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British film director (born 1961)

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Michael Winterbottom is a person from the United Kingdom. He was born on March 29, 1961.

He is listed as an author with 18 works. His top works include Cicero, de Oratore Libri III, Bd. 5, Life of St Aldhelm, Gesta Regum Anglorum Vol. 2, Quintilian, and Major Declamations, Volume I. Additionally, he has five works indexed in Crossref.

In music databases, he is categorized as a person artist with 911 plays and 427 listeners. He is referenced by 459 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 13 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
18

Top works

  • Cicero, de Oratore Libri III, Bd. 5
  • Life of St Aldhelm
  • Gesta Regum Anglorum Vol. 2
  • Quintilian
  • Major Declamations, Volume I

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1894-02-22
Active to
1951-09-11

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
427
Total plays
911

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Michael+Winterbottom">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Michael Winterbottom

Key facts

Born
( 1961-03-29 ) 29 March 1961 (age 65) , Blackburn , Lancashire , England
Alma mater
Balliol College, Oxford ;, Bristol University
Occupation
Film director

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Michael
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Blackburn
Occupation
director
Educated at
Balliol College
Languages spoken
English language
Image
Michael Winterbottom 2013.JPG
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Commons category
Michael Winterbottom
date of birth
1961-03-29
name in native language
Michael Winterbottom
has works in the collection
Museum of Modern Art
Sources (7)

via Wikidata · CC0

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Encyclopedic overview

Michael Winterbottom (born 29 March 1961) is an English film director. 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 competed for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He and co-director Mat Whitecross won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival for their work on The Road to Guantanamo.

His production company, Revolution Films, has a first-look deal with Fremantle.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Michael Winterbottom” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.