Shawn Levy

Shawn Adam Levy born July 23 1968 is a Canadian film director film producer screenwriter actor and founder of 21 Laps Entertainment He has worked across genres and is perhaps best known as the director of the Night at the Museum film franchise and the primary producer of the Netflix series Stranger Things Following early work as a television director Levy gained recognition in the 2000s for directing comedy films like Big Fat Liar and Just Married before directing Cheaper by the Dozen The Pink Panther and Night at the Museum film franchises In the early 2010s he directed films including Date Night and Real Steel developed several comedy television pilots and executive produced the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing Levy was a producer on the 2016 scifi film Arrival which earned 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 shows four seasons He also directed the Netflix limited series All the Light We Cannot See Most recently he has collaborated with Ryan Reynolds by directing Free Guy 2021 The Adam Project 2022 and the upcoming Deadpool Wolverine 2024 Description above from the Wikipedia article Shawn Levy licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia