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Nia DaCosta
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Nia DaCostaĀ (born November 8, 1989) is an American filmmaker. She rose to prominence with her feature-length directorial debut,Ā Little Woods (2018), a crime thriller, which won theĀ Nora Ephron PrizeĀ for Female Filmmakers at theĀ Tribeca Film Festival.
After working on other projects, most notably directing two episodes of the British thriller seriesĀ Top BoyĀ 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 filmĀ CandymanĀ (2021). She then became the first black woman to direct aĀ Marvel ComicsĀ film withĀ The MarvelsĀ (2023), which, despite being aĀ box-office bomb, became the highest-grossing film directed by a blā¦
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Nia DaCostaĀ (born November 8, 1989) is an American filmmaker. She rose to prominence with her feature-length directorial debut,Ā Little Woods (2018), a crime thriller, which won theĀ Nora Ephron PrizeĀ for Female Filmmakers at theĀ Tribeca Film Festival. After working on other projects, most notably directing two episodes of the British thriller seriesĀ Top BoyĀ 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 filmĀ CandymanĀ (2021). She then became the first black woman to direct aĀ Marvel ComicsĀ film withĀ The MarvelsĀ (2023), which, despite being aĀ 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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