1. Wash Westmoreland frequently collaborated with his husband, writer-director Richard Glatzer.
16 Facts About Wash Westmoreland
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Wash Westmoreland's father was a maintenance engineer for the CEGB and his mother worked as a receptionist at a local hair salon.
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Wash Westmoreland earned his college degree in Politics and East Asian Studies at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Fukuoka University in Japan, graduating in 1990.
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Wash Westmoreland moved to the United States in 1992, initially living in New York City, then moving to New Orleans and finally to Los Angeles in 1995.
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Wash Westmoreland got a job directing for BIG Video, a minor label, and under the name Wash West he started making movies that challenged the conventional norms of the industry.
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Wash Westmoreland directed the cat-and-mouse thriller Animus, sci-fi based Technical Ecstasy, and The Devil is a Bottom, which was listed in the LA Weekly staff's annual list of favorite movies in 2000.
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Wash Westmoreland appeared briefly in Velvet Goldmine by director Todd Haynes.
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Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland started researching the screenplay in 2003, earning the trust of Florence's daughter, Beverly, and the friendship of author Tedd Thomey and Flynn's chauffeur in his final years, Ronnie Shedlo.
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In December 2011, Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland were hired by UK-based producing duo, Lex Lutzus and James Brown, to adapt Lisa Genova's book, Still Alice, about a fifty-year-old linguistics professor who develops early onset Alzheimer's disease.
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Glatzer had been diagnosed with ALS a few months prior to accepting the job; he and Wash Westmoreland communicated through an iPad when his physical state had deteriorated.
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Wash Westmoreland was joined by Kristen Stewart and Kate Bosworth, who had been a long time fan of the book and had a grandmother who suffered from dementia.
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Wash Westmoreland dedicated her award to Glatzer in her acceptance speech.
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Wash Westmoreland was later joined by Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson, and Denise Gough.
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In 2019, Wash Westmoreland was a jury member for the BFI London Film Festival, where his next film Earthquake Bird premiered.
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Wash Westmoreland met his directing and writing partner Richard Glatzer in 1995.
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Wash Westmoreland worked at the power station all his life, and he was very interested in cinema.