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Box Office Star Records > Domestic > Lifetime Specific Technical Role > Top Domestic Directors
Top Grossing Director at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 1,701-1,800)BETA
See also: Top Domestic Art Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Directors - 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 Set Decorators - Top Domestic Set Designers - Top Domestic Sound Designers - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,701 | Aanand Rai | $3,283,499 | 2 | $1,641,750 |
| 1,702 | David Lachapelle | $3,278,611 | 1 | $3,278,611 |
| 1,703 | Nacho Vigalondo | $3,258,290 | 6 | $543,048 |
| 1,704 | Rowan Joffe | $3,242,457 | 1 | $3,242,457 |
| 1,705 | Lake Bell | $3,239,879 | 3 | $1,079,960 |
| 1,706 | Ira Sachs | $3,211,204 | 3 | $1,070,401 |
| 1,707 | François Truffaut | $3,191,408 | 8 | $398,926 |
| 1,708 | Rama Burshtein | $3,187,043 | 2 | $1,593,522 |
| 1,709 | Terence Davies | $3,173,902 | 5 | $634,780 |
| 1,710 | Youssef Delara | $3,172,267 | 4 | $793,067 |
| 1,711 | Otto Bell | $3,168,664 | 1 | $3,168,664 |
| 1,712 | Christian Petzold | $3,166,858 | 2 | $1,583,429 |
| 1,713 | Sally Field | $3,134,509 | 1 | $3,134,509 |
| 1,714 | Jon Stewart | $3,128,941 | 1 | $3,128,941 |
| 1,715 | Andrew Jarecki | $3,117,985 | 1 | $3,117,985 |
| 1,716 | Damian Szifron | $3,107,072 | 2 | $1,553,536 |
| 1,717 | Steve Boyum | $3,102,550 | 1 | $3,102,550 |
| 1,718 | Laura Poitras | $3,076,982 | 4 | $769,246 |
| 1,719 | Zoya Akhtar | $3,066,100 | 1 | $3,066,100 |
| 1,720 | Judy Irving | $3,058,527 | 2 | $1,529,264 |
| 1,721 | Franc Roddam | $3,042,892 | 1 | $3,042,892 |
| 1,722 | Angel Gracia | $3,033,623 | 1 | $3,033,623 |
| 1,723 | Matt Spicer | $3,021,133 | 1 | $3,021,133 |
| 1,724 | Harley Cokliss | $3,000,000 | 1 | $3,000,000 |
| 1,725 | Sean Durkin | $2,981,038 | 2 | $1,490,519 |
| 1,726 | Luc Dardenne | $2,963,655 | 3 | $987,885 |
| 1,727 | Jean-Pierre Dardenne | $2,963,655 | 3 | $987,885 |
| 1,728 | Sean Ellis | $2,963,630 | 1 | $2,963,630 |
| 1,729 | Robert Englund | $2,955,917 | 1 | $2,955,917 |
| 1,730 | Wilson Yip | $2,885,112 | 4 | $721,278 |
| 1,731 | Yuen Woo Ping | $2,883,720 | 4 | $720,930 |
| 1,732 | Pete Werner | $2,877,571 | 1 | $2,877,571 |
| 1,733 | Han-Min Kim | $2,871,674 | 2 | $1,435,837 |
| 1,734 | Chen Sicheng | $2,867,414 | 3 | $955,805 |
| 1,735 | Ruben Ostlund | $2,861,844 | 2 | $1,430,922 |
| 1,736 | David Boyd | $2,859,955 | 1 | $2,859,955 |
| 1,737 | Dan Krauss | $2,854,538 | 2 | $1,427,269 |
| 1,738 | Michael D. Olmos | $2,850,357 | 2 | $1,425,179 |
| 1,739 | Azazel Jacobs | $2,850,323 | 2 | $1,425,162 |
| 1,740 | Kevin Tenney | $2,847,907 | 2 | $1,423,954 |
| 1,741 | R. Balki | $2,845,510 | 3 | $948,503 |
| 1,742 | Aske Bang | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,743 | Cara Speller | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,744 | Joanna Natasegara | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,745 | Selim Aazzazi | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,746 | Juanjo Gimenez Pena | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,747 | Alan Barillaro | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,748 | Patrick Osborne | $2,835,355 | 2 | $1,417,678 |
