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name: "Celia D. Costas"
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roles: ["Producer"]
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average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 6
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licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Celia D. Costas

Producer. Born in Brooklyn, New York.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 1992–present
- **Also known as:** Celia Costas, セリア・コスタス
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as producer, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 86 (1), 2000s 76 (3), 2010s 82 (1), 2020s 61 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 76 to 69 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Crime 2, Mystery 2, Comedy 1, History 1, Horror 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $412m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_D._Costas, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27811353, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0182472/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4183

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Angels in America*](https://film.one/tv/angels-in-america.md) (83)

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## Biography

Celia D. Costas is an American film and television producer. She began her career in the late 1970s as a production assistant and location manager on films including *Sophie's Choice* (1982) and *The Cotton Club* (1984), later advancing to unit production manager and line producer roles on titles such as *Sleepy Hollow* (1999) and *Meet Joe Black* (1998).

She has served as producer or executive producer on numerous projects, including the HBO miniseries *Angels in America* (2003), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Producers Guild of America Award, and the television film *Warm Springs* (2005), which earned her a second Emmy. Other credits include executive producer on *Closer* (2004), *The Intern* (2015), *The Girl on the Train* (2016), *A Quiet Place* (2018), *tick, tick... BOOM!* (2021) and *A Man Called Otto* (2022). She is a member of the advisory board of the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, qgazette.com.*

## On Fi1m (6)

- *The Undoing* (2020), Fi1m 61, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-undoing.md)
- *A Quiet Place* (2018), Fi1m 82, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/a-quiet-place.md)
- *Che: Part One* (2008), Fi1m 72, Production Manager, Line Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/che-part-one.md)
- *Angels in America* (2003), Fi1m 83, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/angels-in-america.md)
- *Zoolander* (2001), Fi1m 74, Unit Production Manager, Co-Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/zoolander.md)
- *Glengarry Glen Ross* (1992), Fi1m 86, Unit Production Manager — [page](https://film.one/film/glengarry-glen-ross.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Instigators* (2024), Executive Producer
- *A Man Called Otto* (2022), Executive Producer
- *tick, tick... BOOM!* (2021), Executive Producer
- *The Undoing* (2020), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-undoing.md)
- *A Quiet Place* (2018), Executive Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/a-quiet-place.md)
- *The Girl on the Train* (2016), Executive Producer
- *The Intern* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Into the Woods* (2014), Thanks
- *August: Osage County* (2013), Executive Producer
- *Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close* (2011), Executive Producer
- *Taking Woodstock* (2009), Executive Producer
- *Doubt* (2008), Unit Production Manager, Executive Producer
- *Che: Part One* (2008), Line Producer, Production Manager — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/che-part-one.md)
- *Charlie Wilson's War* (2007), Executive Producer
- *Closer* (2004), Executive Producer
- *Angels in America* (2003), series, Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/angels-in-america.md)
- *Zoolander* (2001), Co-Producer, Unit Production Manager — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/zoolander.md)
- *28 Days* (2000), Producer
- *Sleepy Hollow* (1999), Line Producer
- *Meet Joe Black* (1998), Unit Production Manager, Associate Producer
- *Night Falls on Manhattan* (1997), Unit Production Manager
- *Private Parts* (1997), Co-Producer
- *The Pelican Brief* (1993), Unit Production Manager
- *Glengarry Glen Ross* (1992), Unit Production Manager — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/glengarry-glen-ross.md)
- *Blue Steel* (1990), Assistant Unit Manager
- *Unaccustomed Earth*, series, Executive Producer

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