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Nia DaCosta

Director

Nia DaCosta Movies, Biography & Filmography

DirectorKnown for Directing5 MovieFrost credits

Birthday

November 8, 1989

Birthplace

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Gender

Female

TMDb popularity

0.8

Biography

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

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

2026 • Movie

Director

Industry

Industry

2020 • TV

Beye Cyalader

Top Boy

Top Boy

2019 • TV

Director

The Marvels

The Marvels

2023 • Movie

Writer

Too Much

Too Much

2025 • TV

Jocelyn

Candyman

Candyman

2021 • Movie

Screenplay

Behind the Monsters

Behind the Monsters

2021 • TV

Self

Hedda

Hedda

2025 • Movie

Director

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of The Marvels

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of The Marvels

2024 • Movie

Self - Co-Writer / Director

Little Woods

Little Woods

2019 • Movie

Director

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