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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 4,701-4,800)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,701 | Qi Lu | $3,737,568 | 1 | $3,737,568 |
| 4,702 | Marc Meyers | $3,735,809 | 6 | $622,635 |
| 4,703 | A.L. Vijay | $3,731,325 | 8 | $466,416 |
| 4,704 | Jacques Doillon | $3,729,936 | 4 | $932,484 |
| 4,705 | Arantxa Echevarria | $3,729,751 | 5 | $745,950 |
| 4,706 | Rodrigo Large | $3,720,805 | 1 | $3,720,805 |
| 4,707 | Sujeeth | $3,717,911 | 1 | $3,717,911 |
| 4,708 | Roman Artemyev | $3,717,013 | 2 | $1,858,507 |
| 4,709 | Alex Holmes | $3,714,196 | 3 | $1,238,065 |
| 4,710 | John Swanbeck | $3,713,451 | 1 | $3,713,451 |
| 4,711 | Hongchun Lan (蓝鸿春) | $3,710,000 | 1 | $3,710,000 |
| 4,712 | Hiroshi Nishikiori | $3,706,492 | 4 | $926,623 |
| 4,713 | Christopher B. Stokes | $3,702,722 | 4 | $925,681 |
| 4,714 | Michal Wegrzyn | $3,702,616 | 3 | $1,234,205 |
| 4,715 | Theodore Anthony Ty | $3,699,399 | 1 | $3,699,399 |
| 4,716 | Laurent Zeitoun | $3,699,399 | 1 | $3,699,399 |
| 4,717 | Justin Barber | $3,697,729 | 1 | $3,697,729 |
| 4,718 | Lewis Milestone | $3,696,722 | 3 | $1,232,241 |
| 4,719 | Will Mackenzie | $3,690,328 | 1 | $3,690,328 |
| 4,720 | Richard Kwietniowski | $3,690,135 | 2 | $1,845,068 |
| 4,721 | Wang Mengyuan | $3,690,000 | 1 | $3,690,000 |
| 4,722 | Darya Charusha | $3,688,637 | 2 | $1,844,319 |
| 4,723 | Aleksandr Kott | $3,687,047 | 4 | $921,762 |
| 4,724 | David Serrano | $3,686,575 | 2 | $1,843,288 |
| 4,725 | Kirill Pletnyov | $3,684,972 | 3 | $1,228,324 |
| 4,726 | Julien Leclercq | $3,680,059 | 7 | $525,723 |
| 4,727 | Nick Searcy | $3,679,893 | 1 | $3,679,893 |
| 4,728 | Carlos Eduardo Gutierrez Medrano | $3,677,649 | 1 | $3,677,649 |
| 4,729 | Xavier Legrand | $3,676,105 | 2 | $1,838,053 |
| 4,730 | Eric Judor | $3,666,038 | 2 | $1,833,019 |
| 4,731 | Luciano Ligabue | $3,665,888 | 1 | $3,665,888 |
| 4,732 | Shen Dong | $3,665,824 | 3 | $1,221,941 |
| 4,733 | Patrick Cassir | $3,662,643 | 1 | $3,662,643 |
| 4,734 | Eisaku Kawanami | $3,658,878 | 4 | $914,720 |
| 4,735 | Kei Suezawa | $3,658,090 | 1 | $3,658,090 |
| 4,736 | Christopher Hampton | $3,656,899 | 3 | $1,218,966 |
| 4,737 | Amarjit Singh | $3,653,938 | 4 | $913,485 |
| 4,738 | Cyrille Droux | $3,652,697 | 2 | $1,826,349 |
| 4,739 | Stanley Tsang | $3,652,230 | 2 | $1,826,115 |
| 4,740 | Joel Smallbone | $3,650,000 | 1 | $3,650,000 |
| 4,741 | Erick Zonca | $3,647,058 | 2 | $1,823,529 |
| 4,742 | Mike P. Nelson | $3,643,761 | 2 | $1,821,881 |
| 4,743 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | $3,641,163 | 5 | $728,233 |
| 4,744 | Ana Murugarren | $3,637,178 | 3 | $1,212,393 |
| 4,745 | James Schamus | $3,635,525 | 1 | $3,635,525 |
| 4,746 | Aram van de Rest | $3,634,311 | 4 | $908,578 |
| 4,747 | Raj Nidimoru | $3,631,107 | 2 | $1,815,554 |
| 4,748 | Krishna D.K. | $3,631,107 | 2 | $1,815,554 |
