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Top Grossing Cinematographer at the Domestic Box OfficeBETA
See also: Top Domestic Art Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Editors - Top Domestic Associate Producers - Top Domestic Casting Directors - Top Domestic Co-Producers - Top Domestic Composers - Top Domestic Costume Designers - Top Domestic Costume Supervisors - Top Domestic Dialogue Editors - Top Domestic Directors - Top Domestic Editors - Top Domestic Executive Producers - Top Domestic Make-up and Hair Designers - Top Domestic Music Editors - Top Domestic Music Supervisors - Top Domestic Producers - Top Domestic Production Designers - Top Domestic Re-recording Mixers - Top Domestic Screenwriters - Top Domestic Second Unit Directors - Top Domestic Set Decorators - Top Domestic Set Designers - Top Domestic Sound Designers - Top Domestic Sound Editors - Top Domestic Sound Effects Editors - Top Domestic Sound Mixers - Top Domestic Story Creators - Top Domestic Stunt Coordinators - Top Domestic Supervising Sound Editors - Top Domestic Unit Production Managers - Top Domestic Visual Effects Supervisors - Top International Cinematographers - Top Worldwide Cinematographers
This list shows the highest grossing Cinematographers based on the domestic box office of the movies they worked on.
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1
John Schwartzman
| Best known as a Cinematographer based on credits in that role in 30 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Jurassic World ($653,406,625 in 2015), Meet the Fockers ($279,167,575 in 2004), The Amazing Spider-Man ($262,717,220 in 2012), National Treasure: Book of Secrets ($219,961,501 in 2007), Armageddon ($201,578,182 in 1998), Pearl Harbor ($198,539,855 in 2001), Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian ($177,243,721 in 2009), The Rock ($134,069,511 in 1996), Seabiscuit ($120,277,854 in 2003), Fifty Shades Darker ($114,434,010 in 2017) |
2
Don Burgess
| Best known as a Cinematographer based on credits in that role in 28 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Spider-Man ($405,930,363 in 2002), Aquaman ($335,061,807 in 2018), Forrest Gump ($330,151,138 in 1994), Cast Away ($233,632,142 in 2000), The Polar Express ($196,698,043 in 2004), What Lies Beneath ($155,464,351 in 2000), Wonder ($132,422,809 in 2017), Enchanted ($127,706,877 in 2007), Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom ($124,481,226 in 2023), The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist ($102,470,008 in 2016) |
3
Dan Mindel
| Best known as a Cinematographer based on credits in that role in 17 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens ($936,662,225 in 2015), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ($515,202,542 in 2019), Twisters ($267,762,265 in 2024), Star Trek ($257,730,019 in 2009), Star Trek Into Darkness ($228,778,661 in 2013), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($203,530,343 in 2014), Mission: Impossible III ($133,501,348 in 2006), Enemy of the State ($111,549,836 in 1998), Red One ($97,000,759 in 2024), John Carter ($73,058,679 in 2012) |