| 1,749 | Kim Magnusson | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,750 | Andrew Coats | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,751 | Nathan Kahane | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,752 | Kristof Deak | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,753 | Marc Sondheimer | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,754 | Marcel Mettelsiefen | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,755 | Timo von Gunten | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,756 | Lou Hamou-Lhadj | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,757 | Raphaela Neihausen | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,758 | Anna Udvardy | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,759 | Orlando von Einsiedel | $2,835,355 | 2 | $1,417,678 |
| 1,760 | Robert Valley | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,761 | Stephen Ellis | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,762 | Giacun Caduff | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,763 | Theodore Ushev | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,764 | Daphne Matziaraki | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 1,765 | Ceyda Torun | $2,834,262 | 1 | $2,834,262 |
| 1,766 | Cory Finley | $2,830,775 | 2 | $1,415,388 |
| 1,767 | Dustin Marcellino | $2,827,666 | 1 | $2,827,666 |
| 1,768 | Manny Rodriguez | $2,827,393 | 1 | $2,827,393 |
| 1,769 | Susanne Bier | $2,815,795 | 4 | $703,949 |
| 1,770 | Antonio Margheriti | $2,810,199 | 5 | $562,040 |
| 1,771 | Siva Koratala | $2,800,000 | 1 | $2,800,000 |
| 1,772 | Marco Polo Constandse | $2,783,739 | 1 | $2,783,739 |
| 1,773 | Darren Doane | $2,778,297 | 1 | $2,778,297 |
| 1,774 | Graham Baker | $2,766,716 | 1 | $2,766,716 |
| 1,775 | Gregory Levasseur | $2,756,333 | 1 | $2,756,333 |
| 1,776 | Vincent Gallo | $2,746,907 | 2 | $1,373,454 |
| 1,777 | Jim Sotos | $2,732,684 | 1 | $2,732,684 |
| 1,778 | Wu Jing | $2,721,100 | 1 | $2,721,100 |
| 1,779 | Dan Rush | $2,712,131 | 1 | $2,712,131 |
| 1,780 | Reema Kagti | $2,706,375 | 1 | $2,706,375 |
| 1,781 | Maurice Phillips | $2,697,777 | 1 | $2,697,777 |
| 1,782 | Stephan Elliott | $2,688,766 | 3 | $896,255 |
| 1,783 | Zal Batmanglij | $2,682,664 | 2 | $1,341,332 |
| 1,784 | Ron Fricke | $2,672,413 | 2 | $1,336,207 |
| 1,785 | Ziad Doueiri | $2,625,745 | 2 | $1,312,873 |
| 1,786 | Paolo Virzi | $2,612,109 | 3 | $870,703 |
| 1,787 | Don Cheadle | $2,610,896 | 1 | $2,610,896 |
| 1,788 | David M. Matthews | $2,595,644 | 1 | $2,595,644 |
| 1,789 | Kevan Otto | $2,587,072 | 1 | $2,587,072 |
| 1,790 | Jerry Jameson | $2,583,301 | 3 | $861,100 |
| 1,791 | Siddharth Anand | $2,581,138 | 1 | $2,581,138 |
| 1,792 | Nicolas Lopez | $2,574,431 | 2 | $1,287,216 |
| 1,793 | Thomas Purifoy Jr | $2,570,355 | 1 | $2,570,355 |
| 1,794 | Lynn Shelton | $2,545,968 | 5 | $509,194 |
| 1,795 | Garrett Batty | $2,544,120 | 2 | $1,272,060 |
| 1,796 | James Vanderbilt | $2,541,854 | 1 | $2,541,854 |
| 1,797 | Xiaogang Feng | $2,541,229 | 3 | $847,076 |
| 1,798 | Anubhav Sinha | $2,509,150 | 2 | $1,254,575 |
| 1,799 | Brad J. Silverman | $2,507,159 | 2 | $1,253,580 |
| 1,800 | Robert Wilson | $2,506,388 | 2 | $1,253,194 |
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.
