Steven Soderbergh

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Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and actor.

He was one of the pioneers of independent cinema.

He is a well-known and prolific film director.

Soderbergh's artistic breakthrough—indie drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)—lifted him into the public spotlight as a prominent figure in the film industry.

Soderbergh, 26, became the youngest solo director to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, attracting the film's international commercial success, as well as a variety of awards.

His breakthrough took him to Hollywood, where he helmed Out of Sight (1998), and crime drama Film Traffic (2001), the latter receiving the Academy Award for Best Director.

He found more success with the Ocean's trilogy and film series (1901-1948); Contagion (2011); Magic Mike (2012); Logan Lucky (2017); and Unsan (2018).

Despite his film career spanning a variety of genres, his cinematic niche is on psychological, murder, and heist thrillers.

His films have grossed over US$2.2 billion in the world and have received nine Oscar nominations, winning seven of them. Soderbergh's films often revolve around familiar plots often used for big budget Hollywood films but with an avant garde arthouse twist to them.

They center on the themes of shifting personal identities, vengeance, sexuality, morality, and the human condition.

As a result of his liberal use of avant-garde cinema alongside experimental film and camera formats, his feature films retain distinct cinematography.

Many of Soderbergh's films are anchored by multi-dimensional plotlines, nonlinear storytelling, experimental sequence, suspective soundscapes, and third person vantage points.

He often acts as both his own photographer and editor under the respective pseudonyms Peter Andrews and Mary Ann Bernard.

Early life

Soderbergh was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 14, 1963, to Mary Ann (née Bernard) and Peter Andrew Soderbergh, a university administrator and educator. He has Swedish, Irish, and Italian roots. Soderbergh's paternal grandfather immigrated to the United States from Stockholm. As a boy, he and his family migrated to Charlottesville, Virginia, where he lived during his childhood, then to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where his father became Dean of Education at Louisiana State University (LSU). Soderbergh began filmmaking as a child and produced short films using a Super 8 and 16 mm camera. Before graduating and heading to Hollywood to pursue professional filmmaking, he attended the Louisiana State University Laboratory School for high school. He began working as a game show designer and cue card holder in his first job, but soon after, he began working as a freelance film editor. He produced the concert video 9012Live for the rock band Yes in 1985, for which he received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Music Video, Long Form.

Personal life

Soderbergh is married to Jules Asner, who often blames him for influencing his female characters. With his first wife, actress Betsy Brantley, he has a daughter. Soderbergh lives in New York City.

Soderbergh signed a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in connection with his 1977 sexual harassment lawsuit.

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Career

During an eight-day cross country ride, Soderbergh wrote the screenplay for Sex, Lies, and Videotape on a legal pad. The film tells the tale of a young man who videotapes women discussing their lives and sexuality, as well as his effect on a married couple's marriage. Soderbergh submitted the film to the Cannes Film Festival in 1989, where it received a number of accolades, including the Palme d'Or. Its pivotal results have helped it to become a worldwide commercial success, earning $36.7 million on a $1.2 million budget. The film was considered to be the most influential catalyst of the 1990s Independent Cinema movement. Soderbergh, the festival's youngest solo director and the second youngest director to receive the festival's top award at age 26, was the youngest solo director and the second youngest director to win the festival's top award. Soderbergh was described as the "poster boy of the Sundance generation" by movie critic Roger Ebert. His relative youth and sudden emergence in the film industry brought him to prominence, as he was described as a "sensation" and a proponent. The film was nominated by the Library of Congress for conservation in the United States National Film Registry in 2006, and the American Film Institute named it as one of the best films ever made.

A string of low-budget box-office setbacks followed Soderbergh's directorial debut. He directed Kafka, a Franz Kafka biopic written by Lem Dobbs and starring Jeremy Irons in 1991. Critics generally gave the film one tenth of its budget and mixed praise. "Soderbergh does demonstrate that he is a gifted director, but it is unwise in his choice of project," Roger Ebert's review said. King of the Hill (1993), which also failed commercially, but it did a good job with analysts two years later. The film, based on writer A. E. Hotchner's memoirs, follows a young boy (played by Jesse Bradford) struggling to recover on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is sick and his father is away on business trips. Criss Cross, Robert Siodmak's 1949 film noir Criss Cross, directed by a young Michael Powell in 1995, who earned $536,020 on a $6.5 million budget and was heavily criticized by commentators. Soderbergh has since described the film as "dead on arrival" and referred to its production as his bottoming out.

