Steven Soderbergh filmography
The following is a filmography cataloguing the works of American film director, producer, and screenwriter Steven Soderbergh. He has directed 33 feature films and eight television programs. His directorial works have grossed over US$2.2 billion worldwide.[1]
Feature film
[edit]Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | DoP | Editor | Notes |
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1985 | 9012Live | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Concert film, feature documentary directorial debut |
1989 | Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Feature narrative directorial debut |
1991 | Kafka | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | |
1993 | King of the Hill | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Based on the novel of the same name by A.E. Hotchner |
1995 | The Underneath | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Co-screenwriter (credited as Sam Lowry) with Daniel Fuchs Based on the novel Criss Cross by Don Tracy |
1996 | Schizopolis | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | All credits are uncredited, co-edited with Sarah Flack, also co-composer (with Cliff Martinez) and actor; roles: Fletcher Munson / Dr. Jeffrey Korchek |
Gray's Anatomy | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
1997 | Nightwatch | No | Yes | No | No | No | Co-screenwriter with Ole Bornedal; remake of the film Nattevagten, written by Ole Bornedal |
1998 | Out of Sight | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
1999 | The Limey | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
2000 | Erin Brockovich | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Traffic | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | No | ||
2001 | Ocean's Eleven | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | No | |
2002 | Full Frontal | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | No | |
Solaris | Yes | Yes | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | Based on the novel of the same name by Stanisław Lem | |
2004 | Eros | Yes | Yes | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | Segment: "Equilibrium" |
Criminal | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Co-screenwriter (with Gregory Jacobs) (credited as Sam Lowry) Based on the film Nueve reinas, written by Fabián Bielinsky | |
Ocean's Twelve | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | No | ||
2005 | Bubble | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | |
2006 | The Good German | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | |
2007 | Ocean's Thirteen | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | No | |
2008 | Che | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | No | 2-part film |
2009 | The Girlfriend Experience | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | |
The Informant! | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | No | ||
2010 | And Everything Is Going Fine | Yes | No | No | No | No | Documentary |
2011 | Contagion | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | No | |
Haywire | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | ||
2012 | Magic Mike | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | |
2013 | Side Effects | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | |
2015 | Magic Mike XXL | No | No | Executive | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | Also camera operator |
2017 | Logan Lucky | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | |
2018 | Unsane | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | |
2019 | High Flying Bird | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | |
The Laundromat | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | ||
2020 | Let Them All Talk | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | |
2021 | No Sudden Move | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | |
2022 | Kimi | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | |
2023 | Magic Mike's Last Dance | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | |
2024 | Presence | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | Also camera operator[2] |
2025 | Black Bag | Yes | No | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | |
TBA | The Christophers | Yes | No | No | TBA | TBA |

Producer only
[edit]- The Daytrippers (1996)
- Pleasantville (1998)
- Welcome to Collinwood (2002)
- Rumor Has It... (2005)
- Solitary Man (2009)
- Ocean's 8 (2018)
- The Report (2019)
- Divinity (2023)
Executive producer only
[edit]- Suture (1993)
