Steven Soderbergh

Steven Soderbergh is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter. His indie drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making the then-26-year-old Soderbergh the youngest solo director to win the festival's top award, and became a worldwide commercial success.

He is best known for directing Hollywood films including the crime comedy Out of Sight (1998); the biographical film Erin Brockovich (2000); the crime drama film Traffic (2000, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director); the comedy heist film Ocean's Eleven (2001, a remake of the 1960 film Ocean's 11) and its two sequels—known collectively as the Ocean's Trilogy; the medical thriller Contagion (2011); the comedy-drama Magic Mike (2012); and another heist comedy, Logan Lucky (2017). In 2020, he partnered with HBO Max to direct Let Them All Talk, starring Meryl Streep. His most recent film No Sudden Move starring Don Cheadle and Benicia Del Toro was released in 2021.

He has also directed smaller, less conventional works, such as the mystery thriller Kafka (1991); the experimental comedy film Schizopolis (1996), which has a non-linear narrative; Bubble (2005), which uses no script and non-professional actors; the biopic about Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Che (2008); the experimental drama film The Girlfriend Experience (2009), the psychological thriller Unsane (2018), which was shot on an iPhone.

Soderbergh also directed, photographed, and edited all episodes of the television drama The Knick (2014–2015) and the miniseries Mosaic (2018). He has produced and executive produced countless film and television programs and provided cinematography and editing on various projects.