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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 801-900)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 801 | Shekhar Kapur | $206,911,252 | 8 | $25,863,907 |
| 802 | Rob Zombie | $206,743,801 | 11 | $18,794,891 |
| 803 | Jay Chandrasekhar | $206,008,705 | 7 | $29,429,815 |
| 804 | Jim Sheridan | $205,853,988 | 10 | $20,585,399 |
| 805 | Sarah Smith | $205,790,051 | 2 | $102,895,026 |
| 806 | Kevin Rodney Sullivan | $205,631,244 | 4 | $51,407,811 |
| 807 | Dwight H. Little | $205,555,302 | 12 | $17,129,609 |
| 808 | Cathy Yan | $205,426,139 | 5 | $41,085,228 |
| 809 | Brad Lewis | $205,162,666 | 1 | $205,162,666 |
| 810 | Ava Duvernay | $205,074,341 | 7 | $29,296,334 |
| 811 | Niki Caro | $205,041,584 | 8 | $25,630,198 |
| 812 | David McNally | $204,475,056 | 2 | $102,237,528 |
| 813 | John Schlesinger | $200,198,330 | 15 | $13,346,555 |
| 814 | Robert Stevenson | $199,446,192 | 8 | $24,930,774 |
| 815 | Sam Quah | $199,276,793 | 1 | $199,276,793 |
| 816 | Xiao Lu Xue | $199,085,416 | 2 | $99,542,708 |
| 817 | Huang Bo | $198,330,770 | 1 | $198,330,770 |
| 818 | Terrence Malick | $198,269,043 | 11 | $18,024,458 |
| 819 | Nimrod Antal | $198,142,724 | 6 | $33,023,787 |
| 820 | Nick Castle | $197,980,808 | 6 | $32,996,801 |
| 821 | Johannes Roberts | $197,864,380 | 10 | $19,786,438 |
| 822 | Steve Box | $197,593,152 | 1 | $197,593,152 |
| 823 | Norton Virgien | $196,337,717 | 2 | $98,168,859 |
| 824 | Michael Engler | $196,121,144 | 2 | $98,060,572 |
| 825 | Luca Guadagnino | $195,459,686 | 16 | $12,216,230 |
| 826 | Scott Speer | $195,406,689 | 7 | $27,915,241 |
| 827 | Hiromasa Yonebayashi | $195,350,190 | 3 | $65,116,730 |
| 828 | Paul Haggis | $195,007,414 | 5 | $39,001,483 |
| 829 | Gene Stupnitsky | $194,627,789 | 2 | $97,313,895 |
| 830 | Oren Peli | $194,190,590 | 2 | $97,095,295 |
| 831 | Tatsuya Nagamine | $193,309,847 | 3 | $64,436,616 |
| 832 | Akiva Schaffer | $193,092,534 | 5 | $38,618,507 |
| 833 | Frederik Du Chau | $193,015,261 | 4 | $48,253,815 |
| 834 | Wenli Ke (柯汶利) | $192,893,999 | 2 | $96,447,000 |
| 835 | Pete Travis | $192,418,433 | 4 | $48,104,608 |
| 836 | Ericson Core | $192,283,608 | 3 | $64,094,536 |
| 837 | Dougal Wilson | $192,115,012 | 1 | $192,115,012 |
| 838 | Su Lun | $191,940,584 | 2 | $95,970,292 |
| 839 | Gary Goldman | $191,866,304 | 4 | $47,966,576 |
| 840 | Adam Nee | $191,608,744 | 4 | $47,902,186 |
| 841 | Aaron Nee | $191,608,744 | 4 | $47,902,186 |
| 842 | Takaski Shimizu | $191,193,140 | 2 | $95,596,570 |
| 843 | Irwin Winkler | $190,992,119 | 7 | $27,284,588 |
| 844 | Woo-seok Yang | $190,657,604 | 5 | $38,131,521 |
| 845 | John Erick Dowdle | $189,947,470 | 6 | $31,657,912 |
| 846 | Zhang Mo | $188,768,583 | 3 | $62,922,861 |
| 847 | Dong Runnian | $188,547,881 | 2 | $94,273,941 |
| 848 | Dan Trachtenberg | $188,286,422 | 4 | $47,071,606 |
| 849 | Jazz Boon | $188,065,089 | 3 | $62,688,363 |
