Steven Soderbergh
Born: 1963-01-14 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Known For: Directing
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Soderbergh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2025
- Presence as The Presence (Uncredited)
- Black Bag ... (Director)
- Love, Brooklyn ... (Executive Producer)
- Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story as Self
- BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions ... (Executive Producer)
- The Christophers ... (Director)
- The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
2024
- Heretic ... (Thanks)
- Calladita ... (Executive Producer)
- Megalopolis ... (Thanks)
- Memories of Love Returned ... (Executive Producer)
2023
- Divinity ... (Executive Producer)
- Magic Mike's Last Dance ... (Director of Photography)
- Full Circle ... (Executive Producer)
- Once Within a Time ... (Executive Producer)
- Command Z ... (Director)
- Accidentally Brave ... (Producer)
2022
- Kimi ... (Editor)
- The Exiles ... (Executive Producer)
- Is That Black Enough for You?!? ... (Producer)
- Finding Magic Mike ... (Executive Producer)
2021
- No Sudden Move ... (Editor)
- The Vandal ... (Thanks)
2020
- Let Them All Talk ... (Director)
- Bill & Ted Face the Music ... (Executive Producer)
- Wireless ... (Executive Producer)
2019
- Beats ... (Executive Producer)
- Perfect ... (Executive Producer)
- Now Apocalypse ... (Executive Producer)
- The Laundromat ... (Director)
- The Report ... (Producer)
- High Flying Bird ... (Director)
- Alan Pakula: Going for Truth as Self
- Leavenworth ... (Executive Producer)
- Your Life as a Spy as (voice)
2018
- Ocean's Eight ... (Producer)
- Unsane ... (Director)
- Mosaic ... (Executive Producer)
- The King ... (Executive Producer)
2017
- Godless ... (Executive Producer)
- Logan Lucky ... (Director)
2016
- The Girlfriend Experience ... (Executive Producer)
- X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time as Self
2015
- Magic Mike XXL ... (Editor)
- Da Sweet Blood of Jesus ... (Associate Producer)
- The Legend of the Palme d'Or as Self
2014
- The Knick ... (Director)
- The One I Love ... (Thanks)
- Red Oaks ... (Executive Producer)
- 21 Years: Richard Linklater ... (Thanks)
- Citizenfour ... (Executive Producer)
- Raiders
2013
- Visitors ... (Presenter)
- Side Effects ... (Director)
- Behind the Candelabra ... (Director)
- Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love as Self
2012
- The Hunger Games ... (Second Unit Director)
- Julian ... (Thanks)
- Radioman as Self
- Side by Side as Self
- Magic Mike ... (Editor)
- I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac as Self
- Stanley Kubrick in Focus as Self
- An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road ... (Director)
- Gina Carano in Training
2011
- His Way ... (Executive Producer)
- Haywire ... (Director)
- Contagion as John Neal (voice, uncredited)
- We Need to Talk About Kevin ... (Executive Producer)
2010
- Making Che as Self
- And Everything Is Going Fine ... (Director)
- Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) ... (Executive Producer)
2009
- Where the Wild Things Are ... (Thanks)
- Solitary Man ... (Producer)
- The Informant! ... (Director of Photography)
- The Girlfriend Experience ... (Director)
- CHE and the Digital Cinema Revolution as Himself/Peter Andrews
- Playground ... (Executive Producer)
- Porn: Business of Pleasure as Self - Director, The Girlfriend Experience
2008
- Che: Part One ... (Director)
- Che: Part Two ... (Director)
2007
- Ocean's Thirteen ... (Director)
- Michael Clayton ... (Executive Producer)
- I'm Not There ... (Executive Producer)
- Wind Chill ... (Executive Producer)
2006
- Bubble ... (Director of Photography)
- A Scanner Darkly ... (Executive Producer)
- Pu-239 ... (Executive Producer)
- The Good German ... (Editor)
- Building No. 7 ... (Director)
2005
- The Jacket ... (Producer)
- Syriana ... (Executive Producer)
- The Brothers Grimm ... (Thanks)
- Rumor Has It... ... (Executive Producer)
- Unscripted ... (Producer)
- Good Night, and Good Luck. ... (Executive Producer)
- The Big Empty ... (Executive Producer)
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½ ... (Executive Producer)
2004
- Ocean's Twelve ... (Director of Photography)
- Criminal ... (Screenplay)
- Eros ... (Director)
- Able Edwards ... (Executive Producer)
- Keane ... (Executive Producer)
- Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers as Self
2003
- K Street ... (Director)
2002
- Insomnia ... (Executive Producer)
- Solaris ... (Director)
- Full Frontal as Self (uncredited)
- Naqoyqatsi as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind ... (Executive Producer)
- Far from Heaven ... (Executive Producer)
- Welcome to Collinwood ... (Producer)
- 'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con as Self
2001
- Ocean's Eleven as Vault-Bombing Thief (uncredited)
- Waking Life as Interviewed on Television
- Who Is Bernard Tapie? ... (Executive Producer)
- Tribute ... (Executive Producer)
2000
- Erin Brockovich ... (Director)
- Traffic ... (Director)
- Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic' as Self
1999
- Stir of Echoes ... (Thanks)
- The Limey ... (Director)
1998
- Out of Sight ... (Director)
- Pleasantville ... (Producer)
- Independent's Day as Self
- Independent Focus as Self
- Inside 'Out of Sight' as Himself
1997
- Taff as self
- Schizopolis as Fletcher Munson
- The Daytrippers ... (Producer)
- Nightwatch ... (Screenplay)
1996
- Gray's Anatomy ... (Director)
1995
- The Underneath ... (Director)
1993
- Fallen Angels ... (Director)
- Suture ... (Executive Producer)
- King of the Hill ... (Screenplay)
- Made in the USA as Self
1991
- Kafka ... (Editor)
1989
- sex, lies, and videotape ... (Editor)
1987
- Winston ... (Producer)
1985
- Yes - 90125 Live ... (Director)
- Access All Areas ... (Director)
1982
- Rapid Eye Movement as Steven Soderbergh
1953
- The Oscars as Self