Soderbergh directed Schizopolis in 1996, a comedy in which he appeared, wrote, composed, and shot as well as directed. The 96-minute film was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival with such a "chilly response" that he reworked the entire introduction and conclusion before releasing it commercially. In the film's introduction, he said, "In the case that you happen to such sequences or events confusing, please bear in mind that this is YOUR fault, not ours." To get the picture right, you'll have to see the picture again and again until you get it.' Fletcher Munson, a spokesperson for a Scientology-esque lifestyle cult, and Dr. Jeffrey Korchek, a dentist having an affair with Munson's wife, appeared in Schizopolis as Fletcher Munson, a spokesman for a Scientology-esque lifestyle secrecy, and then as Dr. Jeffrey Korchek, a dentist who was having an affair with Munson's wife. Multiple times during the scene without subtitles, leaving major portions of the film incomprehensible. For Soderbergh, a critic called it a "directorial palate cleanse." He unveiled a small, edited version of Gray's Anatomy's debut at Schizopolis in the months leading up to his debut at Schizopolis. Soderbergh would later refer to Schizopolis as his "artistic wake-up call." Soderbergh co-wrote the script for the 1997 horror-thriller Nightwatch, starring Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal. Nightwatch is an English-language translation of Bornedal's own film of the same name, which was released three years ago in Denmark.

Soderbergh's reemergence began in 1998 with Out of Sight, a stylized version of an Elmore Leonard book written by Scott Frank and starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez. The film had been highly praised, but only with moderate success in box-office. Clooney and Soderbergh's critical reception opened a multi-movie artistic collaboration. Soderbergh completed Out of Sight by releasing The Limey (1999), Lem Dobbs' first screenplay and starring actors Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda, in addition to Out of Sight's success. The film was well-received and established him in the cinematic niche of thriller and heist films. In 2000, he directed Erin Brockovich, written by Susannah Grant and starring Julia Roberts in her Oscar-winning role as a single mother taking on industry in a civil action. Soderbergh produced Traffic, a social drama written by Stephen Gaghan and starring an ensemble cast, in late 2000. With Erin Brockovich and Traffic, the time magazine compared him to a baseball player hitting home runs. Both films have been nominated at the 2001 Academy Awards, making him the first director to have been nominated in the same year for two separate films since Michael Curtiz in 1938. He was named the Academy Award for Outstanding Director of Traffic by the Academy and the Directors Guild of America Awards earlier this year, and he also received best director nominations for the year's Golden Globe and Directors Guild of America Awards.

He was invited by Ted Griffin in early 2001 to direct Ocean's Eleven, a revival of the 1960s Rat Pack-move Ocean's 11. Soderbergh accepted the film after Griffin wrote it. The film debuted to critical acclaim and widespread commercial success. It was quickly became Soderbergh's highest-grossing film to date, grossing more than $183 million domestically and more than $450 million worldwide. The film, according to Rolling Stone, "[spawning] a new era of heist films." Soderbergh produced Full Frontal, a digital film that was shot mostly on film in an experimental style that intentionally blurred the distinction between actors playing characters and those who were playing fictionalized versions of themselves. He was asked by Warner Bros Studios executives to direct Insomnia (2002), which starred Academy Award winners Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank. Despite their tenacity, Soderbergh wanted to make the film as a transitory project for up-and-coming director Christopher Nolan.

Soderbergh produced K Street (2003), a ten-part political HBO series co-produced with George Clooney before returning to the ocean's series. Both the series was partially revised, with each episode being produced in the five days leading up to airing in order to take advantage of current events that could be tied to the fictional story. To be honest, real political figures appeared as themselves, such as James Carville and Mary Matalin, either in cameos or depicting fictionalized versions of themselves.

Ocean's Twelve, a sequel to Ocean's Eleven, was produced by Soderbergh in 2004. The second installment of Muted critical praise and was yet another commercially profitable film, grossing $362.7 million on a $110 million budget. It's a "Great Sequel About How It Is to Make a Great Sequel," IndieWire's Matt Singer described it as a "Great Sequel About How It Is to Make a Great Sequel." Soderbergh produced and co-wrote the adapted screenplay for the film Criminal, an adaptation of Argentina's Nine Queens, as well as long-time assistant director Gregory Jacobs, who made his directorial debut with the film in 2004.

Bubble (2005), a $1.6 million film starring a cast of nonprofessional actors, was a year later. It debuted in selected theaters and HDNet simultaneously, and four days later on DVD. According to reports, business heads were watching how the film did, as its unusual release schedule might have ramifications for future feature films. Theater-owners, who had been suffering from lower attendance figures at the time, did not approve so-called "day-and-date" movies. John Fithian, the National Association of Theatre Owners chief executive, referred to the film's release model as "the biggest threat to the cinema industry today." "I don't think it's going to ruin the moviegoing experience any more than the ability to get takeout has destroyed the restaurant business," Soderbergh's retaliation: In late 2006, The Good German, a romantic drama set in postwar Berlin starring Cate Blanchett and Clooney, was published. Against a budget of $32 million, the film did not do well, grossing $5.9 million globally.

