8. M. Night Shyamalan
It's widely documented how M. Night Shyamalan's career has completely dive-bombed over the last decade, and it might simply be a case of the filmmaker receiving tremendous acclaim early in his career, which he was then completely unable to live up to later on. His first major feature was the Best Picture-nominated The Sixth Sense, and the filmmaker did manage to follow it up with two well-received sci-fi flicks, Unbreakable and Signs. However, after that, it all went wrong. The Village is the film that brought him down, being widely derided for its ludicrous plot twist, and kick-starting the trend that his films not only had shocking plot twists, but stupid ones that didn't make a whole lot of sense. His three subsequent films, Lady in the Water, The Happening and The Last Airbender were all heavily panned, with the latter winning Worst Director and Worst Director at the Razzies. It really is the ultimate example of inconsistency, going from a Best Director nominee to a Worst Director nominee in just over a decade.