Michael Winterbottom

Actress Megan Fox appears at the "Jennifer's Body" Hot Topic Fan Event on September 16, 2009.

Celebrity Tattoos

Megan Fox, Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp are just a few illustrated stars

Actress Amanda Seyfried speaks onstage at the "Jennifer's Body" press conference held on September 11, 2009.

AskMen.com's Most Desirable Women

99 lovely ladies from around the globe

Nationality: British

Birthdate: 03/29/1961

Birthplace: Blackburn, Lancastershire, England, United Kingdom

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, and made the transition to director via two well-received documentaries, "Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern" and "Ingmar Bergman: The Director" (both 1988), profiling the revered Swedish filmmaker. Winterbottom then formed a semi-regular working relationship with screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce when

A Mighty Heart

Director

2007

Snow Cake

Executive Producer

2007

The Road To Guantanamo

Director

2006

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

Director

2006

9 Songs

Screenplay

2005

9 Songs

Producer

2005

9 Songs

Director

2005

Bright Young Things

Executive Producer

2004

Code 46

Director

2004

In This World

Director

2003

24 Hour Party People

Director

2002

The Claim

Director

2000

Wonderland

Director

2000

Resurrection Man

Executive Producer

1998

Go Now

Director

1998

Welcome to Sarajevo

Director

1997

Jude

Director

1996

Butterfly Kiss

Director

1996

Heartlands

Producer

Genova

Screenplay

The Shock Doctrine

Screenplay

1974: The Red Riding Trilogy Part 1

Producer

1983: The Red Riding Trilogy Part 3

Producer

Genova

Director

Under the Sun

from screen story

1980: The Red Riding Trilogy Part 2

Producer

Producer

Director

Director

Director

Director

Director

Director

Year

Milestone

Grew up in Blackburn

First worked in the film and TV industries with a job in the cutting room at Thames Television

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)

1989

First worked with screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce on the made-for-TV young adult dramas, "The Strangers" and "Forget About Me"

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"