Nia DaCosta

Known for DirectingBorn 1989-11-08 (age 36)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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Top Boy

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

Industry

Candyman

The Marvels

Too Much

Behind the Monsters

Hedda

Odessa

Little Woods

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of The Marvels

A Perfect Man

Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean

Night and Day

The Water Dancer

Sleeping with the Enemy

Driver

Sex Criminals