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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 501-600)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 501 | Simon J. Smith | $366,942,531 | 1 | $366,942,531 |
| 502 | Lu Yang | $366,917,797 | 3 | $122,305,932 |
| 503 | Steve Miner | $366,898,368 | 14 | $26,207,026 |
| 504 | Ralph Zondag | $366,188,843 | 4 | $91,547,211 |
| 505 | Corin Hardy | $364,982,778 | 3 | $121,660,926 |
| 506 | Peter Lord | $363,937,520 | 2 | $181,968,760 |
| 507 | Glenn Ficarra | $362,924,448 | 6 | $60,487,408 |
| 508 | John Requa | $362,924,448 | 6 | $60,487,408 |
| 509 | Frank Marshall | $362,445,293 | 9 | $40,271,699 |
| 510 | Stephen Chbosky | $361,403,758 | 4 | $90,350,940 |
| 511 | Jon Lucas | $360,993,044 | 5 | $72,198,609 |
| 512 | Scott Moore | $360,993,044 | 5 | $72,198,609 |
| 513 | Tom Tykwer | $360,284,734 | 11 | $32,753,158 |
| 514 | Chris McKay | $356,657,443 | 5 | $71,331,489 |
| 515 | Eric Leighton | $356,148,063 | 1 | $356,148,063 |
| 516 | Penelope Spheeris | $356,086,482 | 11 | $32,371,498 |
| 517 | Michael Moore | $354,058,852 | 11 | $32,187,168 |
| 518 | James Wong | $354,035,504 | 4 | $88,508,876 |
| 519 | Greg MacGillivray | $353,980,864 | 11 | $32,180,079 |
| 520 | Ben Stassen | $353,675,922 | 12 | $29,472,994 |
| 521 | Clay Kaytis | $352,288,341 | 3 | $117,429,447 |
| 522 | Fergal Reilly | $352,288,341 | 1 | $352,288,341 |
| 523 | Josh Boone | $351,893,350 | 3 | $117,297,783 |
| 524 | Hal Needham | $350,973,707 | 10 | $35,097,371 |
| 525 | Chao Deng | $348,265,683 | 4 | $87,066,421 |
| 526 | Hugh Wilson | $347,622,020 | 8 | $43,452,753 |
| 527 | Alan Parker | $347,615,672 | 14 | $24,829,691 |
| 528 | Eric Goldberg | $347,100,000 | 1 | $347,100,000 |
| 529 | Warren Beatty | $344,613,687 | 5 | $68,922,737 |
| 530 | Michael Caton-Jones | $344,324,571 | 12 | $28,693,714 |
| 531 | Noam Murro | $342,435,670 | 2 | $171,217,835 |
| 532 | Steven Brill | $340,478,394 | 9 | $37,830,933 |
| 533 | Michael Ritchie | $339,966,005 | 18 | $18,887,000 |
| 534 | David Lam | $336,956,441 | 9 | $37,439,605 |
| 535 | Peter Hewitt | $336,023,809 | 8 | $42,002,976 |
| 536 | Joe Carnahan | $336,007,424 | 11 | $30,546,129 |
| 537 | Jonathan Frakes | $334,820,272 | 6 | $55,803,379 |
| 538 | Robert Altman | $334,568,590 | 24 | $13,940,358 |
| 539 | Baimei Yu | $333,329,075 | 3 | $111,109,692 |
| 540 | Randall Wallace | $332,916,234 | 4 | $83,229,059 |
| 541 | Peter Faiman | $332,474,528 | 2 | $166,237,264 |
| 542 | Jon Avnet | $332,248,813 | 8 | $41,531,102 |
| 543 | Rob Bowman | $331,011,050 | 4 | $82,752,763 |
| 544 | Alexandre Aja | $330,152,206 | 11 | $30,013,837 |
| 545 | Scott Waugh | $329,423,261 | 7 | $47,060,466 |
| 546 | Olivier Magaton | $327,656,424 | 1 | $327,656,424 |
| 547 | Gary Winick | $327,346,184 | 6 | $54,557,697 |
| 548 | Howard Deutch | $326,558,383 | 10 | $32,655,838 |
| 549 | Allen Hughes | $326,442,664 | 9 | $36,271,407 |
