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  • Steven Soderbergh eyes career hiatus - 27 June 2012
    -Steven Soderbergh is serious about taking a moviemaking hiatus - he's planning to step away from Hollywood next January (13).-The Erin Brockovich director has been open about his dream of an extended break, and he's revealed 2013 is the year he will take some time for him


  • McGregor 'chickened out' of Soderbergh's fake gun request - 24 February 2012
    -Director Steven Soderbergh ordered the cast of his new thriller Haywire to carry replica guns around with them away from the set, but Scottish actor Ewan Mcgregor "chickened out".-The Trainspotting star appears opposite Gina Carano, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas and M


  • Soderbergh hired spy to jump Carano - 20 January 2012
    hampion Gina Carano was jumped outside a hair salon by a member of Israel's most revered spy agency as part of her training for Steven Soderbergh's thriller Haywire.-Carano was recruited by Soderbergh to star opposite Channing Tatum and Michael Fassbender in the action fil

Steven Soderbergh - what members say


  • Sex, Lies and Videotape
  • Sex, Lies and Videotape review by from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars An impressively adult drama 9 May 2004
    ...Fifteen years after it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Steven Soderbergh's 'Sex, Lies and Videotape' still stands as an intelligent analysis of sexual politics. Ann(Andie MacDo...   Read customer review
  • Ocean's Eleven
  • Ocean's Eleven review by from Croydon
    Rated - 4.0 stars Somebody get me a cocktail 1 October 2003
    ...y based on the 1960's Rat Pack comedy and directed by the enormously talented Steven Soderbergh, this remake stars the gorgeous, charming & very funny George Clooney & Brad Pi...   Read customer review
  • Che - Part Two
  • Che - Part Two review by from Manchester, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars More of the same from Soderbergh 17 December 2009
    ...Che part 1 was the opening to Steven Soderbergh’s Che Guevara biopic. It was a captivating film, but one that never penetrated the poster image of the famous Cuban revolutionary...   Read customer review

