He currently resides in England, United Kingdom.

In 1991 he directed episodes of various British TV shows, including the 4-part children's series Time Riders and an episode of Boon. He is a director and producer, known for Genova (2008), A Mighty Heart (2007) and In This World (2002).

It premiered at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival and Winterbottom later won the Silver Shell for best Director at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Genova is a family drama about an Englishman, played by Colin Firth, who moves his two American daughters to Italy following the death of his wife. His 2007 drama A Mighty Heart earned Angelina Jolie a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. Michael, as a film director, commenced a specialist career employed in different British tv before switching into features. It premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and caused controversy for the realistic brutality of its violence toward women. 1999's Wonderland marked a decided shift in style for Winterbottom, with its loose, handheld photography and naturalistic, often improvised dialogue which drew comparisons to Robert Altman.

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The screenplay was written by Winterbottom and Laurence Coriat. In 1992 he directed the television film Under the Sun about a young British woman traveling in Greece, starring Kate Hardie. The episodes were edited down into a feature film which premiered at the Toronto International Film festival in September 2010, while the full series aired on BBC Two starting in November, 2010. Sunday April 26 2009, 1.00am, The Sunday Times. 0 13 3 minutes read. Known during its lengthy production variously as Seven Days and then Here and There, the film stars John Simm as a man imprisoned for drug-smuggling and charts his relationship with his wife, played by Shirley Henderson. His career began with diverse projects like the mystery TV series Cracker and two documentaries about Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. Idziak won an Honourable Mention award at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival for his work on the film. . Winterbottom often works with the same actors; many faces can be seen in several of his films, including Shirley Henderson, Paul Popplewell, John Simm, Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Raymond Waring and Kieran O’Brien. Winterbottom followed that project up with his biggest budgeted film, The Claim, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge set in 1860s California. Sturgess and Macfadyen were to play two British police officers hunting Zionist militant Avraham Stern, while Firth would play an official of the British Mandate government.
Winterbottom's next two films both had distribution difficulties and were not widely seen. His birth flower is Daffodil and birthstone is Aquamarine. It will be written by Paul Viragh, based on an earlier script by Alessandro Camon. Michael Winterbottom. The film, hosted by Comedian Russell Brand, looks at the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and global economic inequality.
The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.