Complete List
| Rank | Name | Domestic Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Schwartzman | $3,129,715,662 | 30 | $104,323,855 |
| 2 | Don Burgess | $3,129,248,102 | 28 | $111,758,861 |
| 3 | Dan Mindel | $3,113,950,601 | 17 | $183,173,565 |
| 4 | Dean Semler | $3,013,238,490 | 36 | $83,701,069 |
| 5 | Dariusz Wolski | $2,882,917,071 | 29 | $99,410,933 |
| 6 | Jeremy Lasky | $2,820,961,879 | 9 | $313,440,209 |
| 7 | Bill Pope | $2,768,940,939 | 23 | $120,388,736 |
| 8 | Andrew Lesnie | $2,693,551,491 | 13 | $207,196,269 |
| 9 | Janusz Kaminski | $2,606,893,954 | 24 | $108,620,581 |
| 10 | Russell Carpenter | $2,482,955,608 | 19 | $130,681,874 |
| 11 | Trent Opaloch | $2,445,285,409 | 7 | $349,326,487 |
| 12 | Mauro Fiore | $2,443,390,776 | 22 | $111,063,217 |
| 13 | Robert Richardson | $2,370,712,193 | 34 | $69,726,829 |
| 14 | Dean Cundey | $2,327,540,544 | 28 | $83,126,448 |
| 15 | John Mathieson | $2,221,929,894 | 23 | $96,605,648 |
| 16 | David Tattersall | $2,189,539,768 | 26 | $84,213,068 |
| 17 | Ben Davis | $2,175,106,611 | 25 | $87,004,264 |
| 18 | Matthew Libatique | $2,097,368,318 | 24 | $87,390,347 |
| 19 | Oliver Wood | $2,017,887,680 | 24 | $84,078,653 |
| 20 | Roger Deakins | $1,869,056,220 | 29 | $64,450,214 |
| 21 | Stephen F. Windon | $1,847,701,018 | 12 | $153,975,085 |
| 22 | Wally Pfister | $1,811,400,724 | 9 | $201,266,747 |
| 23 | Philippe Rousselot | $1,806,311,006 | 22 | $82,105,046 |
| 24 | Amir Mokri | $1,753,057,666 | 19 | $92,266,193 |
| 25 | Greig Fraser | $1,748,948,944 | 13 | $134,534,534 |
| 26 | Seamus McGarvey | $1,740,135,386 | 22 | $79,097,063 |
| 27 | Tom Stern | $1,719,199,276 | 20 | $85,959,964 |
| 28 | Caleb Deschanel | $1,707,373,087 | 18 | $94,854,060 |
| 29 | Lawrence Sher | $1,670,817,163 | 15 | $111,387,811 |
| 30 | Guillermo Navarro | $1,653,597,786 | 16 | $103,349,862 |
| 31 | John Seale | $1,624,307,938 | 16 | $101,519,246 |
| 32 | Claudio Miranda | $1,622,465,028 | 10 | $162,246,503 |
| 33 | Julio Macat | $1,592,759,764 | 20 | $79,637,988 |
| 34 | Newton Thomas Sigel | $1,560,108,054 | 18 | $86,672,670 |
| 35 | Phedon Papamichael | $1,536,894,959 | 24 | $64,037,290 |
| 36 | Donald M. McAlpine | $1,506,396,718 | 15 | $100,426,448 |
| 37 | Javier Aguirresarobe | $1,500,556,980 | 21 | $71,455,094 |
| 38 | Henry Braham | $1,464,824,184 | 7 | $209,260,598 |
| 39 | Dion Beebe | $1,429,474,647 | 16 | $89,342,165 |
| 40 | Robert Elswit | $1,409,417,579 | 29 | $48,600,606 |
| 41 | Patrick Lin | $1,344,944,975 | 4 | $336,236,244 |
| 42 | Robert Yeoman | $1,337,172,467 | 21 | $63,674,879 |
| 43 | Stephen Goldblatt | $1,324,861,746 | 18 | $73,603,430 |
| 44 | John Toll | $1,320,925,171 | 18 | $73,384,732 |
| 45 | Dante Spinotti | $1,305,910,756 | 22 | $59,359,580 |
| 46 | Hoyte Van Hoytema | $1,299,720,566 | 10 | $129,972,057 |
| 47 | George Richmond | $1,298,335,489 | 11 | $118,030,499 |
| 48 | Rodrigo Prieto | $1,286,282,023 | 14 | $91,877,287 |
| 49 | Tobias Schliessler | $1,278,564,761 | 14 | $91,326,054 |
