Trivia

Auditioned for Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars, épisode I : La Menace fantôme (1999), but didn't get a callback.

Became the eighth-youngest nominee for a competitive Academy Award in 2000.

His father, Eugene Osment, frequently makes cameo appearances in his movies.

Favorite authors: J.R.R. Tolkien and Edgar Allan Poe

He is a straight-A student

Although rumored to be Steven Spielberg's favorite to play the title role in Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers (2001), had Spielberg directed the film as once planned, Osment himself denied this and was vehemently against the series even being made into films lest the magic of the novels be ruined.

Older brother of actress Emily Osment.

Started acting at age 4.

He donated many items to Rocky Stone to be given to less-fortunate kids as part of the Toy Mountain Campaign.

He's a big lover of lizards. He owns two leopard geckos from Pakistan as pets and, as a favorite pastime, likes to catch and release lizards in his backyard or on vacations.

Fractured his right rib and right shoulder, and received lacerations to his body when he lost control of his car and crashed into a brick mailbox. (July 2006)

Favorite music: R.E.M., Coldplay, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Flying Lotus, and Led Zeppelin.

Though Osment is now a well-known actor, what many people don't know is that Forrest Gump (1994), a very popular contemporary classic, was one of his first films. That is not surprising, since his screen time was only about two minutes, despite playing the son of the title character. It was another five years before he became famous with Sixième Sens (1999), another popular contemporary classic.

Studying Experimental Acting at New York University (September 2006)

Making his Broadway debut on the play American Buffalo. (October 2008)

He took a two-year break from filming after making A.I. Intelligence artificielle (2001), before making a brief comeback with Le secret des frères McCann (2003), but he had plenty of commitments during those two years of absence from the screen. His work included making promotional tours for AI during the summer holiday in 2001, making TV appearances, and doing voice-over work.

Ran cross country for Flintridge Prep.

[2005] Was ranked #7 in E's 50 cutest child stars all grown-up.

Philadelphia, Pa USA: Starred in the stage play "Red" at The Philadelphia Theatre Company (Closed November 13th) (November 2011)

Doing voice recording for _Kingdom Hearts II (2005) (VG)_. (December 2005)

He is the first male born in the 1980s, and the first millennial male, to have received an Academy Award nomination for acting (for Sixième Sens (1999)). Eddie Redmayne is the first millennial male to have won an acting Oscar (for Une merveilleuse histoire du temps (2014)), while Anna Paquin is the first millennial female to have received an Oscar nomination, and the first to win (for La Leçon de piano (1993)). Daniel Kaluuya is the first person born in the decade to win Best Supporting Actor, for Judas and the Black Messiah (2021).

His favorite cuisine is Chinese, and he eats it constantly.

He is of Irish, and smaller amounts of English, German, Austrian, and Scottish, as well as distant French, descent.

In 1993 he did a Pizza Hut commercial.

Just finished some additional scenes for Home Of The Giants (2006) (August 2006)

In the novelization for Le Secret de la pyramide (1985), it uses the line sixth sense; Frank Marshall produced this and Sixième Sens (1999) and Steven Spielberg later directed Osment in A.I. Intelligence artificielle (2001) as well as produced Holmes.