Ocean's Thirteen, which was launched in June 2007 to further commercial success and boosted critical acclaim, was directed by Soderbergh. It's the second highest-grossing film of his career after the first Ocean's, earning $311.3 million on a $85 million budget. The film ended what would later be described as the Ocean's trilogy, a series of heist films that would go on to be characterized as defining a new period of heist films. Che, which was released in theatres in two parts titled The Argentine and Guerrilla, and was presented in the main competition of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival on May 22. Soderbergh directed Che, which was released in theatres in two parts titled The Argentine and Guerrilla. Benicio del Toro was born in Argentina and died in Bolivia in a four-hour double bill that begins with an examination of his role in the Cuban Revolution before heading to his campaign and eventual death. In 2008, Soderbergh shot his feature film The Girlfriend Experience in New York. Sasha Grey, the film's lead actress, has received a roar and indignation.

The Informant!, Soderbergh's first film of 2009, starred Matt Damon as corporate whistleblower Mark Whitacre. Whitacre, a high-level executive at a Fortune 500 company, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), was on wire for two-and-a-half years for the FBI, one of the largest price-fixing cases in history. On September 18, 2009, the film was released. Based on Kurt Eichenwald's book The Informant, Scott Z. Burns wrote the film. The film earned $41 million on a $22 million budget and received generally positive feedback from critics. Soderbergh shot a tiny improvised film with Michael Gregg, a comedic play about a theatre company staging Chekhov's Three Sisters in 2009. He has said that he does not want it to be seen by the public and that he only wanted it for the actor. Brad Pitt and Demetri Martin appeared in a movie version of the baseball book Moneyball. Soderbergh's was close to filming a film adaptation of the baseball book Moneyball. Billy Beane, the team's general manager of Oakland Athletics, used statistical analysis to beat the odds and lead his team to a string of victories in 2002. Michael Lewis' book describes how Billy Beane, the team's general manager, used statistics to make up for what he lacked in funds to beat the odds and guide his team to a string of notable victories. Soderbergh's early departure from the project just days before filming in June 2009. Soderbergh shot Haywire, starring Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, and Channing Tatum, which, even though it was shot in early 2010, was not released until January 2012.

Soderbergh shot the epic virus thriller Contagion, written by Scott Z. Burns, in 2010. The film follows Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, Marion Cotillard, and Jude Law. The film follows the outbreak of a lethal pandemic around the globe as well as the efforts of doctors and scientists to find the cause and develop a cure. On September 3, 2011, Soderbergh premiered it at the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, before releasing it to the general public six days later, with commercial success and widespread critical acclaim. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times branded his film a "smart, spooky thriller about a thicket of modern plagues — a killer virus, rampaging panic, an unscrupulous blogger — and it's ruthlessly efficient as the malady's cool, cool center," grossing $135.5 million on a $60 million budget.

Soderbergh served as a second unit director on The Hunger Games in August 2011 and filmed a large part of the District 11 riot scene. In September and October 2011, he shot Magic Mike, a film starring Channing Tatum, about the actor's days as a male stripper in his youth. Tatum played the title mentor, while Alex Pettyfer portrayed a Tatum based on Tatum. The film was released on June 29, 2012, to a solid commercial success and critical acclaim. Soderbergh had announced his intention to leave feature filmmaking in 2012. "If I have to get into a van to do another scout, I'm just going to shoot myself," the man said. Soderbergh said later that he would step away from filmmaking and into painting. Soderbergh denied his earlier remarks by saying that a filmmaking "sabbatical" was more correct, a few weeks later. Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, and Catherine Zeta-Jones appeared in the psychological thriller Side Effects, his then-final feature film. It was shot in April 2012 and was released on February 8, 2013. A. O. Scott of The New York Times said Soderbergh "handled] it brilliantly, giving the impression that he is a crackerjack genre specialist" at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. In the end, when promoting Side Effects in early 2013, he confessed that he had a five-year plan that culminated in him moving away from making feature films around his fiftieth birthday. He gave a long speech at the San Francisco International Film Festival addressing the challenges faced filmmakers in the new corporate Hollywood environment.

Soderbergh intended to begin production in early 2012 on a U.N.C.L.E. version that had also written by Scott Z. Burns. George Clooney had been expected to play Napoleon Solo but had to cancel due to a recurring back injury while filming Syriana. Soderbergh withdrew from the project due to budget and casting conflicts, and Guy Ritchie was eventually replaced by him. Behind the Candelabra was his last televised project before retiring. Michael Douglas played Michael Douglas as both flamboyant pianist Liberace and Matt Damon as his lover Scott Thorson, who appeared in the summer of 2012. Richard LaGravenese, based on Thorson's book Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace, and directed by HBO Films, is the film's script. At the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, it was chosen to compete for the Palme d'Or.

