Steven Soderbergh

Steven Soderbergh

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.

Known For: Directing

Born: Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 1963-01-14

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1993	Made in the USA	Self	20
2	1997	Schizopolis	Fletcher Munson	61
3	1998	Independent's Day	Self	50
4	2000	Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'	Self	65
5	2001	Waking Life	Interviewed on Television	75
6	2001	Ocean's Eleven	Vault-Bombing Thief (uncredited)	74
7	2002	'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con	Self	75
8	2002	Full Frontal	Self (uncredited)	46
9	2002	Naqoyqatsi	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	61
10	2004	Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers	Self	100
11	2009	CHE and the Digital Cinema Revolution	Himself/Peter Andrews	0
12	2009	Porn: Business of Pleasure	Self - Director, The Girlfriend Experience	46
13	2010	Making Che	Self	0
14	2011	Contagion	John Neal (voice, uncredited)	66
15	2012	I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac	Self	81
16	2012	Gina Carano in Training		80
17	2012	Side by Side	Self	72
18	2012	Stanley Kubrick in Focus	Self	60
19	2012	Radioman	Self	57
20	2013	Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love	Self	90
21	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
22	2019	Your Life as a Spy	(voice)	60
23		The Making of "Once Within a Time"	Self	0
24	2014	Raiders		0
25	2015	The Legend of the Palme d'Or	Self	60
26	2016	X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time	Himself	67
27	2019	Alan Pakula: Going for Truth	Self	65
28		Inside 'Out of Sight'	Himself	0
29	2025	Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story	Self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
2	1997	Taff	self	32
3	1998	Independent Focus	Self	90

Steven Soderbergh

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