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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 6,901-7,000)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,901 | Sai Wang (王赛) | $930,000 | 1 | $930,000 |
| 6,902 | Jerrold Freedman | $929,770 | 1 | $929,770 |
| 6,903 | Alauda Ruiz de Azúa | $928,434 | 2 | $464,217 |
| 6,904 | John Ridley | $927,074 | 4 | $231,769 |
| 6,905 | Patrice Chéreau | $925,820 | 2 | $462,910 |
| 6,906 | Woo Sung Jung (정우성) | $925,818 | 2 | $462,909 |
| 6,907 | Joachim Lang | $924,336 | 2 | $462,168 |
| 6,908 | Richard Lowenstein | $924,012 | 3 | $308,004 |
| 6,909 | Sun-Dong Yoo | $922,747 | 1 | $922,747 |
| 6,910 | Alison Klayman | $922,477 | 3 | $307,492 |
| 6,911 | Vineeth Sreenivasan | $922,009 | 4 | $230,502 |
| 6,912 | Peter Foott | $921,875 | 2 | $460,938 |
| 6,913 | Jonas Carpignano | $920,452 | 3 | $306,817 |
| 6,914 | Benjamin Brewer | $920,065 | 2 | $460,033 |
| 6,915 | David Raymond | $919,489 | 1 | $919,489 |
| 6,916 | Lu Qi | $919,216 | 2 | $459,608 |
| 6,917 | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (安彦 良和) | $919,047 | 4 | $229,762 |
| 6,918 | Vasilis Katsoupis | $918,415 | 1 | $918,415 |
| 6,919 | Zhang Yueping | $917,277 | 1 | $917,277 |
| 6,920 | Juan Manuel Cotelo | $916,998 | 4 | $229,250 |
| 6,921 | Peng Fei | $916,822 | 1 | $916,822 |
| 6,922 | Russell Owen | $915,623 | 2 | $457,812 |
| 6,923 | Jitka Rudolfová | $913,926 | 2 | $456,963 |
| 6,924 | Perry Lang | $913,609 | 1 | $913,609 |
| 6,925 | Ahmet Erdal | $913,358 | 2 | $456,679 |
| 6,926 | Bernd Böhlich | $912,970 | 1 | $912,970 |
| 6,927 | Sreejith Vijayan | $911,598 | 1 | $911,598 |
| 6,928 | Daniel Snaddon | $910,255 | 12 | $75,855 |
| 6,929 | Gerry Lively | $909,822 | 1 | $909,822 |
| 6,930 | Chaoli Zhang (张超理) | $909,382 | 1 | $909,382 |
| 6,931 | Antonio Peláez | $908,420 | 1 | $908,420 |
| 6,932 | Filippo Bologna | $907,637 | 1 | $907,637 |
| 6,933 | Michael Almereyda | $906,520 | 6 | $151,087 |
| 6,934 | Bas van Teylingen | $905,745 | 1 | $905,745 |
| 6,935 | Aleksandr Galibin | $905,564 | 3 | $301,855 |
| 6,936 | Lucky McKee | $905,490 | 6 | $150,915 |
| 6,937 | Billy Dickson | $904,063 | 2 | $452,032 |
| 6,938 | Alexandr Molochnikov | $903,997 | 1 | $903,997 |
| 6,939 | Gianni Di Gregorio | $903,074 | 4 | $225,769 |
| 6,940 | Faraz Haider | $902,213 | 2 | $451,107 |
| 6,941 | Daniel Gordon | $901,837 | 5 | $180,367 |
| 6,942 | Jordi Frades | $901,435 | 1 | $901,435 |
| 6,943 | Anne Depétrini | $901,321 | 1 | $901,321 |
| 6,944 | Miho Hirayama | $901,315 | 1 | $901,315 |
| 6,945 | Peter Del Monte | $901,000 | 1 | $901,000 |
| 6,946 | Sean McGinly | $900,689 | 3 | $300,230 |
| 6,947 | Howard J. Ford | $900,051 | 9 | $100,006 |
| 6,948 | Zhou Yi | $900,000 | 1 | $900,000 |
| 6,949 | Elie Wajeman | $899,973 | 2 | $449,987 |
| 6,950 | Fabio D’Innocenzo | $899,381 | 2 | $449,691 |
| 6,951 | Martin Schreier | $897,934 | 1 | $897,934 |
| 6,952 | Pavel Sidorov | $897,544 | 1 | $897,544 |
| 6,953 | Gianluca Jodice | $895,112 | 1 | $895,112 |
| 6,954 | Zaza Urushadze | $892,990 | 2 | $446,495 |
| 6,955 | Richard John Taylor | $892,809 | 3 | $297,603 |
| 6,956 | Ugur Yagcioglu | $892,783 | 1 | $892,783 |
| 6,957 | Jason Eisener | $891,922 | 5 | $178,384 |
| 6,958 | Polly Findlay | $891,510 | 2 | $445,755 |
| 6,959 | Horațiu Mălăele | $891,426 | 1 | $891,426 |
| 6,960 | Li Yang | $891,235 | 3 | $297,078 |
| 6,961 | Collette Sunderman | $891,134 | 1 | $891,134 |
| 6,962 | Sen Wang (王森) | $890,709 | 1 | $890,709 |
| 6,963 | Mouloud Achour | $890,422 | 2 | $445,211 |
| 6,964 | Fengxian Zhu | $890,000 | 1 | $890,000 |
| 6,965 | Gayatri | $889,604 | 2 | $444,802 |
| 6,966 | Jade Bartlett | $889,522 | 1 | $889,522 |
| 6,967 | Muayad Alayan | $889,281 | 1 | $889,281 |
| 6,968 | Jonas Pate | $888,683 | 3 | $296,228 |
| 6,969 | Kin Long Chan | $887,883 | 1 | $887,883 |
| 6,970 | Andrucha Waddington | $886,570 | 3 | $295,523 |
| 6,971 | Jones Paula Whetu | $886,185 | 1 | $886,185 |
| 6,972 | Robert Hloz | $886,085 | 1 | $886,085 |
| 6,973 | Sharon Maymom | $885,801 | 1 | $885,801 |
| 6,974 | Nikita Vladimirov | $885,592 | 3 | $295,197 |
| 6,975 | Dan Friedkin | $884,871 | 1 | $884,871 |
| 6,976 | Claudio Amendola | $883,142 | 1 | $883,142 |
| 6,977 | Akshat Verma | $883,114 | 1 | $883,114 |
| 6,978 | Jin-Won-II Kim | $881,378 | 1 | $881,378 |
| 6,979 | Jeff Orlowski | $880,426 | 3 | $293,475 |
| 6,980 | William Phillips | $879,075 | 2 | $439,538 |
| 6,981 | Gérard Pautonnier | $878,645 | 1 | $878,645 |
| 6,982 | Aml Ameen | $878,291 | 1 | $878,291 |
| 6,983 | Karan Anshuman | $876,643 | 1 | $876,643 |
| 6,984 | Denny Tedesco | $875,816 | 2 | $437,908 |
| 6,985 | Corneliu Porumboiu | $875,292 | 3 | $291,764 |
| 6,986 | Jim Wynorski | $874,879 | 8 | $109,360 |
| 6,987 | Johannes Persson | $874,418 | 1 | $874,418 |
| 6,988 | Robin Swicord | $874,187 | 1 | $874,187 |
| 6,989 | John Swasey | $873,819 | 1 | $873,819 |
| 6,990 | Cedric Anger | $873,775 | 2 | $436,888 |
| 6,991 | Stuart Townsend | $873,537 | 1 | $873,537 |
| 6,992 | Selami Genli | $873,289 | 1 | $873,289 |
| 6,993 | Peter Cousens | $872,757 | 1 | $872,757 |
| 6,994 | Josh Duhamel | $872,222 | 2 | $436,111 |
| 6,995 | Oleg Shtrom | $871,927 | 2 | $435,964 |
| 6,996 | Raj Chakraborty | $871,602 | 1 | $871,602 |
| 6,997 | David Moreton | $870,751 | 1 | $870,751 |
| 6,998 | Mark Levinson | $869,838 | 1 | $869,838 |
| 6,999 | Jung-won Shin | $869,559 | 1 | $869,559 |
| 7,000 | Emil Krizka | $869,452 | 2 | $434,726 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.