The Big Picture: M. Night Shyamalan Career & Biographical Notes: Directed two films before The Sixth Sense: Praying with Anger and Wide Awake The "M" is short for "Manoj" Credited with co-writing the script for the 1999 film Stuart Little Has no idea how to spell his last name either

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M. Night Shyamalan Trivia Quizzes
at HowWellDoYouKnow.com:

• Signs
• Sixth Sense, The
• Unbreakable

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Recent Movies:

Film	Date	Rating	Screens	Opening	Total	Box Office
The Last Airbender	7/2/10	N/A
The Happening	6/13/08	R			60.06	Info
Lady in the Water	7/21/06	PG-13	3235	18.04	41.48	Info
The Village	7/30/04	PG-13	3730	50.75	114.20	Info
Signs	8/2/02	PG-13	3264	60.12	227.97	Info

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Awards:

2002
Signs

• Runner-Up: Best Director, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Screenplay, BOP's Calvin Awards

1999
The Sixth Sense

• Runner-Up: Best Director, Academy Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Original Screenplay, Academy Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Original Screenplay, Las Vegas Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Screenplay, Chicago Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Original Screenplay, Online Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Screenplay, Golden Globes
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Directors' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Original Screenplay, Writers' Guild

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