---
name: "Wash Westmoreland"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/wash-westmoreland"
fi1m_id: "wash-westmoreland"
imdb_id: "nm0922903"
tmdb_id: 82337
wikidata_id: "Q455482"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "4 March 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T23:16:13.273295+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Wash Westmoreland

## Identity

Wash Westmoreland

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/wash-westmoreland
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** wash-westmoreland
- **IMDb ID:** nm0922903
- **TMDB ID:** 82337
- **Wikidata ID:** Q455482
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_Westmoreland, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455482, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922903/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82337

Director. Born 4 March 1966 in Leeds, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 4 March 1966, Leeds, England, UK
- **Active:** 1998–2014
- **Also known as:** Wash West, Bobby Dazzler, Bud Light, Paul Westmoreland
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 directing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 81 (1), 2010s 77 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_Westmoreland, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455482, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922903/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82337

## Fi1m on Wash Westmoreland

> Wash Westmoreland’s patient, actor-led dramas are worth watching for the attention he pays to people who struggle to be understood. We value that care in *Still Alice*, though his storytelling can be too cautious to match his actors.

In *Still Alice* (2014), Julianne Moore gives us a woman whose intelligence remains apparent even as Alzheimer’s threatens it. Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland adapt Lisa Genova’s novel without letting the illness make Alice merely an occasion for other people to learn compassion. We were moved by Moore’s scenes with Kristen Stewart because they keep Alice worth listening to when listening becomes difficult. This is Westmoreland’s strength: staying interested in a person when a simpler film would settle for a diagnosis.

His earlier films with Glatzer explored sexuality, family and changing neighbourhoods. Their first feature collaboration, *The Fluffer* (2001), is set in the gay adult film industry, while *Quinceañera* (2006) follows family tensions in a gentrifying Los Angeles neighbourhood. Glatzer co-wrote and co-directed both, and it would be misleading to treat these films as Westmoreland’s work alone.

He carried work begun with Glatzer into his solo directing. *Colette* (2018), with Keira Knightley in the title role, grew from a script begun with Glatzer in 2001, with Rebecca Lenkiewicz also credited on the screenplay. The subject, a French writer, continues his interest in women and self-expression. *Earthquake Bird* (2019), adapted from Susanna Jones’s novel and set in 1980s Tokyo, takes him into psychological thriller territory. There, his reserve is less useful: neither the mystery nor the character study is compelling enough.

*Still Alice* remains our recommendation, with a reservation about the writing. Its conventional script asks a great deal of the actors, and Moore and Stewart supply the emotional force that the storytelling sometimes lacks. The restraint is welcome, but it can also feel like an unwillingness to try anything less familiar. We would like to see that trust in performers accompanied by greater boldness in how their stories are told. Start with Moore and Stewart, and do not expect the filmmaking to surprise you as much as they do.

## Biography

Wash Westmoreland is a British director and screenwriter. Born Paul Westmoreland in Leeds in 1966, he has worked in independent films, documentaries and television, often under earlier professional names including Wash West.

He frequently collaborated with his husband, writer-director Richard Glatzer, until Glatzer's death in 2015. Their films include *Quinceañera* (2006), which won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, and *Still Alice* (2014), for which they shared the Humanitas Prize; Julianne Moore won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Westmoreland later directed *Colette* (2018) and *Earthquake Bird* (2019).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *Velvet Goldmine* (1998), Fi1m 81, as Young Man — [page](https://film.one/film/velvet-goldmine.md)

### Directed (1) — the average rests on these

- *Still Alice* (2014), Fi1m 77, Director, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/still-alice.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Heartstopper Forever* (2026), Director
- *Earthquake Bird* (2019), Director, Screenplay
- *Colette* (2018), Director, Screenplay
- *The Black Ghiandola* (2017), Writer
- *Still Alice* (2014), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/still-alice.md)
- *The Last of Robin Hood* (2013), Director, Screenplay
- *Jason Adonis: Unseen* (2009), Director
- *Pedro* (2008), Producer
- *Jet Set: Big Dicks* (2008), Director
- *Quinceañera* (2006), Director, Writer
- *The Seven Deadly Sins: Redemption* (2005), Director
- *Jet Set Direct Take Two* (2005), Director
- *The Hole* (2004), Screenplay, Director
- *Gay Republicans* (2004), Director, Writer
- *Jet Set Direct Take One* (2004), Director
- *Porno Picture of Dorian Gray* (2004), Director
- *Totally Gay!* (2003), Director
- *Florida Erection* (2001), Director, Writer, Producer
- *The Fluffer* (2001), Director, Writer
- *Poolside with Dean Phoenix* (2001), Director of Photography
- *The Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony* (2001), Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
- *Devil Is a Bottom* (2000), Director, Writer
- *Mass Appeal* (1999), Director of Photography
- *Animus* (1999), Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer
- *Brothers in Arms* (1999), Director of Photography, Director, Writer
- *Velvet Goldmine* (1998), as Young Man — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/velvet-goldmine.md)
- *Genderella* (1998), Director of Photography
- *Dr. Jerkoff & Mr. Hard* (1997), Editor, Director, Director of Photography, Writer
- *Naked Highway* (1997), Director, Writer
- *Hustler White* (1996), as Porno Movie Crew · Assistant Camera, Lighting Camera
- *Toolbox* (1996), Director of Photography, Writer
- *The Hot Box Invasion* (1987), Gaffer
- *The Lusty Adventurer* (1985), Gaffer
- *Helen & Teacher*, Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![第32回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー ウォッシュ・ウェストモアランド (アースクエイクバード) (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/414664/gallery-01b55444de59.jpg) 第32回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー ウォッシュ・ウェストモアランド (アースクエイクバード) (2019) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Wash_Westmoreland_from_%22Earthquake_Bird%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2019_%2849014248992%29.jpg/1280px-Wash_Westmoreland_from_%22Earthquake_Bird%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2019_%2849014248992%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Wash Westmoreland](https://film.one/media/person/414664/gallery-230319281675.jpg) Wash Westmoreland — Red Carpet Report on Mingle Media TV from Culver City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Wash_Westmoreland_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Wash_Westmoreland_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Depicted person: Wash Westmoreland – American film director www.redcarpetreportv.com Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team with host Denise Salcedo wer (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/414664/gallery-54bda16b3e58.jpg) Depicted person: Wash Westmoreland – American film director www.redcarpetreportv.com Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team with host Denise Salcedo wer (2015) — Red Carpet Report on Mingle Media TV from Culver City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Wash_Westmoreland_at_the_2015_Media_Access_Awards_-MediaAccessAwards_-_DSC_0122_%2822225357888%29.jpg/1280px-Wash_Westmoreland_at_the_2015_Media_Access_Awards_-MediaAccessAwards_-_DSC_0122_%2822225357888%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Wash Westmoreland](https://film.one/media/person/414664/gallery-4389a82fa9ea.jpg) Wash Westmoreland — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Wash_Westmoreland_portait.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Independent Spirit Awards 2007: Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award (won), for *Quinceañera*
- Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award 2006: Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award (won), for *Quinceañera*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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