Enlightened at Oxford, Winterbottom so attend film school at Bristol University. He began his career working within British television before moving into features. 3 of his motion-picture show, Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People have been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Career
Winterbottom's television career involved such diverse projects when a mystery series Cracker, the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, two docudrama all about Ingmar Bergman, many television moving picture & an episode of the series "Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood," focusing in Scandinavian silent cinema. He as well directed a celebrated mini-series "Family," written by Roddy Doyle, by using every of 4 episodes focusing in of these member of the working-class Belfast personal. It was this series that 1st brought Winterbottom to the attention of motion-picture fan, after it was edited down into the feature.

His 1st theatrical feature, 1995's "Butterfly Kiss," firmly established his vivid visual feel, realistic style & compelling utilise of popular songs to reinforce tale. the story of a mentally imbalanced sapphic serial killer & her subservient lover/accomplice falling gaga when it slaughter their way through the freeway of northern England, it observed sole a limited release.

That equivalent month, he reteamed by having Jimmy McGovern, writer of Cracker, for the powerful BBC television film "Go Now", a story of a young human world health organization lessens sick by using Multiple Sclerosis even as he has met the love of his life. Focusing on a turmoil this is a causal agent of the few, the film was given a theatrical release around numbers of countries, including the U.s.a..

Inside 1996 he adapted his special novel, Thomas Hardy's bleak classic Jude the Obscure, the tale of proscribed love between ii first couswithin which therefore scandalized British society in its release in 1895 that Healthy gave higher writing. It was non Winterbottom's number 1 instance approaching a act, he experienced already filmed a pig slaughter sequence it used to be that at film school. Starring the lucent, pre-stardom Kate Winslet, Jude brought Winterbottom wider recognition, his first screening at Cannes & many Hollywood offers, everthing of which he one of these days turned down.

Welcome to Sarajevo was filmed on location therein city, mere months when a fight there got ended, adding greatly to its legitimacy & letting frequent intercutting of actual news footage from either a besieging. a film is according to truth story of the British newsperson, Michael Nicholson, world health organization spirited a immature orphaned girl away from the hellish warzone to safety inside Britain.

His next ii films each got distribution difficulties & were non widely seen. "I Want You" occurs as neo-noir sex thriller, shot around bold primary colors per noted Polish camera operator Slawomir Idziak and set around the decaying seaside resort. Starring Rachel Weisz and Alessandro Nivola, it focuses more in mood than plot & was inspired per Elvis Costello song of the equivalent title. "With or Without You", starring Christopher Eccleston, is a lightly Belfast-placed sex comedy, all about two or three world health organization come trying desperately to conceive, just to every use past loves re-enter their endures.

1999's Wonderland marked a distinct shift in vogue for Winterbottom, sustaining its free, handheld photography & realistic, typically makeshift dialogue drawing comparisons to Robert Altman. the story of ternion sisters & their extended personal across a Guy Fawkes Day weekend around London, a disparate elements come attached toegther by a sweeping orchestral score by minimalist composer Michael Nyman who would become the frequent Winterbottom collaborator.

Winterbottom followed that design higher by owning his large budgeted film, The Claim, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge set in 1860's California. Shot in the wilds of Canadthe for on top $20 Million, it was non a fiscal profits & proved an ordeal to produce, using Winterbottom himself contracting cryopathy. A production got antecedently been ready to shoot around Spain, by having sets already built, while funding fell across. Tries were manufactured to cast Madonna, in the role yet played by Milla Jovovich & many of the productiin details and difficulties were explained to the public on an outstandingly frank official site.

24 Hour Party People documents the anarchic, drug & sex-fuelled rise & fall of the influential label Factory Records and the music scene within Manchester from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s. As much an ode to the city of Manchester as a story of the contemporary musical globe, the film stars Steve Coogan as broadcaster cum music-mogul Tony Wilson. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274309/]

His 2002 film In This World depicts the excruciating journeying of 2 Afghan refugees from Pakistan, through a Middle East & Europe when it try to enter Britain sustaining a serve of people smugglers. Shot in digital videos by using non-sales person actors world health organization virtually lived out the cases of the film, its compelling feel of reality brought Winterbotom many awards including a Golden Bear and a BAFTA for best film non in the English language.

A futurist romanticist mystery Code 46 is a retelling of the Oedipus myth, in the globe in which cloning has created population then interrelated it must have a end line text prior to coupling without doubt it is non genetically related. Fundamentally the film noir, it follows the personal eye played by Tim Robbins as he investigates a femme fatale played by Samantha Morton. A film's extremely stylised settings were created in a limited budget by ingesting the flyspeck crew as much as the world, shooting in situ which already browsed such as a single hundred years later. Great deal of the film was shot around Shanghai, while Dubai and Rajasthan in India were also multifariously mixed to produce the multi-multiethnic melting-pot culture.

9 Songs, released within 2004, gained attention as the virtually all sexually expressed film ever to receive a certificate for general release in the UK. It stock and index charts a year-long relationship between ii lovers, about solely across their intimate interaction. Alternating by having a sex scenes come various rock concerts a few attend at London's Brixton Academy and other venues, a songs played at which give a film its title. A film became infamous in the U.K. for its candid scenes of unsimulated sex between a leads, (Kieran O'Brien and Margo Stilley.[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411705/]

Winterbottom's virtually all recent film, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, is an adaptation of the famously unfilmable The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, one of the earliest novels. Intentional as the film all about a making of a film of "Tristram Shandy," it stars Steve Coogan when himself & as Shandygaff and Jeremy Northam as a director based on Winterbottom. A film screened to neat profits & enthusiastic reviews at a Toronto Film Festival & opens in the Usa this fall.

He is presently at act in his next film, The Road to Guantánamo, a television docu-infotainment just about a "Tipton Three," three British Muslims captured by United states forces within Afghanistan world health organization spent ii years when captive at Guantánamo Bay when "enemy combatants".

Within 2004, his ex-ex, Sabrina Broadbent, published her number 1 novel, "Descent," the thinly veiled account of their marriage. Ms. Broadbent was antecedently a winner of a WH Smith Raw Talent Award & the novel received caring reviews. She sleep in Northward London using their toddlers.

Filmography
Butterfly Kiss (1995) Go Now (1995) Jude (1996) Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) I Want You (1998/I) With or Without You (1999) Wonderland (1999) The Claim (2000) 24 Hour Party People (2002) In This World (2002) Code 46 (2003) 9 Songs (2004) Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005) The Road to Guantánamo (2005)