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Top Grossing Story Creator at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 1,401-1,500)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 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 Stunt Coordinators - Top Domestic Supervising Sound Editors - Top Domestic Unit Production Managers - Top Domestic Visual Effects Supervisors - Top International Story Creators - Top Worldwide Story Creators
This list shows the highest grossing Story Creators 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,401 | Lena Waithe | $43,808,310 | 1 | $43,808,310 |
| 1,402 | Wayne Lloyd | $43,799,818 | 1 | $43,799,818 |
| 1,403 | Kim Barker | $43,799,818 | 1 | $43,799,818 |
| 1,404 | W. Watts Biggers | $43,760,605 | 1 | $43,760,605 |
| 1,405 | Chet Stover | $43,760,605 | 1 | $43,760,605 |
| 1,406 | Joe Harris | $43,760,605 | 1 | $43,760,605 |
| 1,407 | George Gatins | $43,568,507 | 1 | $43,568,507 |
| 1,408 | Norman MacLean | $43,440,294 | 1 | $43,440,294 |
| 1,409 | Harold Ramis | $43,337,279 | 1 | $43,337,279 |
| 1,410 | Emily Cook | $43,242,871 | 1 | $43,242,871 |
| 1,411 | Kathy Greenburg | $43,242,871 | 1 | $43,242,871 |
| 1,412 | Sandra Nettelbeck | $43,107,979 | 1 | $43,107,979 |
| 1,413 | Alistair MacLean | $43,100,000 | 3 | $14,366,667 |
| 1,414 | Larry Beinhart | $43,057,470 | 1 | $43,057,470 |
| 1,415 | Jonathan Levine | $43,035,725 | 1 | $43,035,725 |
| 1,416 | Guy Lawson | $43,034,523 | 1 | $43,034,523 |
| 1,417 | J. Campbell Bruce | $43,000,000 | 1 | $43,000,000 |
| 1,418 | Terri Minsky | $42,734,455 | 1 | $42,734,455 |
| 1,419 | J. Mills Goodloe | $42,629,776 | 1 | $42,629,776 |
| 1,420 | Salvador Paskowitz | $42,629,776 | 1 | $42,629,776 |
| 1,421 | Nicholas Pileggi | $42,438,300 | 1 | $42,438,300 |
| 1,422 | Lynda La Plante | $42,402,632 | 1 | $42,402,632 |
| 1,423 | Oren Uziel | $42,326,031 | 1 | $42,326,031 |
| 1,424 | Greg Russo | $42,326,031 | 1 | $42,326,031 |
| 1,425 | Ed Boon | $42,326,031 | 3 | $14,108,677 |
| 1,426 | John Tobias | $42,326,031 | 2 | $21,163,016 |
| 1,427 | Robert L. Fish | $42,300,873 | 1 | $42,300,873 |
| 1,428 | Guerdon Trueblood | $42,245,180 | 1 | $42,245,180 |
| 1,429 | Joseph D. Pistone | $41,954,997 | 1 | $41,954,997 |
| 1,430 | Richard Wooley | $41,954,997 | 1 | $41,954,997 |
| 1,431 | Chandler Sprangue | $41,843,630 | 1 | $41,843,630 |
| 1,432 | Dalton Trumbo | $41,843,630 | 1 | $41,843,630 |
| 1,433 | Fredrick Hazlitt Brennan | $41,843,630 | 1 | $41,843,630 |
| 1,434 | William Wisher | $41,814,863 | 1 | $41,814,863 |
| 1,435 | Caleb Carr | $41,814,863 | 1 | $41,814,863 |
| 1,436 | John Thomas | $41,797,066 | 1 | $41,797,066 |
| 1,437 | K.V. Vijayendra Prasad | $41,636,919 | 3 | $13,878,973 |
| 1,438 | J.D. Zeik | $41,610,884 | 1 | $41,610,884 |
| 1,439 | André Cayatte | $41,267,469 | 1 | $41,267,469 |
| 1,440 | Gérard Oury | $41,267,469 | 1 | $41,267,469 |
| 1,441 | Leslie Cockburn | $41,263,140 | 1 | $41,263,140 |
| 1,442 | Andrew Cockburn | $41,263,140 | 1 | $41,263,140 |
| 1,443 | Fred Dekker | $41,200,794 | 2 | $20,600,397 |
| 1,444 | Edna Ferber | $41,178,619 | 3 | $13,726,206 |
| 1,445 | Heidi Murkoff | $41,152,203 | 1 | $41,152,203 |
| 1,446 | Mel Brooks | $41,042,314 | 3 | $13,680,771 |
