
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.
55 directing credits · 35 acting credits
Directing · 55

The Christophers
2026

Fallen Angels
1993

Ocean's Eleven
2001

The Knick
2014

Contagion
2011

Black Bag
2025

sex, lies, and videotape
1989

Ocean's Twelve
2004

Presence
2025

Ocean's Thirteen
2007

Full Circle
2023

Erin Brockovich
2000

Traffic
2000

Logan Lucky
2017

Mosaic
2018

Magic Mike
2012

Solaris
2002

K Street
2003

Command Z
2023

Out of Sight
1998

The Laundromat
2019

Haywire
2011

Side Effects
2013

Magic Mike's Last Dance
2023

Unsane
2018

No Sudden Move
2021

Che: Part One
2008

Kimi
2022

Eros
2004

Che: Part Two
2008

The Informant!
2009

The Limey
1999

Behind the Candelabra
2013

The Good German
2006

The Girlfriend Experience
2009

Let Them All Talk
2020

Kafka
1991

King of the Hill
1993

Full Frontal
2002

High Flying Bird
2019

The Underneath
1995

An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road
2012

Bubble
2006

Schizopolis
1997

Gray's Anatomy
1996

And Everything Is Going Fine
2010

John Lennon: The Last Interview
2026

Yes - 90125 Live
1985

Winston
1987
Ascenso
—

Your Life as a Spy
2019

Access All Areas
1985

Building No. 7
2006

Unstarted Symphony No. 1
2014
Rapid Eye Movement
1982
Acting · 35

The Oscars
1953

Taff
1997

Ocean's Eleven
2001

Contagion
2011

Presence
2025

X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time
2016

Waking Life
2001

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025

Radioman
2012

I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac
2012
Independent Focus
1998

Naqoyqatsi
2002

Side by Side
2012

Full Frontal
2002

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019

Made in the USA
1993

Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
2000

Schizopolis
1997

The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015
'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con
2002

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
2013
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
2012

Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
2004

Independent's Day
1998
Inside 'Out of Sight'
1998

Chameleon Street: The Black Film They Could Not Sell
1991

The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
2025

Making Che
2010
Gina Carano in Training
2012

CHE and the Digital Cinema Revolution
2009
Porn: Business of Pleasure
2009
The Making of "Once Within a Time"
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Your Life as a Spy
2019

Unstarted Symphony No. 1
2014
Rapid Eye Movement
1982