David Crank
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| Occupation(s) | Production designer, Art designer |
| Years active | 1990-present |
David Crank is an American production designer and art director. His production designer credits include Rian Johnson's Knives Out, plus art director credits on various films including Stephen Spielberg's Lincoln, There Will Be Blood, The Master, and Water for Elephants.
Crank grew up in Richmond, Virginia[1] and graduated from William and Mary with a degree in studio art in 1982.[2] He also received a Theatre Design MFA degree from Carnegie-Mellon.[1]
Crank started out in theater, designing sets and then changed to working in film starting around 1990.[3] He was the Art Director on three of Terrence Malick's films, including The New World(2005) and The Tree of Life(2011). Crank was on the production team that won the 2012 Satellite Award for Best Art Direction and Production Design for Lincoln (and was also nominated that same year for The Master).[4] Crank's production design work on Knives Out was integral to the film's world, including the fact that he turned different locations into the film's main setting, the mansion of mystery author Harlan Thrombey.[5][6]
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