| 1,447 | Alan Di Fiore | $41,012,075 | 1 | $41,012,075 |
| 1,448 | Beau Willinon | $40,962,534 | 1 | $40,962,534 |
| 1,449 | Lawrence Wright | $40,934,175 | 2 | $20,467,088 |
| 1,450 | Simon Moore | $40,847,995 | 1 | $40,847,995 |
| 1,451 | Carlos Kotkin | $40,847,995 | 1 | $40,847,995 |
| 1,452 | Becky Albertalli | $40,826,341 | 1 | $40,826,341 |
| 1,453 | George Barr McCutcheon | $40,800,000 | 2 | $20,400,000 |
| 1,454 | Gareth Edwards | $40,774,679 | 1 | $40,774,679 |
| 1,455 | Robert Littell | $40,759,635 | 1 | $40,759,635 |
| 1,456 | Emily Renteria | $40,713,082 | 1 | $40,713,082 |
| 1,457 | Masamune Shirow | $40,563,557 | 1 | $40,563,557 |
| 1,458 | Beatrix Potter | $40,501,717 | 1 | $40,501,717 |
| 1,459 | Jean Claude Mezieres | $40,479,370 | 1 | $40,479,370 |
| 1,460 | Pierre Christin | $40,479,370 | 1 | $40,479,370 |
| 1,461 | Johann David Wyss | $40,400,000 | 1 | $40,400,000 |
| 1,462 | Matthew Stone | $40,297,481 | 2 | $20,148,741 |
| 1,463 | David Wechter | $40,283,321 | 1 | $40,283,321 |
| 1,464 | Bruce Kimmel | $40,283,321 | 1 | $40,283,321 |
| 1,465 | Upton Sinclair | $40,222,514 | 1 | $40,222,514 |
| 1,466 | Theresa Rebeck | $40,202,379 | 1 | $40,202,379 |
| 1,467 | John Brancato | $40,202,379 | 1 | $40,202,379 |
| 1,468 | Billy Frolick | $40,127,371 | 1 | $40,127,371 |
| 1,469 | Barbara Robinson | $40,048,808 | 1 | $40,048,808 |
| 1,470 | Alex Garland | $39,778,599 | 1 | $39,778,599 |
| 1,471 | Thomas Cobb | $39,471,742 | 1 | $39,471,742 |
| 1,472 | David Ignatius | $39,394,666 | 1 | $39,394,666 |
| 1,473 | David Loughery | $39,263,506 | 1 | $39,263,506 |
| 1,474 | Jim Wheat | $39,235,088 | 1 | $39,235,088 |
| 1,475 | Ken Wheat | $39,235,088 | 1 | $39,235,088 |
| 1,476 | Racer Rodriguez | $39,177,684 | 1 | $39,177,684 |
| 1,477 | Nicola Yoon | $39,071,169 | 2 | $19,535,585 |
| 1,478 | Emily Giffin | $39,046,489 | 1 | $39,046,489 |
| 1,479 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | $39,012,241 | 1 | $39,012,241 |
| 1,480 | Ernest Hemingway | $38,950,425 | 6 | $6,491,738 |
| 1,481 | Howard Ashman | $38,946,965 | 1 | $38,946,965 |
| 1,482 | Roger Corman | $38,946,965 | 1 | $38,946,965 |
| 1,483 | Charles B. Griffith | $38,946,965 | 1 | $38,946,965 |
| 1,484 | Ben Hecht | $38,942,422 | 4 | $9,735,606 |
| 1,485 | Henry Gayden | $38,934,842 | 1 | $38,934,842 |
| 1,486 | Andrew Panay | $38,934,842 | 1 | $38,934,842 |
| 1,487 | Jeanne Ryan | $38,583,626 | 1 | $38,583,626 |
| 1,488 | Kate Angelo | $38,543,473 | 1 | $38,543,473 |
| 1,489 | Chris D'Arienzo | $38,518,613 | 1 | $38,518,613 |
| 1,490 | Bob Israel | $38,435,947 | 1 | $38,435,947 |
| 1,491 | Akira Toriyama | $38,385,118 | 4 | $9,596,280 |
| 1,492 | Walter Hamada | $38,362,475 | 1 | $38,362,475 |
| 1,493 | Colm Toibin | $38,322,743 | 1 | $38,322,743 |
| 1,494 | Dan Wakefield | $38,200,000 | 1 | $38,200,000 |
| 1,495 | Robert L. Stevenson | $38,120,554 | 1 | $38,120,554 |
| 1,496 | Jorge Saralegui | $37,948,765 | 1 | $37,948,765 |
| 1,497 | Heinrich Harrer | $37,945,884 | 1 | $37,945,884 |
| 1,498 | Cheryl Strayed | $37,880,356 | 1 | $37,880,356 |
| 1,499 | Henry James | $37,782,903 | 8 | $4,722,863 |
| 1,500 | Sue Monk Kidd | $37,780,486 | 1 | $37,780,486 |
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.