Nia DaCosta

Personal Info

Known ForDirecting
Born1989-11-08
BirthplaceBrooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Nia DaCosta

Directing

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.

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Filmography

Acting (3)

Production & Directing (19)

2025
HeddaDirector
5.5
2025
HeddaProducer
5.5
2025
HeddaWriter
5.5
2023
5.9
2023
The MarvelsDirector
5.9
2021
CandymanScreenplay
6.0
2021
CandymanDirector
6.0
2019
Little WoodsDirector
5.4
2019
Little WoodsScreenplay
5.4
2014
OdessaSecond Unit Director
5.5
2013
A Perfect ManAdditional Camera
4.0
2013
2013
2013
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DriverDirector