M. Night Shyamalan

image from the 1992 Oscar ceremony picturing, from left to right, Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster and Jonathan Demme, each holding the Oscar award they won for

Horror Movies at the Oscars

Historically, horror movies may not have gotten a lot of love from the Academy Awards, but there have been notable occasions when entries in this genre have at least been nominated and even had major wins.
THE PARENT TRAP, Hayley Mills, 1961

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Mills also talked about the hardships of finding roles at her age.
THE SIXTH SENSE, Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, 1999.

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It was inspired by a real-life wake, it used to be about a serial killer, and it had its own plot twist spoiled by a song.