Shawn Levy

Also known as Shawn Adam Levy

Canadian fimmaker (born 1968)

Person · Open Library

Works: 21

Top works

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Paul Newman
Free Guy Story : (Best Edition Of 2021)
Paul Newman
Rat Pack Confidential (Text Only)

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Film & TV

Directing · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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…

Known for

One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 — Self - Executive Producer / Director / Guest Director Chapter 6 And 72026
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine — Self - Co-Writer / Director / Producer2024
Welcome to Wrexham — Self2022
All Too Well: The Short Film — Her Dad2021
Robin's Wish — Self2021
What Happened, Brittany Murphy? — Self2021
Directors on Directors — Self2021
Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival' — Self2017
Beyond Stranger Things — Self2017
Stranger Things — Morgue Worker2016

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Jamaica
Active from: 1968

classic pop and rockdancehallreggae

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 2,254
Total plays: 4,910

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Academic profile · OpenAlex

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Works: 435
Cited by: 50,084
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1369-5740

Research areas

MedicineBiologyGeneticsComputer scienceGene

Most cited works

Next-generation genotype imputation service and methods2016 · 4,366 cit
The MicroArray Quality Control (MAQC) project shows inter- and intraplatform reproducibility of gene expression measurements2006 · 2,165 cit
Patterns and rates of exonic de novo mutations in autism spectrum disorders2012 · 1,794 cit
Genetic and Functional Drivers of Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma2017 · 1,123 cit
The ADP/ATP translocator is not essential for the mitochondrial permeability transition pore2004 · 1,062 cit

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Estimation of the Concentration of Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in Plasma, Without Use of the Preparative Ultracentrifuge
· 1972 · cited 23,616x
The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,934x
The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,178x
Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,393x
Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans
· 2016 · cited 8,989x

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Key facts

Born: Shawn Adam Levy , ( 1968-07-23 ) July 23, 1968 (age 57) , Montreal , Quebec, Canada
Citizenship: Canada United States
Education: Yale University ( BA ), University of Southern California ( MFA )
Occupations: Film director film producer screenwriter actor
Years active: 1986–present
Spouse: Serena Levy ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1995 )

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Wikidata facts

Image: Shawn Levy by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg
Number of children: 4

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Commons category: Shawn Levy
date of birth: 1968-07-23
start of work period: 1986-00-00
birth name: Shawn Adam Levy
social media followers: 425596
name in native language: Shawn Levy

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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 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), 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.