Question: Which film has the director born first, Haunted Gold or The Informant!?

He is an early pioneer of independent cinema. Steven Andrew Soderbergh( born January 14, 1963) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and actor. Soderbergh's directorial breakthrough—indie drama" Sex, Lies, and Videotape"( 1989) —lifted him into the public spotlight as a notable presence in the film industry. At 26, Soderbergh became the youngest solo director to win the Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival which garnered the film worldwide commercial success, among numerous accolades. His breakthrough saw him to Hollywood where he directed crime comedy" Out of Sight"( 1998); biopic" Erin Brockovich"( 2000) and crime drama film" Traffic"( 2000), the latter winning him the Academy Award for Best Director. He found further popular and critical success with the" Ocean's" trilogy and film franchise( 2001 – 18);" Contagion"( 2011);" Magic Mike"( 2012);" Side Effects"( 2013);" Logan Lucky"( 2017); and" Unsane"( 2018). Despite his film career spanning a multitude of genres, his cinematic niche centers on psychological, crime, and heist thrillers. His films have grossed over US$ 2.2 billion worldwide and garnered nine Oscar nominations, winning seven. Soderbergh's films often revolve around familiar concepts often used for big budget Hollywood movies but with an avant garde arthouse approach to them. They center on the themes of shifting personal identities, vengeance, sexuality, morality, and the human condition. His feature films retain distinctive cinematography as a result of his liberal use of avant- garde cinema coupled with unconventional film and camera formats. Many of Soderbergh's films are anchored by multi-dimensional storylines with plot twists, nonlinear storytelling, experimental sequencing, suspenseful soundscapes, and third person vantage points. Uniquely, he often serves as his own director of photography and editor under the respective pseudonyms Peter Andrews and Mary Ann Bernard. <SEP> Active as a director from 1920 to the late 1940s, he also had an extensive career as an assistant director, second-unit director and production manager. His heyday was in the 1930s, when he directed or co-directed serials for Republic Pictures and made westerns for Monogram Pictures, often with John Wayne. He was also an actor, appearing in his first film in 1914 and his last in 1934, almost all of them westerns. Mack V. Wright (March 9, 1894 – August 14, 1965) was an American actor and film director. <SEP> Hartley W Lobban (9 May 1926 – 15 October 2004) was a Jamaican-born first-class cricketer who played 17 matches for Worcestershire in the early 1950s. <SEP> Sepideh Farsi is an Iranian film director, born in Tehran in 1965. <SEP> Written by Scott Z. Burns, the film stars Matt Damon as the titular informant named Mark Whitacre, as well as Scott Bakula, Joel McHale and Melanie Lynskey. The Informant! is a 2009 American biographical- comedy- crime film directed by Steven Soderbergh. It depicts Whitacre's involvement as a whistle blower in the lysine price- fixing conspiracy of the mid-1990s as described in the 2000 nonfiction book" The Informant", by journalist Kurt Eichenwald. Released on September 18, 2009," The Informant!" received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for Matt Damon's performance and the film's comedic yet ironic tone, although the latter has also been a point of criticism from other critics. <SEP> It is a remake of the 1928 film" The Phantom City", starring Ken Maynard and his horse Tarzan. Haunted Gold is a 1932 Pre- Production Code, American Western film directed by Mack V. Wright and starring John Wayne. Filmed in 1932, two years before the implementation of Hollywood's Production Code, the film contains several racial slurs involving the black character" Clarence Brown"( played by Blue Washington). The film is a product of its times.