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Top Grossing Director at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 101-200)BETA


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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
101 Andy Muschietti $720,217,789 6 $120,036,298
102 Peter Berg $714,018,305 12 $59,501,525
103 Andy Wachowski $713,354,543 6 $118,892,424
104 Christopher Miller $712,821,997 5 $142,564,399
105 Phil Lord $712,821,997 6 $118,803,666
106 Stephen Sommers $707,568,565 8 $88,446,071
107 Taika Waititi $707,330,757 12 $58,944,230
108 Adam McKay $697,548,385 10 $69,754,839
109 Francis Ford Coppola $694,434,838 23 $30,192,819
110 John Landis $687,991,265 18 $38,221,737
111 Kelly Asbury $679,780,310 5 $135,956,062
112 Marc Forster $679,126,850 13 $52,240,527
113 Rob Reiner $678,286,617 21 $32,299,363
114 Christopher McQuarrie $673,961,053 6 $112,326,842
115 Paul Feig $673,608,153 11 $61,237,105
116 Rob Letterman $673,414,912 7 $96,202,130
117 Louis Leterrier $661,665,745 10 $66,166,575
118 David Leitch $653,491,197 7 $93,355,885
119 Rob Cohen $644,220,722 14 $46,015,766
120 Jaume Collet-Serra $632,287,593 12 $52,690,633
121 Brian De Palma $628,790,469 24 $26,199,603
122 Sylvester Stallone $626,039,003 8 $78,254,875
123 Nancy Meyers $625,578,930 6 $104,263,155
124 Lee Unkrich $625,464,895 2 $312,732,448
125 Denis Villeneuve $623,660,643 8 $77,957,580
126 George Miller $618,901,266 14 $44,207,233
127 Alfonso Cuarón $614,258,562 9 $68,250,951
128 Chris Sanders $612,863,552 5 $122,572,710
129 John McTiernan $611,186,310 11 $55,562,392
130 Aaron Horvath $604,724,566 2 $302,362,283
131 Woody Allen $601,954,566 50 $12,039,091
132 Ang Lee $597,120,146 14 $42,651,439
133 Andy Tennant $596,062,209 11 $54,187,474
134 Chris Weitz $593,934,583 9 $65,992,731
135 Ruben Fleischer $593,923,471 7 $84,846,210
136 Mel Gibson $589,165,165 8 $73,645,646
137 Doug Liman $585,538,481 15 $39,035,899
138 Mike Newell $584,633,156 17 $34,390,186
139 Wes Craven $579,041,335 20 $28,952,067
140 Michael Apted $577,927,386 25 $23,117,095
141 Frank Coraci $575,039,088 9 $63,893,232
142 Michael Jelenic $574,934,330 1 $574,934,330
143 Frank Oz $574,147,219 13 $44,165,171
144 Jon M. Chu $573,929,810 11 $52,175,437
145 John Badham $573,468,670 14 $40,962,048
146 Joel Coen $572,368,910 19 $30,124,679
147 Andrew Davis $571,779,803 11 $51,979,982
148 Herbert Ross $571,632,141 19 $30,085,902
149 David Zucker $571,466,794 10 $57,146,679
150 Jan De Bont $567,876,274 6 $94,646,046
151 Phillip Noyce $565,699,585 16 $35,356,224
152 Malcolm D. Lee $563,843,895 13 $43,372,607
153 Betty Thomas $563,123,893 7 $80,446,270
154 David Ayer $559,114,803 11 $50,828,618
155 Scott Derrickson $555,868,607 10 $55,586,861
156 Dean DeBlois $555,383,661 5 $111,076,732
157 John G. Avildsen $552,831,770 15 $36,855,451
158 Norman Jewison $549,765,190 22 $24,989,327
159 Matthew Vaughn $546,269,438 8 $68,283,680
160 David O. Russell $536,857,583 12 $44,738,132
161 Michael Mann $533,984,143 13 $41,075,703
162 David Gordon Green $533,708,511 18 $29,650,473
163 John Woo $533,310,921 17 $31,371,231
164 Lasse Hallström $529,512,669 19 $27,869,088
165 Renny Harlin $525,511,544 25 $21,020,462
166 Edward Zwick $524,114,236 14 $37,436,731
167 Marc Webb $522,735,805 8 $65,341,976
168 Steve Carr $515,931,411 9 $57,325,712
169 Nora Ephron $511,970,444 7 $73,138,635
170 Roger Allers $507,231,078 3 $169,077,026
171 Robert Schwentke $501,857,525 9 $55,761,947
172 Shane Black $500,514,580 6 $83,419,097
173 Simon West $497,271,590 13 $38,251,661
174 Brian Levant $496,571,336 10 $49,657,134
175 William Friedkin $493,991,337 19 $25,999,544
176 Patty Jenkins $493,833,654 4 $123,458,414
177 Chad Stahelski $493,215,552 8 $61,651,944
178 Guillermo del Toro $489,879,385 14 $34,991,385
179 Judd Apatow $488,548,538 9 $54,283,171
180 Jerry Zucker $487,778,359 6 $81,296,393
181 Genndy Tartakovsky $485,513,250 5 $97,102,650
182 Joseph McGinty Nichol $480,446,496 11 $43,676,954
183 Lana Wachowski $476,066,311 7 $68,009,473
184 Mark Waters $475,228,846 14 $33,944,918
185 Jordan Peele $474,199,595 4 $118,549,899
186 David Silverman $473,284,439 3 $157,761,480
187 Chris Miller $471,980,448 4 $117,995,112
188 John Lee Hancock $465,394,469 8 $58,174,309
189 Stephen Herek $465,184,822 18 $25,843,601
190 John Singleton $463,532,640 9 $51,503,627
191 Baz Luhrmann $461,273,671 6 $76,878,945
192 Will Gluck $461,232,690 8 $57,654,086
193 Rawson Marshall Thurber $460,662,129 8 $57,582,766
194 Paul W.S. Anderson $456,479,593 13 $35,113,815
195 Wolfgang Reitherman $453,532,676 6 $75,588,779
196 Roger Donaldson $450,885,551 18 $25,049,197
197 Peter Weir $450,829,916 12 $37,569,160
198 Paul Weitz $449,810,132 13 $34,600,779
199 Tim Johnson $449,658,165 5 $89,931,633
200 Cameron Crowe $449,596,729 9 $49,955,192

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.