Joshua Marston's first film, Maria Full of Grace, received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, and won the New York Film Critics Circle award for Best First Film and the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. Marston's third film, Complete Unknown, is set in Brooklyn and stars Rachel Weisz, Michael Shannon, Kathy Bates and Danny Glover. His second film, The Forgiveness of Blood, had its world premiere at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival, where it was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay, and is available on the Criterion Collection. Marston is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship (2014). He also directed the Coney Island section of New York I Love You, starring Cloris Leachman and Eli Wallach, and has directed episodes of The Newsroom, Six Feet Under, American Crime, Law & Order, In Treatment, and The Good Wife. Marston received an MA in Political Science from the University of Chicago and an MFA in filmmaking from New York University.