Steven Soderbergh directed Magic Mike.
Magic Mike is a 2012 American comedy-drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Channing Tatum , Alex Pettyfer , Matt Bomer , Joe Manganiello , and Matthew McConaughey . Steven Soderbergh . He is best known for directing critically acclaimed commercial Hollywood films including the crime comedy Out of Sight ( 1998 ) , the biographical film Erin Brockovich ( 2000 ) , the crime drama film Traffic ( 2000 ) ( for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director ) , the 2001 remake of the comedy heist film Ocean 's 11 and its two sequels -- known collectively as the Ocean 's Trilogy , the medical thriller Contagion ( 2011 ) and the comedy-drama Magic Mike ( 2012 ) .