Steven Soderbergh

Steven Soderbergh is one of those rare filmmakers who genuinely makes me feel like cinema can do anything. He burst onto the scene at 26 with Sex, Lies, and Videotape winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes — which is frankly absurd for a debut feature — and then spent the next three decades refusing to repeat himself. Traffic, Erin Brockovich, the Ocean's trilogy, Contagion, Magic Mike — the guy jumps genres like he's flipping channels, and somehow every pivot lands. What gets me is that he shoots his own films, edits them himself under a pseudonym, produces them, sometimes writes them — he's basically a one-man studio with better taste than most actual studios. And he did it all while genuinely pushing the indie spirit into the mainstream without losing his edge. A true craftsman who never stopped being curious.

Name (English)

Steven Soderbergh

Name (Japanese)

スティーヴン・ソダーバーグ

Reading

すてぃーゔん・そだーばーぐ

Born

January 14, 1963 (age 63)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rabbit

Origin

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Occupation

film director / cinematographer / film producer / screenwriter / film editor

University

Louisiana State University Laboratory School

Awards & achievements

• 2014 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Television Film
• 1989 Palme d'Or
• 1990 Independent Spirit Award for Best Director
• 1998 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director
• 2000 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director
• 2000 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Director
• 2000 Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director
• 2000 National Board of Review Award for Best Director

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://extension765.com/
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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B0

Tags

• Georgia
• film director
• cinematographer
• film producer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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