Steven Soderbergh is a complete filmmaker: he is at the same time writer, director, producer, director of photography and editor. In 2001, he won the Oscar for best director with Traffic while also being named for Erin Brockovich. He had previously been nominated for Best Original Screenplay for Sex, lies and videotape his first film as director, winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
In his filmography also counts movies like Logan Lucky, Side Effects, Magic Mike, Haywire, Contagion, And Everything is Going Fine, The Girlfriend Experience, The Important!, Che - Part 1 - Argentina and Che - Part 2 - Guerilla, the ocean's trilogy, The Good German, Bubble, the segment entitled Equilibrium in Eros, Solaris, Full Frontal, English, Out of Reach, Grey's Anatomy, Schizopolis, Skin Flower, King of the Hill and Kafka.
The TV movie My Life with Liberace, for which he won the Emmy Award for Best Director in 2013, aired on HBO in May of the same year.
In 2009, he created and directed the play Tot Mom ​​for the Sydney Theater Company. While in Australia, he also directed The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg. And in April 2014, he staged the world premiere of Scott Burns' The Library at New York's Public Theater.
Steven Soderbergh was also the executive producer and the director of the two seasons of The Knick on Cinemax. Most recently, in November 2017, he directed Mosaic for HBO, a six-episode mini-series aired in January 2018 which also had an interactive format in the US in the form of an iOS and Android app.