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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 8,001-8,100)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,001 | Anar Abbasov | $566,395 | 1 | $566,395 |
| 8,002 | Per Fly | $566,134 | 3 | $188,711 |
| 8,003 | Kevin Carlin | $565,178 | 1 | $565,178 |
| 8,004 | Pippo Mezzapesa | $564,803 | 2 | $282,402 |
| 8,005 | Shaojun Zhang | $564,112 | 3 | $188,037 |
| 8,006 | Barbara Willis Sweete | $564,016 | 3 | $188,005 |
| 8,007 | Bharat Kamma | $563,850 | 1 | $563,850 |
| 8,008 | Francesco Falaschi | $563,800 | 1 | $563,800 |
| 8,009 | Mars Callahan | $563,711 | 1 | $563,711 |
| 8,010 | Bridger Nielson | $563,406 | 1 | $563,406 |
| 8,011 | Joachim Heden | $562,768 | 2 | $281,384 |
| 8,012 | Laxman Utekar | $562,745 | 3 | $187,582 |
| 8,013 | Annemarie Jacir | $561,452 | 1 | $561,452 |
| 8,014 | Deepak S. Shivdasani | $561,252 | 2 | $280,626 |
| 8,015 | Jenni Toivoniemi | $561,088 | 1 | $561,088 |
| 8,016 | Çagri Bayrakli | $560,429 | 2 | $280,215 |
| 8,017 | Gonzalo Gutierrez | $560,151 | 2 | $280,076 |
| 8,018 | Luca Vecchi | $560,041 | 1 | $560,041 |
| 8,019 | Quek Shio Chuan | $560,000 | 2 | $280,000 |
| 8,020 | Arthur Jones | $560,000 | 1 | $560,000 |
| 8,021 | Paulinho Caruso | $559,948 | 1 | $559,948 |
| 8,022 | Olga Dibtseva | $558,358 | 1 | $558,358 |
| 8,023 | Jonathan Wright | $558,216 | 9 | $62,024 |
| 8,024 | Anne-Gaëlle Daval | $556,600 | 1 | $556,600 |
| 8,025 | Marie Amiguet | $556,129 | 1 | $556,129 |
| 8,026 | Gracie Otto | $556,129 | 2 | $278,065 |
| 8,027 | Young-Seon Yoo | $556,103 | 2 | $278,052 |
| 8,028 | Charlène Favier | $555,475 | 1 | $555,475 |
| 8,029 | Peter Bratt | $555,309 | 1 | $555,309 |
| 8,030 | Mikael Marcimain | $555,048 | 2 | $277,524 |
| 8,031 | Ryan Bellgardt | $555,033 | 6 | $92,506 |
| 8,032 | Tomas Portella | $554,976 | 4 | $138,744 |
| 8,033 | Petr Vaclav | $554,797 | 2 | $277,399 |
| 8,034 | Tetsuya Yanagisawa | $554,740 | 2 | $277,370 |
| 8,035 | Nicanor Loreti | $554,550 | 3 | $184,850 |
| 8,036 | Clive Tonge | $553,934 | 1 | $553,934 |
| 8,037 | Kevin Lewis | $553,895 | 3 | $184,632 |
| 8,038 | Malik Bader | $553,406 | 3 | $184,469 |
| 8,039 | Catalin Dascalu | $553,169 | 2 | $276,585 |
| 8,040 | Ella Lernhagen | $552,712 | 1 | $552,712 |
| 8,041 | Olivier Casas | $551,802 | 3 | $183,934 |
| 8,042 | Jem Cohen | $550,908 | 2 | $275,454 |
| 8,043 | Ira Carpelan | $550,817 | 2 | $275,409 |
| 8,044 | Abe Forsythe | $550,432 | 4 | $137,608 |
| 8,045 | Kristina Buozyte | $550,209 | 3 | $183,403 |
| 8,046 | Giampolo Manfreda | $550,187 | 1 | $550,187 |
| 8,047 | Bruno Samper | $550,118 | 2 | $275,059 |
| 8,048 | Arthur Harari | $550,015 | 3 | $183,338 |
| 8,049 | Douxian Hong | $550,000 | 1 | $550,000 |
