Nia DaCosta\u00a0(born November 8, 1989) is an American filmmaker. She rose to prominence with her feature-length directorial debut,\u00a0Little Woods (2018), a crime thriller, which won the\u00a0Nora Ephron Prize\u00a0for Female Filmmakers at the\u00a0Tribeca Film Festival.<\/p>\n
After working on other projects, most notably directing two episodes of the British thriller series\u00a0Top Boy\u00a0in 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\u00a0Candyman\u00a0(2021). She then became the first black woman to direct a\u00a0Marvel Comics\u00a0film with\u00a0The Marvels\u00a0(2023), which, despite being a\u00a0box-office bomb, became the highest-grossing film directed by a black woman.<\/p>\n
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Nia DaCosta\u00a0(born November 8, 1989) is an American filmmaker. She rose to prominence with her feature-length directorial debut,\u00a0Little Woods (2018), a crime thriller, which won the\u00a0Nora Ephron Prize\u00a0for Female Filmmakers at the\u00a0Tribeca Film Festival. After working on other projects, most notably directing two episodes of the British thriller series\u00a0Top Boy\u00a0in 2019, DaCosta became the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-31042","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n