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Shawn Levy

Canadian fimmaker (born 1968)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1968-07-23
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
Country: JM
Active from: 1964-04-30

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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

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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 23,562x
The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,708x
The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,170x
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 9,308x
Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans
· 2016 · cited 8,976x

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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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Key dates

Born: 23 July 1968

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Family name: Levy
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Montreal
Occupation: executive producer
Educated at: University of Southern California
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Religion: Judaism

Article

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.