1. M. Night Shyamalan
Goodwill Built On: The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The VillageGoodwill Squandered On: Lady in The Water Few directors can claim to have a fall from grace as precipitous as that of M. Night Shyamalan. When Shyamalan debuted with his critically beloved box office sensation The Sixth Sense, reviewers hailed him as the new Steven Spielberg. The Sixth Sense wowed the public so much it earned Shyamalan an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. Shyamalan continued his win streak with the rock solid superhero movie Unbreakable and the box office hit Signs. Shyamalan's fourth outing behind the camera, The Village, proved less successful with critics but Shyamalan still had the audience on his side and the film made bank. Disaster struck on his next feature when Shyamalan foolishly decided to adapt a bedtime story he made up for his children into a feature length motion picture, 2006's widely panned Lady in the Water, which received only 24% on Rottentomatoes. Any critical and audience goodwill the director had evaporated overnight. Since Lady in the Water, Shyamalan has released a string of reviled films that include The Happening, The Last Airbender and After Earth and any chance he has at winning back audiences and critics' goodwill seems slimmer and slimmer with each new debacle. There's our list. Did we miss any directors who had their audiences turn on them after one terrible film? Let us know in the comments.