Nia DaCostaΒ (born November 8, 1989) is an American filmmaker. She rose to prominence with her feature-length directorial debut,Β Little Woods (2018), a crime thriller, which won theΒ Nora Ephron PrizeΒ for Female Filmmakers at theΒ Tribeca Film Festival.
After working on other projects, most notably directing two episodes of the British thriller seriesΒ Top BoyΒ 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 filmΒ CandymanΒ (2021). She then became the first black woman to direct aΒ Marvel ComicsΒ film withΒ The MarvelsΒ (2023), which, despite being aΒ box-office bomb, became the highest-grossing film directed by a black woman.
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