
Steven Soderbergh
1 FOLLOWER • 56 CREDITS • JAN 14, 1963 • 62
Biography
Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor. A pioneer of modern independent cinema, Soderbergh later drew acclaim for formally inventive films made within the studio system.
Soderbergh's directorial breakthrough, the indie drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), lifted him into the public spotlight as a notable presence in the film industry. At 26, Soderbergh became the youngest solo director to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and the film garnered worldwide commercial success, as well as numerous accolades. His next five films, which included King of the Hill (1993), were commercially unsuccessful. He pivoted into more mainstream fare with the crime comedy Out of Sight (1998), the biopic Erin Brockovich (2000) and the crime drama Traffic (2000). For Traffic, he won the Academy Award for Best Director.
He found further popular and critical success with the Ocean's trilogy and film franchise (2001–18); Che (2008); The Informant! (2009); Contagion (2011); Haywire (2011); Magic Mike (2012); Side Effects (2013); Logan Lucky (2017); Unsane (2018); Let Them All Talk (2020); No Sudden Move (2021); and Kimi (2022). His film career spans a multitude of genres, but his specialties are psychological, crime and heist films. His films have grossed over US$2.2 billion worldwide and garnered fourteen Academy Award nominations, winning five.
Soderbergh's films often revolve around familiar concepts which are regularly used for big-budget Hollywood movies, but he routinely employs an avant-garde arthouse approach. They center on themes of shifting personal identities, vengeance, sexuality, morality, and the human condition. His feature films are often distinctive in the realm of cinematography as a result of his having been influenced by avant-garde cinema, coupled with his use of unconventional film and camera formats. Many of Soderbergh's films are anchored by multi-dimensional storylines with plot twists, nonlinear storytelling, experimental sequencing, suspenseful soundscapes, and third-person vantage points.
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Known For
Production Credits

Out of Sight

Calladita

The Informant!

Heretic

Far from Heaven

The Hunger Games

Citizenfour

Now Apocalypse

Where the Wild Things Are

The Oscars

Ocean's Twelve

Godless

Let Them All Talk

Ocean's Eight

Contagion

Ocean's Eleven

The Laundromat

Full Circle

Black Bag

Ocean's Thirteen

Michael Clayton

Presence

Solaris

Pleasantville

Traffic

Gray's Anatomy

The One I Love

Unscripted

Kimi

Magic Mike's Last Dance

High Flying Bird

The Girlfriend Experience

Side Effects

Fallen Angels

Bill & Ted Face the Music

We Need to Talk About Kevin

The Brothers Grimm

Red Oaks

Insomnia

K Street

The Report

Haywire

I'm Not There

Mosaic

Logan Lucky

Magic Mike XXL

sex, lies, and videotape

Finding Magic Mike

Magic Mike

Erin Brockovich

No Sudden Move
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