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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 701-800)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 701 | Linshan Zhao | $255,440,640 | 2 | $127,720,320 |
| 702 | Joe Pytka | $255,151,472 | 2 | $127,575,736 |
| 703 | Alex Garland | $253,847,979 | 6 | $42,307,997 |
| 704 | Lee Daniels | $251,880,742 | 6 | $41,980,124 |
| 705 | Robert Walker | $250,397,798 | 1 | $250,397,798 |
| 706 | Aaron Blaise | $250,397,798 | 1 | $250,397,798 |
| 707 | Iain Softley | $250,284,318 | 9 | $27,809,369 |
| 708 | Stefen Fangmeier | $249,488,115 | 1 | $249,488,115 |
| 709 | Eduardo Sanchez | $248,743,453 | 7 | $35,534,779 |
| 710 | Bob Clark | $248,529,138 | 15 | $16,568,609 |
| 711 | Daniel Myrick | $248,302,552 | 4 | $62,075,638 |
| 712 | Anthony Leondis | $247,578,188 | 2 | $123,789,094 |
| 713 | Stuart Baird | $247,225,621 | 3 | $82,408,540 |
| 714 | Kim Yong-hwa | $246,673,411 | 3 | $82,224,470 |
| 715 | Li Wei | $245,851,162 | 6 | $40,975,194 |
| 716 | Ron Underwood | $245,697,279 | 9 | $27,299,698 |
| 717 | Ben Falcone | $245,119,773 | 5 | $49,023,955 |
| 718 | Robert Benton | $245,098,156 | 9 | $27,233,128 |
| 719 | Dexter Fletcher | $244,917,692 | 5 | $48,983,538 |
| 720 | Teng Cheng | $243,887,233 | 1 | $243,887,233 |
| 721 | James Gray | $243,701,491 | 10 | $24,370,149 |
| 722 | Ronny Yu | $243,555,145 | 6 | $40,592,524 |
| 723 | Sheng Ding | $243,226,928 | 8 | $30,403,366 |
| 724 | Ric Roman Waugh | $242,958,480 | 10 | $24,295,848 |
| 725 | David Cronenberg | $240,815,457 | 21 | $11,467,403 |
| 726 | Cornell John | $239,606,210 | 1 | $239,606,210 |
| 727 | JiangJiang Liu | $238,913,515 | 2 | $119,456,758 |
| 728 | Tom Vaughan | $238,350,483 | 5 | $47,670,097 |
| 729 | Frank Miller | $238,184,948 | 3 | $79,394,983 |
| 730 | Klay Hall | $238,059,569 | 1 | $238,059,569 |
| 731 | Fawn Veerasunthorn | $237,954,897 | 1 | $237,954,897 |
| 732 | Russell Mulcahy | $237,337,364 | 14 | $16,952,669 |
| 733 | Choi Dong-hoon | $237,160,192 | 5 | $47,432,038 |
| 734 | Hayden Schlossberg | $236,799,211 | 2 | $118,399,606 |
| 735 | Jon Hurwitz | $236,799,211 | 2 | $118,399,606 |
| 736 | Steve Bendelack | $234,981,342 | 1 | $234,981,342 |
| 737 | Thea Sharrock | $234,296,936 | 4 | $58,574,234 |
| 738 | David S. Goyer | $233,103,892 | 4 | $58,275,973 |
| 739 | Gary Dauberman | $232,101,885 | 2 | $116,050,943 |
| 740 | Derek Tsang | $231,482,787 | 1 | $231,482,787 |
| 741 | Yuzuru Tachikawa | $231,022,593 | 4 | $57,755,648 |
| 742 | Jared Bush | $230,815,162 | 1 | $230,815,162 |
| 743 | Jing Zou | $229,620,158 | 1 | $229,620,158 |
| 744 | Junwei Xie (谢君伟) | $229,620,158 | 1 | $229,620,158 |
| 745 | Michael Lehmann | $229,548,659 | 9 | $25,505,407 |
| 746 | Dean Devlin | $228,181,798 | 2 | $114,090,899 |
| 747 | Philippe de Chauveron | $226,954,994 | 5 | $45,390,999 |
| 748 | Jason Moore | $226,412,616 | 4 | $56,603,154 |
| 749 | Dmitry Dyachenko | $225,094,166 | 8 | $28,136,771 |
