James Costa is an American documentary film producer whose credits include the Oscar-nominated Welcome to Chechnya (2020), Queendom (2023), Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024), and The Dating Game (2025), alongside earlier work on Hidden Letters. He is a member of the Producers Guild of America and BAFTA, and serves on the National Council of Roundabout Theatre Company in New York and the Executive Producer Council for CAP/UCLA.