Director
Nia DaCosta
Born November 8, 1989 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA9 films
Nia DaCosta (born November 8, 1989) is an American filmmaker. She rose to prominence with her feature-length directorial debut, Little Woods (2018), a crime thriller, which won the Nora Ephron Prize for Female Filmmakers at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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After working on other projects, most notably directing two episodes of the British thriller series Top Boy in 2019, DaCosta became the first Black female director to debut at No. 1 at the U.S. box office for the weekend opening of the horror film Candyman (2021). She then became the first black woman to direct a Marvel Comics film with The Marvels (2023), which, despite being a box-office bomb, became the highest-grossing film directed by a black woman.
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9 films as director- TBAThe Water DancerDirector
- TBASleeping with the EnemyDirector
- TBADriverDirector
- 202628 Years Later: The Bone TempleDirector
- 2025HeddaDirector
- 2023The MarvelsDirector
- 2021CandymanDirector
- 2019Little WoodsDirector
- 2013Night and DayDirector