M. Night Shyamalan

One of the most successful and controversial filmmakers of the late 1990s and into the next millennium, M. Night Shyamalan was the writer and director of such supernaturally-themed dramas as “The Sixth Sense” (1999), “Signs” (2002) and “The Village” (2004). Like his idol, Steven Spielberg, Shyamalan’s films concerned ordinary people who must draw on faith, family and friendship to help them contend with overwhelming and often unnatural forces. He was also known for ending his pictures with an ironic “sting” that, for better or worse, left audiences reeling at the final fade-out. Thought “The