Debra Granik

Quick Facts

Full Name	Debra Granik
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Feb 6, 1963(1963-02-06)
Age	61
Birthplace	Cambridge
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Aquarius

Debra Granik Biography

Debra Granik is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on February 6, 1963 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Independent film director who is best recognized as the director of the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Award-winning dramatic Winter’s Bone. Her debut film in 2004 Down to the Bone won her the Sundance Dramatic Directing Award.

The film Winter’s Bone helped launch Her film Winter’s Bone helped launch Jennifer Lawrence to super stardom. to super fame.

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.

Her birthplace was Cambridge, Massachusetts and raised in the suburbs of Washington D.C.

Debra Granik Net Worth

Debra Granik is one of the richest Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Debra Granik 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She studied politics in the political science department at Brandeis University, graduating with a BA degree in 1985. She began making documentary films to help trade unions right after school, and prior to attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts as part of their film programs.

In 1998 her film Snake Feed won a number of Sundance Film Festival awards.

Granik is the granddaughter of broadcast pioneer Ted Granik (1907–1970), 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.

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Who is Debra Granik Dating?

According to our records, Debra Granik married to Jonathan Scheuer. As of December 1, 2023, Debra Granik’s is not dating anyone.

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Interviewed by Jeremiah Kipp in Filmmaker in 2005, Granik discussed the challenges of directing a move like Down to the Bone. She gave an overview of the challenges involved in doing a film about addiction:

Facts & Trivia

Debra Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Debra Granik celebrates birthday on February 6 of every year.

Granik’s second feature, 2010’s Winter’s Bone, was an adaptation by Granik and Rosellini of the 2006 novel by Daniel Woodrell. It is the story of Ree Dolly, a teenager living in the Missouri’s Ozark Mountains who is the sole caretaker of her two younger siblings and her catatonic mother. She is forced to hunt down her missing drug-dealing father in order to save her family from eviction.

Top Facts about Debra Granik

1. Debra Granik is an American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.
2. She was born in 1963.
3. Her breakthrough film was “Winter’s Bone” (2010).
4. “Winter’s Bone” received four Oscar nominations.
5. Granik won the Best Director award at Sundance for “Leave No Trace” (2018).
6. She often focuses on marginalized communities in her films.
7. Granik has also directed documentaries and TV shows.
8. She studied political science before pursuing filmmaking.
9. Granik teaches at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
10. Her upcoming project is a documentary about beekeepers in North Carolina.