| 750 | Alfred Hitchcock | $224,215,093 | 43 | $5,214,304 |
| 751 | Hideo Nakata | $223,145,171 | 17 | $13,126,187 |
| 752 | Alex Kendrick | $223,094,423 | 7 | $31,870,632 |
| 753 | Tom Laughlin | $223,040,907 | 4 | $55,760,227 |
| 754 | Shao Heqi | $222,103,379 | 1 | $222,103,379 |
| 755 | Gary Shore | $221,782,818 | 3 | $73,927,606 |
| 756 | Gerard Johnstone | $221,119,322 | 3 | $73,706,441 |
| 757 | Chuan Lu | $220,776,652 | 5 | $44,155,330 |
| 758 | John Frankenheimer | $220,705,262 | 21 | $10,509,774 |
| 759 | Stephen Anderson | $220,698,326 | 2 | $110,349,163 |
| 760 | Toni Myers | $220,555,618 | 3 | $73,518,539 |
| 761 | Andrew Bergman | $220,546,898 | 6 | $36,757,816 |
| 762 | Tomoka Nagaoka | $220,317,067 | 2 | $110,158,534 |
| 763 | Ted Kotcheff | $220,153,600 | 10 | $22,015,360 |
| 764 | Kabir Khan | $219,457,932 | 7 | $31,351,133 |
| 765 | Angus Maclane | $218,878,024 | 1 | $218,878,024 |
| 766 | Ding Liang | $218,779,552 | 3 | $72,926,517 |
| 767 | Reinaldo Marcus Green | $218,601,916 | 4 | $54,650,479 |
| 768 | Philip Kaufman | $217,829,667 | 11 | $19,802,697 |
| 769 | David Koepp | $217,490,494 | 7 | $31,070,071 |
| 770 | Shinsuke Sato | $217,329,998 | 10 | $21,733,000 |
| 771 | Zhao Ji | $217,083,250 | 3 | $72,361,083 |
| 772 | Babak Najafi | $216,903,624 | 3 | $72,301,208 |
| 773 | Leon Ding | $216,222,026 | 3 | $72,074,009 |
| 774 | Ryan Murphy | $215,497,364 | 5 | $43,099,473 |
| 775 | Shui Yu (於水) | $215,095,055 | 1 | $215,095,055 |
| 776 | James Watkins | $215,027,186 | 4 | $53,756,797 |
| 777 | Gary Rydstrom | $214,978,980 | 3 | $71,659,660 |
| 778 | Mike Flanagan | $214,642,721 | 8 | $26,830,340 |
| 779 | Jon Erwin | $213,733,062 | 10 | $21,373,306 |
| 780 | Ryuichi Yagi | $213,606,471 | 2 | $106,803,236 |
| 781 | Spike Jonze | $212,076,602 | 5 | $42,415,320 |
| 782 | Greg Berlanti | $211,629,263 | 5 | $42,325,853 |
| 783 | Oz Perkins | $211,290,319 | 7 | $30,184,331 |
| 784 | Tim Heitz | $210,669,403 | 1 | $210,669,403 |
| 785 | Shen Teng | $210,617,350 | 1 | $210,617,350 |
| 786 | Zhang Ziyi | $210,617,350 | 1 | $210,617,350 |
| 787 | Michael Sucsy | $210,444,191 | 3 | $70,148,064 |
| 788 | Taniguchi Goro | $210,399,094 | 5 | $42,079,819 |
| 789 | Gilbert Lewis | $210,300,000 | 1 | $210,300,000 |
| 790 | Burr Steers | $210,103,441 | 4 | $52,525,860 |
| 791 | Kevin MacDonald | $210,054,485 | 10 | $21,005,449 |
| 792 | Peter Yates | $209,723,505 | 18 | $11,651,306 |
| 793 | Rene Liu | $209,221,328 | 1 | $209,221,328 |
| 794 | John Whitesell | $209,206,126 | 7 | $29,886,589 |
| 795 | Mamoru Hosoda | $208,394,395 | 9 | $23,154,933 |
| 796 | Jared Stern | $207,557,117 | 1 | $207,557,117 |
| 797 | Clark Johnson | $207,311,083 | 3 | $69,103,694 |
| 798 | George A. Romero | $207,303,458 | 17 | $12,194,321 |
| 799 | Peter Spierig | $207,015,925 | 4 | $51,753,981 |
| 800 | Michael Spierig | $207,015,925 | 4 | $51,753,981 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.