Biography
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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025
as Self
The authorized documentary celebrating the film that redefined Hollywood, 50 years after its premiere. Featuring rare archival footage and interviews ...

Black Bag
2025
Director, Director of Photography, Editor
When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband – also a legendary agent – faces the ultimate test of whet...

Love, Brooklyn
2025
Executive Producer
Three longtime Brooklynites navigate careers, love, loss, and friendship against the rapidly changing landscape of their beloved city.

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
2025
Executive Producer
Preeminent West African curator and scholar Funmilayo Akechukwu’s magnum opus, The Resonance Field, leads her to the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, draw...

Presence
2025
Director, Director of Photography, Editor
A couple and their children move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange events occur, they begin to believe there is something else in th...

Heretic
2024
Thanks
Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared i...

Memories of Love Returned
2024
Executive Producer
On April 24th, 2002 Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine's car broke down in the small town of Mbirizi, Uganda. While waiting for the car's repair he stumbled upon ...

Megalopolis
2024
Thanks
Genius artist Cesar Catilina seeks to leap the City of New Rome into a utopian, idealistic future, while his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, remain...

Calladita
2024
Executive Producer
Ana has just arrived from Colombia and is the maid of a luxurious mansion on the Costa Brava, where a family of wealthy art dealers spends their summe...

Divinity
2023
Executive Producer
Two brothers crash into the decaying Earth to stop a capitalist from manufacturing an immortality serum, which is synthesized utilizing heinous method...

Once Within a Time
2023
Executive Producer
Once Within a Time is an anarchic comedy told without words, a sensory feast to be felt through art and music. This multidisciplinary work shows us li...

Accidentally Brave
2023
Producer
With unexpected humor, Maddie Corman shares a story of perseverance and hope in the face of crisis in this film based on her renowned one-woman show.

Magic Mike's Last Dance
2023
Director of Photography, Editor, Director
Mike Lane takes to the stage again after a lengthy hiatus, following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Fl...

Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022
Producer
A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs.

Kimi
2022
Editor, Director of Photography, Director
A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice,...

The Exiles
2022
Executive Producer
Brash and opinionated, Christine Choy is a documentarian, cinematographer, professor, and quintessential New Yorker whose films and teaching have infl...

The Vandal
2021
Thanks
Set in a world not unlike mid-20th century America, The Vandal centers on Harold, whose tormented search for peace from traumatic loss results in an u...

No Sudden Move
2021
Editor, Director of Photography, Director
A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple...

Let Them All Talk
2020
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds...

Bill & Ted Face the Music
2020
Executive Producer
Yet to fulfil their rock and roll destiny, now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns t...

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
as Self
"Alan Pakula: Going for Truth" encompasses the personal and professional life of Alan J. Pakula, a lauded filmmaker and extremely private man, who was...

The Laundromat
2019
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.

The Report
2019
Producer
The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to...

Beats
2019
Executive Producer
Summer 1994, Scotland. Johnno and Spanner are best mates, but Johnno’s family are moving him to a new town and a better life, leaving Spanner behind t...

Perfect
2019
Executive Producer
A young man with a violent past enters a mysterious clinic where the patients wildly transform their bodies and minds using genetic engineering.

High Flying Bird
2019
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
When an NBA lockout sidelines his big rookie client, an agent hatches a bold plan to save their careers -- and disrupt the league's power structure.

Your Life as a Spy
2019
as (voice)
You are a spy and you are lonely.

Your Life as a Spy
2019
Director, Cinematography, Writer
You are a spy and you are lonely.

The King
2018
Executive Producer
A cultural portrait of the American dream at a critical time in the nation’s history. Set against the 2016 American election, The King takes a musical...

Ocean's Eight
2018
Producer
Debbie Ocean, a criminal mastermind, gathers a crew of female thieves to pull off the heist of the century at New York's annual Met Gala.

Unsane
2018
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.

Logan Lucky
2017
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at th...

X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time
2016
as Himself
Documentary sequel that offers a close-up look into the personal lives of the legendary porn stars who've survived the test of time and influenced pop...

Magic Mike XXL
2015
Editor, Director of Photography, Executive Producer
Three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, he and the remaining Kings of Tampa hit the road to Myrtle Beach to put ...

The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015
as Self
From Martin Scorsese to Jane Campion, from Emir Kusturica to Quentin Tarantino, some of the greatest recipients of this trophy recall special moments ...

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
2015
Associate Producer
Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Soon after his transformat...

21 Years: Richard Linklater
2014
Thanks
A journey through the professional life of innovative film director Richard Linklater: 21 years creating films, carving his signature in pop culture; ...

Citizenfour
2014
Executive Producer
In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera ...
Raiders
2014
Alternate edit of Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) by Steven Soderbergh, who put the movie in black and white with minimal dialogue and scored it with m...