- Who Is Bernard Tapie? (2001)
- Tribute (2001)
- Insomnia (2002)
- Far From Heaven (2002)
- Naqoyqatsi (2002)
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
- Able Edwards (2003)
- Keane (2004)
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2 (2005)
- The Jacket (2005)
- Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
- Syriana (2005)
- The Big Empty (2005)
- A Scanner Darkly (2006)
- Pu-239 (2006)
- Wind Chill (2007)
- I'm Not There (2007)
- Michael Clayton (2007)
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)
- Playground (2009)
- Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) (2010)
- We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
- Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out (2012)
- Citizenfour (2014)
- The King (2017)
- Perfect (2018)
- Beats (2019)
- Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
- The Exiles (2022)
- Is That Black Enough for You?!? (2022)
- Once Within a Time (2023)
Other
[edit]- The Hunger Games (2012) – Second unit director
- Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014) – Associate producer
Short film
[edit]Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | DoP | Editor | Notes |
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1985 | Access All Areas | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
1987 | Winston | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | |
2006 | Building No. 7 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
2019 | Your Life As a Spy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | All credits are uncredited |
Television
[edit]Year | Title | Director | Executive Producer |
DoP | Editor | Network | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1993, 1995 | Fallen Angels | Yes | No | No | No | Showtime | Episodes: "The Quiet Room" and "The Professional Man" |
2003 | K Street | Yes | Yes | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | HBO | |
2005 | Unscripted | No | Yes | No | No | ||
2011 | His Way | No | Yes | No | No | TV documentary | |
2013 | Behind the Candelabra | Yes | No | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | TV movie | |
2014–2015 | The Knick | Yes | Yes | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | Cinemax | |
2014–2017 | Red Oaks | No | Yes | No | No | Amazon Prime Video | |
2016–2021 | The Girlfriend Experience | No | Yes | No | No | Starz | |
2017 | Godless | No | Yes | No | No | Netflix | |
2018 | Mosaic | Yes | Yes | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | HBO | Also a mobile app |
2019 | Now Apocalypse | No | Yes | No | No | Starz | |
Leavenworth | No | Yes | No | No | |||
2020 | Wireless | No | Yes | No | No | Quibi | |
2021 | 93rd Academy Awards | No | Yes | No | No | ABC | Credited as producer with Jesse Collins & Stacey Sher |
Finding Magic Mike | No | Yes | No | No | HBO Max | ||
2023 | Full Circle | Yes | Yes | Yes[a] | Yes[b] | ||
Command Z | Yes | Yes | Yes[a] | No | Online |
Audio commentaries
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On his own films
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On other films
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Reception
[edit]Critical, public and commercial reception to Soderbergh's directorial feature films as of August 29, 2022.
Year | Film | Rotten Tomatoes[3] | Metacritic[4] | CinemaScore[5] | Budget | Box office[6] |
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1989 | Sex, Lies, and Videotape | 96% (8.0/10 average rating) (52 reviews) |
86 (17 reviews) | — | $1.2 million | $36.7 million |
1991 | Kafka | 50% (5.4/10 average rating) (24 reviews) |
46 (17 reviews) | — | $11 million | $1.1 million |
1993 | King of the Hill | 91% (7.8/10 average rating) (33 reviews) |
86 (12 reviews) | — | $8 million | $1.2 million |
1995 | The Underneath | 62% (6.1/10 average rating) (26 reviews) |
69 (11 reviews) | — | $6.5 million | $536,023 |
1996 | Schizopolis | 65% (6.5/10 average rating) (20 reviews) |
44 (10 reviews) | — | $250,000 | $10,580 |
Gray's Anatomy | 59% (6.3/10 average rating) (22 reviews) |
60 (14 reviews) | — | $350,000 | $29,090 | |
1998 | Out of Sight | 94% (7.9/10 average rating) (99 reviews) |
85 (30 reviews) | B− | $48 million | $77.7 million |
1999 | The Limey | 92% (7.4/10 average rating) (84 reviews) |
73 (32 reviews) | — | $10 million | $3.2 million |
2000 | Erin Brockovich | 85% (7.5/10 average rating) (149 reviews) |
73 (36 reviews) | A | $52 million | $256.3 million |
Traffic | 92% (8.0/10 average rating) (161 reviews) |
86 (34 reviews) | B | $48 million | $207.5 million | |
