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Steven Soderbergh

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62 Years Old

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.

Born

Atlanta, Georgia, USA on 14th January 1963

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X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time
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The Oscars
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Taff
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Ocean's Eleven
Vault-Bombing Thief (uncredited)
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Contagion
John Neal (voice, uncredited)
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Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
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Waking Life
Interviewed on Television
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Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
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Side by Side
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And the Oscar Goes To...
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Full Frontal
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Naqoyqatsi
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Independent Focus
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I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac
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Radioman
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Gina Carano in Training
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Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
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Schizopolis
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Independent's Day
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Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
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The Making of "Once Within a Time"
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'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con
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Made in the USA
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Stanley Kubrick in Focus
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Inside 'Out of Sight' Image
Inside 'Out of Sight'
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The Legend of the Palme d'Or Image
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
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Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic' Image
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
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Your Life as a Spy
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Porn: Business of Pleasure
Self - Director, The Girlfriend Experience
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CHE and the Digital Cinema Revolution
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Making Che
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