M Night Shyamalan is an American filmmaker, of Indian origin. He is known for making films with mostly supernatural plots and endings with twists. He made his film debut in 1992, with the movie ‘Praying with Anger’. Over the years, he continued to release many films such as ‘The Sixth Sense’, ‘Unbreakable’ and ‘The Last Airbender’. He has also been a producer for the horror film ‘Devil’.
His best and critically acclaimed works are ‘The Sixth Sense’ (1999), ‘Stuart Little’ (1999), ‘Unbreakable’ (2000), ‘Signs’ (2002) and ‘Split’ (2016). For ‘The Sixth Sense’, he was nominated for two Academy Awards.
His most commercially successful films are ‘Stuart Little’ (1999), ‘The Sixth Sense’ (1999), ‘Unbreakable’ (2000), ‘Signs’ (2002), ‘The Village’ (2004), ‘The Happening’ (2008), ‘Split’ (2016) and ‘Glass’ (2019). He has also seen failure. His 2006 film ‘Lady in the Water’, was a failure commercially and critically.