| 8,050 | Bill Muir | $549,632 | 1 | $549,632 |
| 8,051 | Andrius Žiurauskas | $549,605 | 1 | $549,605 |
| 8,052 | Dylan Baker | $549,185 | 1 | $549,185 |
| 8,053 | Jimmie Nickerson | $548,787 | 1 | $548,787 |
| 8,054 | Sahin Altug | $548,011 | 1 | $548,011 |
| 8,055 | Audrius Juzenas | $548,008 | 1 | $548,008 |
| 8,056 | Brian Hannant | $548,000 | 1 | $548,000 |
| 8,057 | Doug Pray | $547,992 | 4 | $136,998 |
| 8,058 | Aditya Chopra | $547,750 | 2 | $273,875 |
| 8,059 | Mike Cheslik | $547,382 | 1 | $547,382 |
| 8,060 | Antony Szeto | $547,134 | 1 | $547,134 |
| 8,061 | Sean Casey | $546,730 | 1 | $546,730 |
| 8,062 | Antoine Le | $546,382 | 1 | $546,382 |
| 8,063 | Francesca Mazzoleni | $546,293 | 2 | $273,147 |
| 8,064 | David Batty | $546,116 | 3 | $182,039 |
| 8,065 | Alice Troughton | $545,588 | 1 | $545,588 |
| 8,066 | Michael Rowe | $545,159 | 2 | $272,580 |
| 8,067 | Steve Lichtag | $545,016 | 1 | $545,016 |
| 8,068 | Elliot Scott | $544,538 | 1 | $544,538 |
| 8,069 | Claude Lalonde | $544,516 | 1 | $544,516 |
| 8,070 | Mustafa Ugur Yagcioglu | $544,210 | 5 | $108,842 |
| 8,071 | Frédéric Fonteyne | $543,800 | 2 | $271,900 |
| 8,072 | Richard Greenberg | $542,939 | 2 | $271,470 |
| 8,073 | He Wen | $542,586 | 1 | $542,586 |
| 8,074 | Yau Nai Hoi | $542,554 | 1 | $542,554 |
| 8,075 | Patricio Guzman | $542,501 | 4 | $135,625 |
| 8,076 | Hiroki Kazama | $542,378 | 2 | $271,189 |
| 8,077 | Danny Leysner | $542,355 | 1 | $542,355 |
| 8,078 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | $541,992 | 1 | $541,992 |
| 8,079 | Denis Eleonskiy | $541,753 | 1 | $541,753 |
| 8,080 | Matt Dillon | $541,050 | 3 | $180,350 |
| 8,081 | Felix Moati | $540,812 | 1 | $540,812 |
| 8,082 | Momina Duraid | $540,639 | 1 | $540,639 |
| 8,083 | Shehzad Kashmiri | $540,639 | 1 | $540,639 |
| 8,084 | Roan Johnson | $540,629 | 3 | $180,210 |
| 8,085 | Gerardo Gatica | $540,490 | 1 | $540,490 |
| 8,086 | Adam Sedlak | $540,295 | 2 | $270,148 |
| 8,087 | Baiju Liu | $540,000 | 1 | $540,000 |
| 8,088 | Krzysztof Lang | $539,932 | 1 | $539,932 |
| 8,089 | Xu Li | $539,444 | 1 | $539,444 |
| 8,090 | Joe Brumm | $539,427 | 1 | $539,427 |
| 8,091 | Richard Jeffery | $539,427 | 1 | $539,427 |
| 8,092 | Lee Dong-hee | $539,407 | 1 | $539,407 |
| 8,093 | Iginio Straffi | $538,917 | 1 | $538,917 |
| 8,094 | Hudaverdi Yavuz | $538,551 | 1 | $538,551 |
| 8,095 | Len Dell’amico | $538,507 | 2 | $269,254 |
| 8,096 | Murat Serezli | $538,102 | 1 | $538,102 |
| 8,097 | Emilis Velivisa | $538,086 | 1 | $538,086 |
| 8,098 | Ali Adnan Özgür | $536,603 | 3 | $178,868 |
| 8,099 | Valerie Breiman | $536,287 | 2 | $268,144 |
| 8,100 | Tomáš Vorel | $536,035 | 2 | $268,018 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.