| 50 | Sharon Calahan | $1,180,268,033 | 6 | $196,711,339 |
| 51 | Salvatore Totino | $1,177,606,846 | 16 | $73,600,428 |
| 52 | Larry Fong | $1,153,493,912 | 11 | $104,863,083 |
| 53 | Ben Seresin | $1,147,068,443 | 9 | $127,452,049 |
| 54 | Barry Peterson | $1,140,846,955 | 15 | $76,056,464 |
| 55 | Gyula Pados | $1,129,985,774 | 9 | $125,553,975 |
| 56 | Roger Pratt | $1,106,977,096 | 8 | $138,372,137 |
| 57 | Mitchell Amundsen | $1,070,654,973 | 13 | $82,358,075 |
| 58 | Steve Yedlin | $1,051,985,339 | 12 | $87,665,445 |
| 59 | Emmanuel Lubezki | $1,047,138,647 | 16 | $65,446,165 |
| 60 | Brandon Trost | $1,044,610,237 | 20 | $52,230,512 |
| 61 | Michael Ballhaus | $1,028,337,456 | 14 | $73,452,675 |
| 62 | Haris Zambarloukos | $1,007,626,015 | 11 | $91,602,365 |
| 63 | Florian Ballhaus | $988,097,520 | 16 | $61,756,095 |
| 64 | Jonathan Sela | $957,009,941 | 10 | $95,700,994 |
| 65 | Adam Greenberg | $943,938,104 | 12 | $78,661,509 |
| 66 | Enrique Chediak | $935,671,952 | 13 | $71,974,766 |
| 67 | Bojan Bazelli | $916,442,067 | 15 | $61,096,138 |
| 68 | Theo Van de Sande | $914,548,886 | 14 | $65,324,920 |
| 69 | Andrew Dunn | $905,490,172 | 21 | $43,118,580 |
| 70 | Allen Daviau | $901,517,876 | 8 | $112,689,735 |
| 71 | Michael Barrett | $900,296,931 | 17 | $52,958,643 |
| 72 | Peter Deming | $888,255,890 | 20 | $44,412,795 |
| 73 | Jack N. Green | $887,118,729 | 12 | $73,926,561 |
| 74 | Scott Beattie | $878,326,587 | 2 | $439,163,294 |
| 75 | Matthew F. Leonetti | $877,908,570 | 13 | $67,531,428 |
| 76 | Phil Meheux | $848,860,619 | 10 | $84,886,062 |
| 77 | Simon Duggan | $846,192,586 | 10 | $84,619,259 |
| 78 | Karl Walter Lindenlaub | $845,042,666 | 13 | $65,003,282 |
| 79 | Ueli Steiger | $836,202,974 | 11 | $76,018,452 |
| 80 | Greg Gardiner | $829,928,544 | 15 | $55,328,570 |
| 81 | Jo Willems | $824,424,670 | 8 | $103,053,084 |
| 82 | Tak Fujimoto | $818,616,946 | 10 | $81,861,695 |
| 83 | Eduardo Serra | $817,344,378 | 5 | $163,468,876 |
| 84 | Stuart Dryburgh | $815,588,171 | 16 | $50,974,261 |
| 85 | Kramer Morgenthau | $813,799,094 | 9 | $90,422,122 |
| 86 | Peter Andrews | $806,305,090 | 17 | $47,429,711 |
| 87 | Douglas Slocombe | $794,411,305 | 6 | $132,401,884 |
| 88 | Shelly Johnson | $792,741,481 | 16 | $49,546,343 |
| 89 | Peter Lyons Collister | $775,857,462 | 11 | $70,532,497 |
| 90 | Laszlo Kovacs | $772,801,378 | 12 | $64,400,115 |
| 91 | Renato Falcao | $758,587,560 | 6 | $126,431,260 |
| 92 | Paul Cameron | $754,320,467 | 13 | $58,024,651 |
| 93 | Donald Peterman | $741,485,254 | 6 | $123,580,876 |
| 94 | Gabriel Beristain | $737,931,758 | 10 | $73,793,176 |
| 95 | Rachel Morrison | $736,042,027 | 12 | $61,336,836 |
| 96 | Mahyar Abousaeedi | $731,668,864 | 2 | $365,834,432 |
| 97 | Michael Seresin | $730,435,477 | 9 | $81,159,497 |
| 98 | Adam Habib | $714,535,339 | 2 | $357,267,670 |
| 99 | Linus Sandgren | $696,767,287 | 12 | $58,063,941 |
| 100 | Thomas Ackerman | $695,443,742 | 10 | $69,544,374 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.