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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Biography from TMDB.
- November 8, 1989 (36)
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Director, writer, actor and producer
- 8 on MovieCove · 15 credits in all
What are Nia DaCosta's films like?
Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Morality.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 6
A split, not a type: Light 1 · Serious 1 · Dark 4
A split, not a type: Grounded 3 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 2
Gentle 0 · Charged 2 · Intense 4
Steady 2 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 2
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 1
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 2
Casual 0 · Engaged 5 · Full focus 1
A split, not a type: Easy watch 1 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 4
A split, not a type: Resolved 3 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet3
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Nia DaCosta's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 7 of their 8 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Nia DaCosta's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
15 credits, 8 with a MovieCove page; 4 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Hedda(2025)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
Too Much(2025)
Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all shows
The Marvels(2023)
Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all films
Candyman(2021)
Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all films
Industry(2020)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all shows
Top Boy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Little Woods(2018)
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all filmsOdessa (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
A Perfect Man(2013)
Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films
Night and Day (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Driver (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Sex Criminals (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Sleeping with the Enemy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
The Water Dancer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 15 titles, 11 of them dated from 2013 to 2026.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
Won a Sundance award in 2026, Fiction.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Nia DaCosta's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 40th percentile, the median of all 6; across their 6 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 52nd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th3
Shape of the crowd
6 of their 8 titles are Mixed.
- Crowd Pleaser2
- Mixed6
Reviewers score the atmosphere 70/100 and the pacing 46/100 in their films, across 5 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Nia DaCosta's work okay for kids?
Across up to 5 MovieCove titles with content scores, 1 of the 5 categories sits near the median of all films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Nia DaCosta work with?
People who share at least 2 of Nia DaCosta's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Sean Bobbitt shares the most, 3.
Actors
- Tessa ThompsonShared titles: Hedda (2025), Little Woods (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Tessa Thompson
- Teyonah ParrisShared titles: The Marvels (2023), Candyman (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Teyonah Parris
Composers, cinematographers and editors
- Sean BobbittShared titles: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026), Hedda (2025), The Marvels (2023)See all 3 shared titles with Sean Bobbitt
- Hildur GuðnadóttirShared titles: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026), Hedda (2025)See all 2 shared titles with Hildur Guðnadóttir
- Catrin HedströmShared titles: The Marvels (2023), Candyman (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Catrin Hedström
