critics and was a massive commercial success, grossing over $672.8 million on a $40 million budget. Osment also received several awards, including the ‘Satellite Award’ and ‘Saturn Award’ for his portrayal of Cole Sear in the film.Â
He next starred in films like ‘Pay It Forward’ (2000), ‘A.I. Artificial Intelligence’ (2001), ‘Edges of the Lord’ (2001), ‘The Country Bears’ (2002), ‘Secondhand Lions’ (2003), ‘The Jungle Book 2’ (2003), ‘Home of the Giants’ (2007), ‘Montana Amazon’ (2010), ‘Sassy Pants’ (2012), ‘I'll Follow You Down’ (2013), ‘Tusk’ (2014), and ‘Sex Ed’ (2014). He played the role of ‘Travis McCredle’ in the 2015 American comedy film ‘Entourage’ directed by Doug Ellin. The film saw mostly negative reviews upon release and grossed over $49.3 million on a $39 million budget. Osment continued to appear in films like ‘Yoga Hosers’ (2016), ‘Almost Friends’ (2016), ‘Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town’ (2017), ‘Clara's Ghost’ (2018), ‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile’ (2019), ‘Bad Therapy’ (2020), and ‘Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics’ (2020). He last appeared in the American computer-animated streaming television series ‘DreamWorks Dragons: The Nine Realms’ in 2022.
Despite having a low IQ, Forrest Gump has been raised like any other children by his supportive mother. As he traverses through life, he experiences and influences some of the key events in history with a bit of luck and his childlike optimism. However, his lifelong desire to reunite with his childhood sweetheart Jenny remains elusive.
Child psychologist Malcolm Crowe sees an opportunity to redeem himself after he meets his new patient Cole Sear, who exhibits similar symptoms to one of his former patients whom he had failed to treat. Despite doubting Sear's claims at first, Crowe gradually discovers that he might actually be able to see dead people, unaware of their death.
A shy young boy is dumped off by his greedy mother to spend the summer with two of his eccentric great uncles, believed to be very rich. Although initially unhappy with the arrangement, the two old men soon warm to the boy, telling him stories about their youth. They also order a lion for animal target; but it turns out to be aging circus lioness.
David Swinton is a mecha—highly advanced robot—programmed to experience love. He lives with Henry and Monica as their son because the couple’s real son, Martin, is in a comatose condition. David’s life is good but when Martin returns, the couple abandon him. David now wants to become real so that his human mother can love him.
A physically and emotionally scarred social-studies teacher gives an assignment to develop an idea that would change the world for better. Young Trevor McKinney, who has a troubled family background, creates the idea of ‘pay it forward,’ -- not to pay a favor back, but to pay it forward to three other people and so on; thus triggering a far-reaching goodwill movement.
A young law student meets a young divorced single mother named Liz, and the two begin dating. Ted helps Liz raise her young daughter. Eventually, news reports surface about a serial killer killing multiple women. Ted is arrested for the killings but Liz refuses to believe that he is guilty.
This comedy film revolves around Vincent Chase, a famous movie star, who is back in business with his former agent, now a studio head. However, he agrees to work on the movie only on the condition that he is allowed to direct it as well.
A professor from Toronto goes to Princeton, New Jersey, in order to attend a conference, but he vanishes mysteriously and never returns. Eventually he is presumed dead, which leaves his wife and his son devastated. Years later, after his son Erol talks with his grandfather, he begins to feel that his father’s disappearance could have been the result of a scientific experiment that involves time travel. Although he decides to set out to find the truth, things get complicated for Erol as his girlfriend gets pregnant, and his mother commits suicide.
Philip is the head of a suicide prevention hotline named ‘Lifesavers’. His life gets complicated after he receives an eviction notice from his landlord, as he has been unable to pay his rent for months. In addition to his, he is also having a problem with his neurotic colleague, Mrs. Blanche. Philip tries to convince his girlfriend Susan, who is a loan officer to try to get him a small loan, but she refuses and breaks up with him after telling him that she is dating someone else.
An arrogant American podcaster travels to Canada to interview a mysterious reclusive old man who has an extraordinary past. He eventually comes to know that the old man has a dark secret involving a walrus.
Young Albert Franklin, orphaned after a car accident, is sent to live with his mother’s foster-sister Harriet Franklin in New Jersey. Finding it difficult to cope with sudden loss and changes, Albert seeks solace in company of friendly, gentle and imaginary French magician ‘Bogus.’ Harriet is amazed that she too can see Bogus, who helps her come to terms with her emotions.
Two teen girls who are enthusiastic about Yoga visit a party, where they get arrested for the murder of a senior. However, they realize that they must fight to prove their innocence, but they find themselves against a Nazi clone army.
Upon seeing that his world is being destroyed and his friends are disappearing mysteriously, a young boy named Sora decides to set out on a quest to find his friends and prevent the forces of darkness from succeeding in their mission.
This animated comedy film tells the story of Arnold who hits Harold using a baseball bat. Harold swears that he will beat him the next day to take revenge, and therefore, the next day, Arnold acts crazy to prevent getting beaten.
The Jungle Book 2 is an animated adventure film which tells the story of Mowgli, who begins missing his friends in the jungle and decides to run away from the man-village. However, he is not aware of the fact that Sher Khan is plotting revenge.
Haley Joel Osment Awards
| The Sixth Sense | Breakthrough Male Performance | 2000 |
