Steven Soderbergh
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Steven Soderbergh is an American director born in Atlanta, Georgia, celebrated for restless stylistic experimentation across both mainstream studio filmmaking and low-budget independent production. Sex, Lies, and Videotape, made when he was twenty-six, won the Palme d'Or and is widely credited with launching the American independent film boom of the 1990s. Erin Brockovich and Traffic, released the same year, earned him a rare dual Academy Award nomination for Best Director, and the glossy Ocean's Eleven and its sequels showed his equally comfortable command of star-driven studio entertainment. Contagion and Logan Lucky, made using increasingly unconventional production methods including shooting on consumer iPhones, reflected his ongoing interest in reinventing his own working process. Soderbergh's willingness to move constantly between scale, genre, and format has made him one of the most technically adaptable directors of his generation.
Steven Soderbergh
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Steven Soderbergh is an American director born in Atlanta, Georgia, celebrated for restless stylistic experimentation across both mainstream studio filmmaking and low-budget independent production. Sex, Lies, and Videotape, made when he was twenty-six, won the Palme d'Or and is widely credited with launching the American independent film boom of the 1990s. Erin Brockovich and Traffic, released the same year, earned him a rare dual Academy Award nomination for Best Director, and the glossy Ocean's Eleven and its sequels showed his equally comfortable command of star-driven studio entertainment. Contagion and Logan Lucky, made using increasingly unconventional production methods including shooting on consumer iPhones, reflected his ongoing interest in reinventing his own working process. Soderbergh's willingness to move constantly between scale, genre, and format has made him one of the most technically adaptable directors of his generation.
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Ocean's Eleven
2001
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Ocean's Twelve
2004
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Black Bag
2025
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Ocean's Thirteen
2007
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Contagion
2011
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Presence
2025
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Logan Lucky
2017
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Erin Brockovich
2000
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Magic Mike
2012
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Traffic
2000
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sex, lies, and videotape
1989
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Out of Sight
1998
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The Christophers
2026
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No Sudden Move
2021
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Magic Mike's Last Dance
2023
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Solaris
2002
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Haywire
2011
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Eros
2004
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Unsane
2018
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Side Effects
2013
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The Limey
1999
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Che: Part One
2008
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The Laundromat
2019
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Kimi
2022
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The Informant!
2009
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Che: Part Two
2008
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Behind the Candelabra
2013
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The Good German
2006
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The Girlfriend Experience
2009
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Let Them All Talk
2020
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Full Frontal
2002
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King of the Hill
1993
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The Underneath
1995
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High Flying Bird
2019
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Kafka
1991
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Schizopolis
1997
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Bubble
2006
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Winston
1987
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Building No. 7
2006
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The Christophers
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2026
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Black Bag
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2025
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Presence
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2025
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Command Z
Creator
2023–
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Full Circle
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2023–
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Magic Mike's Last Dance
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2023
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Kimi
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2022
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No Sudden Move
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2021
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Let Them All Talk
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2020
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Frequently Asked Questions
How old is Steven Soderbergh and where are they from?
Steven Soderbergh is 63 years old, born on January 14, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
What are the most famous roles of Steven Soderbergh?
Steven Soderbergh is best known for directing Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen.
How many movies has Steven Soderbergh directed?
Over a 44-year career (since 1982), Steven Soderbergh has directed or written 42 films and worked on 11 TV shows.
What was Steven Soderbergh's first movie?
The career of Steven Soderbergh began with Ascenso ().
What is Steven Soderbergh's most recent movie or series?
Steven Soderbergh's most recent release is John Lennon: The Last Interview, which premiered on May 15, 2026.
What TV shows has Steven Soderbergh created or directed?
On television, Steven Soderbergh has appeared in Godless, The Knick, The Girlfriend Experience, Red Oaks.
Steven Soderbergh
1963-01-14 · 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.Steven Soderbergh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.