The career of M. Night Shyamalan has been marked with peaks and valleys, but regardless of the wildly inconsistent quality that’s plagued his output over the last two decades, you can’t fault the filmmaker for sticking to his guns and retaining complete creative autonomy over all of his movies.
Shyamalan rocketed into the mainstream after his feature debut The Sixth Sense become one of the biggest hits of 1999, raking in over $672 million at the box office and landing six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Cinema’s latest wunderkind followed it up with acclaimed superhero subversion Unbreakable and warmly received sci-fi Signs, before the wheels started to fall off a little bit.
His work became prone to self-indulgence, and after suffering several critical and commercial duds that saw him come perilously close to descending into self-parody, his standing in the industry plummeted.
Shyamalan rocketed into the mainstream after his feature debut The Sixth Sense become one of the biggest hits of 1999, raking in over $672 million at the box office and landing six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Cinema’s latest wunderkind followed it up with acclaimed superhero subversion Unbreakable and warmly received sci-fi Signs, before the wheels started to fall off a little bit.
His work became prone to self-indulgence, and after suffering several critical and commercial duds that saw him come perilously close to descending into self-parody, his standing in the industry plummeted.
- 12/22/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
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