Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, actor, and an Academy Award winning film director. He is best known for directing commercial Hollywood films like Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Ocean's Eleven and the rest of the Ocean's series. But he has also directed more ambitious works such as Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Schizopolis.