| 850 | Jason Kwan | $188,023,790 | 3 | $62,674,597 |
| 851 | Jiang Wen | $187,528,980 | 6 | $31,254,830 |
| 852 | Ted Demme | $186,384,619 | 7 | $26,626,374 |
| 853 | Patrick Wilson | $186,258,928 | 1 | $186,258,928 |
| 854 | Victor Salva | $185,757,450 | 5 | $37,151,490 |
| 855 | Youn Jk | $185,427,109 | 4 | $46,356,777 |
| 856 | Til Schweiger | $185,177,911 | 10 | $18,517,791 |
| 857 | Tod Williams | $184,734,378 | 5 | $36,946,876 |
| 858 | Shinji Higuchi | $184,062,445 | 7 | $26,294,635 |
| 859 | Seong-Hu Park | $183,764,309 | 1 | $183,764,309 |
| 860 | Doug Sweetland | $183,679,278 | 1 | $183,679,278 |
| 861 | Paul Mazursky | $183,464,275 | 10 | $18,346,428 |
| 862 | Sunny Luk | $183,128,068 | 3 | $61,042,689 |
| 863 | Neil LaBute | $182,721,616 | 13 | $14,055,509 |
| 864 | Alastair Fothergill | $182,436,287 | 11 | $16,585,117 |
| 865 | Tobe Hooper | $181,890,031 | 9 | $20,210,003 |
| 866 | Bennett Miller | $180,704,918 | 4 | $45,176,230 |
| 867 | Sukumar | $180,639,886 | 4 | $45,159,972 |
| 868 | Nigel Cole | $180,487,337 | 6 | $30,081,223 |
| 869 | Jeff Rowe | $180,329,865 | 3 | $60,109,955 |
| 870 | Dennis Gansel | $180,315,857 | 7 | $25,759,408 |
| 871 | Scott Stewart | $179,557,103 | 4 | $44,889,276 |
| 872 | Miguel Arteta | $179,377,310 | 8 | $22,422,164 |
| 873 | William Wyler | $179,222,750 | 13 | $13,786,365 |
| 874 | David Lowery | $178,604,175 | 9 | $19,844,908 |
| 875 | Yuichi Fukuda | $177,977,315 | 11 | $16,179,756 |
| 876 | Patrick Lussier | $177,432,556 | 9 | $19,714,728 |
| 877 | Gina Prince-Bythewood | $176,595,333 | 5 | $35,319,067 |
| 878 | Brett Leonard | $176,563,708 | 9 | $19,618,190 |
| 879 | Nisha Ganatra | $175,817,566 | 6 | $29,302,928 |
| 880 | Siddharth Anand | $175,447,604 | 5 | $35,089,521 |
| 881 | Dean Israelite | $175,440,989 | 5 | $35,088,198 |
| 882 | John A. Davis | $175,362,568 | 3 | $58,454,189 |
| 883 | Jeremiah Chechik | $175,091,849 | 6 | $29,181,975 |
| 884 | John Schultz | $174,824,009 | 10 | $17,482,401 |
| 885 | Niels Arden Oplev | $174,532,749 | 6 | $29,088,792 |
| 886 | Luan Zhang | $174,445,956 | 4 | $43,611,489 |
| 887 | Marco Brambilla | $173,407,200 | 2 | $86,703,600 |
| 888 | Forest Whitaker | $173,296,032 | 3 | $57,765,344 |
| 889 | Colin Higgins | $173,002,296 | 2 | $86,501,148 |
| 890 | Brad Furman | $172,620,981 | 7 | $24,660,140 |
| 891 | Peter Billingsley | $172,539,969 | 2 | $86,269,985 |
| 892 | Prashanth Neel | $171,549,859 | 4 | $42,887,465 |
| 893 | Walter Salles | $171,501,534 | 9 | $19,055,726 |
| 894 | Martin Ritt | $171,382,281 | 14 | $12,241,592 |
| 895 | Derek Kwok | $171,248,617 | 2 | $85,624,309 |
| 896 | Mark Linfield | $170,767,670 | 5 | $34,153,534 |
| 897 | Ruoxin Yin | $170,422,968 | 3 | $56,807,656 |
| 898 | John Boorman | $170,329,225 | 14 | $12,166,373 |
| 899 | Rod Daniel | $169,961,188 | 5 | $33,992,238 |
| 900 | Domee Shi | $169,897,571 | 3 | $56,632,524 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.