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Nia DaCosta

Directing 36 November 8, 1989

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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 th…

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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 of contributors on Wikipedia.

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2026
Tribeca 25
Movie Self
2026
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
Movie Self
2026
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Movie Director
2025
Hedda
Movie Director
2025
Too Much
TV show Jocelyn
2024
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of The Marvels
Movie Self - Co-Writer / Director
2023
The Marvels
Movie Writer
2021
Behind the Monsters
TV show Self
2021
Candyman
Movie Screenplay
2020
Industry
TV show Beye Cyalader
2019
Top Boy
TV show Director
2019
Little Woods
Movie Director
2014
Odessa
Movie Second Unit Director
2013
A Perfect Man
Movie Additional Camera
2013
Night and Day
Movie Director
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Sex Criminals
TV show Director