Michael Winterbottom
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"Michael Winterbottom" is an English filmmaker. He began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his films — Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland (1999 film)/Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People — have been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

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.

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There's really only three people that should get any prize because of this film and that's the three people whose story it was.

The film tries to tell their story. We are trying to show what happened to them from their point of view. They are normal people simply caught up in events.

We are trying to show what happened to them from their point of view. In the end we are just trying to tell the story as it is. To tell the story of these three people, not to tell the general story.

The starting point was to tell (about) these three people, not to tell the general political situation. All the images you see -- it's hard to know whether it's deliberate or not, they sort of dehumanize the people there, you don't have any sense of what they're like.