1963-01-14 ( 62 years old ) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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.
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Movies
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019-10-12
Your Life as a Spy
2019-01-07
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015-05-20
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
2013-10-12
Radioman
2012-12-07
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
2012-11-30
Side by Side
2012-08-19
Gina Carano in Training
2012-05-01
Contagion
2011-09-08
Making Che
2010-01-19
Porn: Business of Pleasure
2009-05-25
CHE and the Digital Cinema Revolution
2009-01-01
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
2004-08-01
Naqoyqatsi
2002-09-02
Full Frontal
2002-08-02
'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con
2002-05-07
Ocean's Eleven
2001-12-07
Waking Life
2001-10-19
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
2000-12-19
Independent's Day
1998-01-15
Schizopolis
1997-04-02
Made in the USA
1993-09-25
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