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Top Grossing Director at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 501-600)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
501 James McTeigue $171,482,780 5 $34,296,556
502 Peter Hewitt $171,351,512 8 $21,418,939
503 Chirs Buck $171,091,819 1 $171,091,819
504 Chloé Zhao $171,023,736 5 $34,204,747
505 Paul Thomas Anderson $169,891,993 10 $16,989,199
506 Mike Gabriel $169,511,234 2 $84,755,617
507 Jordan Vogt-Roberts $169,368,312 3 $56,456,104
508 David Twohy $169,109,764 8 $21,138,721
509 Jonathan Lynn $169,043,587 8 $21,130,448
510 Richard Fleischer $168,749,903 17 $9,926,465
511 Jay Russell $168,258,163 6 $28,043,027
512 Gregory Hoblit $168,153,921 5 $33,630,784
513 Philip Kaufman $167,833,444 10 $16,783,344
514 Sam Taylor-Johnson $167,612,596 5 $33,522,519
515 Dwight H. Little $166,755,302 12 $13,896,275
516 Jay Chandrasekhar $166,586,297 7 $23,798,042
517 Mikael Hafstrom $166,235,714 9 $18,470,635
518 Stephen Chbosky $165,168,403 4 $41,292,101
519 Lee Daniels $164,875,819 6 $27,479,303
520 Glenn Ficarra $163,334,953 6 $27,222,492
521 John Requa $163,334,953 6 $27,222,492
522 Paul Tibbitt $162,994,032 1 $162,994,032
523 Michel Gondry $162,316,276 13 $12,485,867
524 Peter Bogdanovich $161,769,547 14 $11,554,968
525 Toni Myers $161,634,850 3 $53,878,283
526 Bibo Bergeron $161,412,000 2 $80,706,000
527 Michael Thurmeier $161,321,843 1 $161,321,843
528 Roger Kumble $161,319,821 9 $17,924,425
529 James Wong $160,668,896 4 $40,167,224
530 Fede Álvarez $158,286,286 5 $31,657,257
531 Stuart Baird $157,767,204 3 $52,589,068
532 Ava Duvernay $157,599,216 7 $22,514,174
533 Jesse Dylan $157,196,929 3 $52,398,976
534 Fred Schepisi $157,145,710 13 $12,088,132
535 David Soren $156,949,130 3 $52,316,377
536 Michael B. Jordan $156,248,615 2 $78,124,308
537 John Boorman $156,055,154 13 $12,004,243
538 Stan Dragoti $155,666,897 5 $31,133,379
539 Jeff Wadlow $155,153,475 10 $15,515,348
540 Barbra Streisand $155,067,309 3 $51,689,103
541 Franco Zeffirelli $154,878,920 13 $11,913,763
542 Rob Bowman $154,229,828 4 $38,557,457
543 Scott Cooper $153,817,053 7 $21,973,865
544 David Cronenberg $153,609,885 21 $7,314,756
545 Michael Dougherty $153,225,613 3 $51,075,204
546 Brian Fee $152,901,115 1 $152,901,115
547 Patrick Hughes $152,826,941 5 $30,565,388
548 Jason Moore $152,045,738 4 $38,011,435
549 Andrew Erwin $151,603,546 8 $18,950,443
550 James Fargo $151,468,727 3 $50,489,576
551 Ronny Yu $151,313,397 6 $25,218,900
552 Jeannot Szwarc $150,645,702 7 $21,520,815
553 Ted Demme $150,569,759 7 $21,509,966
554 Cecil B. DeMille $150,200,591 11 $13,654,599
555 Adam Robitel $150,060,839 4 $37,515,210
556 Neil LaBute $150,027,001 13 $11,540,539
557 Josh Boone $148,806,869 3 $49,602,290
558 Rob Zombie $148,318,805 11 $13,483,528
559 Spike Jonze $148,159,164 5 $29,631,833
560 Steve Pink $147,802,277 7 $21,114,611
561 Gina Prince-Bythewood $147,168,465 5 $29,433,693
562 Ralph Zondag $147,063,639 4 $36,765,910
563 Kunihiko Yuyama $146,543,713 10 $14,654,371
564 Michael Lehmann $146,338,730 9 $16,259,859
565 Jill Culton $145,866,649 2 $72,933,325
566 Nia DaCosta $145,836,803 5 $29,167,361
567 Stephen Gaghan $145,818,090 5 $29,163,618
568 Jeremiah Chechik $145,791,608 6 $24,298,601
569 Robert Stevenson $145,524,726 5 $29,104,945
570 Alessandro Carloni $143,528,619 1 $143,528,619
571 Jim Sheridan $142,816,272 9 $15,868,475
572 Jared Hess $142,242,307 8 $17,780,288
573 Jack Lee Thompson $142,240,067 14 $10,160,005
574 Ted Kotcheff $142,127,096 10 $14,212,710
575 Eric Goldberg $141,579,773 1 $141,579,773
576 Adam Wingard $140,701,082 11 $12,791,007
577 Martin Ritt $140,619,130 12 $11,718,261
578 Eduardo Sanchez $140,583,046 7 $20,083,292
579 Daniel Myrick $140,539,099 3 $46,846,366
580 Andrew Bergman $140,346,898 6 $23,391,150
581 Alexandre Aja $140,333,196 11 $12,757,563
582 Norton Virgien $139,897,257 2 $69,948,629
583 Tommy Chong $139,663,872 6 $23,277,312
584 Iain Softley $139,124,633 9 $15,458,293
585 Peter Lord $137,845,041 2 $68,922,521
586 Eric Leighton $137,748,063 1 $137,748,063
587 Emma Tammi $137,304,231 3 $45,768,077
588 Sidney Poitier $136,781,950 5 $27,356,390
589 Stephen Norrington $136,607,080 3 $45,535,693
590 David Green $136,286,894 5 $27,257,379
591 Forest Whitaker $136,113,271 3 $45,371,090
592 Barbet Schroeder $135,877,640 12 $11,323,137
593 Breck Eisner $135,163,174 3 $45,054,391
594 Martha Coolidge $134,934,517 13 $10,379,578
595 William Brent Bell $134,706,604 8 $16,838,326
596 Tobe Hooper $134,573,538 9 $14,952,615
597 Gene Stupnitsky $133,592,588 2 $66,796,294
598 Stephanie Ma Stine $132,938,680 1 $132,938,680
599 Miguel Arteta $132,411,380 8 $16,551,423
600 Nick Castle $131,980,808 6 $21,996,801

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.