Age: 63
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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 d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and the film garnered worldwide commercial success, as well as numerous accolades. His next five films, which included King of the Hill (1993), were commercially unsuccessful. He pivoted into more mainstream fare with the crime comedy Out of Sight (1998), the biopic Erin Brockovich (2000) and the crime drama Traffic (2000). For Traffic, he won the Academy Award for Best Director. He found further popular and critical success with the Ocean's trilogy and film franchise (2001–18); Che (2008); The Informant! (2009); Contagion (2011); Haywire (2011); Magic Mike (2012); Side Effects (2013); Logan Lucky (2017); Unsane (2018); Let Them All Talk (2020); No Sudden Move (2021); and Kimi (2022). His film career spans a multitude of genres, but his specialties are psychological, crime and heist films. His films have grossed over US$2.2 billion worldwide and garnered fourteen Academy Award nominations, winning five. Soderbergh's films often revolve around familiar concepts which are regularly used for big-budget Hollywood movies, but he routinely employs an avant-garde arthouse approach. They center on themes of shifting personal identities, vengeance, sexuality, morality, and the human condition. His feature films are often distinctive in the realm of cinematography as a result of his having been influenced by avant-garde cinema, coupled with his use of unconventional film and camera formats. Many of Soderbergh's films are anchored by multi-dimensional storylines with plot twists, nonlinear storytelling, experimental sequencing, suspenseful soundscapes, and third-person vantage points. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Soderbergh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Steven Soderbergh
Director
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Mantle: The Yankee Legend is a gripping biopic miniseries that delves into the life of one of the greatest baseball players in history, Mickey Mantle. Set against the backdrop of 1950s and 1960s America, this series charts the rise and fall of the "Commerce Comet"—from his humble beginnings in rural Oklahoma to becoming a baseball icon with the New York Yankees. This miniseries offers a deep, multi-layered exploration of Mickey Mantle's journey both on and off the field. It covers his record-breaking career, his tragic personal battles with addiction, his complex family life, and the pressures of being a larger-than-life figure in a time when fame and fortune often came with immense personal sacrifice. The series will spotlight his relationships with legendary figures like Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, and Babe Ruth, while also shedding light on his struggles with the media, injuries, and the constant drive to live up to his own myth. The show will explore themes of ambition, the price of greatness, and the pursuit of redemption. Mantle: The Yankee Legend will be a vivid portrayal of a man whose brilliance on the baseball diamond was matched only by the darkness he faced behind closed doors.
