Steven Soderbergh
Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: January 14, 1963 (62 years old)
Place of Birth: 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Soderbergh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Your Life as a Spy
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Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
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Beats
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High Flying Bird
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Perfect
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The Laundromat
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High Flying Bird
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High Flying Bird
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Your Life as a Spy
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Your Life as a Spy
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Your Life as a Spy
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Your Life as a Spy
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Your Life as a Spy
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The Report
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The Laundromat
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The Laundromat
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Side by Side
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Radioman
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Stanley Kubrick in Focus
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I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac
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Gina Carano in Training
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Magic Mike
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Magic Mike
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Magic Mike
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The Hunger Games
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An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road
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Julian
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Actor Self - Director, The Girlfriend Experience
Porn: Business of Pleasure
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CHE and the Digital Cinema Revolution
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The Informant!
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The Informant!
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Solitary Man
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The Girlfriend Experience
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Playground
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Where the Wild Things Are
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The Girlfriend Experience
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The Girlfriend Experience
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Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
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Ocean's Twelve
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Ocean's Twelve
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Criminal
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Eros
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Eros
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Able Edwards
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Equilibrium
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Equilibrium
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Equilibrium
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Keane
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Equilibrium
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Criminal
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Eros
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'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con
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Solaris
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Solaris
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Solaris
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
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Far from Heaven
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Welcome to Collinwood
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Insomnia
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