Debra Granik (born February 6, 1963) is an American filmmaker. She is
most known for 2004's Down to the Bone, which starred Vera Farmiga,
2010's Winter's Bone, which starred Jennifer Lawrence in her breakout
performance and for which Granik was nominated for Academy Award for
Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and 2018's Leave No Trace, a
film based on the book My Abandonment by Peter Rock.Granik was born in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, to father William R. Granik, who was an
attorney with H.U.D. who litigated fair housing, and mother Brenda
Granik Zusman. She grew up in the suburbs of Washington D.C. Her
parents divorced in 1978.Granik is the granddaughter of broadcast
pioneer Ted Granik (1907â€"1970), founder and moderator of the
long-run public affairs panel discussion program, The American Forum
of the Air, on from 1934 to 1956, first on the radio and later on
television. Granik is from a Jewish family.In 1985, Granik received
her B.A. in political science from Brandeis University. As an
undergraduate at Brandeis, Granik also took classes at the Studio for
Interrelated Media at the Massachusetts College of Art. In 2001,
Granik received an MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
most known for 2004's Down to the Bone, which starred Vera Farmiga,
2010's Winter's Bone, which starred Jennifer Lawrence in her breakout
performance and for which Granik was nominated for Academy Award for
Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and 2018's Leave No Trace, a
film based on the book My Abandonment by Peter Rock.Granik was born in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, to father William R. Granik, who was an
attorney with H.U.D. who litigated fair housing, and mother Brenda
Granik Zusman. She grew up in the suburbs of Washington D.C. Her
parents divorced in 1978.Granik is the granddaughter of broadcast
pioneer Ted Granik (1907â€"1970), founder and moderator of the
long-run public affairs panel discussion program, The American Forum
of the Air, on from 1934 to 1956, first on the radio and later on
television. Granik is from a Jewish family.In 1985, Granik received
her B.A. in political science from Brandeis University. As an
undergraduate at Brandeis, Granik also took classes at the Studio for
Interrelated Media at the Massachusetts College of Art. In 2001,
Granik received an MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
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