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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 701-800)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 701 | Bob Clark | $229,825,538 | 13 | $17,678,888 |
| 702 | Thea Sharrock | $229,243,241 | 4 | $57,310,810 |
| 703 | Gavin O’Connor | $227,775,088 | 8 | $28,471,886 |
| 704 | Philippe de Chauveron | $226,954,994 | 5 | $45,390,999 |
| 705 | Simon Curtis | $226,602,014 | 5 | $45,320,403 |
| 706 | Jason Moore | $226,412,616 | 4 | $56,603,154 |
| 707 | Dean Devlin | $225,577,647 | 2 | $112,788,824 |
| 708 | Alfred Hitchcock | $223,614,505 | 41 | $5,454,012 |
| 709 | Seung-wan Ryoo | $222,529,597 | 6 | $37,088,266 |
| 710 | Shao Heqi | $221,982,308 | 1 | $221,982,308 |
| 711 | Gary Shore | $221,633,877 | 3 | $73,877,959 |
| 712 | Hideo Nakata | $221,310,181 | 15 | $14,754,012 |
| 713 | Zhao Ji | $220,889,372 | 3 | $73,629,791 |
| 714 | John Frankenheimer | $220,705,262 | 21 | $10,509,774 |
| 715 | Stephen Anderson | $220,698,326 | 2 | $110,349,163 |
| 716 | Andrew Bergman | $220,546,898 | 6 | $36,757,816 |
| 717 | Toni Myers | $220,539,542 | 3 | $73,513,181 |
| 718 | Tomoka Nagaoka | $220,317,067 | 2 | $110,158,534 |
| 719 | Ted Kotcheff | $220,127,161 | 10 | $22,012,716 |
| 720 | Lewis Gilbert | $218,959,300 | 4 | $54,739,825 |
| 721 | Angus Maclane | $218,768,299 | 1 | $218,768,299 |
| 722 | Philip Kaufman | $217,829,667 | 10 | $21,782,967 |
| 723 | David Koepp | $217,490,494 | 7 | $31,070,071 |
| 724 | Parker Finn | $217,068,735 | 2 | $108,534,368 |
| 725 | Reinaldo Marcus Green | $217,061,164 | 4 | $54,265,291 |
| 726 | Danny DeVito | $217,014,915 | 6 | $36,169,153 |
| 727 | Babak Najafi | $216,903,624 | 4 | $54,225,906 |
| 728 | Leon Ding | $216,222,026 | 3 | $72,074,009 |
| 729 | Ryan Murphy | $215,497,364 | 5 | $43,099,473 |
| 730 | Gary Rydstrom | $214,978,980 | 3 | $71,659,660 |
| 731 | Fei Yan | $214,579,747 | 2 | $107,289,874 |
| 732 | Da-Mo Peng | $213,949,747 | 1 | $213,949,747 |
| 733 | Jon Erwin | $213,734,047 | 9 | $23,748,227 |
| 734 | Ryuichi Yagi | $213,606,471 | 2 | $106,803,236 |
| 735 | Spike Jonze | $212,076,602 | 5 | $42,415,320 |
| 736 | Jonathan Lynn | $210,472,314 | 8 | $26,309,039 |
| 737 | Michael Sucsy | $210,444,191 | 3 | $70,148,064 |
| 738 | Gilbert Lewis | $210,300,000 | 1 | $210,300,000 |
| 739 | Burr Steers | $210,103,441 | 4 | $52,525,860 |
| 740 | Kevin MacDonald | $210,054,485 | 10 | $21,005,449 |
| 741 | Peter Yates | $209,723,043 | 16 | $13,107,690 |
| 742 | Tim Heitz | $209,397,574 | 1 | $209,397,574 |
| 743 | Rene Liu | $209,221,328 | 1 | $209,221,328 |
| 744 | Clark Johnson | $207,311,083 | 3 | $69,103,694 |
| 745 | George A. Romero | $207,303,458 | 17 | $12,194,321 |
| 746 | Kabir Khan | $207,246,738 | 6 | $34,541,123 |
| 747 | Michael Spierig | $207,015,925 | 4 | $51,753,981 |
| 748 | Peter Spierig | $207,015,925 | 4 | $51,753,981 |
| 749 | Shekhar Kapur | $206,911,252 | 8 | $25,863,907 |