| 4,749 | Andrey Konchalovskiy | $3,628,258 | 5 | $725,652 |
| 4,750 | Pietro Marcello | $3,625,540 | 5 | $725,108 |
| 4,751 | Desmond Nakano | $3,622,433 | 1 | $3,622,433 |
| 4,752 | Ilker Çatak | $3,618,944 | 2 | $1,809,472 |
| 4,753 | Omar Naim | $3,618,825 | 2 | $1,809,413 |
| 4,754 | Alain Corneau | $3,614,294 | 2 | $1,807,147 |
| 4,755 | Georgi Gitis | $3,613,376 | 1 | $3,613,376 |
| 4,756 | Omer Ugur | $3,610,047 | 3 | $1,203,349 |
| 4,757 | Clara Law | $3,606,224 | 2 | $1,803,112 |
| 4,758 | Dennis Bots | $3,605,617 | 7 | $515,088 |
| 4,759 | Dennis Lee | $3,600,905 | 3 | $1,200,302 |
| 4,760 | Maggie Greenwald | $3,600,015 | 6 | $600,003 |
| 4,761 | John Maloof | $3,596,550 | 1 | $3,596,550 |
| 4,762 | Charlie Siskel | $3,596,550 | 2 | $1,798,275 |
| 4,763 | Juliano Dornelles | $3,594,115 | 1 | $3,594,115 |
| 4,764 | Ji-woo Jung | $3,593,741 | 1 | $3,593,741 |
| 4,765 | Cyril Gelblat | $3,591,982 | 2 | $1,795,991 |
| 4,766 | Mika Kaurismaki | $3,591,523 | 6 | $598,587 |
| 4,767 | Bing Wang | $3,590,000 | 3 | $1,196,667 |
| 4,768 | Mark Goldblatt | $3,588,626 | 1 | $3,588,626 |
| 4,769 | Petr Kolečko | $3,586,237 | 2 | $1,793,119 |
| 4,770 | Michael Pearce | $3,583,278 | 3 | $1,194,426 |
| 4,771 | Dinesh Vijan | $3,582,830 | 1 | $3,582,830 |
| 4,772 | Bruce Springsteen | $3,581,681 | 1 | $3,581,681 |
| 4,773 | Thom Zimny | $3,581,681 | 4 | $895,420 |
| 4,774 | Robert Ménard | $3,579,013 | 1 | $3,579,013 |
| 4,775 | Michel Cote | $3,579,013 | 1 | $3,579,013 |
| 4,776 | Javier Mariscal | $3,578,588 | 2 | $1,789,294 |
| 4,777 | Luis Puenzo | $3,574,256 | 1 | $3,574,256 |
| 4,778 | Ryoichi Kimizuka | $3,573,355 | 1 | $3,573,355 |
| 4,779 | Melanie Simka | $3,573,180 | 1 | $3,573,180 |
| 4,780 | Igor Kopylov | $3,563,422 | 2 | $1,781,711 |
| 4,781 | Phil Roman | $3,560,469 | 4 | $890,117 |
| 4,782 | Phil Morrison | $3,557,809 | 2 | $1,778,905 |
| 4,783 | Cathy Garcia-Molina | $3,553,533 | 12 | $296,128 |
| 4,784 | John Warren | $3,551,208 | 1 | $3,551,208 |
| 4,785 | Michel Blanc | $3,546,857 | 3 | $1,182,286 |
| 4,786 | Zheyi Chen (陈哲艺) | $3,542,820 | 1 | $3,542,820 |
| 4,787 | Max Croci | $3,540,345 | 3 | $1,180,115 |
| 4,788 | Xu Zhengchao | $3,540,000 | 2 | $1,770,000 |
| 4,789 | Orson Welles | $3,535,958 | 10 | $353,596 |
| 4,790 | Hansol Shin | $3,535,083 | 1 | $3,535,083 |
| 4,791 | Paul Miller | $3,533,790 | 1 | $3,533,790 |
| 4,792 | Jeremy Comte | $3,531,093 | 1 | $3,531,093 |
| 4,793 | Marianne Farley | $3,531,093 | 2 | $1,765,547 |
| 4,794 | Louise Bagnall | $3,531,093 | 1 | $3,531,093 |
| 4,795 | Alison Snowden | $3,531,093 | 1 | $3,531,093 |
| 4,796 | Andrew Chesworth | $3,531,093 | 1 | $3,531,093 |
| 4,797 | Vincent Lambe | $3,531,093 | 1 | $3,531,093 |
| 4,798 | David Fine | $3,531,093 | 1 | $3,531,093 |
| 4,799 | Zhen Wang | $3,530,000 | 1 | $3,530,000 |
| 4,800 | Alessandro Pondi | $3,529,350 | 4 | $882,338 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.