He also starred in The Shawshank Redemption and, more recently, Michael Winterbottom's Code 46.

BBC: Zeta Jones won a best supporting actress Oscar for Chicago

Directed by the prolific Michael Winterbottom, it had its first UK screening in February at the Glasgow Film Festival.

BBC: Sundance London film festival announces 2013 line-up

Graduates include filmmakers Michael Winterbottom, cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, who has worked on Atonement, We Need To Talk About Kevin and Avengers Assemble plus Senna director Asif Kapadia.

BBC: Historic Regent Street Cinema to be restored

Noted director Michael Winterbottom is interested in making a movie about Knox, with Oscar-winning actor Colin Firth starring as a journalist covering the trial, the Guardian reports.

CNN: No end to Knox as pop culture obsession

The director, Michael Winterbottom, working from a script by John Orloff, has turned Mariane Pearl's memoir into a relentlessly intense drama about the search for her husband, as well as her search for meaning in his death.

WSJ: Film Review

Most recently: Genova, directed by Michael Winterbottom.

BBC: Last Updated: Thursday, 28 February 2008, 16:37 GMT