---
name: "Nick Paley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nick-paley"
fi1m_id: "nick-paley"
imdb_id: "nm2782690"
tmdb_id: 1717096
roles: ["Director","Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-22T02:29:18.005530+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Nick Paley

## Identity

Nick Paley

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nick-paley
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nick-paley
- **IMDb ID:** nm2782690
- **TMDB ID:** 1717096
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2782690/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1717096

Director and writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Also known as:** Nicholas Paley
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 2 directing, 1 writing, 1 crew
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 80 (1), 2020s 67 (3)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2782690/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1717096

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Broad City*](https://film.one/tv/broad-city.md) (80)
- **Disney+:** [*Phony*](https://film.one/tv/phony.md) (65)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Nick Paley is a writer, director and editor. He co-wrote the screenplay and story for the 2022 film *Marcel the Shell with Shoes On* with Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate, and also edited the film.

Paley has directed episodes of the comedy series *Broad City* (2019) and *Inside Amy Schumer*. His short film *Andy and Zach* (2011) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He grew up in Vermont and is based in Los Angeles.

As an editor and producer, Paley has received two Primetime Emmy nominations and won an American Cinema Editors Award. He has written the upcoming series *Phony* for Hulu.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, burlingtonfreepress.com, cargocollective.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

### Directed (2) — the average rests on these

- *Phony* (2026), Fi1m 65, Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/phony.md)
- *Broad City* (2014), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/broad-city.md)

### Wrote (1)

- *Marcel the Shell with Shoes On* (2022), Fi1m 77, Screenplay, Story, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on.md)

### Crew (1)

- *Lilo & Stitch* (2025), Fi1m 58, Second Unit Director — [page](https://film.one/film/lilo-and-stitch-2025.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Lilo & Stitch* (2025), Second Unit Director — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/lilo-and-stitch-2025.md)
- *Marcel the Shell with Shoes On* (2022), Screenplay, Editor, Story — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on.md)
- *Bud* (2021), Editor
- *David* (2020), Editor
- *Collective: Unconscious* (2016), Editor
- *Broad City* (2014), series, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/broad-city.md)
- *Andy and Zach* (2011), Director, Writer, Editor
- *Phony*, series, Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Creator — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/phony.md)

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