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Steven Soderbergh

Known for: Directing

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Soderbergh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography 56

Logan Lucky 2017Movie Director, Cinematography
Traffic 2000Movie Director, Cinematography
Unsane 2018Movie Apple TV Store Director, Cinematography
Παρενέργειες 2013Movie Director, Cinematography
Magic Mike 2012Movie Director, Cinematography
Presence 2025Movie as The Presence (Uncredited)
Contagion 2011Movie Netflix Director, Cinematography
No Sudden Move 2021Movie HBO Max Director, Cinematography
Mosaic 2018TV show HBO Max Director, Cinematography
Το Ξέπλυμα 2019Movie Netflix Director, Cinematography
Η Τιμωρός 2011Movie Director, Cinematography
Οι Κρίστοφερ 2026Movie Director, Cinematography
Σολάρις 2002Movie Director, Screenplay
Let Them All Talk 2020Movie HBO Max Director, Cinematography
Behind the Candelabra 2013Movie HBO Max Director, Cinematography
Waking Life 2001Movie as Interviewed on Television
Kimi 2022Movie Director, Cinematography
Eros 2004Movie Director, Writer
The Underneath 1995Movie Apple TV Store Director, Screenplay
King of the Hill 1993Movie Director, Screenplay
Schizopolis 1997Movie as Fletcher Munson