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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 6,001-6,100)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,001 | Zhao Qi | $1,620,000 | 1 | $1,620,000 |
| 6,002 | Martijn Heijne | $1,618,197 | 2 | $809,099 |
| 6,003 | Li Tingting | $1,618,159 | 1 | $1,618,159 |
| 6,004 | Massimo Cappelli | $1,616,201 | 2 | $808,101 |
| 6,005 | Fernando Sariñana | $1,615,984 | 1 | $1,615,984 |
| 6,006 | Sinan Akkus | $1,611,854 | 1 | $1,611,854 |
| 6,007 | Pierre Deschamps | $1,611,738 | 2 | $805,869 |
| 6,008 | Kogonada | $1,609,643 | 2 | $804,822 |
| 6,009 | Srdan Golubovic | $1,608,227 | 1 | $1,608,227 |
| 6,010 | Shane Meadows | $1,604,885 | 5 | $320,977 |
| 6,011 | Ki-Seon Hong | $1,600,669 | 2 | $800,335 |
| 6,012 | Michal Englert | $1,600,542 | 2 | $800,271 |
| 6,013 | Laurence Olivier | $1,600,000 | 2 | $800,000 |
| 6,014 | Léa Domenach | $1,600,000 | 1 | $1,600,000 |
| 6,015 | Bob Gosse | $1,597,915 | 2 | $798,958 |
| 6,016 | Jerzy Skolimowski | $1,597,563 | 3 | $532,521 |
| 6,017 | Ji Yu | $1,597,463 | 1 | $1,597,463 |
| 6,018 | Jamal Hill | $1,596,403 | 3 | $532,134 |
| 6,019 | Ivano De Matteo | $1,596,306 | 5 | $319,261 |
| 6,020 | Tinu Suresh Desai | $1,593,587 | 2 | $796,794 |
| 6,021 | Vincent D'Onofrio | $1,593,173 | 2 | $796,587 |
| 6,022 | Rebecca Zlotowski | $1,591,659 | 3 | $530,553 |
| 6,023 | Yachum Dong | $1,590,000 | 1 | $1,590,000 |
| 6,024 | Gippy Grewal | $1,589,831 | 3 | $529,944 |
| 6,025 | Agustin Diaz Yanes | $1,589,436 | 1 | $1,589,436 |
| 6,026 | Cristina Gallego | $1,588,408 | 1 | $1,588,408 |
| 6,027 | Flip van der Kuil | $1,588,168 | 3 | $529,389 |
| 6,028 | Kyle Newman | $1,586,997 | 3 | $528,999 |
| 6,029 | Srikanth Addala | $1,586,975 | 3 | $528,992 |
| 6,030 | Robert Vince | $1,584,274 | 10 | $158,427 |
| 6,031 | Nick Rosen | $1,580,415 | 1 | $1,580,415 |
| 6,032 | Eric Gravel | $1,580,397 | 2 | $790,199 |
| 6,033 | Ali Kalthami | $1,580,000 | 1 | $1,580,000 |
| 6,034 | Jianping Li | $1,576,829 | 2 | $788,415 |
| 6,035 | Alessandro Aronadio | $1,575,438 | 3 | $525,146 |
| 6,036 | Gustavo Hernández | $1,574,049 | 4 | $393,512 |
| 6,037 | Fuhua Zhan (詹馥华) | $1,573,626 | 1 | $1,573,626 |
| 6,038 | Max Minghella | $1,573,603 | 2 | $786,802 |
| 6,039 | Emir Kusturica | $1,572,149 | 5 | $314,430 |
| 6,040 | Deng Guangxuan | $1,570,000 | 1 | $1,570,000 |
| 6,041 | Mauricio T Valle | $1,569,850 | 1 | $1,569,850 |
| 6,042 | Raine Allen Miller | $1,569,808 | 1 | $1,569,808 |
| 6,043 | Sung-Cheol Kim | $1,568,188 | 1 | $1,568,188 |
| 6,044 | Alejo Flah | $1,568,117 | 2 | $784,059 |
| 6,045 | Joshua Oppenheimer | $1,564,647 | 3 | $521,549 |
| 6,046 | Dong Luo | $1,563,226 | 1 | $1,563,226 |
| 6,047 | Mariana Chenillo | $1,562,555 | 2 | $781,278 |
| 6,048 | Tatyana Kapitan | $1,560,915 | 1 | $1,560,915 |
| 6,049 | Jean-Pierre Melville | $1,560,279 | 9 | $173,364 |