| 750 | Rob Zombie | $206,743,801 | 11 | $18,794,891 |
| 751 | Sarah Smith | $206,034,208 | 2 | $103,017,104 |
| 752 | Jay Chandrasekhar | $206,008,705 | 7 | $29,429,815 |
| 753 | Jim Sheridan | $205,830,534 | 9 | $22,870,059 |
| 754 | Kevin Rodney Sullivan | $205,631,244 | 4 | $51,407,811 |
| 755 | Dwight H. Little | $205,555,302 | 12 | $17,129,609 |
| 756 | Guo Jingming | $205,485,806 | 4 | $51,371,452 |
| 757 | Brad Lewis | $205,162,666 | 1 | $205,162,666 |
| 758 | Ava Duvernay | $205,042,045 | 7 | $29,291,721 |
| 759 | Niki Caro | $205,041,584 | 8 | $25,630,198 |
| 760 | David McNally | $204,475,056 | 2 | $102,237,528 |
| 761 | Jared Stern | $203,891,589 | 1 | $203,891,589 |
| 762 | Mike Flanagan | $202,614,432 | 7 | $28,944,919 |
| 763 | Cathy Yan | $201,073,230 | 4 | $50,268,308 |
| 764 | Kim Yong-hwa | $200,930,165 | 2 | $100,465,083 |
| 765 | Rohit Shetty | $200,726,917 | 10 | $20,072,692 |
| 766 | John Schlesinger | $200,176,981 | 15 | $13,345,132 |
| 767 | Sam Quah | $199,276,793 | 1 | $199,276,793 |
| 768 | Xiao Lu Xue | $199,085,416 | 2 | $99,542,708 |
| 769 | Huang Bo | $198,330,770 | 1 | $198,330,770 |
| 770 | Terrence Malick | $198,242,244 | 11 | $18,022,022 |
| 771 | Nimrod Antal | $198,142,724 | 6 | $33,023,787 |
| 772 | Nick Castle | $197,980,808 | 6 | $32,996,801 |
| 773 | Johannes Roberts | $197,864,380 | 9 | $21,984,931 |
| 774 | Steve Box | $197,593,152 | 1 | $197,593,152 |
| 775 | Norton Virgien | $196,337,717 | 2 | $98,168,859 |
| 776 | Seong-Hu Park | $196,308,703 | 1 | $196,308,703 |
| 777 | Michael Engler | $196,121,144 | 2 | $98,060,572 |
| 778 | Scott Speer | $195,406,689 | 7 | $27,915,241 |
| 779 | Hiromasa Yonebayashi | $195,350,190 | 3 | $65,116,730 |
| 780 | Paul Haggis | $195,007,414 | 5 | $39,001,483 |
| 781 | Gene Stupnitsky | $194,627,789 | 2 | $97,313,895 |
| 782 | Dmitry Dyachenko | $194,262,339 | 8 | $24,282,792 |
| 783 | Oren Peli | $194,190,590 | 2 | $97,095,295 |
| 784 | Alex Kendrick | $193,399,551 | 7 | $27,628,507 |
| 785 | Tatsuya Nagamine | $193,309,847 | 3 | $64,436,616 |
| 786 | Frederik Du Chau | $193,015,261 | 3 | $64,338,420 |
| 787 | Pete Travis | $192,418,433 | 4 | $48,104,608 |
| 788 | Aaron Nee | $192,347,999 | 4 | $48,087,000 |
| 789 | Adam Nee | $192,347,999 | 4 | $48,087,000 |
| 790 | Su Lun | $191,940,584 | 2 | $95,970,292 |
| 791 | Gary Goldman | $191,866,304 | 4 | $47,966,576 |
| 792 | Ted Demme | $191,320,280 | 7 | $27,331,469 |
| 793 | Takaski Shimizu | $191,193,140 | 2 | $95,596,570 |
| 794 | Irwin Winkler | $190,992,119 | 7 | $27,284,588 |
| 795 | John Erick Dowdle | $189,947,470 | 6 | $31,657,912 |
| 796 | Dong Runnian | $188,547,881 | 2 | $94,273,941 |
| 797 | Woo-seok Yang | $188,388,307 | 5 | $37,677,661 |
| 798 | Jazz Boon | $188,065,089 | 3 | $62,688,363 |
| 799 | Jason Kwan | $188,023,790 | 3 | $62,674,597 |
| 800 | Tom Laughlin | $187,040,907 | 3 | $62,346,969 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.