All the Movies and Books Steven Soderbergh Engaged with in 2025

      It's that time of year once more. While many directors annually divulge their favorite films of the year, Steven Soderbergh instead lists everything he's consumed in terms of media. In 2025—another productive year where he released two films and debuted another—he certainly managed to watch a lot.

      Besides catching up on the new releases from 2025 (including One Battle After Another, It Was Just an Accident, The Secret Agent, Sirat, The Mastermind, Sinners, 28 Years Later, The Naked Gun, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Cover-Up, Nouvelle Vague, and Happy Gilmore 2, among others), he also indulged in numerous classics from filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski, and others.

      He had an early preview of the Sundance-bound Once Upon a Time in Harlem, and after kicking off production on The Christophers on February 7, he had a first cut ready by February 13. He further completed drafts for the long-gestating 12-hour adaptation of John Barth’s 1960 novel The Sot-Weed Factor, his HBO Max series adaptation The Other Hamilton (about Wall Street’s first Black millionaire), and enigmatic projects named Bloodworth Manor and Ascenso.

      Refer to the list below via his official site.

      01/01 The Possession, Annie Ernaux, AVIICI I’M TIM

      01/02 The Making of Star Wars, A.J. Rinzler, THE MAKING OF THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (B&W)

      01/03 THE AGENCY, 2025 WORLD DARTS CHAMPIONSHIP

      01/04 HARD TRUTHS

      01/05 THE GODFATHER

      01/06 Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth Century Novel, Edwin Frank

      01/08 SKELETON CREW (5), Artemisia Gentileschi, Jonathan Jones

      01/10 Ready When You Are, Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Crowe, Jerry Ziesmer, BFI Modern Classics: JAWS, Antonia Quirke, A DIFFERENT MAN

      01/11 SKELETON CREW (2), THE AGENCY, SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT

      01/12 Playworld, Adam Ross, BFI Film Classics: THE SERVANT, Amy Sargeant

      01/14 THE SERVANT

      01/15 DUEL

      01/17 BFI Modern Classics: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, Dana Polan

      01/20 Confessions of a Rock and Roll Name-Dropper, Laurie Kaye, THE GREATEST NIGHT IN POP, SKELETON CREW

      01/21 At Mrs. Lippincote’s, Elizabeth Taylor, THE AGENCY

      01/22 BFI Film Classics: LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD, Jean-Louis Leutrat

      01/24 LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD, THE AGENCY

      01/25 AUSTRALIA OPEN WOMEN’S FINAL, THE STING, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, THE HAUNTING (’63)

      01/26 AUSTRALIA OPEN MEN’S FINAL, Conversations with Peter Brook, Margaret Croyden

      01/28 Bresson on Bresson: Interviews 1943-1983

      01/29 PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE

      02/01 I’M STILL HERE

      02/07 Begin principal photography on THE CHRISTOPHERS

      02/09 STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

      02/10 STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

      02/15 STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

      02/20 Caucasia, Danzy Senna

      02/21 THE INTERNECINE PROJECT

      03/01 The Talent, Daniel D’Addario

      03/02 THE WHITE LOTUS (2)

      03/12 THE WHITE LOTUS

      03/13 THE CHRISTOPHERS

      03/14 THE WHITE LOTUS, The Transformation of Philip Jettan, Georgette Heyer

      03/15 Universality, Natasha Brown

      03/18 THE WHITE LOTUS, The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami

      03/22 Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, CLEANER, A BODY IN THE SNOW: THE TRIAL OF KAREN READ (2)

      03/23 A BODY IN THE SNOW: THE TRIAL OF KAREN READ (3), LEAVING NEVERLAND II

      03/24 THE WHITE LOTUS, SCAMS & SCANDALS: THE GOLDEN TOILET HEIST

      03/25 Changing My Mind, Julian Barnes

      03/26 CON MUM

      03/29 GOLD & GREED: THE HUNT FOR FENN’S TRE