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Michael Winterbottom (born 29 March 1961) is a prolific English filmmaker who has directed seventeen feature films in the past fifteen years. He began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his films — Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People — have been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Michael often works with the same actors, many faces can be seen in several of his films, including Shirley Henderson, Paul Popplewell, John Simm, Steve Coogan. Winterbottom was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. He went to... MORE

Michael Winterbottom (born 29 March 1961) is a prolific English filmmaker who has directed seventeen feature films in the past fifteen years. He began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his films — Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People — have been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Michael often works with the same actors, many faces can be seen in several of his films, including Shirley Henderson, Paul Popplewell, John Simm, Steve Coogan. Winterbottom was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. He went to Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, taking his O Levels in an accelerated four years, and then studied English at Balliol College, Oxford before going to film school at Bristol University, where his contemporaries included Marc Evans. Winterbottom's television career included such diverse projects as the pilot of Jimmy McGovern's mystery series Cracker, four television movies, an episode of the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman and an episode of the documentary series Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood focusing on Scandinavian silent cinema. He also directed the LESS