| 550 | Jonathan Levine | $324,451,649 | 7 | $46,350,236 |
| 551 | Richard Linklater | $324,318,075 | 22 | $14,741,731 |
| 552 | Wayne Wang | $323,421,384 | 18 | $17,967,855 |
| 553 | John Hughes | $322,272,587 | 8 | $40,284,073 |
| 554 | James DeMonaco | $321,316,189 | 6 | $53,552,698 |
| 555 | Kevin Greutert | $320,890,710 | 7 | $45,841,530 |
| 556 | Greg Mottola | $320,226,645 | 8 | $40,028,331 |
| 557 | Roger Kumble | $320,032,207 | 9 | $35,559,134 |
| 558 | Tommy Wirkola | $319,733,262 | 9 | $35,525,918 |
| 559 | Steven Quale | $319,727,892 | 5 | $63,945,578 |
| 560 | Simon Wincer | $318,635,111 | 13 | $24,510,393 |
| 561 | Beeban Kidron | $318,601,467 | 5 | $63,720,293 |
| 562 | Jackie Chan | $318,221,384 | 7 | $45,460,198 |
| 563 | Paul Thomas Anderson | $317,694,273 | 10 | $31,769,427 |
| 564 | Harold Becker | $317,475,718 | 9 | $35,275,080 |
| 565 | Jose Padilha | $316,917,988 | 4 | $79,229,497 |
| 566 | Alejandro Amenábar | $316,137,417 | 6 | $52,689,570 |
| 567 | Miloš Forman | $315,580,403 | 9 | $35,064,489 |
| 568 | Ron Shelton | $315,251,774 | 9 | $35,027,975 |
| 569 | Christopher Landon | $314,229,917 | 7 | $44,889,988 |
| 570 | Andrew Niccol | $314,168,662 | 7 | $44,881,237 |
| 571 | Benjamin Renner | $312,889,742 | 3 | $104,296,581 |
| 572 | Nitesh Tiwari | $312,196,710 | 5 | $62,439,342 |
| 573 | George Tillman, Jr | $311,677,093 | 8 | $38,959,637 |
| 574 | Kenny Ortega | $311,266,521 | 8 | $38,908,315 |
| 575 | Paul Tibbitt | $311,013,181 | 1 | $311,013,181 |
| 576 | Stephen Norrington | $310,502,892 | 3 | $103,500,964 |
| 577 | Phil Alden Robinson | $310,490,792 | 5 | $62,098,158 |
| 578 | Breck Eisner | $308,909,836 | 3 | $102,969,945 |
| 579 | John Carpenter | $307,467,679 | 20 | $15,373,384 |
| 580 | Tony Chan | $304,345,923 | 5 | $60,869,185 |
| 581 | Richard Attenborough | $303,289,110 | 10 | $30,328,911 |
| 582 | XiaoPeng Tian | $303,058,128 | 2 | $151,529,064 |
| 583 | Gregory Hoblit | $302,816,037 | 5 | $60,563,207 |
| 584 | David Green | $302,803,370 | 5 | $60,560,674 |
| 585 | Charles Shyer | $302,578,210 | 8 | $37,822,276 |
| 586 | Gary Fleder | $302,367,519 | 9 | $33,596,391 |
| 587 | Andrzej Bartkowiak | $298,879,572 | 7 | $42,697,082 |
| 588 | Jeff Wadlow | $297,936,582 | 10 | $29,793,658 |
| 589 | Joe Roth | $297,549,256 | 6 | $49,591,543 |
| 590 | Emma Tammi | $297,300,737 | 4 | $74,325,184 |
| 591 | Marcus Nispel | $295,306,342 | 5 | $59,061,268 |
| 592 | Fede Álvarez | $292,899,737 | 5 | $58,579,947 |
| 593 | Hoyt H. Yeatman | $292,817,841 | 1 | $292,817,841 |
| 594 | Luke Greenfield | $292,647,348 | 5 | $58,529,470 |
| 595 | David Twohy | $292,595,387 | 8 | $36,574,423 |
| 596 | Josh Trank | $292,290,601 | 3 | $97,430,200 |
| 597 | Cheang Pou-Soi | $291,628,574 | 3 | $97,209,525 |
| 598 | Carl Reiner | $291,264,710 | 11 | $26,478,610 |
| 599 | Aaron Seltzer | $291,264,066 | 8 | $36,408,008 |
| 600 | Steven S. DeKnight | $290,930,148 | 1 | $290,930,148 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.