Biography
Michael Winterbottom 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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Shoshana
2024
Director, Producer, Writer
In this edge-of-your-seat thriller inspired by real events, a British police officer and a Jewish woman fall in love amidst the political turmoil of 1...

Eleven Days in May
2022
Director, Producer, Editor
Over the course of 11 days in May 2021, more than 60 children were killed in Gaza. They should never be forgotten. Narrated by Kate Winslet and with m...

Isolation
2021
Director, Writer
A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dramas caused in their own countries by the pandemic....

The Trip to Greece
2020
Director
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon continue their travelogue series with a visit to Greece.

Greed
2019
Screenplay, Director
A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.

The Wedding Guest
2019
Director, Writer, Producer
Jay is a man with a secret who travels from Britain to Pakistan to attend a wedding—armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to...

The Trip to Spain
2017
Director, Writer
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a road trip along the coast of Spain.

On the Road
2016
Director
North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were it not for their tightness as a group. In summer o...

The Emperor's New Clothes
2015
Director, Writer
An uproarious critique of the world financial crisis. Building on actor, comedian, and provocateur Russell Brand’s emergence as an activist following ...

The Face of an Angel
2014
Director
Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.

The Trip to Italy
2014
Writer, Director
Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern Britain, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy.

Hello Carter
2013
Executive Producer
Down-on-his-luck Carter has recently become homeless, single and unemployed. Desperate to win back his ex-girlfriend, he goes off on an adventure thro...

What Is Cinema?
2013
as Self
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, Da...

The Look of Love
2013
Director
Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, De...

Everyday
2012
Director, Writer
This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few week...

Trishna
2011
Director, Screenplay, Producer
When her father is killed in a road accident, Trishna's family expect her to provide for them. The rich son of an entrepreneur starts to restlessly pu...

The Trip
2011
Director, Writer
When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfri...

The Killer Inside Me
2010
Director, Writer
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little...

The Shock Doctrine
2009
Director
An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror t...

Genova
2009
Director, Writer, Producer
A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genoa changes all three of them ...

A Mighty Heart
2007
Director
Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.

Snow Cake
2006
Executive Producer
A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.

The Road to Guantanamo
2006
Producer, Director, Editor
Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two ye...

A Cock and Bull Story
2005
Director
Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opin...

Top Spot
2004
Executive Producer
Traumatic experiences shape the lives of a group of teenage girls living in the seaside town of Margate.

9 Songs
2004
Producer, Editor, Director
Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet a...

Bright Young Things
2003
Executive Producer
During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the a...

Code 46
2003
Director
In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passport...

Heartlands
2003
Executive Producer
Gentle Colin 'Col' Lawes happily lead a quiet life, running a news agency with his soiled-rotten wife Sandra and playing competition darts in the Atle...

In This World
2003
Director
Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enay...

24 Hour Party People
2002
Director
Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changi...

The Claim
2000
Director
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who ...

With or Without You
1999
Director
Rosie and Vincent know each other for ten years, and are married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her dad. They'r...

Wonderland
1999
Director
There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, p...

I Want You
1998
Director
A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.

Resurrection Man
1998
Executive Producer
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter...

Welcome to Sarajevo
1997
Director
Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks wh...

Jude
1996
Director
In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is t...

Go Now
1995
Director
Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibi...

Butterfly Kiss
1995
Director
Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial murders of both men and women while ostensibly se...

Family
1994
Director
This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusiv...

Love Lies Bleeding
1993
Director
Conn, a member of the IRA and a former hunger striker, is serving a life sentence for murder. During peace talks, he is released on a 24-hour parole a...

Under the Sun
1992
Story, Director
Kate Hardie plays a shy 19-year-old bookworm setting out on a world trip, only to be stranded at Málaga after her companion goes off with a local loth...
Forget About Me
1990
Director
Two Scottish soldiers stationed in Germany head to Budapest to see a Simple Minds concert and fall for a local girl.

Rosie the Great
1989
Director
The British Government wants to ruin the island of Longsea with a military base that they’re pushing forward with even after the Island’s council demo...

Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
1988
Director
The first of two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman produced to mark his 70th birthday. Includes behind the scenes "home movies" from Bergman's person...
A Farewell to Arms
N/A
Executive Producer, Director, Writer
A volunteer ambulance driver, Frederic Henry, is wounded and falls in love with his nurse in Italy during World War One.
Gaza Year Zero
N/A
Director
A 13-year-old boy and his family try to survive in a country destroyed by war.