Steven Soderbergh - filmography


  • Behind the Candelabra (2013)
    Starring: Matt Damon,  Rob Lowe,  Michael Douglas
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Unconventional drama starring Michael Douglas as the superstar pianist Liberace. Based on the autobiography by Liberace's much younger lover and live-in partner Scott Thorson (Matt Damon), the film recounts the period between 1978 and 1982 when Liberace was at the absolute pinnacle of his fame. ..read more »
    0.5 stars out of 5 10% from 1 member
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  • Side Effects (2013)
    Starring: Channing Tatum,  Vinessa Shaw,  Rooney Mara
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Emily and Martin are a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emily's psychiatrist - intended to treat anxiety - has unexpected side effects.
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 135 members
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  • Magic Mike - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Olivia Munn,  Gabriel Iglesias,  Riley Keough
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Steven Soderbergh directs this comedy drama set in the world of male strip clubs. Inspired by experiences from the early days in the career of the film's star, actor Channing Tatum, the film follows Mike (Tatum) as he takes a young dancer called The Kid (Alex Pettyfer) under his wing and tutors him ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,786 members
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  • Contagion - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Laurence Fishburne,  Laurence Fishburne,  Kate Winslet
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Steven Soderbergh directs this multi-starrer thriller charting the rapid progress of a lethal airborne human virus that is spread by simple human contact and kills within days. As the pandemic sweeps the globe, an international team of medics races against time to contain the mutating bug. The cast ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 7,896 members
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  • Cleo (2011)
    Starring: Catherine Zeta Jones
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A period musical retelling of the story of Cleopatra, Antony and Caesar set in the 1920s.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 6 members
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  • The Girlfriend Experience - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Sasha Grey,  Timothy J. Cox,  Chris Santos
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven, sex, lies and videotape) invites you into the world of a high class New York call girl in the thrilling and sexy The Girlfriend Experience, starring adult film star Sasha Grey in her mainstream breakthrough. Chelsea (Grey) is an ultra high-end ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 2,154 members
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  • The Girlfriend Experience on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Sasha Grey,  Timothy J. Cox,  Chris Santos
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven, sex, lies and videotape) invites you into the world of a high class New York call girl in the thrilling and sexy The Girlfriend Experience, starring adult film star Sasha Grey in her mainstream breakthrough. Chelsea (Grey) is an ultra high-end ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 5,926 members
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  • The Informant! on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Matt Damon,  Scott Bakula,  Joel McHale
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre.
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 17,236 members
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  • Che - Part One on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Kahlil Mendez,  Benicio Del Toro,  Benjamin Bratt
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    First instalment of Steven Soderbergh's political drama starring Benicio del Toro as iconic revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, based on the memoirs of Guevara. The film follows events in late 1950s Cuba, when Che and a band of Cuban exiles led by Fidel Castro (Demian Bichir) set out for Cuba from ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 20,732 members
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  • Che - Part Two on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips,  Benicio Del Toro,  Benicio Del Toro
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Second instalment of Soderbergh's two-part 'Che' epic, a political drama based on the memoirs of Che Guevara starring Benicio del Toro as the iconic revolutionary. Having helped to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, Guevara now moves on to foment revolutions in both Africa and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 15,153 members
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  • Ocean's Thirteen - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Casey,  Al Pacino,  Elliott Gould
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Third installment of director Steven Soderbergh's popular series of glitzy crime comedies. The only hotelier in Las Vegas who can claim that each and every one of his establishments has earned the Royal Review Board's Five Diamond Award, Willy Bank (Al Pacino) has made more than his share of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 6,190 members
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  • Keane on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Damian Lewis,  John Tormey,  Lev Gorn
    Director: Lodge H. Kerrigan,  Lodge Kerrigan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    We first meet William Keane in the Port Authority bus terminal where he is desperately searching for his 6-year-old daughter, who has been missing for months. Repeatedly drawn to the site of the purported abduction, Keane wanders the bus station compulsively going over the events of that fateful ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 3,683 members
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  • Ocean's Twelve - Blu-ray (2004)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Brad Pitt,  Matt Damon
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Crime comedy sequel. It's been three years since Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and his crew pulled off one of the most audacious and lucrative heists in history, robbing ruthless entrepreneur Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) of every dime stored in his inpenetrable Las Vegas vault. After splitting the $..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,061 members
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  • Criminal on DVD (2004)
    Starring: John C. Reilly,  Diego Luna,  Maggie Gyllenhaal
    Director: Gregory Jacobs
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Crime caper set in Los Angeles over the course of 24 hours. The story follows a day in the life of two small-time bunco artists who stumble upon a foolproof, and extremely lucrative, scam. The story begins in a casino when Rodrigo (Diego Luna) is caught pulling a swindle on two different cocktail ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 4,735 members
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  • Ocean's Twelve on DVD (2004)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Matt Damon,  Don Cheadle
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Crime comedy sequel. It's been three years since Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and his crew pulled off one of the most audacious and lucrative heists in history, robbing ruthless entrepreneur Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) of every dime stored in his inpenetrable Las Vegas vault. After splitting the $..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 82,418 members
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  • The Jacket on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Keira Knightley,  Kris Kristofferson,  Jennifer Jason Leigh
    Director: John Maybury
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Thriller centering on a military veteran (Adrien Brody) who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. When he is accused of murder and lands in an asylum, a well-meaning doctor puts him on a heavy course of experimental drugs, restrains him in a jacket-like device, and locks ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 28,758 members
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  • Ocean's Eleven - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Casey Afleck,  George Clooney,  Brad Pitt
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Remake of the 1960 Rat Pack heist classic, starring George Clooney as Danny Ocean, an ex-convict with a smart new plan to rob the casinos of Las Vegas. Gathering together a crack team - including his old friend Rusty (Brad Pitt) - Danny and the boys begin the meticulous preparations necessary to ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 2,442 members
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  • Full Frontal on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Mary McCormack,  David Duchovny,  Catherine Keener
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Francesca (Julia Roberts) and Calvin (Blair Underwood) are actors performing in a motion picture directed by David Fincher and co-starring Brad Pitt (who star as themselves). Woven in and out of the film production story thread are several subplots, including one about a lovelorn woman, Linda (Mary ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 2,700 members
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  • Solaris on DVD (2002)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Natascha McElhone,  Jeremy Davies
