13 Most Diverse Directors In Movie History

2. Steven Soderbergh

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Steven Soderbergh may be the youngest entry on this list, but he's certainly made terrifically varied use of his 32-year career so far.

Soderbergh started off as a documentary filmmaker (Yes: 9012 Live) before working in genres as diverse as drama (Sex, Lies and Videotape), surreal thriller (Kafka), coming-of-age drama (King of the Hill), crime (Out of Sight, the Ocean's trilogy, Traffic), sci-fi (Solaris), indescribable art-house weirdness (Schizopolis, Bubble), historical biopic (Che, Behind the Candelabra), comedy caper (The Informant, Logan Lucky), thriller (Contagion, Haywire, Side Effects) and...whatever Magic Mike is.

Though Soderbergh has expressed frequent frustration with Hollywood filmmaking, he never stops challenging himself as an artist, as evidenced by the fact that his next film, Unsane, is a horror movie shot entirely on an iPhone. Get hype.

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