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.
Filmography (61)
Presence
Black Bag
The Christophers
Heretic
Megalopolis
Magic Mike's Last Dance
Divinity
Kimi
No Sudden Move
Bill & Ted Face the Music
Let Them All Talk
The Report
The Laundromat
Ocean's Eight
Unsane
Logan Lucky
Magic Mike XXL
The One I Love
Behind the Candelabra
Side Effects
The Hunger Games
Magic Mike
Contagion
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Haywire
The Informant!
Where the Wild Things Are
Solitary Man
Che: Part Two
Che: Part One
Ocean's Thirteen
Wind Chill
Michael Clayton
I'm Not There
A Scanner Darkly
The Good German
Good Night, and Good Luck.
The Brothers Grimm
The Jacket
Syriana
Rumor Has It...
Ocean's Twelve
Criminal
Keane
Full Frontal
Insomnia
Far from Heaven
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Solaris
Welcome to Collinwood
Ocean's Eleven
Waking Life
Erin Brockovich
Traffic
The Limey
Stir of Echoes
Pleasantville
Out of Sight
Nightwatch
Kafka
