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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 301-400)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 301 | Justin K. Thompson | $681,138,413 | 2 | $340,569,207 |
| 302 | Peter Ramsey | $680,748,739 | 2 | $340,374,370 |
| 303 | Jordan Peele | $679,957,491 | 4 | $169,989,373 |
| 304 | Roger Spottiswoode | $679,852,128 | 14 | $48,560,866 |
| 305 | Anne Fletcher | $679,768,395 | 7 | $97,109,771 |
| 306 | Keenen Ivory Wayans | $673,822,088 | 6 | $112,303,681 |
| 307 | Kunihiko Yuyama | $667,398,224 | 17 | $39,258,719 |
| 308 | Wong Jing | $664,269,954 | 11 | $60,388,178 |
| 309 | Stephen Herek | $661,713,517 | 19 | $34,827,027 |
| 310 | John Madden | $653,830,421 | 13 | $50,294,648 |
| 311 | Steven Caple Jr | $653,501,394 | 4 | $163,375,349 |
| 312 | Donald Petrie | $650,245,188 | 14 | $46,446,085 |
| 313 | Fede Álvarez | $643,643,405 | 5 | $128,728,681 |
| 314 | Fei Yan | $641,304,515 | 3 | $213,768,172 |
| 315 | Da-Mo Peng | $640,674,515 | 2 | $320,337,258 |
| 316 | Walt Becker | $637,418,966 | 5 | $127,483,793 |
| 317 | James Bobin | $637,294,641 | 5 | $127,458,928 |
| 318 | Wes Anderson | $633,127,701 | 16 | $39,570,481 |
| 319 | Taylor Hackford | $632,738,278 | 15 | $42,182,552 |
| 320 | Andy Fickman | $630,079,079 | 13 | $48,467,621 |
| 321 | Sam Taylor-Johnson | $629,687,765 | 5 | $125,937,553 |
| 322 | David Dobkin | $623,700,070 | 7 | $89,100,010 |
| 323 | Xiaogang Feng | $622,732,944 | 9 | $69,192,549 |
| 324 | Ben Stiller | $618,041,759 | 8 | $77,255,220 |
| 325 | Haruo Sotozaki | $617,724,031 | 12 | $51,477,003 |
| 326 | Clyde Geronimi | $607,397,277 | 7 | $86,771,040 |
| 327 | James L. Brooks | $604,048,590 | 7 | $86,292,656 |
| 328 | Xue Xiaolu | $602,232,634 | 3 | $200,744,211 |
| 329 | Michael Chaves | $599,335,379 | 4 | $149,833,845 |
| 330 | Larry Charles | $596,564,556 | 8 | $74,570,570 |
| 331 | Stephen Frears | $596,078,302 | 22 | $27,094,468 |
| 332 | Harold Ramis | $595,733,928 | 11 | $54,157,630 |
| 333 | Catherine Hardwicke | $594,842,157 | 14 | $42,488,726 |
| 334 | Wuershan | $593,957,527 | 3 | $197,985,842 |
| 335 | Duncan Jones | $590,004,396 | 5 | $118,000,879 |
| 336 | Wolfgang Reitherman | $589,159,984 | 6 | $98,193,331 |
| 337 | Spike Lee | $587,737,937 | 32 | $18,366,811 |
| 338 | Gavin Hood | $585,824,188 | 7 | $83,689,170 |
| 339 | Rupert Sanders | $584,884,920 | 5 | $116,976,984 |
| 340 | Karey Kirkpatrick | $583,775,494 | 3 | $194,591,831 |
| 341 | Herbert Ross | $583,034,945 | 20 | $29,151,747 |
| 342 | Bong Joon Ho | $582,771,512 | 8 | $72,846,439 |
| 343 | Nathan Greno | $582,440,151 | 1 | $582,440,151 |
| 344 | John Lee Hancock | $580,149,717 | 9 | $64,461,080 |
| 345 | Mick Jackson | $576,836,762 | 7 | $82,405,252 |
| 346 | Randal Kleiser | $575,679,042 | 10 | $57,567,904 |
| 347 | Norman Jewison | $573,947,586 | 22 | $26,088,527 |
| 348 | Kirk De Micco | $573,068,425 | 1 | $573,068,425 |
| 349 | Jordan Vogt-Roberts | $572,215,421 | 3 | $190,738,474 |
