
Steven Soderbergh
1 FOLLOWER • 59 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

Insomnia

Finding Magic Mike

Fallen Angels

Ocean's Eight

High Flying Bird

The Girlfriend Experience

Red Oaks

No Sudden Move

The One I Love

Now Apocalypse

Black Bag

Pleasantville

Godless

Unscripted

Citizenfour

Kimi

Far from Heaven

Bill & Ted Face the Music

The Report

The Hunger Games

Logan Lucky

Full Circle

Magic Mike XXL

Out of Sight

Good Night, and Good Luck.

Gray's Anatomy

Magic Mike

Traffic

Ocean's Eleven

The Laundromat

I'm Not There

Where the Wild Things Are

K Street

Ocean's Thirteen

Erin Brockovich

Michael Clayton

Heretic

Calladita

Let Them All Talk

Ocean's Twelve

Haywire

The Oscars

Presence

Mosaic

Magic Mike's Last Dance

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Side Effects

The Brothers Grimm

Solaris

sex, lies, and videotape

Megalopolis

The Informant!

Contagion
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