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Top Grossing Director at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 301-400)BETA


See also: Top Domestic Art Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Editors - Top Domestic Associate Producers - Top Domestic Casting Directors - Top Domestic Cinematographers - Top Domestic Co-Producers - Top Domestic Composers - Top Domestic Costume Designers - Top Domestic Costume Supervisors - Top Domestic Dialogue Editors - Top Domestic Editors - Top Domestic Executive Producers - Top Domestic Make-up and Hair Designers - Top Domestic Music Editors - Top Domestic Music Supervisors - Top Domestic Producers - Top Domestic Production Designers - Top Domestic Re-recording Mixers - Top Domestic Screenwriters - Top Domestic Second Unit Directors - Top Domestic Set Decorators - Top Domestic Set Designers - Top Domestic Sound Designers - Top Domestic Sound Editors - Top Domestic Sound Effects Editors - Top Domestic Sound Mixers - Top Domestic Story Creators - Top Domestic Stunt Coordinators - Top Domestic Supervising Sound Editors - Top Domestic Unit Production Managers - Top Domestic Visual Effects Supervisors - Top International Directors - Top Worldwide Directors

This list shows the highest grossing Directors based on the domestic 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 Domestic
Box Office
Movies Average
301 Joseph Ruben $297,691,389 10 $29,769,139
302 Mark Dindal $297,218,840 4 $74,304,710
303 Lawrence Kasdan $296,871,637 11 $26,988,331
304 Howard Deutch $295,668,577 10 $29,566,858
305 Emile Ardolino $295,286,811 6 $49,214,469
306 Joel Zwick $294,552,764 4 $73,638,191
307 Gus Van Sant $294,193,117 17 $17,305,477
308 Michael Lembeck $293,722,463 10 $29,372,246
309 Peter Ramsey $293,585,953 2 $146,792,977
310 Peter Sohn $292,604,216 3 $97,534,739
311 Steve Miner $292,198,368 14 $20,871,312
312 Harald Zwart $291,225,077 5 $58,245,015
313 Neil Jordan $290,451,919 20 $14,522,596
314 Carl Reiner $290,434,026 11 $26,403,093
315 Les Mayfield $289,185,737 8 $36,148,217
316 David Hand $287,722,486 4 $71,930,622
317 Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu $287,015,101 7 $41,002,157
318 Darren Aronofsky $286,647,053 10 $28,664,705
319 Joachim Ronnin $286,488,481 2 $143,244,241
320 Randall Wallace $286,173,975 4 $71,543,494
321 Greg MacGillivray $285,251,250 11 $25,931,932
322 Neill Blomkamp $284,765,508 5 $56,953,102
323 Robert Altman $284,695,443 24 $11,862,310
324 John Carpenter $282,989,243 20 $14,149,462
325 Warren Beatty $282,719,616 5 $56,543,923
326 George Cukor $281,717,470 14 $20,122,676
327 Destin Daniel Cretton $278,830,953 6 $46,471,826
328 James Bobin $277,325,139 5 $55,465,028
329 John Pasquin $276,713,253 4 $69,178,313
330 Elizabeth Banks $275,608,229 7 $39,372,604
331 Gavin Hood $274,970,361 7 $39,281,480
332 George P. Cosmatos $274,561,291 8 $34,320,161
333 Steven Caple Jr $273,101,394 3 $91,033,798
334 Ken Kwapis $272,899,305 10 $27,289,931
335 Yarrow Cheney $272,699,130 1 $272,699,130
336 Scott Mosier $272,699,130 1 $272,699,130
337 Robert Redford $272,103,854 9 $30,233,762
338 Hugh Wilson $271,622,020 8 $33,952,753
339 Stephen Frears $271,312,017 22 $12,332,364
340 Stephen Hopkins $270,843,042 11 $24,622,095
341 Joe Wright $269,686,455 10 $26,968,646
342 John Glen $269,648,646 7 $38,521,235
343 Mark Steven Johnson $269,280,162 9 $29,920,018
344 Dan Scanlon $268,488,329 1 $268,488,329
345 Penelope Spheeris $266,127,648 11 $24,193,423
346 Larry Charles $263,208,226 8 $32,901,028
347 Anthony Minghella $262,952,234 7 $37,564,605
348 Matt Bettinelli-Olpin $260,741,112 9 $28,971,235
349 Tyler Gillett $260,741,112 9 $28,971,235
350 Adil El Arbi $260,428,355 4 $65,107,089
351 Bilall Fallah $260,428,355 4 $65,107,089
352 Kevin Costner $260,190,800 7 $37,170,114
353 John Stevenson $258,677,462 3 $86,225,821
354 John Madden $257,449,437 13 $19,803,803
355 Howard Zieff $257,338,596 7 $36,762,657
356 George Clooney $256,293,512 9 $28,477,057
357 David Lean $256,200,507 10 $25,620,051
358 Harold Becker $256,167,718 9 $28,463,080
359 David Bowers $255,610,016 7 $36,515,717
360 Ron Shelton $254,838,404 9 $28,315,378
361 Karey Kirkpatrick $254,481,835 3 $84,827,278
362 Darren Lynn Bousman $253,959,118 14 $18,139,937
363 Eli Roth $252,801,245 12 $21,066,770
364 Frank Marshall $252,321,753 9 $28,035,750
365 Greg Tiernan $252,024,244 5 $50,404,849
366 Charles Shyer $249,637,137 8 $31,204,642
367 Dean Parisot $249,189,925 5 $49,837,985
368 Baltasar Kormakur $248,979,508 10 $24,897,951
369 Gabriele Muccino $248,913,960 11 $22,628,542
370 Miloš Forman $248,460,563 9 $27,606,729
371 Will Speck $248,008,948 5 $49,601,790
372 Josh Gordon $248,008,948 5 $49,601,790
373 Michael Patrick King $247,994,950 3 $82,664,983
374 Joel Crawford $244,659,350 3 $81,553,117
375 Steven Brill $243,882,963 9 $27,098,107
376 Ron Underwood $243,012,300 7 $34,716,043
377 Brian Helgeland $242,163,041 6 $40,360,507
378 Gil Kenan $241,979,193 5 $48,395,839
379 Steve Oedekerk $241,652,658 4 $60,413,165
380 Robert Stromberg $241,407,328 1 $241,407,328
381 Don Bluth $240,477,785 10 $24,047,779
382 Mimi Leder $239,941,563 7 $34,277,366
383 Victor Fleming $239,080,796 4 $59,770,199
384 Mark Andrews $237,439,597 2 $118,719,799
385 Alan Parker $236,423,327 14 $16,887,381
386 Phil Alden Robinson $235,334,945 5 $47,066,989
387 P.J. Hogan $234,711,022 6 $39,118,504
388 Ethan Coen $231,906,428 10 $23,190,643
389 Daniel Espinosa $231,694,382 6 $38,615,730
390 Wayne Wang $231,584,934 18 $12,865,830
391 David R. Ellis $230,985,374 6 $38,497,562
392 Bob Clark $229,579,491 13 $17,659,961
393 Roger Michell $229,062,022 12 $19,088,502
394 Robert Benton $228,812,101 9 $25,423,567
395 Jon Avnet $228,224,298 8 $28,528,037
396 Steve Hickner $228,044,465 2 $114,022,233
397 Kathryn Bigelow $227,008,217 9 $25,223,135
398 Richard Benjamin $226,390,191 12 $18,865,849
399 Craig Gillespie $225,810,735 8 $28,226,342
400 Damien Chazelle $225,760,249 5 $45,152,050

The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).

This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.

Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.