Steven Soderbergh oversaw the direction of Out of Sight.
Out of Sight is a 1998 American crime comedy film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Frank , adapted from Elmore Leonard 's novel of the same name . 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 ) .