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Top Grossing Director at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 3,201-3,300)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.
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| Rank | Name | Domestic Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,201 | Jason Chadwick | $2,455,635 | 1 | $2,455,635 |
| 3,202 | Isaiah Saxon | $2,453,024 | 1 | $2,453,024 |
| 3,203 | Wayne Blair | $2,450,867 | 5 | $490,173 |
| 3,204 | Abdellatif Kechiche | $2,450,504 | 3 | $816,835 |
| 3,205 | Mark Polish | $2,450,371 | 4 | $612,593 |
| 3,206 | Trevor Nunn | $2,446,490 | 4 | $611,623 |
| 3,207 | Dror Moreh | $2,445,246 | 3 | $815,082 |
| 3,208 | Koji Hashimoto | $2,443,200 | 2 | $1,221,600 |
| 3,209 | Matt Johnson | $2,418,546 | 2 | $1,209,273 |
| 3,210 | Giles New | $2,418,404 | 1 | $2,418,404 |
| 3,211 | Joe Penna | $2,409,826 | 4 | $602,457 |
| 3,212 | Kim Ki-Duk | $2,405,208 | 5 | $481,042 |
| 3,213 | Farhad Mann | $2,396,302 | 1 | $2,396,302 |
| 3,214 | Michael John Warren | $2,394,725 | 2 | $1,197,363 |
| 3,215 | Andrey Zvyagintsev | $2,390,695 | 5 | $478,139 |
| 3,216 | Eric Rohmer | $2,389,587 | 19 | $125,768 |
| 3,217 | Steve Race | $2,387,730 | 1 | $2,387,730 |
| 3,218 | Marc Meyers | $2,385,168 | 6 | $397,528 |
| 3,219 | Fatih Akin | $2,378,522 | 8 | $297,315 |
| 3,220 | John Malkovich | $2,374,732 | 1 | $2,374,732 |
| 3,221 | Shashank Khaitan | $2,373,270 | 3 | $791,090 |
| 3,222 | Rahul Dholakia | $2,369,469 | 1 | $2,369,469 |
| 3,223 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | $2,353,728 | 3 | $784,576 |
| 3,224 | Matthew Crouch | $2,347,896 | 2 | $1,173,948 |
| 3,225 | Abbas Kiarostami | $2,344,550 | 10 | $234,455 |
| 3,226 | James Yukich | $2,341,309 | 1 | $2,341,309 |
| 3,227 | Michael Noer | $2,335,896 | 3 | $778,632 |
| 3,228 | Muye Wen | $2,330,161 | 4 | $582,540 |
| 3,229 | Cinzia Angelini | $2,324,019 | 1 | $2,324,019 |
| 3,230 | David Feiss | $2,324,019 | 2 | $1,162,010 |
| 3,231 | Questlove | $2,320,649 | 4 | $580,162 |
| 3,232 | Jae Hyeon Jang (장재현) | $2,310,900 | 1 | $2,310,900 |
| 3,233 | Youn Jk | $2,305,912 | 4 | $576,478 |
| 3,234 | Nikita Mikhalkov | $2,302,338 | 6 | $383,723 |
| 3,235 | Prashanth Varma | $2,300,000 | 3 | $766,667 |
| 3,236 | Gilles Bourdos | $2,291,047 | 3 | $763,682 |
| 3,237 | Eran Creevy | $2,287,038 | 3 | $762,346 |
| 3,238 | Max Mayer | $2,284,723 | 2 | $1,142,362 |
| 3,239 | Michael Verhoeven | $2,281,569 | 1 | $2,281,569 |
| 3,240 | Hal Hartley | $2,278,594 | 5 | $455,719 |
| 3,241 | Sujoy Ghosh | $2,270,202 | 4 | $567,551 |
| 3,242 | Louise Archambault | $2,268,961 | 4 | $567,240 |
| 3,243 | Julio Torres | $2,259,752 | 1 | $2,259,752 |
| 3,244 | Priyadarshan | $2,247,919 | 10 | $224,792 |
| 3,245 | Angelo Pizzo | $2,246,000 | 1 | $2,246,000 |
| 3,246 | Nadine Labaki | $2,224,503 | 3 | $741,501 |
| 3,247 | Prithviraj Sukumaran | $2,210,556 | 2 | $1,105,278 |