In May 2013, Soderbergh revealed that he would produce The Knick, a 10-part miniseries for Cinemax. Doctors at a fictionalized version of the Knickerbocker Hospital in Manhattan in the early twentieth century were tracked by the series. Clive Owen, Andre Holland, Andre Bobb, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, and Michael Angarano were among the series's cast members. It debuted in August 2014 to critical acclaim. After finishing his second season, Soderbergh revealed he was done directing for the show and said, "I told them [Cinemax] that I'm going to do the first two years and then we'll break it down the story for seasons 3 and 4, then we'll try and find a filmmaker or filmmakers to do this the way that I did." This is how we want to do this so that every two years, whoever comes first, has the right to design their universe."

Soderbergh began working on a variety of personal projects after his time with the Knick, starring Chloe Moretz in January 2014. Soderbergh unveiled an alternate version of Michael Cimino's controversial 1980 Western Heaven's Gate on his website on April 21, 2014. Soderbergh's version credits his pseudonym Mary Ann Bernard and dubbed "The Butcher's Cut." He released a black-and-white silent version of Raiders of the Lost Ark on September 22, 2014, as part of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' score on The Social Network. The aim of it is to investigate the effects of filmmaking's staging. Soderbergh was revealed in June 2014 that based on his earlier film The Girlfriend Experience for the Starz network, a series based on his earlier film The Girlfriend Experience would premiere sometime in 2016. Soderbergh was announced in September 2015 that he would be directing Mosaic, a HBO series. It was both an interactive movie app and as a six-part miniseries airing in January 2018.

Soderbergh officially came out of retirement to direct Logan Lucky, a NASCAR heist film starring Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, and Daniel Craig, among others. Soderbergh's film was entirely produced, with no studio or company involved in anything other than theatrical distribution. Bleecker Street and Fingerprint Releasing, his own distribution and production company, and his own production firm, Releasing, released the film on August 18, 2017. Logan Lucky's deserved high praise, according to Matt Zoller Seitz, a writer for Roger Ebert: "The odds seem to be stacked in Logan Lucky's favor the first time you spot 'Directed by Steven Soderbergh' in the opening credits."

Soderbergh had also shot Unsane, a horror film starring Claire Foy and Juno Temple in July 2017. Critics loved the film when it was released on March 23, 2018. His use of an iPhone in 4K to film the film was considered "inspirational to young filmmakers" for lowering the perceived costs of making a film in the United States. Critics with Scott Meslow of GQ noting the film's relevance to women in patriarchical cultures' plight, called "a nerving modern-day Kafka tale."

During an NBA lockout, Soderbergh produced High Flying Bird, starring Andre Holland, who played a sports agent defending his rookie client. Netflix announced the film in February 2018 in February 2018 and was released on February 8, 2019. The Laundromat film by Soderbergh is a political thriller about the Panama Papers' international leakage, written by Scott Z. Burns and based on Pulitzer Prize-winning Jake Bernstein's book Secrecy World. Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Jeffrey Wright, Matthias Schoenaerts, James Cromwell, and Sharon Stone premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2019, before it being broadcast on Netflix.

Deborah Eisenbergh's 2020 film Let Them All Talk was directed by Deborah Eisenberg and starred Meryl Sten, Candice Bergen, Gemma Chan, Lucas Hedges, and Dianne Wiest. It was shot onboard the ocean liner Queen Mary 2, as well as in New York and the United Kingdom, and premiered on HBO Max on December 10, 2020.

No Sudden Move (formerly Kill Switch) is a 1950s period crime film shot in Detroit from September to November 2020. It stars Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, Amy Seimetz, Jon Hamm, Kieran Culkin, Brendan Fraser, Noah Jupe, Bill Duke, Frankie Shaw, and Julia Fox from Mosaic writer Ed Solomon. On June 18, 2021, it made its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. On July 1, 2021, HBO Max was released.

Kimi, who was first featured on HBO Max in 2022, was shot in Seattle and Los Angeles in April and May 2021. Zo Kravitz plays an agoraphobic tech worker who discovers signs of a violent assault, and Soderbergh reunites Soderbergh with Traffic actors Erika Christensen and Jacob Vargas.

Magic Mike's Last Dance was shot in London in early 2022. This third episode of the immensely popular Magic Mike franchise introduces Channing Tatum and also introduces Salma Hayek. The film was supposed to premiere on HBO Max, but it will now be available in theaters on February 10, 2023.

Zazie Beetz, Claire Danes, and Timothy Olyphant are among the upcoming full circle projects on HBO Max. It is written by Ed Solomon, who also wrote Mosaic, and it follows "an investigation into a botched kidnapping" that "uncovers long-serving links between many characters and cultures in present-day New York City."

Soderbergh is creating a six-part miniseries based on Lem Dobb's biography about Emin Pasha's life.

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