The One I Love
2014
Thanks
Ethan and Sophie are a married couple on the brink of separation when, at the urging of their therapist, they decide to salvage their relationship by ...

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
2013
as Self
When Marvin Hamlisch passed away in August 2012 the worlds of music, theatre and cinema lost a talent the likes of which we may never see again. Seemi...

Visitors
2013
Presenter
From the director of KOYAANISQATSI, an astonishing film that documents the drama of how we both live and witness what we experience. Shot in rich blac...

Behind the Candelabra
2013
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.

Side Effects
2013
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

Radioman
2012
as Self
The extraordinary story of 'Radioman', a New York film set mascot who overcame homelessness and alcoholism to become a fixture of the New York film i...
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
2012
as Self
Spielberg, Soderbergh, Stone, Friedkin, Scorsese and others tell how Kubrick's directorial style influenced them and how his unique style was develope...

An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road
2012
Director
In the summer of 1968, a group of people assembled in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. They were making a film of John Barth's 1958 novel The End of t...

Side by Side
2012
as Self
Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmak...

Magic Mike
2012
Editor, Director, Director of Photography
Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and ...
Gina Carano in Training
2012

The Hunger Games
2012
Second Unit Director
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to comp...

I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac
2012
as Self
I AIN'T SCARED OF YOU is a documentary tribute to Bernie Mac (1957-2008). From his stand-up in underground Chicago comedy clubs to the Big Screen in H...

Julian
2012
Thanks
In school, 9-year old Julian gets into trouble for squealing a bully and therefore disturbing class.

Haywire
2011
Director, Director of Photography, Editor
A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.

We Need to Talk About Kevin
2011
Executive Producer
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a todd...

Contagion
2011
as John Neal (voice, uncredited)
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control t...

Contagion
2011
Director, Director of Photography
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control t...

His Way
2011
Executive Producer
A look at the professional, political and personal life of legendary movie producer Jerry Weintraub featuring interviews with friends, family and coll...

And Everything Is Going Fine
2010
Director
From the first time he performed Swimming to Cambodia - the one-man account of his experience of making the 1984 film The Killing Fields - Spalding Gr...
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
2010
Executive Producer
Filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan makes a self-referential movie about a fictional attempt to make a Grace Slick biopic.

Making Che
2010
as Self
Behind the scenes of Steven Soderbergh’s Che

Where the Wild Things Are
2009
Thanks
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—cr...

The Informant!
2009
Director of Photography, Director
A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-...

Solitary Man
2009
Producer
A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.

Playground
2009
Executive Producer
Libby Spears goes undercover in southeast Asia to infiltrate the vast network of people involved in human trafficking (specifically, sex slaves), and ...
Porn: Business of Pleasure
2009
as Self - Director, The Girlfriend Experience
CNBC takes a behind the scenes look at the Porn Industry and examines challenges facing the industry including censorship and the competition from fre...

The Girlfriend Experience
2009
Director, Director of Photography, Editor
Chelsea is an in-demand call girl whose $2,000 an hour price tag allows her to live in New York's lap of luxury. Besides her beauty and sexual skill, ...

CHE and the Digital Cinema Revolution
2009
as Himself/Peter Andrews
CHE was the first feature to use the Red camera, which Soderbergh embraced for its versatility and image quality. This short 2009 documentary looks at...

Che: Part Two
2008
Director, Director of Photography
After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a sma...

Che: Part One
2008
Director, Director of Photography
The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobili...

I'm Not There
2007
Executive Producer
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger...

Michael Clayton
2007
Executive Producer
A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty ...

Ocean's Thirteen
2007
Director, Director of Photography
Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tish...

Wind Chill
2007
Executive Producer
Two college students share a ride home for the holidays. When they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they're preyed upon by the ghosts of peop...

The Good German
2006
Editor, Director of Photography, Director
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes...

Pu-239
2006
Executive Producer
A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and se...

A Scanner Darkly
2006
Executive Producer
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.

Building No. 7
2006
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
A short by Steven Soderbergh described as “intense sci-fi homage to Godard.”

Bubble
2006
Director of Photography, Director, Editor
Set against the backdrop of a decaying Midwestern town, a murder becomes the focal point of three people who work in a doll factory.

Rumor Has It...
2005
Executive Producer
Sarah Huttinger's return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country-club lifestyle of her family isn't for her – and that may...

Syriana
2005
Executive Producer
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer...

Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005
Executive Producer
The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

The Brothers Grimm
2005
Thanks
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and ...
The Big Empty
2005
Executive Producer
The Big Empty is a 2005 short film starring Selma Blair about a woman with an unusual condition that baffles scientists and laymen alike. It was writt...

The Jacket
2005
Producer
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he ...

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
2005
Executive Producer
A movie about making movies about making movies. In 1968, William Greaves shot several pairs of actors in a scene in which a woman confronts her husba...

