---
name: "Steve Day"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/steve-day"
roles: ["First assistant director","Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T18:57:07.973797+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."
---

# Steve Day

First assistant director and director.

## Details

- **Work:** First assistant director, Director
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 directing, 2 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 84 (2), 2020s 76 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206592/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1893781

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Good Place*](https://film.one/tv/the-good-place.md) (84)

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

## Biography

Steve Day is an American assistant director and occasional director. He began working in the sound department after film school and has been an assistant director since the late 1980s. He joined the Directors Guild of America in 1993.

Day has served as first assistant director on numerous films and series, including *The Lego Movie* (2014), *Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping* (2016), *Wine Country* (2019) and *Platonic* (2023). He has directed episodes of the series *The Last Man on Earth* (2015) and *The Good Place* (2016).

*Sources: imdb.com, scriptation.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (1)

- *The Good Place* (2016), Fi1m 84, Director, First Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-place.md)

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

- *Platonic* (2023), Fi1m 76, First Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/platonic.md)
- *The Lego Movie* (2014), Fi1m 83, First Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lego-movie.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *Platonic* (2023), series, First Assistant Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/platonic.md)
- *Wine Country* (2019), First Assistant Director
- *The Good Place* (2016), series, First Assistant Director, Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-place.md)
- *Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping* (2016), First Assistant Director
- *The Last Man on Earth* (2015), series, Director
- *The Lego Movie* (2014), First Assistant Director — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lego-movie.md)
- *Parks and Recreation* (2009), series, as Steve Day
- *The Jennie Project* (2001), First Assistant Director
- *Fools Rush In* (1997), Second Assistant Director
- *Poison Ivy 2: Lily* (1996), Second Assistant Director
- *Bob Roberts* (1992), Second Second Assistant Director
- *Whore* (1991), Boom Operator

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/steve-day