Shawn Levy
Shawn Adam Levy (/ˈliːvaɪ/; born July 23, 1968) is a Canadian 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 $3.5 billion worldwide. Following early work as a television director, Levy gained recognition in the 2000s for directing comedy films like 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), and developed several comedy television pilots. Executive produced the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing. Levy produced the 2016 sci-fi film Arrival, earning him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. Since 2016, Levy has been an executive producer on the Netflix original series Stranger Things. He has directed the third and fourth episodes of each of the show's four seasons and the Netflix limited series All the Light We CanNot See (2023). Levy has recently 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.
40 directing credits · 38 acting credits
Directing · 40
Stranger Things
2016
Real Steel
2011
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2015
First Wave
1998
Free Guy
2021
So Weird
1999
Night at the Museum
2006
The Secret World of Alex Mack
1994
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014
Birds of Prey
2002
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
2009
Pepper Dennis
2006
The Famous Jett Jackson
1998
The Adam Project
2022
This Is Where I Leave You
2014
The Pink Panther
2006
All the Light We Cannot See
2023
Animorphs
1998
The Journey of Allen Strange
1997
Cheaper by the Dozen
2003
Date Night
2010
Do Over
2002
Imaginary Mary
2017
Just Married
2003
Big Fat Liar
2002
Star Wars: Starfighter
2027
In a Heartbeat
2000
Dear America
1999
Family Album
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Jett Jackson: The Movie
2001
Address Unknown
1997
Boy Band
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Just in Time
1997
Monkey Mischief
2009
Stray Dog
1999
The Internship
2013
Backwards
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Broken Record
1994
Somewhere Out There
—
Acting · 38
Stranger Things
2016
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Beverly Hills, 90210
1990
30 Rock
2006
21 Jump Street
1987
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Step by Step
1991
Punk'd
2003
thirtysomething
1987
Tour of Duty
1987
China Beach
1988
Welcome to Wrexham
2022
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
2009
Directors on Directors
2021
Cheaper by the Dozen
2003
Beyond Stranger Things
2017
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
2005
Big Fat Liar
2002
One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
2026
What Happened, Brittany Murphy?
2021
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
2024
Lennon or McCartney
2014
Made in America
1993
All Too Well: The Short Film
2021
Lifestories
1990
The Kiss
1988
Robin's Wish
2021
The Vindicator
1986
Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth
1993
Brotherhood of the Gun
1991
Zombie Nightmare
1987
Liberace: Behind the Music
1988
Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
2017
Wild Thing
1987
Miles to Go…
1986
The Internship
2013
Our Shining Moment
1991