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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 6,001-6,100)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,001 | Cininha de Paula | $2,197,110 | 2 | $1,098,555 |
| 6,002 | Paul Cox | $2,194,919 | 1 | $2,194,919 |
| 6,003 | Alejandro Hidalgo | $2,194,916 | 2 | $1,097,458 |
| 6,004 | K.K. Radhakrishna Kumar | $2,192,867 | 1 | $2,192,867 |
| 6,005 | Rodrigo H. Vila | $2,188,650 | 4 | $547,163 |
| 6,006 | Ji LI | $2,188,560 | 2 | $1,094,280 |
| 6,007 | Gianni Zanasi | $2,188,536 | 3 | $729,512 |
| 6,008 | Mahmut Hasan | $2,186,355 | 1 | $2,186,355 |
| 6,009 | Sinish | $2,186,353 | 1 | $2,186,353 |
| 6,010 | Sekhar Kammula | $2,186,267 | 3 | $728,756 |
| 6,011 | Fabrício Bittar | $2,184,524 | 6 | $364,087 |
| 6,012 | Guillaume Nicloux | $2,183,837 | 9 | $242,649 |
| 6,013 | Jan Pachl | $2,183,032 | 3 | $727,677 |
| 6,014 | Ömer Faruk Yardimci | $2,181,158 | 2 | $1,090,579 |
| 6,015 | Nikita Argunov | $2,180,888 | 1 | $2,180,888 |
| 6,016 | Juan Carlos Medina | $2,174,568 | 3 | $724,856 |
| 6,017 | Aman Chang | $2,170,000 | 2 | $1,085,000 |
| 6,018 | Andre van Duren | $2,168,637 | 2 | $1,084,319 |
| 6,019 | Armando Bo | $2,168,363 | 2 | $1,084,182 |
| 6,020 | Leonid Margolin | $2,167,427 | 1 | $2,167,427 |
| 6,021 | Yu Kamatani | $2,164,296 | 1 | $2,164,296 |
| 6,022 | Yiqian Zhuo (卓亦谦) | $2,160,512 | 1 | $2,160,512 |
| 6,023 | Andrey Gogolev | $2,160,095 | 1 | $2,160,095 |
| 6,024 | Mohammad Kheyrandish | $2,160,095 | 1 | $2,160,095 |
| 6,025 | Lu Zhang | $2,160,035 | 5 | $432,007 |
| 6,026 | Liliana Cavani | $2,158,472 | 4 | $539,618 |
| 6,027 | Sung Kwang Park (박성광) | $2,157,822 | 1 | $2,157,822 |
| 6,028 | John Patton Ford | $2,157,709 | 2 | $1,078,855 |
| 6,029 | Andrey Zolotarev | $2,154,639 | 1 | $2,154,639 |
| 6,030 | Ben Zhao | $2,154,574 | 1 | $2,154,574 |
| 6,031 | Coline Serreau | $2,152,268 | 2 | $1,076,134 |
| 6,032 | Andrew Renzi | $2,151,028 | 4 | $537,757 |
| 6,033 | Chad Villella | $2,150,072 | 3 | $716,691 |
| 6,034 | Clea DuVall | $2,146,502 | 2 | $1,073,251 |
| 6,035 | Lorenzo Mattotti | $2,145,373 | 1 | $2,145,373 |
| 6,036 | John Hyams | $2,144,947 | 6 | $357,491 |
| 6,037 | Zhengdao Chen (陈正道) | $2,144,922 | 1 | $2,144,922 |
| 6,038 | Zhaoren Xu (许肇任) | $2,144,922 | 1 | $2,144,922 |
| 6,039 | Fanyu Kong | $2,142,778 | 2 | $1,071,389 |
| 6,040 | David Zellner | $2,139,339 | 4 | $534,835 |
| 6,041 | Christian Schwochow | $2,138,731 | 6 | $356,455 |
| 6,042 | Tobi Baumann | $2,136,891 | 2 | $1,068,446 |
| 6,043 | Dazhi Wang | $2,135,157 | 2 | $1,067,579 |
| 6,044 | Miguel Cadilhe | $2,134,239 | 2 | $1,067,120 |
| 6,045 | Steven Cantor | $2,133,417 | 2 | $1,066,709 |
| 6,046 | Lukas Zednikovic | $2,132,825 | 1 | $2,132,825 |
| 6,047 | James Graham | $2,131,793 | 2 | $1,065,897 |
| 6,048 | Kyle Edward Bell | $2,131,183 | 1 | $2,131,183 |
| 6,049 | Oleg Asadulin | $2,130,050 | 4 | $532,513 |
