Michael Winterbottom

Biography

Born 03/29/1961

A talented and intelligent British filmmaker of intense and often introspective relationship dramas, Michael Winterbottom studied film in Bristol and London after completing a degree in English at Oxford. He first worked in the industry when he got a job in the cutting room at Thames Television...
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Filmography

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Awards

In 2007, received Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary
In 2002, received Berlin Film Festival Award for The Golden Bear
In 1999, received British Independent Film Award for Best British Independent Film

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Michael Winterbottom, The Claim (2000)

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Highlights

In 2007, Helmed "A Mighty Heart," starring Angelina Jolie as Mariane Pearl, the wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl
In 2006, Helmed the controversal film "The Road to Guantanamo," the true story of three friends who set off from Britain for a wedding overseas and ended up as terrorist suspects in Guantanamo Bay
In 2005, Directed "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story" an adaptation of Laurence Sterne's essentially unfilmable novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"

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