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Top Grossing Director at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 201-300)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 Composers - Top Domestic Costume Designers - Top Domestic Costume Supervisors - Top Domestic Dialogue Editors - 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 Directors - Top Worldwide Directors
This list shows the highest grossing Directors 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 | Jason Hand | $460,405,297 | 1 | $460,405,297 |
| 202 | Dave Derrick Jr. | $460,405,297 | 1 | $460,405,297 |
| 203 | Paul W.S. Anderson | $458,349,898 | 14 | $32,739,278 |
| 204 | Roger Donaldson | $450,885,551 | 18 | $25,049,197 |
| 205 | Peter Weir | $450,863,546 | 12 | $37,571,962 |
| 206 | Paul Weitz | $449,810,132 | 13 | $34,600,779 |
| 207 | Tim Johnson | $449,658,165 | 5 | $89,931,633 |
| 208 | Cameron Crowe | $449,596,729 | 10 | $44,959,673 |
| 209 | Wolfgang Reitherman | $448,737,433 | 6 | $74,789,572 |
| 210 | Adrian Lyne | $447,812,740 | 10 | $44,781,274 |
| 211 | Juan Antonio Bayona | $447,639,612 | 5 | $89,527,922 |
| 212 | Paul Verhoeven | $446,068,538 | 12 | $37,172,378 |
| 213 | Steve Martino | $446,029,693 | 4 | $111,507,423 |
| 214 | Danny Boyle | $444,630,598 | 16 | $27,789,412 |
| 215 | Nicholas Stoller | $442,761,247 | 10 | $44,276,125 |
| 216 | George Roy Hill | $442,395,860 | 12 | $36,866,322 |
| 217 | Donald Petrie | $438,222,757 | 14 | $31,301,626 |
| 218 | Ryan Fleck | $437,103,868 | 6 | $72,850,645 |
| 219 | Vicky Jenson | $436,171,239 | 4 | $109,042,810 |
| 220 | Blake Edwards | $435,890,593 | 27 | $16,144,096 |
| 221 | Harold Ramis | $434,939,308 | 11 | $39,539,937 |
| 222 | Anna Boden | $434,405,930 | 5 | $86,881,186 |
| 223 | Jason Reitman | $432,736,986 | 10 | $43,273,699 |
| 224 | Seth Gordon | $430,926,630 | 6 | $71,821,105 |
| 225 | Taylor Hackford | $430,124,094 | 15 | $28,674,940 |
| 226 | Dean Fleischer-Camp | $430,112,558 | 2 | $215,056,279 |
| 227 | Clyde Geronimi | $428,485,771 | 7 | $61,212,253 |
| 228 | David Dobkin | $427,851,530 | 7 | $61,121,647 |
| 229 | Spike Lee | $427,729,457 | 32 | $13,366,546 |
| 230 | Tim Miller | $425,323,786 | 2 | $212,661,893 |
| 231 | Sean Anders | $421,528,748 | 8 | $52,691,094 |
| 232 | Robert Luketic | $420,928,021 | 8 | $52,616,003 |
| 233 | Martin Brest | $417,707,236 | 6 | $69,617,873 |
| 234 | Jeff Tremaine | $414,037,186 | 11 | $37,639,744 |
| 235 | Tim Hill | $413,524,875 | 8 | $51,690,609 |
| 236 | Wes Ball | $413,287,662 | 6 | $68,881,277 |
| 237 | Irvin Kershner | $411,820,133 | 4 | $102,955,033 |
| 238 | Andy Fickman | $410,222,746 | 13 | $31,555,596 |
| 239 | Hamilton Luske | $410,180,014 | 7 | $58,597,145 |
| 240 | Brad Peyton | $408,464,882 | 9 | $45,384,987 |
| 241 | Curtis Hanson | $406,721,391 | 11 | $36,974,672 |
| 242 | Penny Marshall | $401,784,154 | 8 | $50,223,019 |
| 243 | Kevin Lima | $401,076,694 | 6 | $66,846,116 |
| 244 | Kirk Wise | $400,574,664 | 5 | $80,114,933 |
| 245 | Arthur Hiller | $400,475,303 | 19 | $21,077,648 |
| 246 | Keenen Ivory Wayans | $398,430,178 | 6 | $66,405,030 |
