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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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John Schwartzman
Best known as a Cinematographer based on credits in that role in 30 films.
Top films contributed to this record: Jurassic World ($652,270,625 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)

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Don Burgess
Best known as a Cinematographer based on credits in that role in 28 films.
Top films contributed to this record: Spider-Man ($404,652,858 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)

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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)

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Complete List

Rank Name Domestic
Box Office
Movies Average
1 John Schwartzman $3,128,579,662 30 $104,285,989
2 Don Burgess $3,127,970,597 28 $111,713,236
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 28 $102,961,324
6 Jeremy Lasky $2,820,961,879 9 $313,440,209
7 Bill Pope $2,730,465,727 22 $124,112,079
8 Andrew Lesnie $2,692,924,052 13 $207,148,004
9 Janusz Kaminski $2,606,893,954 24 $108,620,581
10 Russell Carpenter $2,478,221,874 19 $130,432,730
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 $2,323,311,142 28 $82,975,398
15 David Tattersall $2,189,539,768 26 $84,213,068
16 Ben Davis $2,175,106,611 24 $90,629,442
17 Matthew Libatique $2,076,047,496 23 $90,262,935
18 John Mathieson $2,041,812,384 23 $88,774,451
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 11 $167,972,820
22 Wally Pfister $1,811,400,724 9 $201,266,747
23 Philippe Rousselot $1,806,311,006 21 $86,014,810
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 14 $119,344,083
30 Guillermo Navarro $1,628,065,398 15 $108,537,693
31 John Seale $1,624,307,938 16 $101,519,246
32 Julio Macat $1,592,759,764 20 $79,637,988
33 Newton Thomas Sigel $1,560,108,054 18 $86,672,670
34 Claudio Miranda $1,545,651,184 10 $154,565,118
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 $1,499,966,165 21 $71,426,960
38 Dion Beebe $1,429,474,647 16 $89,342,165
39 Robert Elswit $1,409,417,579 28 $50,336,342
40 Patrick Lin $1,344,944,975 4 $336,236,244
41 Robert Yeoman $1,337,172,467 21 $63,674,879
42 Stephen Goldblatt $1,324,861,746 18 $73,603,430
43 John Toll $1,320,925,171 18 $73,384,732
44 Dante Spinotti $1,305,910,756 22 $59,359,580
45 Hoyte Van Hoytema $1,299,720,566 10 $129,972,057
46 George Richmond $1,298,335,489 10 $129,833,549
47 Rodrigo Prieto $1,286,282,023 14 $91,877,287
48 Tobias Schliessler $1,276,945,680 13 $98,226,591
49 Sharon Calahan $1,180,268,033 6 $196,711,339
50 Salvatore Totino $1,177,606,846 16 $73,600,428
51 Larry Fong $1,153,493,912 10 $115,349,391
52 Ben Seresin $1,147,068,443 9 $127,452,049
53 Barry Peterson $1,140,846,955 15 $76,056,464
54 Gyula Pados $1,129,985,774 9 $125,553,975
55 Henry Braham $1,110,639,719 7 $158,662,817
56 Roger Pratt $1,108,439,789 8 $138,554,974
57 Mitchell Amundsen $1,070,654,973 13 $82,358,075
58 Steve Yedlin $1,051,985,339 11 $95,635,031
59 Emmanuel Lubezki $1,047,138,647 16 $65,446,165
60 Michael Ballhaus $1,028,337,456 14 $73,452,675
61 Haris Zambarloukos $1,007,626,015 11 $91,602,365
62 Brandon Trost $991,962,841 19 $52,208,571
63 Florian Ballhaus $988,097,520 16 $61,756,095
64 Jonathan Sela $957,009,941 9 $106,334,438
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 $887,048,729 12 $73,920,727
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 Tak Fujimoto $818,616,946 10 $81,861,695
82 Eduardo Serra $817,344,378 5 $163,468,876
83 Stuart Dryburgh $815,588,171 16 $50,974,261
84 Kramer Morgenthau $813,799,094 9 $90,422,122
85 Peter Andrews $804,502,569 16 $50,281,411
86 Douglas Slocombe $794,411,305 6 $132,401,884
87 Shelly Johnson $792,741,481 16 $49,546,343
88 Jo Willems $789,261,097 6 $131,543,516
89 Renato Falcao $758,587,560 6 $126,431,260
90 Paul Cameron $754,320,467 13 $58,024,651
91 Peter Lyons Collister $744,782,292 9 $82,753,588
92 Laszlo Kovacs $741,867,635 11 $67,442,512
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 11 $66,912,912
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 11 $63,342,481
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.