The Big Picture: Steven Soderbergh Career & Biographical Notes: Enrolled in LSU animation class while still in high school Shot concert film for the band Yes, earning him a Grammy nomination Became first to earn two Best Director nominations in the same year (Erin Brockovich and Traffic in 2000) Doesn't really like Clooney, but finds himself forced to grin and bear it

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Steven Soderbergh Trivia Quizzes
at HowWellDoYouKnow.com:

• 1/28/11-2/3/11
• 2/4/11-2/10/11
• Haywire
• Ocean's 11
• Ocean's 13
• Out of Sight
• That's Not My Movie (Directors Edition)

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Recent Movies:

Film	Date	Rating	Screens	Opening	Total	Box Office
Magic Mike	6/29/12	R			52.61	Info
Haywire	1/20/12	N/A
The Informant!	9/18/09	N/A
The Girlfriend Experience	5/22/09	N/A
Che	12/12/08	N/A
Ocean's Thirteen	6/8/07	PG-13	3565	36.13	36.13	Info
The Good German	12/15/06		5	0.08	1.29	Info
Bubble	1/27/06	R	32	0.07	0.15	Info
Eros	4/8/05	R	12	0.05	0.19	Info
Ocean's Twelve	12/10/04	PG-13	3290	39.15	125.53	Info
Criminal	9/10/04	R	77	0.28	0.91	Info
Solaris	11/27/02		2406	6.75	14.97	Info
Full Frontal	8/2/02	R	208	0.74	2.51	Info
Ocean's Eleven	12/7/01	PG-13	3075	38.11	183.41	Info

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Awards:

2006
Bubble

• Runner-Up: Best Director, Spirit Awards

2002
Solaris

• Runner-Up: Best Director, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Screenplay, BOP's Calvin Awards

2000
Erin Brockovich

• Runner-Up: Best Director, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Director, Las Vegas Film Critics
• Win: Best Director, Los Angeles Film Critics
• Win: Best Director, New York Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Director, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Directors' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Boston Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Golden Globes

Traffic

• Win: Best Director, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Director, National Society of Film Critics
• Win: Best Director, Toronto Film Critics
• Win: Best Director, Dallas Fort Worth Critics
• Win: Best Director, Chicago Film Critics
• Win: Best Director, Broadcast Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Golden Globes
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Directors' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Online Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Director, BOP's Calvin Awards

1999
The Limey

• Runner-Up: Best Director, Toronto Film Critics

1998
Out of Sight

• Win: Best Director, National Society of Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Toronto Film Critics

1989
Sex, Lies, and Videotape

• Runner-Up: Best Original Screenplay, Academy Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Golden Globes

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