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Top Grossing Screenwriter 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 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 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 Screenwriters - Top Worldwide Screenwriters
This list shows the highest grossing Screenwriters 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 | Bruce Joel Rubin | $534,158,298 | 8 | $66,769,787 |
| 202 | David Lindsay-Abaire | $533,604,294 | 7 | $76,229,185 |
| 203 | Aaron Sorkin | $533,178,310 | 10 | $53,317,831 |
| 204 | Matthew Vaughn | $529,965,029 | 7 | $75,709,290 |
| 205 | Andre Nemec | $527,871,051 | 5 | $105,574,210 |
| 206 | Josh Appelbaum | $527,871,051 | 4 | $131,967,763 |
| 207 | Don Rhymer | $526,353,692 | 8 | $65,794,212 |
| 208 | Christopher L. Yost | $525,239,093 | 3 | $175,079,698 |
| 209 | Matt Ember | $525,228,484 | 5 | $105,045,697 |
| 210 | Mark L. Smith | $524,897,377 | 8 | $65,612,172 |
| 211 | Adam Sztykiel | $524,677,490 | 8 | $65,584,686 |
| 212 | David Twohy | $523,229,166 | 13 | $40,248,397 |
| 213 | Cormac Wibberley | $522,484,507 | 6 | $87,080,751 |
| 214 | Marianne Wibberley | $522,484,507 | 6 | $87,080,751 |
| 215 | Richard Curtis | $522,258,667 | 13 | $40,173,744 |
| 216 | Stephen Chbosky | $521,757,113 | 2 | $260,878,557 |
| 217 | Jack Epps, Jr. | $505,970,993 | 6 | $84,328,499 |
| 218 | John Lee Hancock | $505,085,059 | 9 | $56,120,562 |
| 219 | Rob Letterman | $503,868,872 | 3 | $167,956,291 |
| 220 | Steve Koren | $503,000,077 | 5 | $100,600,015 |
| 221 | Robert Ben Garant | $498,752,696 | 7 | $71,250,385 |
| 222 | Richard LaGravenese | $497,836,067 | 15 | $33,189,071 |
| 223 | Evan Daugherty | $497,289,404 | 5 | $99,457,881 |
| 224 | Cary Joji Fukunaga | $492,347,323 | 4 | $123,086,831 |
| 225 | Will Ferrell | $490,563,420 | 6 | $81,760,570 |
| 226 | J.K. Rowling | $489,444,320 | 3 | $163,148,107 |
| 227 | Bill Condon | $488,241,502 | 10 | $48,824,150 |
| 228 | Susannah Grant | $486,796,838 | 8 | $60,849,605 |
| 229 | Victoria Strouse | $486,295,561 | 3 | $162,098,520 |
| 230 | Geneva Robertson | $485,080,642 | 2 | $242,540,321 |
| 231 | Warren Skaaren | $483,925,005 | 4 | $120,981,251 |
| 232 | Bob Gale | $483,179,196 | 7 | $69,025,599 |
| 233 | Jared Stern | $475,939,272 | 6 | $79,323,212 |
| 234 | Max Borenstein | $474,145,144 | 6 | $79,024,191 |
| 235 | Edgar Wright | $472,655,123 | 8 | $59,081,890 |
| 236 | William Goldman | $470,383,681 | 16 | $29,398,980 |
| 237 | John Krasinski | $466,987,940 | 4 | $116,746,985 |
| 238 | Cameron Crowe | $466,152,872 | 10 | $46,615,287 |
| 239 | Paul Rudd | $464,151,858 | 3 | $154,717,286 |
| 240 | Jac Schaeffer | $462,246,877 | 2 | $231,123,439 |
| 241 | Herschel Weingrod | $461,553,579 | 7 | $65,936,226 |
| 242 | Baz Luhrmann | $461,273,671 | 6 | $76,878,945 |
| 243 | Gilbert Taylor | $460,998,007 | 1 | $460,998,007 |
| 244 | Michael Goldenberg | $460,447,676 | 5 | $92,089,535 |
| 245 | Ronald Bass | $455,523,586 | 8 | $56,940,448 |
| 246 | Mark Fergus | $455,210,449 | 4 | $113,802,612 |
| 247 | Hawk Ostby | $455,210,449 | 4 | $113,802,612 |
