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

• 2026John Lennon: The Last Interview — Director, Executive Producer, Director of Photography
• 2026The Christophers — Director, Director of Photography, Editor
• 2025BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions — Executive Producer
• 2025Black Bag — Director, Director of Photography, Editor
• 2025Love, Brooklyn — Executive Producer
• 2025Presence — The Presence (Uncredited), Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Camera Operator
• 2025The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
• 2024Calladita — Executive Producer
• 2024Heretic — Thanks
• 2024Megalopolis — Thanks
• 2024Memories of Love Returned — Executive Producer
• 2023Accidentally Brave — Producer
• Command Z — Director, Director of Photography, Creator
• 2023Divinity — Executive Producer
• Full Circle — Director, Executive Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
• 2023Magic Mike's Last Dance — Director of Photography, Editor
• 2023Once Within a Time — Executive Producer
• Finding Magic Mike — Executive Producer
• 2022Is That Black Enough for You?!? — Producer
• 2022Kimi — Editor, Director of Photography
• 2022The Exiles — Executive Producer
• 2021No Sudden Move — Editor, Director of Photography
• 2021The Vandal — Thanks
• 2020Bill & Ted Face the Music — Executive Producer
• 2020Let Them All Talk — Director, Editor, Director of Photography
• Wireless — Executive Producer
• 2019Beats — Executive Producer
• 2019High Flying Bird — Director, Editor, Director of Photography
• Leavenworth — Executive Producer
• Now Apocalypse — Executive Producer
• 2019Perfect — Executive Producer
• 2019The Laundromat — Director, Editor, Director of Photography
• 2019The Report — Producer
• 2019Your Life as a Spy — (voice), Director, Cinematography, Writer, Editor, Producer
• Mosaic — Executive Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
• 2018Ocean's Eight — Producer
• 2018The King — Executive Producer
• 2018Unsane — Director, Editor, Director of Photography
• Godless — Executive Producer
• 2017Logan Lucky — Director, Editor, Director of Photography
• The Girlfriend Experience — Executive Producer
• 2015Da Sweet Blood of Jesus — Associate Producer
• 2015Magic Mike XXL — Editor, Director of Photography, Executive Producer
• 201421 Years: Richard Linklater — Thanks
• 2014Citizenfour — Executive Producer
• Red Oaks — Executive Producer
• The Knick — Executive Producer, Director, Editor, Director of Photography
• 2014The One I Love — Thanks
• 2014Unstarted Symphony No. 1 — Shadow (Uncredited), Director, Director of Photography, Editor
• 2013Behind the Candelabra — Director, Editor, Director of Photography
• 2013Side Effects — Director, Editor, Director of Photography
• 2013Visitors — Presenter
• 2012An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road — Director
• 2012Gina Carano in Training
• 2012Julian — Thanks
• 2012Magic Mike — Editor, Director, Director of Photography
• 2012The Hunger Games — Second Unit Director
• 2011Contagion — John Neal (voice, uncredited), Director, Director of Photography
• 2011Haywire — Director, Director of Photography, Editor
• 2011His Way — Executive Producer
• 2011We Need to Talk About Kevin — Executive Producer
• 2010And Everything Is Going Fine — Director
• 2010Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) — Executive Producer
• 2009CHE and the Digital Cinema Revolution — Himself/Peter Andrews
• 2009Playground — Executive Producer
• 2009Porn: Business of Pleasure — Self - Director, The Girlfriend Experience
• 2009Solitary Man — Producer
• 2009The Girlfriend Experience — Director, Director of Photography, Editor
• 2009The Informant! — Director of Photography
• 2009Where the Wild Things Are — Thanks
• 2008Che: Part One — Director, Director of Photography
• 2008Che: Part Two — Director, Director of Photography
• 2007I'm Not There — Executive Producer
• 2007Michael Clayton — Executive Producer
• 2007Ocean's Thirteen — Director, Director of Photography
• 2007Wind Chill — Executive Producer
• 2006A Scanner Darkly — Executive Producer
• 2006Bubble — Director of Photography, Editor
• 2006Building No. 7 — Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
• 2006Pu-239 — Executive Producer
• 2006The Good German — Editor, Director of Photography
• 2005Good Night, and Good Luck. — Executive Producer
• 2005Rumor Has It... — Executive Producer
• 2005Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½ — Executive Producer
• 2005Syriana — Executive Producer
• 2005The Big Empty — Executive Producer
• 2005The Brothers Grimm — Thanks
• 2005The Jacket — Producer
• 2004Able Edwards — Executive Producer
• 2004Criminal — Screenplay, Producer
• 2004Eros — Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Editor
• 2004Keane — Executive Producer
• 2004Ocean's Twelve — Director of Photography
• K Street — Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Executive Producer, Creator
• 2002Confessions of a Dangerous Mind — Executive Producer
• 2002Far from Heaven — Executive Producer
• 2002Full Frontal — Self (uncredited), Director, Director of Photography
• 2002Insomnia — Executive Producer
• 2002Naqoyqatsi — Self (archive footage) (uncredited), Executive Producer
• 2002Solaris — Director, Editor, Screenplay, Director of Photography
• 2002Welcome to Collinwood — Producer
• 2001Ocean's Eleven — Vault-Bombing Thief (uncredited), Director, Director of Photography
• 2001Tribute — Executive Producer
• 2001Waking Life — Interviewed on Television
• 2001Who Is Bernard Tapie? — Executive Producer
• 2000Erin Brockovich — Director
• 2000Traffic — Director, Director of Photography
• 1999Stir of Echoes — Thanks
• 1999The Limey — Director
• 1998Out of Sight — Director
• 1998Pleasantville — Producer, Second Unit Director
• 1997Nightwatch — Screenplay
• 1997Schizopolis — Fletcher Munson, Director of Photography, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
• 1997The Daytrippers — Producer
• 1996Gray's Anatomy — Director
• 1995The Underneath — Director, Screenplay
• Fallen Angels — Director
• 1993King of the Hill — Screenplay, Director, Editor
• 1993Suture — Executive Producer
• 1991Chameleon Street: The Black Film They Could Not Sell — Self - Director, 'Sex, Lies & Videotape'
• 1991Kafka — Editor, Director
• 1989sex, lies, and videotape — Editor, Director, Sound Editor, Writer
• 1987Winston — Producer, Writer, Director, Cinematography
• 1985Access All Areas — Director, Director of Photography, Editor
• 1985Yes - 9012Live — Director, Editor
• 1982Rapid Eye Movement — Steven Soderbergh, Director
• The Oscars — Self, Producer
• Ascenso — Director
• Mr. Kneff — Director
• The Return of Stanley Atwell — Original Story, Executive Producer
• Ultraluminous — Producer

Appearances as themselves (20)

• 2026Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean — Self
• 2025Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story — Self
• 2019Alan Pakula: Going for Truth — Self
• 2016X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All Time — Self
• 2015The Legend of the Palme d'Or — Self
• 2013Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love — Self
• 2012I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac — Self
• 2012Radioman — Self
• 2012Side by Side — Self
• 2012Stanley Kubrick in Focus — Self
• 2010Making Che — Self
• 2004Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers — Self
• 2002'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con — Self
• 2000Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic' — Self
• Independent Focus — Self
• 1998Independent's Day — Self
• 1998Inside 'Out of Sight' — Self
• Taff — self
• 1993Made in the USA — Self
• The Making of "Once Within a Time" — Self