Nia DaCosta (born November 8, 1989, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) is a filmmaker who, at age 34, became the youngest director and the first African American woman to helm a Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film, with the 2023 superhero sequel The Marvels. Her critically acclaimed feature film debut, the crime drama Little Woods (2018), won the Nora Ephron Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. In 2021 she collaborated with filmmaker Jordan Peele for a commercially and critically successful reboot of the slasher film Candyman.