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.

Filmography

• 2028Ghost Rider — Director
• 2027Seasons — Producer
• 2027Star Wars: Starfighter — Director, Producer
• 2027The Catch — Producer
• 2026Backrooms — Producer
• Stranger Things: Tales from '85 — Executive Producer
• 2026Stranger Things: Tales from '85 Theatrical Preview — Executive Producer
• 2025Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip — Producer
• 2024Deadpool & Wolverine — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2024Never Let Go — Producer
• The Perfect Couple — Executive Producer
• All the Light We Cannot See — Executive Producer, Director
• 2023Crater — Producer
• 2023The Boogeyman — Producer
• 2022Cheaper by the Dozen — Executive Producer
• Lost Ollie — Executive Producer
• 2022Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again — Producer
• 2022Rosaline — Producer
• 2022The Adam Project — Producer, Director
• The Future Of — Executive Producer
• 2021All Too Well: The Short Film — Her Dad
• 2021Free Guy — Director, Producer
• Shadow and Bone — Executive Producer
• 2021There's Someone Inside Your House — Producer
• Dash & Lily — Executive Producer
• I Am Not Okay with This — Executive Producer
• 2020Love and Monsters — Producer
• 2020The Violent Heart — Producer
• Unsolved Mysteries — Executive Producer
• 2018Kin — Producer
• 2018The Darkest Minds — Producer
• 2017Fist Fight — Producer
• Imaginary Mary — Director, Executive Producer, Creator
• 2017Kodachrome — Producer
• 2017Table 19 — Producer
• 2016Arrival — Producer
• Stranger Things — Morgue Worker, Director, Executive Producer
• 2016Why Him? — Producer
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt — Director
• 2014Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day — Producer
• Cristela — Executive Producer
• 2014Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb — Director, Producer
• 2014This Is Where I Leave You — Director, Producer
• 2013The Internship — Google Employee Trying to Take a Nap (uncredited), Producer, Director
• 2013The Spectacular Now — Producer
• 2012The Watch — Producer
• Last Man Standing — Executive Producer
• 2011Real Steel — Producer, Director
• 2010Date Night — Director, Producer
• 2009Monkey Mischief — Director
• 2009Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian — Infomercial Father, Director, Producer
• 2009The Pink Panther 2 — Executive Producer
• 2008The Rocker — Producer
• 2008What Happens in Vegas — Producer
• 30 Rock — Scottie Shofar
• 2006Night at the Museum — Producer, Director
• Pepper Dennis — Director, Producer
• 2006The Pink Panther — Director
• 2005Cheaper by the Dozen 2 — Hospital Intern, Producer
• 2003Cheaper by the Dozen — Press Room Reporter, Director
• 2003Just Married — Director
• 2002Big Fat Liar — Wolf Party Guest, Director
• Birds of Prey — Producer, Director
• Do Over — Director
• 2002I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus — Producer
• 2001Jett Jackson: The Movie — Director, Executive Producer
• In a Heartbeat — Director
• Dear America — Director
• So Weird — Director
• 1999Stray Dog — Director
• Animorphs — Director
• First Wave — Director
• The Famous Jett Jackson — Director, Executive Producer
• 1997Address Unknown — Director
• 1997Just in Time — Director
• The Journey of Allen Strange — Director
• 1994Broken Record — Director, Editor, Producer
• The Secret World of Alex Mack — Director
• 1993Made in America — Dwayne
• 1993Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth — Travis
• 1991Brotherhood of the Gun — Teddy McBride
• 1991Our Shining Moment — J.J.
• Step by Step — Daniel
• Beverly Hills, 90210 — Howard Banchek
• Lifestories — Luke Conforti
• China Beach — Lieutenant
• 1988Liberace: Behind the Music — Glenn
• 1988The Kiss — Terry
• 21 Jump Street — Lance
• 1987First Offender
• Tour of Duty
• 1987Wild Thing — Paul
• 1987Zombie Nightmare — Jim Batten
• thirtysomething — Robert
• 1986Miles to Go… — Greg
• 1986The Vindicator — Biker #2
• Abbi and the Eighth Wonder — Producer
• Amulet — Producer
• Backwards — Director, Producer
• Blur — Producer
• Boy Band — Producer, Director
• Club 33 — Producer
• Compulsive Liar — Producer
• Dad Camp — Producer
• Deep End — Producer
• Dollhouse — Producer
• Don't Go in the Water — Producer
• Echo — Producer
• Family Album — Director
• Gnomes — Producer
• Kingmakers — Producer
• Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying — Producer
• One Attempt Remaining — Producer
• Ripple — Producer
• Somewhere Out There — Director, Producer
• Sovereign — Producer
• Splendid Solution — Producer
• The Blanks — Producer
• The Defender — Producer
• The Girlfriend — Producer
• The Hardy Men — Producer
• The Sticks — Executive Producer
• Undying — Producer
• Untitled McG Film — Producer
• Untitled Night at the Museum Reimagining — Producer
• Upcoming Remake of 'Riders of Justice' — Producer

Appearances as themselves (15)

• 2026One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 — Self - Executive Producer / Director / Guest Director Chapter 6 And 7
• 2025Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow — Self - Executive Producer of 'Stranger Things'
• 2024Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine — Self - Co-Writer / Director / Producer
• Welcome to Wrexham — Self
• Directors on Directors — Self
• What Happened, Brittany Murphy? — Self
• 2020Robin's Wish — Self
• Beyond Stranger Things — Self
• 2017Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival' — Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• 2014Lennon or McCartney — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• Punk'd — Self
• The George Lucas Talk Show: Live — Self