| 3,248 | Jamie Babbit | $2,205,627 | 4 | $551,407 |
| 3,249 | David Dhawan | $2,202,391 | 5 | $440,478 |
| 3,250 | Lowell Sherman | $2,200,000 | 1 | $2,200,000 |
| 3,251 | Paul Cox | $2,194,919 | 1 | $2,194,919 |
| 3,252 | Tony Cervone | $2,188,425 | 4 | $547,106 |
| 3,253 | Amar Kaushik | $2,184,000 | 4 | $546,000 |
| 3,254 | Natalie Portman | $2,160,299 | 3 | $720,100 |
| 3,255 | John Patton Ford | $2,156,296 | 2 | $1,078,148 |
| 3,256 | Ahmed Khan | $2,156,018 | 4 | $539,005 |
| 3,257 | Timo Vuorensolam | $2,155,139 | 5 | $431,028 |
| 3,258 | David Michod | $2,153,238 | 6 | $358,873 |
| 3,259 | Coline Serreau | $2,152,268 | 2 | $1,076,134 |
| 3,260 | Mamoru Oshii | $2,150,822 | 6 | $358,470 |
| 3,261 | Jerusha Hess | $2,137,573 | 1 | $2,137,573 |
| 3,262 | Andrew Ahn | $2,128,807 | 4 | $532,202 |
| 3,263 | Iris K. Shim | $2,121,025 | 1 | $2,121,025 |
| 3,264 | Noel Marshall | $2,110,050 | 1 | $2,110,050 |
| 3,265 | Ricardo Curtis | $2,108,907 | 2 | $1,054,454 |
| 3,266 | Rodrigo Perez-Castro | $2,108,907 | 2 | $1,054,454 |
| 3,267 | Ralph Strean | $2,097,560 | 2 | $1,048,780 |
| 3,268 | Ethan Hawke | $2,090,760 | 6 | $348,460 |
| 3,269 | Steph Clattenburg | $2,090,607 | 2 | $1,045,304 |
| 3,270 | Nathan Silver | $2,084,121 | 4 | $521,030 |
| 3,271 | Rafal Zielinski | $2,082,000 | 2 | $1,041,000 |
| 3,272 | S. Shankar | $2,060,000 | 3 | $686,667 |
| 3,273 | Kyle Edward Bell | $2,052,272 | 1 | $2,052,272 |
| 3,274 | Satoshi Kon | $2,048,671 | 4 | $512,168 |
| 3,275 | David Atkins | $2,025,238 | 1 | $2,025,238 |
| 3,276 | Jeffrey Obrow | $2,019,984 | 2 | $1,009,992 |
| 3,277 | Sam Levinson | $2,014,262 | 3 | $671,421 |
| 3,278 | Bill Melendez | $2,013,193 | 8 | $251,649 |
| 3,279 | Ellen Kuras | $2,005,488 | 1 | $2,005,488 |
| 3,280 | Kiyotaka Oshiyama | $2,002,270 | 1 | $2,002,270 |
| 3,281 | Jonas Cuaron | $2,002,036 | 3 | $667,345 |
| 3,282 | Jia Ling | $2,001,584 | 2 | $1,000,792 |
| 3,283 | David Hunt | $2,000,093 | 3 | $666,698 |
| 3,284 | Raymond Jafelice | $2,000,000 | 1 | $2,000,000 |
| 3,285 | Cornel Wilde | $2,000,000 | 3 | $666,667 |
| 3,286 | Nancy Walker | $2,000,000 | 1 | $2,000,000 |
| 3,287 | Saul Swimmer | $2,000,000 | 1 | $2,000,000 |
| 3,288 | Ramin Bahrani | $1,970,580 | 8 | $246,323 |
| 3,289 | Chloe Okuno | $1,961,207 | 4 | $490,302 |
| 3,290 | Isao Takahata | $1,960,216 | 7 | $280,031 |
| 3,291 | Julia Ducournau | $1,957,858 | 3 | $652,619 |
| 3,292 | Takeshi Kitano | $1,956,780 | 13 | $150,522 |
| 3,293 | Antonio Banderas | $1,954,202 | 1 | $1,954,202 |
| 3,294 | Andrew Cumming | $1,951,546 | 1 | $1,951,546 |
| 3,295 | Anil Sharma | $1,947,587 | 6 | $324,598 |
| 3,296 | Laszlo Nemes | $1,941,760 | 3 | $647,253 |
| 3,297 | David Zellner | $1,937,181 | 4 | $484,295 |
| 3,298 | Steven C. Miller | $1,935,248 | 12 | $161,271 |
| 3,299 | Derek Tsang | $1,921,657 | 1 | $1,921,657 |
| 3,300 | Hal Barwood | $1,918,117 | 1 | $1,918,117 |
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.