Director
Steven Soderbergh
63 years · Atlanta, Georgia, USA · 79 films
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.
Best known for
Ocean's Eleven
2001 · Vault-Bombing Thief (uncredited), Director
On fuboTV
Ocean's Eight
2018 · Producer
On HBO Max
Ocean's Twelve
2004 · Director, Cinematography
On fuboTV
Ocean's Thirteen
2007 · Director, Cinematography
On fuboTV
Contagion
2011 · John Neal (voice, uncredited), Director
On HBO Max
Logan Lucky
2017 · Director, Editor
On Kanopy
Filmography 79
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
2026 · Self
John Lennon: The Last Interview
2026 · Director, Cinematography
The Christophers
2026 · Director, Cinematography
On Hulu
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
2025 · Actor
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025 · Self
On fuboTV
Black Bag
2025 · Director, Cinematography
On Peacock Premium
Presence
2025 · The Presence (Uncredited), Director
On Hulu
Accidentally Brave
2023 · Producer
Magic Mike's Last Dance
2023 · Cinematography, Editor
On HBO Max
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022 · Producer
On Netflix
Kimi
2022 · Editor, Cinematography
On HBO Max
No Sudden Move
2021 · Editor, Cinematography
On HBO Max
Let Them All Talk
2020 · Director, Editor
On HBO Max
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019 · Self
On Plex
The Laundromat
2019 · Director, Editor
On Netflix
The Report
2019 · Producer
On YouTube Free
High Flying Bird
2019 · Director, Editor
On Netflix
Your Life as a Spy
2019 · (voice), Director
Ocean's Eight
2018 · Producer
On HBO Max
Unsane
2018 · Director, Editor
On Kanopy
Logan Lucky
2017 · Director, Editor
On Kanopy
X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All Time
2016 · Self
Magic Mike XXL
2015 · Editor, Cinematography
On fuboTV
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015 · Self