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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 901-1,000)BETA
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This list shows the highest grossing Directors based on the worldwide 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 | Worldwide Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 901 | Ash Brannon | $169,544,233 | 2 | $84,772,117 |
| 902 | Jean-Marie Poire | $168,925,878 | 4 | $42,231,470 |
| 903 | Richard Fleischer | $168,752,822 | 19 | $8,881,727 |
| 904 | Angelina Jolie | $167,786,699 | 6 | $27,964,450 |
| 905 | Lorene Scafaria | $167,761,820 | 3 | $55,920,607 |
| 906 | Peter Bogdanovich | $167,613,084 | 15 | $11,174,206 |
| 907 | Steve Pink | $167,555,057 | 8 | $20,944,382 |
| 908 | Mark Robson | $166,843,366 | 9 | $18,538,152 |
| 909 | Gennaro Nunziante | $166,252,283 | 6 | $27,708,714 |
| 910 | Geoff Murphy | $165,656,179 | 7 | $23,665,168 |
| 911 | Cedric Nicolas-Troyan | $165,149,302 | 2 | $82,574,651 |
| 912 | Nick Bruno | $165,124,093 | 2 | $82,562,047 |
| 913 | Troy Quane | $165,124,093 | 2 | $82,562,047 |
| 914 | Carl Franklin | $165,111,774 | 7 | $23,587,396 |
| 915 | Howard Hall | $164,770,046 | 4 | $41,192,512 |
| 916 | Kim Jee-woon | $164,595,509 | 9 | $18,288,390 |
| 917 | Shao Yihui | $164,393,643 | 3 | $54,797,881 |
| 918 | Peter Hastings | $162,590,683 | 2 | $81,295,342 |
| 919 | Barbet Schroeder | $162,579,017 | 12 | $13,548,251 |
| 920 | Michael Hoffman | $162,574,614 | 8 | $20,321,827 |
| 921 | Richard Loncraine | $162,574,410 | 10 | $16,257,441 |
| 922 | Paul McGuigan | $162,213,480 | 8 | $20,276,685 |
| 923 | Franco Zeffirelli | $162,140,150 | 15 | $10,809,343 |
| 924 | Katsuya Shigehara | $162,042,074 | 1 | $162,042,074 |
| 925 | Garth Davis | $161,345,989 | 3 | $53,781,996 |
| 926 | Mans Marlind | $161,123,188 | 3 | $53,707,729 |
| 927 | Björn Stein | $161,088,683 | 2 | $80,544,342 |
| 928 | Michel Hazanavicius | $160,854,084 | 8 | $20,106,761 |
| 929 | Yu Shan Chen | $160,687,692 | 3 | $53,562,564 |
| 930 | Fred Schepisi | $160,463,570 | 13 | $12,343,352 |
| 931 | Andrew Erwin | $160,352,081 | 9 | $17,816,898 |
| 932 | Ali Abbas Zafar | $160,078,669 | 5 | $32,015,734 |
| 933 | David Kerr | $159,369,278 | 3 | $53,123,093 |
| 934 | John Polson | $157,780,969 | 2 | $78,890,485 |
| 935 | Sylvain White | $157,336,836 | 5 | $31,467,367 |
| 936 | Kazuya Tsurumaki | $157,119,390 | 4 | $39,279,848 |
| 937 | Griffin Dunne | $157,080,746 | 6 | $26,180,124 |
| 938 | Rupert Wainwright | $157,064,028 | 3 | $52,354,676 |
| 939 | Jessie Nelson | $156,952,327 | 3 | $52,317,442 |
| 940 | Bobs Gannaway | $156,399,644 | 1 | $156,399,644 |
| 941 | Luis Llosa | $155,993,560 | 2 | $77,996,780 |
| 942 | Stan Dragoti | $155,666,897 | 5 | $31,133,379 |
| 943 | Barbra Streisand | $155,067,309 | 3 | $51,689,103 |
| 944 | Huang Jianxin | $154,853,696 | 3 | $51,617,899 |
| 945 | Wong Amp | $154,548,608 | 2 | $77,274,304 |
| 946 | Francois Ozon | $154,351,006 | 18 | $8,575,056 |
| 947 | Paul Weiland | $154,326,150 | 5 | $30,865,230 |
| 948 | Madeline Sharafian | $154,095,336 | 2 | $77,047,668 |