2001 | Ocean's Eleven | 83% (7.0/10 average rating) (182 reviews) |
74 (35 reviews) | B+ | $85 million | $450.7 million |
2002 | Full Frontal | 39% (5.2/10 average rating) (145 reviews) |
45 (37 ratings) | — | $2 million | $3.4 million |
Solaris | 66% (6.6/10 average rating) (209 reviews) |
65 (38 reviews) | F | $47 million | $30 million | |
2004 | Ocean's Twelve | 54% (5.9/10 average rating) (184 reviews) |
58 (39 reviews) | B− | $110 million | $362.7 million |
2005 | Bubble | 71% (6.3/10 average rating) (106 reviews) |
63 (32 reviews) | — | $1.6 million | $261,966 |
2006 | The Good German | 34% (5.1/10 average rating) (153 reviews) |
49 (34 reviews) | — | $30 million | $5.9 million |
2007 | Ocean's Thirteen | 70% (6.4/10 average rating) (200 reviews) |
62 (37 reviews) | B+ | $85 million | $311.3 million |
2008 | Che: Part One (The Argentine) Che: Part Two (Guerrilla) |
68% (6.5/10 average rating) (142 reviews) 79% (6.7/10 average rating) |
64 (24 reviews) | — | $59 million | $40.8 million |
2009 | The Girlfriend Experience | 67% (6.4/10 average rating) (141 reviews) |
66 (26 reviews) | — | $1.7 million | $1 million |
The Informant! | 79% (6.8/10 average rating) (231 reviews) |
66 (37 reviews) | C− | $22 million | $41.8 million | |
2010 | And Everything is Going Fine | 91% (7.8/10 average rating) (34 reviews) |
76 (11 reviews) | — | — | $22,080 |
2011 | Contagion | 85% (7.1/10 average rating) (281 reviews) |
70 (38 reviews) | B− | $60 million | $135.5 million |
2012 | Haywire | 80% (6.8/10 average rating) (200 reviews) |
67 (40 reviews) | D+ | $23 million | $34.5 million |
Magic Mike | 78% (6.8/10 average rating) (217 reviews) |
72 (38 reviews) | B | $7 million | $167.2 million | |
2013 | Side Effects | 81% (7.3/10 average rating) (223 reviews) |
75 (40 reviews) | B | $30 million | $66.7 million |
Behind the Candelabra | 94% (8.1/10 average rating) (108 reviews) |
83 (30 reviews) | — | $23 million | — | |
2017 | Logan Lucky | 92% (7.5/10 average rating) (290 reviews) |
78 (51 reviews) | B | $29 million | $48.5 million |
2018 | Unsane | 80% (6.7/10 average rating) (239 reviews) |
63 (45 reviews) | B− | $1.5 million | $14.3 million |
2019 | High Flying Bird | 91% (7.4/10 average rating) (137 reviews) |
78 (23 reviews) | — | $2 million | — |
The Laundromat | 41% (5.5/10 average rating) (174 reviews) |
57 (37 reviews) | — | — | — | |
2020 | Let Them All Talk | 87% (7.1/10 average rating) (119 reviews) |
72 (31 reviews) | — | — | — |
2021 | No Sudden Move | 92% (7.8/10 average rating) (140 reviews) |
76 (38 reviews) | — | — | — |
2022 | Kimi | 92% (7.5/10 average rating) (120 reviews) |
79 (27 reviews) | — | — | — |
2023 | Magic Mike's Last Dance | 48% (5.4/10 average rating) (222 reviews) |
52 (54 reviews) | — | $45 million | $56.3 million |
As of 2018, Soderbergh's entire feature filmography has grossed over US$2.2 billion worldwide in sales.[7] Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Thirteen, Out of Sight, Logan Lucky and No Sudden Move were named among the "88 Best Heist Movies of All Time" by Rotten Tomatoes.[8] His film Out of Sight was listed as one of the best movies of the 1990s by Rolling Stone.[9]
Awards and nominations
[edit]See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Steven Soderbergh Movie Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
- ^ "Steven Soderbergh on Having a Ghost and Then Becoming One with His Camera in 'Presence'". IndieWire. January 25, 2025. Retrieved March 22, 2025.
- ^ "Steven Soderbergh". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on November 26, 2017. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
- ^ "Steven Soderbergh". Metacritic. Archived from the original on April 22, 2018. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
- ^ "CinemaScore". cinemascore.com. Archived from the original on January 19, 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
- ^ "Steven Soderbergh Movie Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on April 23, 2018. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
- ^ "Steven Soderbergh Movie Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on April 23, 2018. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
- ^ "75 Best Heist Movies of All Time". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on December 22, 2020. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
- ^ Krepps, Daniel (July 12, 2017). "The 100 Greatest Movies of the Nineties". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on March 20, 2021. Retrieved April 14, 2018.