| 6,050 | Onur Tan | $1,559,828 | 2 | $779,914 |
| 6,051 | Geoff Bennett | $1,558,799 | 1 | $1,558,799 |
| 6,052 | Kyeong teak Lim | $1,558,387 | 1 | $1,558,387 |
| 6,053 | Daniel Lusko | $1,557,494 | 4 | $389,374 |
| 6,054 | Eduard Bordukov | $1,557,448 | 2 | $778,724 |
| 6,055 | Sampath Nandi | $1,556,404 | 2 | $778,202 |
| 6,056 | Tianhui Zhang | $1,556,202 | 1 | $1,556,202 |
| 6,057 | Marc Willard | $1,556,140 | 1 | $1,556,140 |
| 6,058 | Jennifer Lynch | $1,555,156 | 3 | $518,385 |
| 6,059 | Bo Zenga | $1,553,556 | 1 | $1,553,556 |
| 6,060 | Chimbudeven Chimbudeven | $1,553,385 | 1 | $1,553,385 |
| 6,061 | Antonio Serrano | $1,551,052 | 1 | $1,551,052 |
| 6,062 | Hang-Sang Poon | $1,549,982 | 1 | $1,549,982 |
| 6,063 | Kevin Goetz | $1,548,909 | 3 | $516,303 |
| 6,064 | Michael Goetz | $1,548,909 | 3 | $516,303 |
| 6,065 | Park Yeong-gyoon | $1,547,049 | 1 | $1,547,049 |
| 6,066 | Stephanie Soechtig | $1,546,228 | 3 | $515,409 |
| 6,067 | Neil Armfield | $1,545,709 | 4 | $386,427 |
| 6,068 | Yuriy Vasilev | $1,545,121 | 1 | $1,545,121 |
| 6,069 | Zeke Norton | $1,543,208 | 1 | $1,543,208 |
| 6,070 | Joo hwan Kim (김주환) | $1,542,336 | 1 | $1,542,336 |
| 6,071 | Anna van der Heide | $1,542,231 | 4 | $385,558 |
| 6,072 | Aitor Arregi | $1,541,026 | 1 | $1,541,026 |
| 6,073 | Fei Yang | $1,540,000 | 1 | $1,540,000 |
| 6,074 | Yelena Popovic | $1,538,142 | 1 | $1,538,142 |
| 6,075 | Michela Andreozzi | $1,537,932 | 3 | $512,644 |
| 6,076 | James Nunn | $1,536,775 | 7 | $219,539 |
| 6,077 | Zsófia Szilágyi | $1,534,935 | 1 | $1,534,935 |
| 6,078 | Takashi Imanishi | $1,534,359 | 2 | $767,180 |
| 6,079 | Lu Qingyi | $1,532,733 | 1 | $1,532,733 |
| 6,080 | Idris Elba | $1,532,695 | 1 | $1,532,695 |
| 6,081 | Topel Lee | $1,530,776 | 1 | $1,530,776 |
| 6,082 | Panos Cosmatos | $1,530,715 | 2 | $765,358 |
| 6,083 | Xin Wang | $1,530,000 | 1 | $1,530,000 |
| 6,084 | Li Lingxiao | $1,530,000 | 1 | $1,530,000 |
| 6,085 | Yasuhiro Yoshida | $1,528,999 | 2 | $764,500 |
| 6,086 | Brady Corbet | $1,528,670 | 3 | $509,557 |
| 6,087 | Klim Poplavskiy | $1,525,367 | 1 | $1,525,367 |
| 6,088 | Jim Taihuttu | $1,523,758 | 2 | $761,879 |
| 6,089 | Isabelle Doval | $1,523,732 | 2 | $761,866 |
| 6,090 | Krzysztof Lukaszewicz | $1,523,690 | 1 | $1,523,690 |
| 6,091 | Brandon Christensen | $1,522,318 | 4 | $380,580 |
| 6,092 | Bobby Moresco | $1,521,314 | 3 | $507,105 |
| 6,093 | Mark Dippe | $1,521,190 | 2 | $760,595 |
| 6,094 | Youngki Lee | $1,521,190 | 1 | $1,521,190 |
| 6,095 | Baljit Singh Deo | $1,519,158 | 4 | $379,790 |
| 6,096 | Anne-Dauphine Julliand | $1,517,093 | 1 | $1,517,093 |
| 6,097 | Maxim Malinin | $1,515,666 | 1 | $1,515,666 |
| 6,098 | Daniel Guzman | $1,513,441 | 2 | $756,721 |
| 6,099 | Giovanni Bognetti | $1,512,879 | 2 | $756,440 |
| 6,100 | Ashish Ghadiali | $1,512,841 | 1 | $1,512,841 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.