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Top Grossing Composer at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 101-200)BETA
See also: Top Domestic Art Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Editors - Top Domestic Associate Producers - Top Domestic Casting Directors - Top Domestic Cinematographers - Top Domestic Co-Producers - 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 Composers - Top Worldwide Composers
This list shows the highest grossing Composers based on the domestic box office of the movies they worked on.
Since we are still actively researching technical roles, we consider this chart to be in beta mode. The table includes data for movies in The Numbers database. While we make every effort to collect all available data, there are inevitably omissions and errors. Please help us by sending corrections to corrections@the-numbers.com.
| Rank | Name | Domestic Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Maurice Jarre | $476,758,338 | 6 | $79,459,723 |
| 102 | Jeff Danna | $472,148,163 | 10 | $47,214,816 |
| 103 | David Kitay | $462,327,079 | 7 | $66,046,726 |
| 104 | Trent Reznor | $461,132,417 | 12 | $38,427,701 |
| 105 | Gabriel Yared | $458,227,716 | 15 | $30,548,514 |
| 106 | Hildur Guðnadóttir | $456,488,654 | 8 | $57,061,082 |
| 107 | David Sardy | $453,019,819 | 13 | $34,847,678 |
| 108 | Brad Fiedel | $440,435,985 | 6 | $73,405,998 |
| 109 | Steve Mazzaro | $440,194,552 | 5 | $88,038,910 |
| 110 | Bear McCreary | $439,999,302 | 20 | $21,999,965 |
| 111 | J. Peter Robinson | $434,902,407 | 24 | $18,120,934 |
| 112 | Clint Mansell | $421,703,979 | 26 | $16,219,384 |
| 113 | Nathaniel Mechaly | $417,811,561 | 8 | $52,226,445 |
| 114 | Thomas Wander | $409,907,614 | 5 | $81,981,523 |
| 115 | Richard Gibbs | $407,909,554 | 9 | $45,323,284 |
| 116 | Lennie Niehaus | $395,635,655 | 7 | $56,519,379 |
| 117 | John Carpenter | $395,291,453 | 9 | $43,921,273 |
| 118 | Georges Delerue | $394,957,332 | 10 | $39,495,733 |
| 119 | Alex Wurman | $384,856,315 | 7 | $54,979,474 |
| 120 | Nick Glennie-Smith | $383,457,650 | 5 | $76,691,530 |
| 121 | Clint Eastwood | $380,140,933 | 8 | $47,517,617 |
| 122 | A.R. Rahman | $377,954,130 | 12 | $31,496,178 |
| 123 | Waddy Wachtel | $369,101,945 | 11 | $33,554,722 |
| 124 | Michael Brook | $363,083,590 | 29 | $12,520,124 |
| 125 | Deborah Lurie | $361,142,093 | 10 | $36,114,209 |
| 126 | Marcus Miller | $360,863,135 | 19 | $18,992,797 |
| 127 | John Barry | $348,335,995 | 5 | $69,667,199 |
| 128 | Nami Melumad | $343,256,830 | 2 | $171,628,415 |
| 129 | Philip Glass | $340,370,126 | 26 | $13,091,159 |
| 130 | Nathan Barr | $333,311,922 | 14 | $23,807,994 |
| 131 | Trevor Jones | $330,626,886 | 9 | $36,736,321 |
| 132 | Atli Orvarsson | $329,254,290 | 13 | $25,327,253 |
| 133 | Daniel Davies | $325,187,280 | 6 | $54,197,880 |
| 134 | Cody Carpenter | $325,187,280 | 4 | $81,296,820 |
| 135 | Eric Serra | $318,802,233 | 8 | $39,850,279 |
| 136 | Cliff Martinez | $318,176,265 | 14 | $22,726,876 |
| 137 | Chris Bacon | $309,987,479 | 6 | $51,664,580 |
| 138 | Nathan Whitehead | $306,328,306 | 10 | $30,632,831 |
| 139 | West Dylan Thordson | $306,195,512 | 6 | $51,032,585 |
| 140 | Jack Nitzsche | $304,234,741 | 5 | $60,846,948 |
| 141 | Walter Murphy | $300,142,125 | 2 | $150,071,063 |
| 142 | Dave Grusin | $288,751,090 | 7 | $41,250,156 |
