Shawn Levy
- Directing
- July 23, 1968 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Biography
Shawn Adam Levy (born July 23, 1968) is a Canadian and American filmmaker and actor. He is the founder of 21 Laps Entertainment. His work has spanned numerous genres, and his films as a director have grossed a collective $3.5 billion worldwide. Following early work as a television director, most notably for The Famous Jett Jackson, Levy gained recognition in the 2000s for directing comedy films such as Big Fat Liar (2002), Just Married (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), and The Pink Panther (2006). He then found further success as the director of the first three films in the Night at the Museum film franchise (2006–14). In the early 2010s, he directed films including Date Night (2010), Real Steel (2011), and The Internship (2013), developed several comedy television pilots, and executive produced the first five seasons of the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing. Levy was a producer on the 2016 sci-fi film Arrival, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. Levy was an executive producer through the entire run of the Netflix original series Stranger Things. He directed the third and fourth episodes of each of the show's first four seasons, as well as the sixth and seventh episodes of the final season. He also directed the Netflix limited series All the Light We Cannot See (2023). Levy has collaborated with Ryan Reynolds by directing Free Guy (2021), The Adam Project (2022), and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), with the latter emerging as his highest-grossing film and the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shawn Levy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Ghost Rider · Director
- Seasons · Producer
- Star Wars: Starfighter · Director, Producer
- The Catch · Producer
- Backrooms · Producer
- Stranger Things: Tales from '85 · Executive producer
- Stranger Things: Tales from '85 Theatrical Preview · Executive producer
- One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 · Self
- Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow · Self
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip · Producer
- Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine · Self
- Never Let Go · Producer
- The Perfect Couple · Executive producer
- Deadpool & Wolverine · Director, Producer
- All the Light We Cannot See · Executive producer, Director
- The Boogeyman · Producer
- Crater · Producer
- Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again · Producer
- Rosaline · Producer
- Welcome to Wrexham · Self
- Lost Ollie · Executive producer
- The Future Of · Executive producer
- Cheaper by the Dozen · Executive producer
- The Adam Project · Producer, Director
- All Too Well: The Short Film · Her Dad
- What Happened, Brittany Murphy? · Self
- There's Someone Inside Your House · Producer
- Free Guy · Director, Producer
- Shadow and Bone · Executive producer
- Directors on Directors · Self
- Dash & Lily · Executive producer
- Love and Monsters · Producer
- The Violent Heart · Producer
- Robin's Wish · Self
- Unsolved Mysteries · Executive producer
- I Am Not Okay with This · Executive producer
- Kin · Producer
- The Darkest Minds · Producer
- Beyond Stranger Things · Self
- Kodachrome · Producer
- Imaginary Mary · Director, Executive producer
- Table 19 · Producer
- Fist Fight · Producer
- Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival' · Self
- Why Him? · Producer
- Arrival · Producer
- Stranger Things · Morgue Worker, Director
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt · Director
- Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb · Director, Producer
- Lennon or McCartney · Self
- Cristela · Executive producer
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day · Producer
- This Is Where I Leave You · Director, Producer
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Self
- The Spectacular Now · Producer
- The Internship · Google Employee Trying to Take a Nap (uncredited), Producer
- The Watch · Producer
- Last Man Standing · Executive producer
- Real Steel · Producer, Director
- Date Night · Director, Producer
- Monkey Mischief · Director
- Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian · Infomercial Father, Director
- The Pink Panther 2 · Executive producer
- The Rocker · Producer
- What Happens in Vegas · Producer
- Night at the Museum · Producer, Director
- 30 Rock · Scottie Shofar
- Pepper Dennis · Director, Producer
- The Pink Panther · Director
- Cheaper by the Dozen 2 · Hospital Intern, Producer
- Cheaper by the Dozen · Press Room Reporter, Director
- Punk'd · Self
- Just Married · Director
- I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus · Producer
- Birds of Prey · Producer, Director
- Do Over · Director
- Big Fat Liar · Wolf Party Guest, Director
- Jett Jackson: The Movie · Director, Executive producer