| 247 | Bilall Fallah | $398,001,572 | 6 | $66,333,595 |
| 248 | Adil El Arbi | $398,001,572 | 6 | $66,333,595 |
| 249 | Jonathan Liebesman | $397,945,029 | 4 | $99,486,257 |
| 250 | Chuck Russell | $394,602,206 | 10 | $39,460,221 |
| 251 | Alan J. Pakula | $394,107,305 | 14 | $28,150,522 |
| 252 | Walter Hill | $393,773,481 | 23 | $17,120,586 |
| 253 | Mel Brooks | $393,482,222 | 10 | $39,348,222 |
| 254 | Jonathan Demme | $391,616,733 | 24 | $16,317,364 |
| 255 | Joe Dante | $391,539,681 | 17 | $23,031,746 |
| 256 | James L. Brooks | $390,616,956 | 7 | $55,802,422 |
| 257 | Gary Trousdale | $390,524,778 | 4 | $97,631,195 |
| 258 | David F. Sandberg | $387,628,703 | 8 | $48,453,588 |
| 259 | Michael Chaves | $384,156,962 | 4 | $96,039,241 |
| 260 | Kemp Powers | $381,593,754 | 1 | $381,593,754 |
| 261 | Joaquim Dos Santos | $381,593,754 | 2 | $190,796,877 |
| 262 | Justin K. Thompson | $381,593,754 | 2 | $190,796,877 |
| 263 | Richard Marquand | $378,636,262 | 4 | $94,659,066 |
| 264 | Anne Fletcher | $377,809,222 | 7 | $53,972,746 |
| 265 | David Frankel | $374,827,551 | 11 | $34,075,232 |
| 266 | Robert Wise | $372,113,414 | 18 | $20,672,967 |
| 267 | Greg MacGillivray | $371,881,880 | 12 | $30,990,157 |
| 268 | Randal Kleiser | $370,020,495 | 10 | $37,002,050 |
| 269 | Leonard Nimoy | $367,571,751 | 6 | $61,261,959 |
| 270 | Len Wiseman | $365,748,264 | 5 | $73,149,653 |
| 271 | Kevin Reynolds | $365,721,904 | 8 | $45,715,238 |
| 272 | Sidney Lumet | $359,106,140 | 32 | $11,222,067 |
| 273 | Brad Silberling | $356,407,721 | 8 | $44,550,965 |
| 274 | Amy Heckerling | $352,419,495 | 9 | $39,157,722 |
| 275 | Hal Needham | $350,973,707 | 10 | $35,097,371 |
| 276 | D.J. Caruso | $350,246,473 | 16 | $21,890,405 |
| 277 | Jim Abrahams | $347,048,155 | 8 | $43,381,019 |
| 278 | Peter Hyams | $344,647,049 | 17 | $20,273,356 |
| 279 | Neil Burger | $343,567,910 | 6 | $57,261,318 |
| 280 | Don Hall | $343,032,708 | 4 | $85,758,177 |
| 281 | Seth MacFarlane | $342,863,090 | 3 | $114,287,697 |
| 282 | Roger Spottiswoode | $342,820,522 | 14 | $24,487,180 |
| 283 | David Slade | $340,403,953 | 3 | $113,467,984 |
| 284 | Michael Ritchie | $339,966,005 | 20 | $16,998,300 |
| 285 | Wilfred Jackson | $339,141,149 | 8 | $42,392,644 |
| 286 | Brenda Chapman | $338,879,847 | 4 | $84,719,962 |
| 287 | Adam Wingard | $337,506,420 | 12 | $28,125,535 |
| 288 | Chris Williams | $336,581,407 | 3 | $112,193,802 |
| 289 | Paul King | $335,770,242 | 5 | $67,154,048 |
| 290 | Luc Besson | $333,493,312 | 21 | $15,880,634 |
| 291 | James Foley | $330,873,946 | 13 | $25,451,842 |
| 292 | Brian Robbins | $329,342,564 | 10 | $32,934,256 |
| 293 | Wes Anderson | $327,214,834 | 16 | $20,450,927 |
| 294 | Tom Hooper | $326,788,242 | 6 | $54,464,707 |
| 295 | Walt Becker | $324,897,890 | 5 | $64,979,578 |
| 296 | Ben Stiller | $323,093,239 | 9 | $35,899,249 |
| 297 | Lee Tamahori | $322,957,356 | 11 | $29,359,760 |
| 298 | John Hughes | $322,517,985 | 8 | $40,314,748 |
| 299 | Tate Taylor | $322,064,332 | 9 | $35,784,926 |
| 300 | Jennifer Yuh Nelson | $321,473,373 | 3 | $107,157,791 |
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.