| 949 | Adrian Molina | $154,095,336 | 1 | $154,095,336 |
| 950 | Tom McCarthy | $153,821,762 | 8 | $19,227,720 |
| 951 | Etan Cohen | $153,738,058 | 2 | $76,869,029 |
| 952 | Thurop Van Orman | $152,255,188 | 1 | $152,255,188 |
| 953 | Ari Aster | $151,897,661 | 4 | $37,974,415 |
| 954 | Carl Rinsch | $151,716,815 | 1 | $151,716,815 |
| 955 | Jean-Marc Vallee | $151,639,860 | 5 | $30,327,972 |
| 956 | James Fargo | $151,468,727 | 3 | $50,489,576 |
| 957 | Eiichirō Hasumi | $151,369,670 | 6 | $25,228,278 |
| 958 | Mahiro Maeda | $151,126,830 | 2 | $75,563,415 |
| 959 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | $151,117,289 | 11 | $13,737,935 |
| 960 | Gavin Lin | $151,056,221 | 1 | $151,056,221 |
| 961 | Daniel Scheinert | $150,857,325 | 4 | $37,714,331 |
| 962 | Daniel Kwan | $150,823,469 | 3 | $50,274,490 |
| 963 | James Ivory | $150,489,338 | 20 | $7,524,467 |
| 964 | Cecil B. DeMille | $150,254,990 | 11 | $13,659,545 |
| 965 | Chika Nagaoka | $150,008,115 | 1 | $150,008,115 |
| 966 | Lee Cronin | $150,007,623 | 3 | $50,002,541 |
| 967 | Celine Song | $149,346,867 | 2 | $74,673,434 |
| 968 | Neveldine & Taylor | $149,217,355 | 1 | $149,217,355 |
| 969 | Karan Johar | $148,800,631 | 7 | $21,257,233 |
| 970 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | $147,087,299 | 5 | $29,417,460 |
| 971 | Baoping Cao | $146,544,653 | 5 | $29,308,931 |
| 972 | Sanjay Leela Bhansali | $146,382,092 | 4 | $36,595,523 |
| 973 | Laurent Tirard | $146,236,664 | 7 | $20,890,952 |
| 974 | Sean McNamara | $146,193,002 | 32 | $4,568,531 |
| 975 | Angela Robinson | $146,115,900 | 3 | $48,705,300 |
| 976 | Andrew Fleming | $145,930,506 | 9 | $16,214,501 |
| 977 | Liuxun Zimo | $145,775,168 | 1 | $145,775,168 |
| 978 | Min-ho Woo | $145,317,840 | 4 | $36,329,460 |
| 979 | James Marsh | $145,149,508 | 10 | $14,514,951 |
| 980 | Xie Dikui | $144,830,000 | 2 | $72,415,000 |
| 981 | Lin Yan | $144,830,000 | 2 | $72,415,000 |
| 982 | Olivia Newman | $144,353,965 | 2 | $72,176,983 |
| 983 | Er Cheng | $144,321,754 | 2 | $72,160,877 |
| 984 | Fernando Meirelles | $142,833,632 | 6 | $23,805,605 |
| 985 | Jack Lee Thompson | $142,269,107 | 14 | $10,162,079 |
| 986 | Stephen Hillenburg | $142,051,255 | 1 | $142,051,255 |
| 987 | Neil Marshall | $141,637,081 | 10 | $14,163,708 |
| 988 | Santiago Segura | $141,547,420 | 11 | $12,867,947 |
| 989 | Zhang Jiajia | $141,219,951 | 2 | $70,609,976 |
| 990 | Danny Cannon | $141,098,785 | 2 | $70,549,393 |
| 991 | Anees Bazmee | $141,031,419 | 10 | $14,103,142 |
| 992 | Peggy Holmes | $140,900,455 | 4 | $35,225,114 |
| 993 | Igor Kovalyov | $140,894,685 | 1 | $140,894,685 |
| 994 | Jodie Foster | $140,575,153 | 4 | $35,143,788 |
| 995 | George Nolfi | $140,468,419 | 4 | $35,117,105 |
| 996 | Steve Trenbirth | $139,924,202 | 1 | $139,924,202 |
| 997 | Gurinder Chadha | $139,800,178 | 10 | $13,980,018 |
| 998 | Tommy Chong | $139,663,872 | 6 | $23,277,312 |
| 999 | Sang-ho Yeon | $139,528,890 | 6 | $23,254,815 |
| 1,000 | John Crowley | $139,149,267 | 5 | $27,829,853 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.