Ocean's Twelve
2004
Director of Photography, Director
Despite pulling off one of the biggest heists in Las Vegas history and splitting the $160 million take, each of the infamous Ocean's crew have tried t...

Eros
2004
Director, Director of Photography, Writer
A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive...

Criminal
2004
Screenplay, Producer
Needing a new partner capable of intricate cons, Richard Gaddis, recruits Rodrigo, a crook with a perfect poker face. The two plan a big-time scam: se...

Keane
2004
Executive Producer
William Keane is barely able to cope. It has been six months since his six-year-old daughter was abducted from New York City’s Port Authority Bus Term...

Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
2004
as Self
This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at t...

Able Edwards
2004
Executive Producer
The story of the clone of a famous entertainment mogul created to revive the glory days of his deceased predecessor's corporation. In the process of r...

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002
Executive Producer
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by...

Solaris
2002
Director, Editor, Screenplay
A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.

Far from Heaven
2002
Executive Producer
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.

Welcome to Collinwood
2002
Producer
Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.

Naqoyqatsi
2002
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

Naqoyqatsi
2002
Executive Producer
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

Full Frontal
2002
as Self (uncredited)
A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a friend's birthday party.

Full Frontal
2002
Director, Director of Photography
A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a friend's birthday party.

Insomnia
2002
Executive Producer
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con
2002
as Self
The costume design of the A-list cast's characters and how it shaped the heist film.

Ocean's Eleven
2001
as Vault-Bombing Thief (uncredited)
Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of spec...

Ocean's Eleven
2001
Director, Director of Photography
Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of spec...

Tribute
2001
Executive Producer
Tribute is a feature rockumentary about music's strangest subculture: tribute bands. Tribute bands go to extraordinary lengths to re-create the experi...

Waking Life
2001
as Interviewed on Television
Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participa...

Who Is Bernard Tapie?
2001
Executive Producer
This documentary tells two stories simultaneously: it's a profile of Bernard Tapie, a wealthy man who rises and falls spectacularly in French society ...

Traffic
2000
Director, Director of Photography
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Poli...

Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
2000
as Self

Erin Brockovich
2000
Director
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work fo...

The Limey
1999
Director
The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling...

Stir of Echoes
1999
Thanks
After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.

Pleasantville
1998
Producer, Second Unit Director
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and...

Out of Sight
1998
Director
Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the ri...

Independent's Day
1998
as Self
Filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival discuss what it is like to be an independent filmmaker, and what Sundance has done for them.

Schizopolis
1997
as Fletcher Munson
A man works for the unpleasant guru of a Scientology-like movement.

Schizopolis
1997
Director of Photography, Screenplay, Director
A man works for the unpleasant guru of a Scientology-like movement.

The Daytrippers
1997
Producer
Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for...

Nightwatch
1997
Screenplay
A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect in a series of murders.

Gray's Anatomy
1996
Director
The film documents, in an often dramatic and humorous fashion, Gray's investigations into alternative medicine for an eye condition (Macular pucker) h...

The Underneath
1995
Director, Screenplay
A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his e...

Made in the USA
1993
as Self
A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

Suture
1993
Executive Producer
Brothers Vincent and Clay meet up for the first time after their father's funeral and remark on how similar they look. But unknown to Clay, Vince is a...

King of the Hill
1993
Screenplay, Director, Editor
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a h...

Kafka
1991
Editor, Director
Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all...

sex, lies, and videotape
1989
Editor, Director, Sound Editor
Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. W...

Winston
1987
Producer, Writer, Director
Follows deception and alienation in an intimate relationship.

Yes - 9012 Live
1985
Director, Editor
The YES line-up of Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Trevor Rabin, Alan White and Tony Kaye perform highlights from their 1985 tour - "Introduction," "Cinem...

Access All Areas
1985
Director, Director of Photography, Editor
Behind-the-scenes documentary following the band Yes on their 9012 Tour (1984-1985).
The Making of "Once Within a Time"
N/A
as Self
A documentary about the production of Godfrey Reggio's "Once Within a Time".

Inside 'Out of Sight'
N/A
as Himself
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the 1998 movie "Out of Sight".
Ultraluminous
N/A
Producer
Sex worker revenge-thriller based on the Katherine Faw novel. To be directed by Frankie Shaw. Screenplay also written by Shaw.
The Christophers
N/A
Director, Director of Photography, Editor
The estranged children of a once-famous artist hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be discovered and sold after his death.
The Return of Stanley Atwell
N/A
Original Story, Executive Producer
Stanley Atwell, the presumed dead son and heir to Lord Atwell's title and fortune, unexpectedly returns to the family estate having escaped a decade o...
Untitled Final Interview of John Lennon Documentary
N/A
Director, Executive Producer
Untitled feature documentary centered on the final interview of John Lennon, directed by Steven Soderbergh.