FILM DIRECTOR

Michael Winterbottom

1961 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Winterbottom has received more than 922,702 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Winterbottom is the 1,417th most popular film director (down from 1,277th in 2019), the 4,851st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,460th in 2019) and the 105th most popular British Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 920k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Michael Winterbottoms by language

Over the past year Michael Winterbottom has had the most page views in the with 104,784 views, followed by Italian (6,893), and French (6,104). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (108.22%), Galician (43.23%), and Arabic (27.88%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Michael Winterbottom ranks 1,417 out of 2,041. Before him are Bruno Delbonnel, Arne Skouen, Basil Dearden, Joe Roth, Michael Ritchie, and Mike Judge. After him are Victor Schertzinger, Melvin Frank, Stuart Baird, Tarsem Singh, László Nemes, and Pavel Chukhray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Michael Winterbottom ranks 405. Before him are Monika Fagerholm, Jorge Da Silva, Željko Buvač, Sam Robards, K.d. lang, and Simon Russell Beale. After him are Antonella Mularoni, Bernard Casoni, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, William Ayache, Tarsem Singh, and Amy Sedaris.

Others Born in 1961

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Winterbottom ranks 4,851 out of 8,785. Before him are Jonathan Penrose (1933), Peter Sallis (1921), Edward Lhuyd (1660), Ray Kennedy (1951), Mark Mazower (1958), and Nick Land (1962). After him are Graeme Obree (1965), Charles Rosher (1885), Mackenzie Bowell (1823), Andrew Ainslie Common (1841), Æthelberht II of East Anglia (800), and Dawn French (1957).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Michael Winterbottom ranks 105. Before him are Sam Taylor-Johnson (1967), Michael Caton-Jones (1957), Mike Hodges (1932), A. Edward Sutherland (1895), Geoffrey Unsworth (1914), and Basil Dearden (1911). After him are Stuart Baird (1947), Irving Rapper (1898), Clive Donner (1926), Peter Lord (1953), Val Guest (1911), and Peter Glenville (1913).

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Filmography

The Killer Inside Me
Director
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 slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.
Feb 19o 20105.827 / 10
9 Songs
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 at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.
Jul 16o 20045.595 / 10
24 Hour Party People
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-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.
Feb 13o 20026.898 / 10