Shyamalan at a press conference for The Happening in 2008
Indian-American filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan wrote, directed, and starred in his first project, the independent filmPraying with Anger, while he was a student at New York University; inspired by his cultural upbringing, the movie was released in 1992 and earned him praise at film festivals.[1][2] His next film, the comedy-drama Wide Awake about a grieving child struggling with his Catholic faith, was completed in 1995 but shelved by the studio Miramax until 1998.[3][4] During this period, he did an uncredited rewrite of the script for the romantic-comedy She's All That that allegedly "got the movie green-lit" and co-wrote the live-action/animated film Stuart Little (both released in 1999).[5][6] Also in 1999, he wrote and directed the supernatural drama The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis as a child psychologist whose patient claims he can see and talk to the dead. The three projects were commercially successful, but The Sixth Sense earned Shyamalan international attention and name recognition from critics and audiences, becoming the second-highest grossing film of the year and earning him Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.[7][8]
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