Career: Patel shot to prominence after being cast as sex-obsessed Muslim teenager Anwar in Channel 4 comedy drama Skins. The show became an overnight hit with viewers and won the Rose d'Or for drama in 2008 and scooped the Philips Audience Award at the Baftas a year later. The entire Skins cast was re-cast at the end of series two, and Dev beat hundreds of actors to be cast in the lead role of Danny Boyle's heartwarming drama Slumdog Millionaire. The film went on to win a staggering eight Academy Awards in 2009. He went on to appear in M Night Shyamalan's 2010 blockbuster The Last Airbender and 2012 comedy drama The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, alongside Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith. Since 2012, he has starred in HBO drama The Newsroom.

Career: Shyamalan was still a student in New York when he made his first film, Praying with Anger (1992). It never received mainstream distribution. His second film, Wide Awake (1998), only received a limited release and only recouped $300 against a $6million budget. 1999 was a big breakthrough year for Shyamalan. He co-wrote the screenplay for the hugely popular Stuart Little (1999) and gained international recognition when he wrote and directed The Sixth Sense (1999), which was nominated for six Academy Awards and grossed more than $670million worldwide. Since then, Shyamalan has struggled to achieve critical praise for his films but they have all been financially successful. He has written and directed Unbreakable (2000), Signs (2002), The Village (2004), Lady in the Water (2006), The Happening (2008), The Last Airbender (2010) and After Earth (2013).