

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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nia DaCosta, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list…
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2026 • Movie
Director

Industry
2020 • TV
Beye Cyalader

Top Boy
2019 • TV
Director

The Marvels
2023 • Movie
Writer

Too Much
2025 • TV
Jocelyn

Candyman
2021 • Movie
Screenplay

Behind the Monsters
2021 • TV
Self

Hedda
2025 • Movie
Director

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of The Marvels
2024 • Movie
Self - Co-Writer / Director

Little Woods
2019 • Movie
Director
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