Steven Soderbergh - Wikipedia. Steven Andrew Soderbergh (; born January 1. American film producer, director, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. His indie drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1. Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and became a worldwide commercial success, making the then- 2. Soderbergh the youngest director to win the festival's top award.[1] Film critic Roger Ebert dubbed Soderbergh the "poster boy of the Sundance generation".[2]He is best known for directing critically acclaimed commercial Hollywood films including the crime comedy Out of Sight (1. Erin Brockovich (2.

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Traffic (2. 00. 0) (for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director), the 2. Ocean's Eleven and its two sequels—known collectively as the Ocean's Trilogy, the medical thriller Contagion (2. Magic Mike (2. 01. He has also directed smaller, less conventional works, such as the mystery thriller Kafka (1. Schizopolis (1. 99. Bubble (2. 00. 5), which uses no script and non- professional actors; the experimental drama film The Girlfriend Experience (2.

Sasha Grey; and the biopic about Marxistrevolutionary. Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Che (2. Soderbergh also directed, photographed and edited all episodes of the television drama The Knick. In addition, he has produced numerous film and television programs, and provided cinematography and editing on various projects. Early life and education[edit]Soderbergh was born on January 1. Atlanta, Georgia, to Mary Ann (née Bernard) and Peter Andrew Soderbergh, who was a university administrator and educator.[3] His father's ancestry was Swedish and Irish; his paternal grandfather was an emigrant from Stockholm.[4] His mother was of Italian, and "a little Irish", descent.[5] As a child, he moved with his family to Charlottesville, Virginia, where he lived during his adolescence, then to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where his father became Dean of Education at Louisiana State University. In Baton Rouge, he discovered filmmaking as a teenager, directing short Super 8 mm films with equipment borrowed from LSU students.[6] He has a brother, Charley.[7]While the family resided in Baton Rouge, Soderbergh's mother appeared regularly on 2une In, the early- morning show of local ABC affiliate WBRZ- TV (broadcast channel 2), as a "call- in" psychic, and taught adult- education and "alternative education" classes in "parapsychology" at LSU.[citation needed] His primary high school education was at Louisiana State University Laboratory School, a K–1.

University. While still taking classes there around the age of 1. Soderbergh enrolled in the university's film animation class and began making short 1. Rather than attend LSU, Soderbergh tried his luck in Hollywood after graduating from high school; he worked as a game show scorer and cue card holder to make ends meet, and eventually found work as a freelance film editor.[9] His big break came when he directed the Grammy- nominated concert video 9.

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Live for the rock band Yes in 1. Sex, Lies, and Videotape[edit]It was not until Soderbergh came back to Baton Rouge that he conceived the idea for Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1. The independent film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, became a worldwide commercial success and contributed to the 1.

At age 2. 6, Soderbergh became the second youngest director to win the festival's top award (after French director Louis Malle who won for Le Monde du Silence).[1] Movie critic Roger Ebert dubbed Soderbergh the "poster boy of the Sundance generation".[2]1. Sex, Lies, and Videotape was followed by a series of low- budget box- office disappointments: Kafka, a biopic mixing fact and Kafka's own fiction (notably The Castle and The Trial), written by Lem Dobbs and starring Jeremy Irons as Franz Kafka; King of the Hill (1. Depression- era drama; The Underneath (1. Robert Siodmak's 1.

Criss Cross; and Schizopolis (1. He also directed the Spalding Gray monologue film Gray's Anatomy in 1. Watch One Man Band Online IMDB.

Making good on his Schizopolis- inspired "artistic wake- up call", his commercial slump ended in 1. Out of Sight, a stylized adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel, written by Scott Frank and starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez.[1. The film was widely praised, though only a moderate box- office success. It reaffirmed Soderbergh's potential, sparking the beginnings of a lucrative artistic partnership between Clooney and Soderbergh.

Soderbergh followed up on the success of Out of Sight by making another crime caper, The Limey (1. Lem Dobbs and starring veteran actors Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda. The film was well- received, but not as much as Erin Brockovich (2. Susannah Grant and starring Julia Roberts in her Oscar- winning role as a single mother taking on industry in a civil action.[1. Later that year, Soderbergh released Traffic, a social drama written by Stephen Gaghan and featuring an ensemble cast.

Traffic became his most acclaimed movie since Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and earned him an Academy Award for Best Director. He was also nominated that same year for Erin Brockovich. He is the only director to have been nominated in the same year for Best Director for two different films by the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes and the Directors Guild of America. The double nomination was the first in 6. In 1. 93. 8, Michael Curtiz was nominated twice, for Angels with Dirty Faces and Four Daughters, but did not win for either film.)2. Ocean's Eleven (2.

Ted Griffin- scripted remake from a Rat Pack- movie from 1. Soderbergh's highest- grossing movie to date, grossing more than $1. The film's star, George Clooney, subsequently appeared in Solaris (2. In the same year, Soderbergh made Full Frontal, which was shot mostly on digital video in an improvisational style that deliberately blurred the line between which actors were playing characters and which were playing fictionalized versions of themselves. A film within a film, the title is a film industry reference to an actor or actress appearing fully nude (a. Also in 2. 00. 2, Soderbergh was elected First Vice President of the Directors Guild of America.[1.

Following up Full Frontal stylistically was Soderbergh next project, K Street (2. HBO series he co- produced with Clooney. The series was noteworthy for being both partially improvised and each episode being produced in the five days prior to airing to take advantage of topical events that could be worked into the fictional narrative.

Actual political players appeared as themselves, either in cameos or portraying fictionalized versions of themselves (as were the leads, real life husband and wife James Carville and Mary Matalin). The show caused a stir during the 2.

Democratic Primary when Carville gave candidate Howard Dean a soundbite during a location shoot that Dean then used in a debate. In 2. 00. 4, Soderbergh directed Ocean's Twelve, a sequel to Ocean's Eleven. In 2. 00. 5, Soderbergh raised eyebrows with Bubble, a $1. It opened in selected theaters and HDNet simultaneously, and four days later on DVD. Industry heads were reportedly watching how the film performed, as its unusual release schedule could have implications for future feature films.[1. Theater- owners, who at the time had been suffering from dropping attendance rates, did not welcome so- called "day- and- date" movies.[1. National Association of Theatre Owners president and CEO John Fithian indirectly called the film's release model "the biggest threat to the viability of the cinema industry today."[2.

Soderbergh's response to such criticism: "I don't think it's going to destroy the movie- going experience any more than the ability to get takeout has destroyed the restaurant business." The film did poor business both at the box office and on the home video market.[2. Nevertheless, Soderbergh is on contract to deliver five more day- and- date movies. In fall of 2. 00.

Anthem magazine's November/December issue.[2. A romantic drama set in post- war Berlin, The Good German, starring Cate Blanchett and Clooney, was released in late 2.