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Top Grossing Director at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 3,001-3,100)BETA
See also: Top Domestic Art Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Editors - Top Domestic Associate Producers - Top Domestic Casting Directors - Top Domestic Cinematographers - Top Domestic Co-Producers - Top Domestic Composers - Top Domestic Costume Designers - Top Domestic Costume Supervisors - Top Domestic Dialogue Editors - Top Domestic Editors - Top Domestic Executive Producers - Top Domestic Make-up and Hair Designers - Top Domestic Music Editors - Top Domestic Music Supervisors - Top Domestic Producers - Top Domestic Production Designers - Top Domestic Re-recording Mixers - Top Domestic Screenwriters - Top Domestic Second Unit Directors - Top Domestic Set Decorators - Top Domestic Set Designers - Top Domestic Sound Designers - Top Domestic Sound Editors - Top Domestic Sound Effects Editors - Top Domestic Sound Mixers - Top Domestic Story Creators - Top Domestic Stunt Coordinators - Top Domestic Supervising Sound Editors - Top Domestic Unit Production Managers - Top Domestic Visual Effects Supervisors - Top International Directors - Top Worldwide Directors
This list shows the highest grossing Directors based on the domestic box office of the movies they worked on.
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| Rank | Name | Domestic Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,001 | Charlie Chaplin | $2,518,165 | 7 | $359,738 |
| 3,002 | Malcolm Mowbray | $2,516,761 | 1 | $2,516,761 |
| 3,003 | B.J. McDonnell | $2,513,963 | 3 | $837,988 |
| 3,004 | Peter Horton | $2,513,250 | 1 | $2,513,250 |
| 3,005 | Courtney Hunt | $2,511,476 | 2 | $1,255,738 |
| 3,006 | Anubhav Sinha | $2,509,150 | 8 | $313,644 |
| 3,007 | Brad J. Silverman | $2,507,159 | 3 | $835,720 |
| 3,008 | Robert Wilson | $2,506,388 | 2 | $1,253,194 |
| 3,009 | Michael D. Moore | $2,500,000 | 1 | $2,500,000 |
| 3,010 | Mallik Ram | $2,500,000 | 1 | $2,500,000 |
| 3,011 | Donna Deitch | $2,492,088 | 1 | $2,492,088 |
| 3,012 | Gilmer McCormick | $2,491,460 | 1 | $2,491,460 |
| 3,013 | Eric Valli | $2,487,878 | 1 | $2,487,878 |
| 3,014 | Andy Garcia | $2,484,186 | 1 | $2,484,186 |
| 3,015 | Gilles de Maistre | $2,482,298 | 6 | $413,716 |
| 3,016 | Kobi Libii | $2,480,645 | 1 | $2,480,645 |
| 3,017 | Arbaaz Khan | $2,474,674 | 1 | $2,474,674 |
| 3,018 | Xue Xiaolu | $2,473,890 | 3 | $824,630 |
| 3,019 | Sajid Nadiadwala | $2,472,695 | 1 | $2,472,695 |
| 3,020 | Luc Dionne | $2,462,588 | 1 | $2,462,588 |
| 3,021 | Gaspar Noe | $2,461,979 | 8 | $307,747 |
| 3,022 | Jason Chadwick | $2,455,635 | 1 | $2,455,635 |
| 3,023 | Wayne Blair | $2,450,867 | 4 | $612,717 |
| 3,024 | Abdellatif Kechiche | $2,450,504 | 3 | $816,835 |
| 3,025 | Mark Polish | $2,450,371 | 4 | $612,593 |
| 3,026 | Trevor Nunn | $2,446,490 | 4 | $611,623 |
| 3,027 | Dror Moreh | $2,445,246 | 3 | $815,082 |
| 3,028 | Matt Johnson | $2,418,546 | 2 | $1,209,273 |
| 3,029 | Giles New | $2,418,404 | 1 | $2,418,404 |
| 3,030 | Joe Penna | $2,409,826 | 4 | $602,457 |
| 3,031 | Kim Ki-Duk | $2,405,208 | 5 | $481,042 |
| 3,032 | Farhad Mann | $2,396,302 | 1 | $2,396,302 |
| 3,033 | Michael John Warren | $2,394,725 | 1 | $2,394,725 |
| 3,034 | Andrey Zvyagintsev | $2,390,695 | 5 | $478,139 |
| 3,035 | Eric Rohmer | $2,389,587 | 19 | $125,768 |
| 3,036 | Steve Race | $2,387,730 | 1 | $2,387,730 |
| 3,037 | Marc Meyers | $2,385,168 | 6 | $397,528 |
| 3,038 | Fatih Akin | $2,378,522 | 7 | $339,789 |
