Gene Stupnitsky is a Ukrainian-born American film and television showmaker. He usually works with Lee Eisenberg, with whom he founded Quantity Entertainment. From 2005 to 2010, he served as a writer, director, and producer of the NBC sitcom The Office, for which he earned three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He co-created, wrote, and produced the HBO comedy series Hello Ladies (2013-2014). In 2023, he co-created the Peabody Award-winning series Jury Duty with Eisenberg. Stupnitsky worked on comedy films, writing Year One (2009) and Bad Teacher (2011) and directing Good Boys (2019) and No Hard Feelings (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gene Stupnitsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- August 26, 1977 (49)
- Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, [now Kyiv, Ukraine]
- Producer, writer and director
- 15 on MovieCove · 19 credits in all
What are Gene Stupnitsky's films like?
Across their 8 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
Light 6 · Serious 0 · Dark 0
A split, not a type: Grounded 4 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 1
Gentle 5 · Charged 1 · Intense 0
A split, not a type: Steady 3 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 0 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 6
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 5 · Relentless 0
Casual 6 · Engaged 0 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 5 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 0
Resolved 6 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy4
- Bittersweet3
- Ambiguous1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Gene Stupnitsky's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 11 of their 15 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Gene Stupnitsky's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
19 credits, 15 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
Narcs (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2027)
Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
The Garfield Movie(2024)
Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films
No Hard Feelings(2023)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
Jury Duty Presents(2023)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
Good Boys(2019)
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
SMILF(2017)
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all shows
Downward Dog(2017)
Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all shows
The Angry Birds Movie(2016)
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
Master of None(2015)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all shows
Hello Ladies: The Movie(2014)
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
Bad Teacher(2014)
Midcredits score: 6th percentile of all shows
Hello Ladies(2013)
Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all shows
Trophy Wife(2013)
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all shows
Stephen Merchant: Hello Ladies... Live! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Bad Teacher(2011)
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films
Year One(2009)
Midcredits score: 12th percentile of all films
The Office(2005)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all showsOne Month Mark (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 18 titles, 16 of them dated from 2005 to 2026.
Film career
- 2005Screen debut· The Office
- 2005Primetime Emmy nomination· The Office
- 2009First film· Year One
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
1 major award from 18 major nominations, 2006–2024.
- Writers Guild Award, nominated · Comedy Series
- Writers Guild Award, nominated · New Series
- Producers Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy
- Independent Spirit Award, nominated · Best New Scripted Series
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Comedy Series
- Writers Guild Award, nominated · Comedy Series
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Television Movie
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie or a Dramatic Special
- Writers Guild Award, nominated · Comedy Series
- Writers Guild Award, nominated · Comedy Series
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Comedy Series
+1 other major body · 1 nomination
- Writers Guild Award, nominated · Comedy Series
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Comedy Series
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
+1 other major body · 1 nomination
- Writers Guild Award, nominated · Comedy Series
Show 2 earlier yearsShow fewer
- Writers Guild Award, won · Comedy Series
- Writers Guild Award, nominated · Comedy Series
- Writers Guild Award, nominated · New Series
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Gene Stupnitsky's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 50th percentile, the median of all 7; across their 6 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 46th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 50th to 74th6
- 25th to 49th4
- Below 25th2
Shape of the crowd
7 of their 15 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved3
- Crowd Pleaser7
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed4
Reviewers score the dialogue 53/100 and the plot and story 40/100 in their films, across 6 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Gene Stupnitsky's work okay for kids?
Across up to 6 MovieCove titles with content scores, sex & nudity and profanity run heavier than most films and frightening / intense lighter.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Gene Stupnitsky work with?
People who share at least 2 of Gene Stupnitsky's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Lee Eisenberg shares the most, 7.
Writers
- Lee EisenbergShared titles: The Garfield Movie (2024), Jury Duty Presents (2023), Good Boys (2019), Downward Dog (2017), Hello Ladies: The Movie (2014), Bad Teacher (2011), Year One (2009)See all 7 shared titles with Lee Eisenberg
Actors
- Kyle MooneyShared titles: No Hard Feelings (2023), Hello Ladies: The Movie (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Kyle Mooney
Cinematographers
- Alar KiviloShared titles: Bad Teacher (2011), Year One (2009)See all 2 shared titles with Alar Kivilo
Producers
- John PhillipsShared titles: No Hard Feelings (2023), Good Boys (2019)See all 2 shared titles with John Phillips