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When psychologist Chris Kelvin is asked to investigate the unexplained behavior of a small group of scientists aboard the space station Prometheus, he is shocked by what he finds upon his arrival. Kelvin discovers that his close friend, Gibarian, the mission's commander, has committed suicide. Also,..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 17,280 members
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  • Waking Life on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Julie Delpy,  Steven Soderbergh,  Wiley Wiggins
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Writer-director Richard Linklater returns to the terrain of his debut feature, 'Slacker', with another series of loose meditations on various philosophical topics voiced by a disparate series of young Americans. Shot on digital video and then processed using a technique known as rotoscoping, which ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 4,566 members
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  • Ocean's Eleven on DVD (2001)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Brad Pitt,  Julia Roberts
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Dapper Danny Ocean is a man of action. Less than 24 hours into his parole from a New Jersey penitentiary, the charismatic thief is already rolling out his next plan -- the most sophisticated, elaborate casino heist in history. In one night, Danny's handpicked 11-man crew of specialists - including ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 71,094 members
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  • Erin Brockovich on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Cherry Jones,  Aaron Eckhart,  Veanne Cox
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    In a world where heroes are often in short supply, the story of Erin Brockovich is an inspirational reminder of the power of the human spirit. Her passion, tenacity and steadfast desire to fight for the rights of the underdog defied the odds, her victory made even more sweet by the fact that while ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 21,935 members
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  • Traffic on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Don Cheadle,  Steven Bauer,  Jacob Vargas
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Steven Soderbergh's ambitious attempt to map out the different aspects of the illegal drug trade won four Oscars, including Best Director and Best Supporting Actor (Benicio Del Toro). The film is set in San Diego in the present day and a pair of undercover DEA agents (Don Cheadle and Luis Guzmán) ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 19,535 members
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  • Erin Brockovich - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Cherry Jones,  Aaron Eckhart,  Veanne Cox
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts) is a brassy, unemployed, twice-divorced single mother. When she is injured in a motor accident and her lawyer, Ed Masry (Albert Finney), fails to win her any compensation, her solution is to insist that Ed provides recompense by employing her at his firm. Erin's new ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,569 member
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  • The Limey on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Peter Fonda,  Terence Stamp,  Barry Newman
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The Limey follows Wilson a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 3,022 members
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  • Pleasantville on DVD (1998)
    Starring: William H. Macy,  Marissa Ribisi,  Paul Walker
    Director: Gary Ross
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Two modern day teenagers, brother and sister David and Jennifer (Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon), are transported by their TV repairman into the world of Pleasantville, a 1950s sitcom which David constantly watches. In Pleasantville the world is black and white, there is no sex or violence, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 7,826 members
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  • Nightwatch on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Josh Brolin,  John C. Reilly,  Patricia Arquette
    Director: Ole Bornedal
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Ole Bornedal's American remake of his own 1994 Danish hit 'Nattevagten'. A law student (Ewan McGregor) takes a job as a hospital nightwatchman, just as a serial killer strikes the city. All the evidence points to the student's culpability in the murders, so he burns the midnight oil in order to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,915 member
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  • Out Of Sight on DVD (1998)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Jennifer Lopez,  Dennis Farina
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Big screen adaptation of the Elmore Leonard crime novel. Bank robber Jack Foley (George Clooney) is forced to kidnap federal agent Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez) while breaking out of prison. The two feel a strong sexual attraction for each other, but Karen still takes the opportunity to escape when ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 12,113 members
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  • Schizopolis (1996)
    Starring: Steven Soderbergh,  Katherine La Nasa,  Eddie Jemison
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Steven Soderbergh followed his mainstream success 'Out of Sight' with this experimental satire. Religion, the business community and the institution of marriage are all viewed through the pre-millennial microscope, which reveals a century hurtling out of control as it comes to its end.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 250 members
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  • Daytrippers (1996)
    Starring: Liev Schreiber,  Pat McNamara,  Stanley Tucci
    Director: Greg Mottola
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Happily married Eliza (Hope Davis) discovers a letter written to her husband Louis (Stanley Tucci), signed 'Forever Sandy'. Her curiosity pricked by the note, she seeks the advice of her family, who do nothing to allay her fears that Louis may be having an affair. The entire clan - Eliza, her ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 610 members
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  • The Underneath on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Joe Don Baker,  Elisabeth,  Elisabeth Shue
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Steven Soderbergh directs this thriller starring Peter Gallagher as Michael Chambers, a charming drifter who returns home after leaving years earlier under a cloud of gambling debts and indiscretions. Following his homecoming, he becomes embroiled in a desperate and very dangerous deal in an ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 109 members
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  • King Of The Hill on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Jeroen Krabbe,  Karen Allen,  Jesse Bradford
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The heartwarming story of a twelve-year-old boy struggling through life in the American midwest during the great depression of the 1930s. With his mother in hospital with tuberculosis and his father having to take to the road as a travelling salesman, Aaron (Jesse Bradford) is forced to learn some ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 269 members
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  • Kafka (1991)
    Starring: Jeremy Irons,  Theresa Russell,  Ian Holm
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Steve Soderbergh did a 180 degree turnaround from his debut film sex, lies, and videotape with Kafka, a stark art-film fable for literature majors. Jeremy Irons plays a fictional Franz Kafka, living in Prague in 1919. By day, Kafka works in a massive, impersonal insurance company. At night, he ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 75 members
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  • Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)
    Starring: Andie MacDowell,  James Spader,  Laura San Giacomo
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Director Steven Soderbergh's debut film. Ann (Andie MacDowell) is unaware that her successful lawyer husband (Peter Gallagher) is having an affair with her less inhibited, and virtually estranged, sister (Laura San Giacomo). This only comes to light when her husband's old college mate Graham (James ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 4,939 members
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Steven Soderbergh facts

5 most recent films

Behind the Candelabra - 0.5 stars
Side Effects - Blu-ray - 3 stars
Side Effects - 3.5 stars
Magic Mike - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Contagion - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Ocean's Eleven - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Erin Brockovich - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Ocean's Eleven - 3.5 stars
Erin Brockovich - 3.5 stars
Side Effects - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Behind the Candelabra - 0.5 stars
K Street - The Complete Series - 1.0 stars
Cleo - 2.5 stars
The Girlfriend Experience - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
The Girlfriend Experience - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Matt Damon - 17 times - show films
George Clooney - 16 times - show films
Don Cheadle - 12 times - show films
Julia Roberts - 10 times - show films
Brad Pitt - 10 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Wong - 3 times - show films
Michelangelo Antonioni - 3 times - show films
Gregory Jacobs - 2 times - show films
Steven Spielberg - 2 times - show films
Gary Ross - 1 times - show films