| 6,050 | Desiree Akhavan | $2,128,971 | 2 | $1,064,486 |
| 6,051 | Florian Ross | $2,128,869 | 2 | $1,064,435 |
| 6,052 | Jose Henrique Fonseca | $2,126,384 | 2 | $1,063,192 |
| 6,053 | Emily Atef | $2,124,254 | 3 | $708,085 |
| 6,054 | Majid Majidi | $2,122,752 | 3 | $707,584 |
| 6,055 | Michael Pate | $2,122,032 | 1 | $2,122,032 |
| 6,056 | Nathan Silver | $2,120,748 | 4 | $530,187 |
| 6,057 | Miloslav Šmídmajer | $2,115,887 | 6 | $352,648 |
| 6,058 | Luis Kuri | $2,111,082 | 2 | $1,055,541 |
| 6,059 | Halil Öztürk | $2,110,822 | 2 | $1,055,411 |
| 6,060 | Ivano De Matteo | $2,110,463 | 6 | $351,744 |
| 6,061 | Noel Marshall | $2,110,453 | 1 | $2,110,453 |
| 6,062 | Fiona Gordon | $2,109,872 | 3 | $703,291 |
| 6,063 | Dominique Abel | $2,109,872 | 3 | $703,291 |
| 6,064 | David Blair | $2,107,794 | 3 | $702,598 |
| 6,065 | Caradog James | $2,107,509 | 1 | $2,107,509 |
| 6,066 | Tom Lin | $2,105,079 | 2 | $1,052,540 |
| 6,067 | Yan Wen (文晏) | $2,102,798 | 1 | $2,102,798 |
| 6,068 | James Honeyborne | $2,100,000 | 1 | $2,100,000 |
| 6,069 | Egor Konchalovskiy | $2,098,454 | 2 | $1,049,227 |
| 6,070 | Ralph Strean | $2,097,560 | 2 | $1,048,780 |
| 6,071 | Naoto Kumazawa | $2,095,713 | 3 | $698,571 |
| 6,072 | Yun-seok Kim | $2,095,496 | 1 | $2,095,496 |
| 6,073 | Josh Radnor | $2,094,966 | 2 | $1,047,483 |
| 6,074 | Wei-Feng Deng | $2,094,734 | 4 | $523,684 |
| 6,075 | Zichuan Wang (王子川) | $2,090,964 | 1 | $2,090,964 |
| 6,076 | Steph Clattenburg | $2,090,607 | 2 | $1,045,304 |
| 6,077 | Liev Schreiber | $2,088,946 | 1 | $2,088,946 |
| 6,078 | Eduard Cortes | $2,088,257 | 2 | $1,044,129 |
| 6,079 | Lisa Leeman | $2,086,580 | 2 | $1,043,290 |
| 6,080 | Demián Rugna | $2,086,048 | 3 | $695,349 |
| 6,081 | Tsuneo Kobayashi | $2,085,455 | 1 | $2,085,455 |
| 6,082 | Valérie Donzelli | $2,085,133 | 5 | $417,027 |
| 6,083 | John Krokidas | $2,084,815 | 2 | $1,042,408 |
| 6,084 | Mark Anthony Green | $2,084,215 | 1 | $2,084,215 |
| 6,085 | Paola di Florio | $2,083,186 | 1 | $2,083,186 |
| 6,086 | Rafal Zielinski | $2,082,000 | 2 | $1,041,000 |
| 6,087 | Sin-Hang Chiu | $2,081,126 | 1 | $2,081,126 |
| 6,088 | Francois Damiens | $2,080,679 | 1 | $2,080,679 |
| 6,089 | Pilar Palomero | $2,080,349 | 3 | $693,450 |
| 6,090 | Paul-Razvan Macovei | $2,079,440 | 1 | $2,079,440 |
| 6,091 | Coky Giedroyc | $2,079,402 | 2 | $1,039,701 |
| 6,092 | Elisa Amoruso | $2,077,184 | 4 | $519,296 |
| 6,093 | Rob Schneider | $2,072,536 | 3 | $690,845 |
| 6,094 | Catherine Breillat | $2,069,068 | 6 | $344,845 |
| 6,095 | Taylor Wong | $2,069,000 | 1 | $2,069,000 |
| 6,096 | Lance Daly | $2,068,848 | 3 | $689,616 |
| 6,097 | Tetsuro Araki | $2,068,740 | 4 | $517,185 |
| 6,098 | Jean-Michel Bertrand | $2,065,240 | 3 | $688,413 |
| 6,099 | Teruyoshi Uchimura | $2,064,078 | 2 | $1,032,039 |
| 6,100 | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | $2,062,173 | 1 | $2,062,173 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.