| 350 | Jeff Tremaine | $571,724,856 | 11 | $51,974,987 |
| 351 | Baltasar Kormakur | $571,691,744 | 11 | $51,971,977 |
| 352 | Andrew Lau | $569,731,654 | 8 | $71,216,457 |
| 353 | Neil Burger | $564,720,848 | 6 | $94,120,141 |
| 354 | Yan Han (韩延) | $564,301,039 | 9 | $62,700,115 |
| 355 | Ol Parker | $564,104,448 | 4 | $141,026,112 |
| 356 | Takashi Yamazaki | $560,730,175 | 16 | $35,045,636 |
| 357 | Jim Abrahams | $560,178,776 | 8 | $70,022,347 |
| 358 | Harald Zwart | $556,019,223 | 6 | $92,669,871 |
| 359 | Mark Andrews | $554,763,947 | 2 | $277,381,974 |
| 360 | Robert Wise | $554,160,484 | 18 | $30,786,694 |
| 361 | Peter Hyams | $552,814,089 | 17 | $32,518,476 |
| 362 | Kevin Costner | $552,499,622 | 7 | $78,928,517 |
| 363 | Nick Cassavetes | $550,286,592 | 12 | $45,857,216 |
| 364 | Morten Tyldum | $549,752,465 | 3 | $183,250,822 |
| 365 | Stephanie Ma Stine | $547,946,325 | 1 | $547,946,325 |
| 366 | Ethan Coen | $545,068,709 | 10 | $54,506,871 |
| 367 | Richard Marquand | $544,536,596 | 4 | $136,134,149 |
| 368 | Martin Brest | $543,485,218 | 6 | $90,580,870 |
| 369 | Travis Knight | $542,279,941 | 5 | $108,455,988 |
| 370 | Alexander Payne | $540,179,097 | 11 | $49,107,191 |
| 371 | Guy Hamilton | $537,457,573 | 10 | $53,745,757 |
| 372 | Emile Ardolino | $537,282,767 | 6 | $89,547,128 |
| 373 | Roger Michell | $536,264,845 | 12 | $44,688,737 |
| 374 | Shen Ao | $535,818,766 | 3 | $178,606,255 |
| 375 | Anthony Minghella | $534,590,495 | 7 | $76,370,071 |
| 376 | Gabriele Muccino | $534,088,147 | 11 | $48,553,468 |
| 377 | Phil Johnston | $529,290,830 | 2 | $264,645,415 |
| 378 | Kent Seki | $527,909,949 | 1 | $527,909,949 |
| 379 | Ben Affleck | $526,905,329 | 7 | $75,272,190 |
| 380 | Wilson Yip | $526,423,842 | 6 | $87,737,307 |
| 381 | Tarsem Singh | $525,836,440 | 6 | $87,639,407 |
| 382 | P.J. Hogan | $521,781,347 | 6 | $86,963,558 |
| 383 | David Bowers | $520,878,022 | 7 | $74,411,146 |
| 384 | Alessandro Carloni | $520,189,225 | 1 | $520,189,225 |
| 385 | Rupert Wyatt | $519,067,441 | 5 | $103,813,488 |
| 386 | Eric Toledano | $515,697,486 | 4 | $128,924,372 |
| 387 | Olivier Nakache | $515,697,486 | 4 | $128,924,372 |
| 388 | Scott Mosier | $514,330,681 | 1 | $514,330,681 |
| 389 | Yarrow Cheney | $514,330,681 | 1 | $514,330,681 |
| 390 | Amy Heckerling | $514,322,328 | 9 | $57,146,925 |
| 391 | Wilfred Jackson | $509,736,558 | 8 | $63,717,070 |
| 392 | Destin Daniel Cretton | $507,515,720 | 6 | $84,585,953 |
| 393 | Mimi Leder | $506,909,625 | 7 | $72,415,661 |
| 394 | Andy Serkis | $506,450,038 | 5 | $101,290,008 |
| 395 | Steve Hickner | $506,207,765 | 2 | $253,103,883 |
| 396 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | $505,759,323 | 11 | $45,978,120 |
| 397 | Darren Lynn Bousman | $500,669,357 | 14 | $35,762,097 |
| 398 | S.S. Rajamouli | $500,259,697 | 5 | $100,051,939 |
| 399 | Cal Brunker | $499,328,979 | 5 | $99,865,796 |
| 400 | Daniel Espinosa | $490,676,122 | 7 | $70,096,589 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.