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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 501-600)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 501 | Simon Wells | $397,949,526 | 7 | $56,849,932 |
| 502 | Mike Gabriel | $394,531,461 | 2 | $197,265,731 |
| 503 | Mel Brooks | $393,722,716 | 10 | $39,372,272 |
| 504 | Yongchang Lin | $392,278,885 | 5 | $78,455,777 |
| 505 | Lee Isaac Chung | $387,736,924 | 5 | $77,547,385 |
| 506 | Cate Shortland | $384,474,052 | 4 | $96,118,513 |
| 507 | Stephen Daldry | $384,087,610 | 8 | $48,010,951 |
| 508 | Brian Fee | $383,541,369 | 1 | $383,541,369 |
| 509 | John Hamburg | $382,793,278 | 6 | $63,798,880 |
| 510 | Adam Robitel | $382,401,790 | 4 | $95,600,448 |
| 511 | Kirk Jones | $381,790,181 | 6 | $63,631,697 |
| 512 | Sidney Lumet | $381,468,723 | 32 | $11,920,898 |
| 513 | Jill Culton | $380,601,047 | 2 | $190,300,524 |
| 514 | Albert Hughes | $379,227,500 | 7 | $54,175,357 |
| 515 | Sam Fell | $379,056,523 | 4 | $94,764,131 |
| 516 | Kathryn Bigelow | $379,044,389 | 10 | $37,904,439 |
| 517 | Jason Friedberg | $376,410,231 | 9 | $41,823,359 |
| 518 | John Pasquin | $376,239,359 | 4 | $94,059,840 |
| 519 | Pierre Morel | $375,604,865 | 9 | $41,733,874 |
| 520 | Bob Persichetti | $373,807,069 | 2 | $186,903,535 |
| 521 | Rodney Rothman | $373,807,069 | 1 | $373,807,069 |
| 522 | Don Bluth | $369,897,897 | 10 | $36,989,790 |
| 523 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | $368,975,360 | 3 | $122,991,787 |
| 524 | Tom Tykwer | $368,854,401 | 11 | $33,532,218 |
| 525 | Michel Gondry | $368,729,091 | 15 | $24,581,939 |
| 526 | Stephen Gaghan | $368,597,728 | 5 | $73,719,546 |
| 527 | Tom Dey | $368,437,431 | 5 | $73,687,486 |
| 528 | Richard Curtis | $368,381,384 | 4 | $92,095,346 |
| 529 | Corin Hardy | $368,132,860 | 4 | $92,033,215 |
| 530 | Simon J. Smith | $366,942,531 | 1 | $366,942,531 |
| 531 | Steve Miner | $366,898,859 | 14 | $26,207,061 |
| 532 | Ralph Zondag | $366,208,130 | 4 | $91,552,033 |
| 533 | Peter Lord | $364,174,665 | 2 | $182,087,333 |
| 534 | Glenn Ficarra | $362,924,448 | 7 | $51,846,350 |
| 535 | John Requa | $362,924,448 | 7 | $51,846,350 |
| 536 | Frank Marshall | $362,445,293 | 9 | $40,271,699 |
| 537 | Jon Lucas | $360,993,044 | 6 | $60,165,507 |
| 538 | Scott Moore | $360,993,044 | 6 | $60,165,507 |
| 539 | Stephen Chbosky | $360,758,782 | 5 | $72,151,756 |
| 540 | Chris McKay | $358,244,731 | 5 | $71,648,946 |
| 541 | Eric Leighton | $356,148,063 | 1 | $356,148,063 |
| 542 | Penelope Spheeris | $356,086,924 | 12 | $29,673,910 |
| 543 | Bora Dagtekin | $355,679,839 | 6 | $59,279,973 |
| 544 | Parker Finn | $355,063,185 | 2 | $177,531,593 |
| 545 | Michael Moore | $354,058,852 | 11 | $32,187,168 |
| 546 | James Wong | $354,035,504 | 4 | $88,508,876 |
| 547 | Fergal Reilly | $352,288,341 | 1 | $352,288,341 |
| 548 | Clay Kaytis | $352,288,341 | 4 | $88,072,085 |
| 549 | Alexandre Aja | $351,912,919 | 11 | $31,992,084 |
