Steven Soderbergh

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 Soderberghs 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 dOr 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 Oceans trilogy and film franchise 200118 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 US22 billion worldwide and garnered fourteen Academy Award nominations winning five Soderberghs films often revolve around familiar concepts which are regularly used for bigbudget Hollywood movies but he routinely employs an avantgarde 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 avantgarde cinema coupled with his use of unconventional film and camera formats Many of Soderberghs films are anchored by multidimensional storylines with plot twists nonlinear storytelling experimental sequencing suspenseful soundscapes and thirdperson vantage points Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Soderbergh licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia