
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

Magic Mike

Haywire

The One I Love

Far from Heaven

No Sudden Move

Magic Mike XXL

Solaris

Let Them All Talk

Fallen Angels

Ocean's Eight

Contagion

Ocean's Twelve

The Laundromat

Gray's Anatomy

Logan Lucky

Good Night, and Good Luck.

Full Circle

The Hunger Games

Insomnia

sex, lies, and videotape

Michael Clayton

Presence

Mosaic

Calladita

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Where the Wild Things Are

The Girlfriend Experience

Kimi

Heretic

Pleasantville

Traffic

Citizenfour

Megalopolis

I'm Not There

The Informant!

Godless

The Brothers Grimm

Now Apocalypse

Black Bag

Ocean's Thirteen

Red Oaks

Unscripted

Ocean's Eleven

Erin Brockovich

High Flying Bird

Magic Mike's Last Dance

Out of Sight

Finding Magic Mike

K Street

The Oscars

The Report

Side Effects

Bill & Ted Face the Music
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