| 248 | James DeMonaco | $452,470,090 | 10 | $45,247,009 |
| 249 | Danny McBride | $452,174,374 | 8 | $56,521,797 |
| 250 | Jim Herzfeld | $449,748,741 | 3 | $149,916,247 |
| 251 | Carl Gottlieb | $447,769,981 | 5 | $89,553,996 |
| 252 | Tab Murphy | $447,628,251 | 5 | $89,525,650 |
| 253 | Craig Pearce | $442,925,932 | 6 | $73,820,989 |
| 254 | David O. Russell | $441,880,838 | 10 | $44,188,084 |
| 255 | Phil Hay | $440,593,178 | 8 | $55,074,147 |
| 256 | Allan Loeb | $438,893,406 | 11 | $39,899,401 |
| 257 | Kurt Johnstad | $438,781,762 | 6 | $73,130,294 |
| 258 | Ryan Fleck | $437,103,868 | 5 | $87,420,774 |
| 259 | Anna Boden | $437,103,868 | 5 | $87,420,774 |
| 260 | Emily Carmichael | $436,725,605 | 2 | $218,362,803 |
| 261 | Joe Carnahan | $435,720,075 | 11 | $39,610,916 |
| 262 | Joel Cohen | $434,932,217 | 5 | $86,986,443 |
| 263 | Alec Sokolow | $434,932,217 | 6 | $72,488,703 |
| 264 | James V. Hart | $434,594,163 | 7 | $62,084,880 |
| 265 | Stephany Folsom | $434,038,008 | 1 | $434,038,008 |
| 266 | Garth Jennings | $433,120,035 | 2 | $216,560,018 |
| 267 | Sam Raimi | $432,893,253 | 6 | $72,148,876 |
| 268 | John-Henry Butterworth | $432,846,374 | 6 | $72,141,062 |
| 269 | Leigh Whannell | $431,324,037 | 12 | $35,943,670 |
| 270 | Scott Derrickson | $429,170,130 | 6 | $71,528,355 |
| 271 | Dean Georgaris | $428,203,190 | 6 | $71,367,198 |
| 272 | Josh Friedman | $428,083,332 | 3 | $142,694,444 |
| 273 | Skip Woods | $427,203,391 | 6 | $71,200,565 |
| 274 | Fred Wolf | $427,066,282 | 10 | $42,706,628 |
| 275 | Justin Haythe | $426,468,747 | 7 | $60,924,107 |
| 276 | Randall Wallace | $425,014,317 | 6 | $70,835,720 |
| 277 | Charles Shyer | $424,222,617 | 8 | $53,027,827 |
| 278 | Jay Scherick | $423,227,552 | 5 | $84,645,510 |
| 279 | David Ronn | $423,227,552 | 5 | $84,645,510 |
| 280 | David Benioff | $422,784,217 | 7 | $60,397,745 |
| 281 | Marc Lawrence | $422,644,736 | 10 | $42,264,474 |
| 282 | Mel Gibson | $421,649,565 | 4 | $105,412,391 |
| 283 | Robert Smigel | $418,031,995 | 4 | $104,507,999 |
| 284 | Michael Bacall | $417,850,179 | 7 | $59,692,883 |
| 285 | Dan Harris | $415,069,694 | 2 | $207,534,847 |
| 286 | Peter Ackerman | $414,618,186 | 3 | $138,206,062 |
| 287 | James L. Brooks | $414,079,077 | 5 | $82,815,815 |
| 288 | David S. Ward | $411,834,660 | 9 | $45,759,407 |
| 289 | Michael Waldron | $411,331,607 | 1 | $411,331,607 |
| 290 | Bob Fisher | $409,928,610 | 4 | $102,482,153 |
| 291 | Suzanne Collins | $408,010,692 | 2 | $204,005,346 |
| 292 | Matt Manfredi | $406,974,323 | 7 | $58,139,189 |
| 293 | Michael France | $404,586,895 | 4 | $101,146,724 |
| 294 | Jason Hall | $404,034,316 | 3 | $134,678,105 |
| 295 | Aline Brosh McKenna | $403,755,732 | 8 | $50,469,467 |
| 296 | Matthew Michael Carnahan | $403,299,354 | 9 | $44,811,039 |
| 297 | Will Gluck | $403,000,785 | 6 | $67,166,798 |
| 298 | Paul W.S. Anderson | $402,586,853 | 9 | $44,731,873 |
| 299 | Mark Burton | $402,475,676 | 9 | $44,719,520 |
| 300 | Michael J. Wilson | $401,862,413 | 3 | $133,954,138 |
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.