| 3,039 | John Malkovich | $2,374,732 | 1 | $2,374,732 |
| 3,040 | Shashank Khaitan | $2,373,270 | 3 | $791,090 |
| 3,041 | Rahul Dholakia | $2,369,469 | 1 | $2,369,469 |
| 3,042 | Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | $2,364,010 | 8 | $295,501 |
| 3,043 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | $2,353,728 | 3 | $784,576 |
| 3,044 | Matthew Crouch | $2,347,896 | 2 | $1,173,948 |
| 3,045 | James Yukich | $2,341,309 | 1 | $2,341,309 |
| 3,046 | Ben Smallbone | $2,340,185 | 3 | $780,062 |
| 3,047 | Michael Noer | $2,335,896 | 2 | $1,167,948 |
| 3,048 | Vishal Bhardwaj | $2,334,286 | 6 | $389,048 |
| 3,049 | Muye Wen | $2,330,161 | 4 | $582,540 |
| 3,050 | Questlove | $2,320,649 | 2 | $1,160,325 |
| 3,051 | Youn Jk | $2,305,912 | 4 | $576,478 |
| 3,052 | Nikita Mikhalkov | $2,302,338 | 5 | $460,468 |
| 3,053 | Prashanth Varma | $2,300,000 | 3 | $766,667 |
| 3,054 | Gilles Bourdos | $2,291,047 | 2 | $1,145,524 |
| 3,055 | Eran Creevy | $2,287,038 | 3 | $762,346 |
| 3,056 | Max Mayer | $2,284,723 | 2 | $1,142,362 |
| 3,057 | Michael Verhoeven | $2,281,569 | 1 | $2,281,569 |
| 3,058 | Hal Hartley | $2,278,594 | 5 | $455,719 |
| 3,059 | Sujoy Ghosh | $2,270,202 | 4 | $567,551 |
| 3,060 | Julio Torres | $2,259,752 | 1 | $2,259,752 |
| 3,061 | Angelo Pizzo | $2,246,000 | 1 | $2,246,000 |
| 3,062 | Nadine Labaki | $2,224,503 | 3 | $741,501 |
| 3,063 | Jamie Babbit | $2,205,627 | 4 | $551,407 |
| 3,064 | Lowell Sherman | $2,200,000 | 1 | $2,200,000 |
| 3,065 | Paul Cox | $2,194,919 | 1 | $2,194,919 |
| 3,066 | Tony Cervone | $2,188,425 | 4 | $547,106 |
| 3,067 | Natalie Portman | $2,160,299 | 3 | $720,100 |
| 3,068 | John Patton Ford | $2,156,296 | 2 | $1,078,148 |
| 3,069 | Ahmed Khan | $2,156,018 | 4 | $539,005 |
| 3,070 | Timo Vuorensolam | $2,155,139 | 5 | $431,028 |
| 3,071 | David Michod | $2,153,238 | 5 | $430,648 |
| 3,072 | Coline Serreau | $2,152,268 | 2 | $1,076,134 |
| 3,073 | Jae Hyeon Jang (장재현) | $2,148,446 | 1 | $2,148,446 |
| 3,074 | Jerusha Hess | $2,137,573 | 1 | $2,137,573 |
| 3,075 | Kazuya Tsurumaki | $2,128,440 | 3 | $709,480 |
| 3,076 | Timothy A. Chey | $2,127,678 | 7 | $303,954 |
| 3,077 | Iris K. Shim | $2,121,025 | 1 | $2,121,025 |
| 3,078 | Noel Marshall | $2,110,050 | 1 | $2,110,050 |
| 3,079 | Ralph Strean | $2,097,560 | 2 | $1,048,780 |
| 3,080 | Steph Clattenburg | $2,090,607 | 2 | $1,045,304 |
| 3,081 | Abbas Kiarostami | $2,088,982 | 9 | $232,109 |
| 3,082 | Rafal Zielinski | $2,082,000 | 2 | $1,041,000 |
| 3,083 | Kyle Edward Bell | $2,052,272 | 1 | $2,052,272 |
| 3,084 | Satoshi Kon | $2,048,671 | 4 | $512,168 |
| 3,085 | David Atkins | $2,025,238 | 1 | $2,025,238 |
| 3,086 | Jeffrey Obrow | $2,019,984 | 2 | $1,009,992 |
| 3,087 | Sam Levinson | $2,014,262 | 3 | $671,421 |
| 3,088 | Bill Melendez | $2,013,193 | 8 | $251,649 |
| 3,089 | Alex Gibney | $2,011,145 | 19 | $105,850 |
| 3,090 | Julius Onah | $2,010,613 | 4 | $502,653 |
| 3,091 | Jonas Cuaron | $2,002,036 | 3 | $667,345 |
| 3,092 | Jia Ling | $2,001,584 | 2 | $1,000,792 |
| 3,093 | David Hunt | $2,000,093 | 3 | $666,698 |
| 3,094 | Nancy Walker | $2,000,000 | 1 | $2,000,000 |
| 3,095 | Saul Swimmer | $2,000,000 | 1 | $2,000,000 |
| 3,096 | Raymond Jafelice | $2,000,000 | 1 | $2,000,000 |
| 3,097 | Cornel Wilde | $2,000,000 | 3 | $666,667 |
| 3,098 | Ramin Bahrani | $1,970,580 | 8 | $246,323 |
| 3,099 | Chloe Okuno | $1,961,207 | 3 | $653,736 |
| 3,100 | Isao Takahata | $1,960,216 | 7 | $280,031 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.