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Michael Winterbottom

Highest Rated: 100% Eleven Days in May (2022)

Lowest Rated: 17% Hello Carter (2013)

Birthday: Mar 29, 1961

Birthplace: Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK

A talented and intelligent British filmmaker of intense and often introspective relationship dramas, Michael Winterbottom has displayed a wide array of diverse film projects that ranged from neo-noir thrillers and political docudramas to gritty family melodramas and satirical comedies. After getting his start with Thames Television, Winterbottom made his feature debut with the lesbian-centric noir "Butterfly Kiss" (1995) before his ambitious take on Thomas Hardy's novel, "Jude" (1996). He earned considerable international acclaim for his searing war drama, "Welcome to Sarajevo" (1997), which unflinchingly depicted the horror of the brutal war in Yugoslavia. After the interesting, but little-seen revisionist Western, "The Claim" (2000), Winterbottom offered a restless kaleidoscope of images accompanied by a stellar soundtrack for "24 Hour Party People" (2002), which once again helped boost his international acclaim. Follow the highly controversial erotic drama, "9 Songs" (2005), which depicted graphic unsimulated sex onscreen, he steered star Angelina Jolie in one of her finest performances with "A Mighty Heart" (2007). By the time he directed Casey Affleck in "The Killer Inside Me" (2010), Winterbottom was considered to be one of the more artistically daring directors working in contemporary cinema.

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100% Eleven Days in May
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89% 88% In This World
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89% 70% The Trip
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88% 57% The Trip to Italy
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88% 66% Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
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87% 87% 24 Hour Party People
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86% 83% The Road to Guantanamo
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80% 73% Jude
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Michael Winterbottom Steve Coogan, Michael Winterbottom, Rob Brydon at arrivals for THE TRIP TO ITALY Premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2014, The Eccles Theatre, Park City, UT January 20, 2014. Photo By: James Atoa/Everett Collection Melissa Parmenter, Michael Winterbottom, Rosie Fellner, Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Stefano Negrithe at arrivals for THE TRIP TO ITALY Premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2014, The Eccles Theatre, Park City, UT January 20, 2014. Photo By: James Atoa/Everett C A COCK AND BULL STORY, (aka TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY), back row: Shirley Henderson, Raymond Waring, Steve Coogan, Jeremy Northam, Kelly Macdonald, front row: director Michael Winterbottom, Ashley Jensen, on set, 2005. ©Picturehouse JUDE, director Michael Winterbottom on set, 1996, © Gramercy Pictures JUDE, director Michael Winterbottom, on set, 1996. ©Gramercy Pictures THE LOOK OF LOVE, director Michael Winterbottom (with headphones), Steve Coogan (blue necktie), Anna Friel (right), on set, 2013. ©IFC Films THE KILLER INSIDE ME, from left: Simon Baker, director Michael Winterbottom, on set, 2010. ©IFC Films THE KILLER INSIDE ME, from left: Casey Affleck, director Michael Winterbottom, on set, 2010. ©IFC Films CODE 46, director Michael Winterbottom on set, 2004, (c) United Artists View more photos

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Shoshana 70% 50% 2023 Director, Writer, Producer, Executive Producer, Screenwriter Eleven Days in May 100% 2022 Director, Producer The Trip to Greece 88% 51% 2020 Director Greed 50% 32% 2019 Director, Screenwriter The Wedding Guest 45% 35% 2018 Director, Screenwriter The Trip to Spain 83% 64% 2017 Director, Writer On the Road 50% 29% 2016 Director, Writer The Emperor's New Clothes 60% 68% 2015 Director The Face of an Angel 38% 10% 2014 Director The Trip to Italy 88% 57% 2014 Director Hello Carter 17% 33% 2013 Executive Producer The Look of Love 56% 34% 2013 Director Everyday 74% 42% 2012 Director, Screenwriter Bailout 2012 Director 360 19% 32% 2011 Executive Producer Trishna 62% 52% 2011 Director, Screenwriter, Producer The Trip 89% 70% 2010 Director The Killer Inside Me 56% 40% 2010 Director The Shock Doctrine 55% 63% 2009 Director, Screenwriter Genova 77% 41% 2008 Director, Screenwriter, Producer A Mighty Heart 79% 70% 2007 Director Snow Cake 63% 86% 2006 Executive Producer The Road to Guantanamo 86% 83% 2006 Director Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story 88% 66% 2005 Director 9 Songs 23% 32% 2004 Director, Writer, Producer, Film Editor
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