| 143 | Roque Banos | $286,304,770 | 16 | $17,894,048 |
| 144 | Paul Haslinger | $285,369,470 | 9 | $31,707,719 |
| 145 | Nancy Wilson | $281,417,876 | 3 | $93,805,959 |
| 146 | Clinton Shorter | $280,955,728 | 5 | $56,191,146 |
| 147 | Lisa Gerrard | $280,750,130 | 10 | $28,075,013 |
| 148 | Nicholas Britell | $275,871,385 | 13 | $21,220,876 |
| 149 | David Sanborn | $275,176,130 | 2 | $137,588,065 |
| 150 | Joe Kraemer | $275,113,113 | 4 | $68,778,278 |
| 151 | Nathan Johnson | $272,192,665 | 6 | $45,365,444 |
| 152 | Germaine Franco | $270,395,734 | 6 | $45,065,956 |
| 153 | Lucas Vidal | $266,986,301 | 10 | $26,698,630 |
| 154 | Nick Urata | $265,700,164 | 16 | $16,606,260 |
| 155 | Jóhann Jóhannsson | $263,611,222 | 11 | $23,964,657 |
| 156 | Stephen Trask | $260,861,955 | 7 | $37,265,994 |
| 157 | Erran Baron Cohen | $255,085,696 | 5 | $51,017,139 |
| 158 | BT | $249,895,226 | 7 | $35,699,318 |
| 159 | Ira Newborn | $241,851,417 | 6 | $40,308,570 |
| 160 | Alexander Janko | $241,441,332 | 3 | $80,480,444 |
| 161 | Chris Wilson | $241,438,208 | 1 | $241,438,208 |
| 162 | Ryuichi Sakamoto | $239,309,951 | 7 | $34,187,136 |
| 163 | David Hykes | $234,362,462 | 1 | $234,362,462 |
| 164 | Gustavo Santaolalla | $233,248,058 | 10 | $23,324,806 |
| 165 | Buck Sanders | $228,360,732 | 5 | $45,672,146 |
| 166 | Justin Hurwitz | $226,527,342 | 4 | $56,631,836 |
| 167 | Angelo Badalamenti | $224,185,214 | 9 | $24,909,468 |
| 168 | Ilan Eshkeri | $219,726,362 | 19 | $11,564,545 |
| 169 | Nathan Wang | $219,107,223 | 13 | $16,854,402 |
| 170 | Fernando Velazquez | $211,872,673 | 13 | $16,297,898 |
| 171 | Stanley Clarke | $211,240,017 | 6 | $35,206,670 |
| 172 | Craig Wedren | $205,346,104 | 13 | $15,795,854 |
| 173 | Mateo Messina | $204,087,390 | 14 | $14,577,671 |
| 174 | Andy Milburn | $203,683,267 | 16 | $12,730,204 |
| 175 | Thomas Hajdu | $203,683,267 | 16 | $12,730,204 |
| 176 | John Frizzell | $203,323,061 | 10 | $20,332,306 |
| 177 | William Ross | $203,071,562 | 10 | $20,307,156 |
| 178 | Micky Erbe | $198,981,691 | 4 | $49,745,423 |
| 179 | Maribeth Solomon | $198,981,691 | 4 | $49,745,423 |
| 180 | Max Steiner | $198,680,470 | 3 | $66,226,823 |
| 181 | Antonio Di Iorio | $196,350,016 | 1 | $196,350,016 |
| 182 | Robert Folk | $193,500,559 | 6 | $32,250,093 |
| 183 | Dan Romer | $191,039,903 | 16 | $11,939,994 |
| 184 | Antonio Pinto | $186,367,978 | 15 | $12,424,532 |
| 185 | Alberto Iglesias | $185,639,643 | 19 | $9,770,508 |
| 186 | Kyle Eastwood | $185,586,666 | 3 | $61,862,222 |
| 187 | Michael Stevens | $185,586,666 | 2 | $92,793,333 |
| 188 | Alva Noto | $183,637,894 | 1 | $183,637,894 |
| 189 | Stephen Sondheim | $180,913,584 | 3 | $60,304,528 |
| 190 | Alex Heffes | $177,978,349 | 16 | $11,123,647 |
| 191 | Jed Kurzel | $177,585,349 | 13 | $13,660,411 |
| 192 | Stargate | $177,397,510 | 1 | $177,397,510 |
| 193 | Jonathan Richman | $176,484,651 | 1 | $176,484,651 |
| 194 | Charles Fox | $172,916,489 | 3 | $57,638,830 |
| 195 | Daft Punk | $172,062,763 | 1 | $172,062,763 |
| 196 | Johnny Klimek | $171,630,068 | 11 | $15,602,733 |
| 197 | Mark Korven | $167,849,477 | 8 | $20,981,185 |
| 198 | Abel Korzeniowski | $165,812,253 | 9 | $18,423,584 |
| 199 | T-Bone Burnett | $165,257,399 | 4 | $41,314,350 |
| 200 | Anne Dudley | $164,563,784 | 6 | $27,427,297 |
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.