Shawn Levy
Known for: Directing
Born: July 23, 1968
Place of birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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.
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Filmography
97 movies · 45 TV shows, newest first
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Ghost Rider
2028
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Star Wars: Starfighter
2027NR
The Catch
2027
7.1
Backrooms
2026
7.6
Stranger Things: Tales from '85
2026
6.3
Stranger Things: Tales from '85 Theatrical Preview
2026
7.2
One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
2026
7.4
Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
2025
6.1
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip
2025
6.7
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
2024
6.1
Never Let Go
2024
6.7
The Perfect Couple
2024
7.6
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024
7.4
All the Light We Cannot See
2023
6.4
The Boogeyman
2023
6.6
Crater
2023
6.3
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again
2022
7.1
Rosaline
2022
7.8
Welcome to Wrexham
2022
7.8
Lost Ollie
2022
5.2
The Future Of
2022
6.3
Cheaper by the Dozen
2022
7.0
The Adam Project
2022
8.0
All Too Well: The Short Film
2021
6.0
What Happened, Brittany Murphy?
2021
5.3
There's Someone Inside Your House
2021
7.4
Free Guy
2021
7.7
Shadow and Bone
2021
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Directors on Directors
2021
7.8
Dash & Lily
2020
7.3
Love and Monsters
2020
5.3
The Violent Heart
2020
7.0
Robin's Wish
2020
7.7
Unsolved Mysteries
2020
8.0
I Am Not Okay with This
2020
6.1
Kin
2018
7.0
The Darkest Minds
2018
7.5
Beyond Stranger Things
2017
6.8
Kodachrome
2017
6.4
Imaginary Mary
2017
5.9
Table 19
2017
6.0
Fist Fight
2017
7.0
Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
2017
6.4
Why Him?
2016
7.6
Arrival
2016
8.6
Stranger Things
2016
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
7.1
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2015
6.2
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014
5.3
Lennon or McCartney
2014
6.6
Cristela
2014
6.2
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
2014
6.6
This Is Where I Leave You
2014
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
6.7
The Spectacular Now
2013
6.2
The Internship
2013
5.6
The Watch
2012
7.2
Last Man Standing
2011
7.1
Real Steel
2011
6.1
Date Night
2010
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Monkey Mischief
2009
6.2
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
2009
5.7
The Pink Panther 2
2009
6.1
The Rocker
2008
6.1
What Happens in Vegas
2008
6.6
Night at the Museum
2006
7.5
30 Rock
2006
6.3
Pepper Dennis
2006
5.9
The Pink Panther
2006
6.2
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
2005
6.3
Cheaper by the Dozen
2003
5.1
Punk'd
2003
5.8
Just Married
2003
5.7
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
2002
6.2
Birds of Prey
2002
6.8
Do Over
2002
5.9
Big Fat Liar
2002
6.0
Jett Jackson: The Movie
2001
8.0
In a Heartbeat
20009.0
Stray Dog
1999
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Dear America
1999
6.6
So Weird
1999
6.7
The Famous Jett Jackson
1998
7.3
Animorphs
1998
7.1
First Wave
1998
8.2
The Journey of Allen Strange
1997
6.1
Address Unknown
1997
5.3
Just in Time
1997
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Broken Record
1994
7.8
The Secret World of Alex Mack
1994
5.0
Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth
1993
5.5
Made in America
19936.5
Brotherhood of the Gun
1991
7.8
Step by Step
19918.0
Our Shining Moment
1991
7.3
Beverly Hills, 90210
19908.0
Lifestories
1990
5.8
The Kiss
1988
4.8
Liberace: Behind the Music
1988
7.4
China Beach
1988
3.4
Zombie Nightmare
1987
6.3
thirtysomething
1987
8.1
Tour of Duty
1987
5.7
Wild Thing
1987
7.3
21 Jump Street
1987
7.3
Miles to Go…
1986
4.6
The Vindicator
1986
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The George Lucas Talk Show: Live
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Splendid Solution
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Undying
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Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying
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The Defender
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Dollhouse
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Backwards
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Boy Band
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Gnomes
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Abbi and the Eighth Wonder
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Club 33
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Upcoming Remake of 'Riders of Justice'
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The Hardy Men
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Echo
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Hold Back the Stars
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Sovereign
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Don't Go in the Water
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Seasons
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Amulet
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The Blanks
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Untitled Night at the Museum Reimagining
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Dad Camp
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Compulsive Liar
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One Attempt Remaining
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Kingmakers
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Untitled McG Film
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Somewhere Out There
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Ripple
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The Girlfriend
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Deep End
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Blur
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Family Album
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Forgotten Realms
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The Sticks
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