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Steven Soderbergh

Director, Producer, Editor, Actor, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn January 14, 1963 (62 years)
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 & Shows on Plex

  • Side Effects
  • A Scanner Darkly
  • Haywire
  • I'm Not There
  • Citizenfour
  • The Limey
  • Solitary Man
  • Beats
  • Perfect
  • The King
  • The Exiles

Known For

  • Ocean's Eleven
  • Ocean's Twelve
  • Traffic
  • Ocean's Thirteen
  • Erin Brockovich
  • Side Effects
  • Sex, Lies, and Videotape
  • Michael Clayton
  • Magic Mike
  • Behind the Candelabra
  • Out of Sight
  • Solaris
  • Haywire
  • Insomnia
  • Black Bag
  • The Knick
  • Pleasantville
  • The Informant!
  • The Laundromat
  • Che: Part One
  • The Report
  • Unsane
  • Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
  • Logan Lucky

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Steven Soderbergh Filmography

2025
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions · as Executive Producer
2025
Love, Brooklyn · as Executive Producer
2023
The Quiet Maid · as Executive Producer
2023
Divinity · as Executive Producer
2023
Full Circle (2023) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2023
2022
Once Within a Time · as Executive Producer
2022
2022
The Exiles · as Executive Producer
2021
Finding Magic Mike (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2021
2020
Wireless (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2020
Bill & Ted Face the Music · as Executive Producer
2019
2019
Leavenworth (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2019
Beats · as Executive Producer
2019
Now Apocalypse (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2018
2018
Perfect · as Executive Producer
2018
Mosaic (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2017
Godless (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2017
The King · as Executive Producer
2016
The Girlfriend Experience (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2015
Magic Mike XXL · as Executive Producer
2014
Citizenfour · as Executive Producer
2014
Red Oaks (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2014
The Knick (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2014
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus · as Associate Producer
2012
Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out · as Executive Producer
2011
We Need to Talk About Kevin · as Executive Producer
2011
His Way · as Executive Producer
2010
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) · as Executive Producer
2009
2009
Playground · as Executive Producer
2008
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired · as Executive Producer
2007
Michael Clayton · as Executive Producer
2007
I'm Not There · as Executive Producer
2007
Wind Chill · as Executive Producer
2006
Pu-239 · as Executive Producer
2006
A Scanner Darkly · as Executive Producer
2005
Rumor Has It... · as Executive Producer
2005
Syriana · as Executive Producer
2005
Good Night, and Good Luck. · as Executive Producer
2005
2005
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2 · as Executive Producer
2005
Unscripted (TV Series)
2004
2004
Keane · as Executive Producer
2004
Able Edwards · as Executive Producer
2003
K Street (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2002
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind · as Executive Producer
2002
Far from Heaven · as Executive Producer
2002
2002
Naqoyqatsi · as Executive Producer
2002
Insomnia · as Executive Producer
2001
Tribute · as Executive Producer
2001
Who Is Bernard Tapie? · as Executive Producer
1998
1996
1993
Suture · as Executive Producer
1953
The Academy Awards (TV Series)

2024
Presence · as The Presence (uncredited)
2011
Contagion · as John Neal (voice, Uncredited)
2011
2001
Ocean's Eleven · as Vault-Bombing Thief (uncredited)
2001
Waking Life · as Interviewed On Television
1996
Schizopolis · as Fletcher Munson

2004
2004
Criminal · as Screenplay
2002
Solaris · as Screenplay
1997
Nightwatch · as Screenplay
1996
Schizopolis · as Screenplay
1995
The Underneath · as Screenplay
1993
King of the Hill · as Screenplay
1989

2025
2020
Josh Gates Tonight (TV Series) · as Self
2019
2017
2016
The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self - Nominee
2015
The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self - Nominee
2015
2014
2013
2013
The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self - Winner
2013
2012
Radioman · as Self
2012
Side by Side · as Self
2012
The Men of 'Haywire' · as Self - Director
2012
Haywire: Gina Carano in Training · as Self - Director
2011
2009
The Dr. Oz Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
2009
Cleanflix · as Self - Director, Traffic
2009
Porn: Business of Pleasure · as Self - Director, The Girlfriend Experience
2007
2005
The Work of Director Mark Romanek · as Self - Interviewee
2004
Le grand journal de Canal+ (TV Series) · as Self
2004
At the Movies (2004) (TV Series) · as Self
2004
2003
CNBC Originals (TV Series) · as Self - Director, The Girlfriend Experience
2002
Naqoyqatsi · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited)
2002
Full Frontal · as Self (uncredited)
2001
The 73rd Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner
2000
2000
1998
1996
Sen Kväll Med Luuk (TV Series) · as Self
1995
American Cinema (TV Series) · as Self
1995
Tough (TV Series) · as Self
1992
HBO First Look (TV Series) · as Self
1991
Movie Days (TV Series) · as Self
1991
Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
1990
Intimate Portrait (TV Series) · as Self
1981
Journal de 20h de France 2 (TV Series) · as Self
1968
60 Minutes (TV Series) · as Self - Vice President, Directors Guild Of America (segment "the Movie Pirates")
1953
The Academy Awards (TV Series) · as Self

2025
The Christophers · as Director Of Photography
2025
Black Bag · as Director Of Photography
2024
Presence · as Director Of Photography
2023
Command Z (TV Series) · as Director Of Photography
2023
Full Circle (2023) (TV Series) · as Director Of Photography
2023
Magic Mike's Last Dance · as Director Of Photography
2022
Kimi · as Director Of Photography
2021
No Sudden Move · as Director Of Photography
2020
Let Them All Talk · as Director Of Photography
2019
The Laundromat · as Director Of Photography
2019
High Flying Bird · as Director Of Photography
2018
Unsane · as Director Of Photography
2018
Mosaic (TV Series) · as Director Of Photography
2017
Logan Lucky · as Director Of Photography
2015
Magic Mike XXL · as Director Of Photography
2014
The Knick (TV Series) · as Director Of Photography
2013
Behind the Candelabra · as Director Of Photography
2013
Side Effects · as Director Of Photography
2012
Magic Mike · as Director Of Photography
2012
The Hunger Games · as Second Unit Director
2011
Haywire · as Director Of Photography
2011
Contagion · as Director Of Photography
2009
The Informant! · as Director Of Photography
2009
The Girlfriend Experience · as Director Of Photography
2008
Che: Part Two · as Director Of Photography
2008
Che: Part One · as Director Of Photography
2007
Ocean's Thirteen · as Director Of Photography
2006
The Good German · as Director Of Photography
2005
Bubble · as Director Of Photography
2004
Ocean's Twelve · as Director Of Photography
2004
Eros · as Director Of Photography
2003
K Street (TV Series) · as Director Of Photography
2002
Solaris · as Director Of Photography
2002
Full Frontal · as Director Of Photography
2001
Ocean's Eleven · as Director Of Photography
2000
Traffic · as Director Of Photography
1998
Pleasantville · as Second Unit Director
1996
Schizopolis · as Director Of Photography
1996
Schizopolis · as Original Music Composer
1989
Sex, Lies, and Videotape · as Sound Editor

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