| 550 | Hal Needham | $350,973,795 | 10 | $35,097,380 |
| 551 | Hugh Wilson | $347,622,020 | 8 | $43,452,753 |
| 552 | Alan Parker | $347,615,672 | 14 | $24,829,691 |
| 553 | Jon Avnet | $347,451,374 | 9 | $38,605,708 |
| 554 | Chao Deng | $347,414,748 | 4 | $86,853,687 |
| 555 | Eric Goldberg | $347,100,000 | 1 | $347,100,000 |
| 556 | Warren Beatty | $344,613,857 | 5 | $68,922,771 |
| 557 | Michael Caton-Jones | $344,324,571 | 12 | $28,693,714 |
| 558 | Felix Chong | $344,098,831 | 4 | $86,024,708 |
| 559 | Christopher Landon | $342,974,616 | 8 | $42,871,827 |
| 560 | Noam Murro | $342,435,670 | 2 | $171,217,835 |
| 561 | Joe Carnahan | $341,361,347 | 13 | $26,258,565 |
| 562 | Steven Brill | $340,478,394 | 9 | $37,830,933 |
| 563 | Michael Ritchie | $339,966,005 | 20 | $16,998,300 |
| 564 | Kevin Greutert | $336,990,230 | 7 | $48,141,461 |
| 565 | David Lam | $336,956,441 | 9 | $37,439,605 |
| 566 | Peter Hewitt | $336,023,809 | 8 | $42,002,976 |
| 567 | Jonathan Frakes | $334,820,272 | 6 | $55,803,379 |
| 568 | Robert Altman | $334,569,832 | 24 | $13,940,410 |
| 569 | Gavin O’Connor | $334,523,521 | 8 | $41,815,440 |
| 570 | Baimei Yu | $333,329,075 | 3 | $111,109,692 |
| 571 | Randall Wallace | $332,916,234 | 4 | $83,229,059 |
| 572 | Peter Faiman | $332,474,203 | 2 | $166,237,102 |
| 573 | Richard Linklater | $332,291,608 | 24 | $13,845,484 |
| 574 | John R. Leonetti | $331,666,660 | 5 | $66,333,332 |
| 575 | Rob Bowman | $331,011,050 | 4 | $82,752,763 |
| 576 | Lewis Gilbert | $330,559,300 | 5 | $66,111,860 |
| 577 | Xing Wenxiong | $330,321,790 | 1 | $330,321,790 |
| 578 | Scott Waugh | $329,423,261 | 9 | $36,602,585 |
| 579 | Simon Curtis | $329,270,996 | 6 | $54,878,499 |
| 580 | Olivier Magaton | $327,656,424 | 1 | $327,656,424 |
| 581 | Gary Winick | $327,346,184 | 6 | $54,557,697 |
| 582 | Howard Deutch | $326,558,383 | 10 | $32,655,838 |
| 583 | Allen Hughes | $326,442,664 | 9 | $36,271,407 |
| 584 | Jonathan Levine | $324,451,649 | 9 | $36,050,183 |
| 585 | Wayne Wang | $323,421,384 | 18 | $17,967,855 |
| 586 | James DeMonaco | $323,119,987 | 6 | $53,853,331 |
| 587 | John Hughes | $322,833,520 | 8 | $40,354,190 |
| 588 | Greg Mottola | $320,226,645 | 7 | $45,746,664 |
| 589 | Roger Kumble | $320,089,196 | 9 | $35,565,466 |
| 590 | Tommy Wirkola | $319,865,760 | 13 | $24,605,058 |
| 591 | Steven Quale | $319,727,892 | 6 | $53,287,982 |
| 592 | Simon Wincer | $318,635,111 | 13 | $24,510,393 |
| 593 | Beeban Kidron | $318,601,467 | 5 | $63,720,293 |
| 594 | Jackie Chan | $318,221,384 | 8 | $39,777,673 |
| 595 | Benjamin Renner | $317,850,717 | 3 | $105,950,239 |
| 596 | Kobun Shizuno | $317,687,652 | 12 | $26,473,971 |
| 597 | Harold Becker | $317,475,718 | 9 | $35,275,080 |
| 598 | Jose Padilha | $316,917,988 | 4 | $79,229,497 |
| 599 | Zach Lipovsky | $316,162,801 | 5 | $63,232,560 |
| 600 | Adam Stein | $316,162,801 | 3 | $105,387,600 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.