- 2007: Helmed "A Mighty Heart," starring Angelina Jolie as Mariane Pearl, the wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl
- 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
- 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"
- 2004: Directed Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton in "Code 46" a futuristic love story
- 2002: Helmed "Going Mad in Hollywood" (lensed 2002), a drama about filmmaker Lindsay Anderson's friendship with writer David Sherwin
- 2002: Directed "24 Hour Party People", a drama about the British electronica musical group New Order
- 2000: Helmed "The Claim", an adaptation of "The Mayor of Casterbridge" set in 1860s California
- 1999: Won praise for "Wonderland", which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival; released theatrically in the USA in 2000
- 1997: Directed the based-on-fact "Welcome to Sarajevo", an ironically titled film about a British journalist who develops a bond with a Bosnian child
- 1996: Helmed the underrated adaptation of "Jude", starring Christopher Eccleston and Kate Winslet
- 1995: Directed first feature film, "Butterfly Kiss"
- 1994: Along with Andrew Eaton, formed production company, Revolution Films, in March, while "Family" was in post-production
- 1994: Breakthrough work, and first TV miniseries work, the four-part BBC/RTE serial drama, "Family"; a two-hour pared-down version of the program also played at a number of film festivals
- 1993: Directed opening two-hour TV-movie installment of the British crime drama series, "Cracker"; opening episode entitled "Cracker: The Mad Woman in the Attic"
- 1989: First worked with screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce on the made-for-TV young adult dramas, "The Strangers" and "Forget About Me"
- 1988: First work as director: made two TV documentaries about Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, "Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern" (for Channel 4) and "Ingmar Bergman: The Director" (for ITV)
- Grew up in Blackburn
- First worked in the film and TV industries with a job in the cutting room at Thames Television
- Set to helm "Genova," a ghost story about a British man who moves his two American daughters to Genoa following the death of his wife (lensed 2007)
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