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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 2,001-2,100)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,001 | Christine Jeffs | $1,302,242 | 1 | $1,302,242 |
| 2,002 | Crystal Moselle | $1,301,696 | 3 | $433,899 |
| 2,003 | Neema Barnette | $1,301,562 | 1 | $1,301,562 |
| 2,004 | Wuershan | $1,291,707 | 2 | $645,854 |
| 2,005 | Da-Mo Peng | $1,289,195 | 1 | $1,289,195 |
| 2,006 | Fei Yan | $1,289,195 | 1 | $1,289,195 |
| 2,007 | Carlos Bolado | $1,273,871 | 2 | $636,936 |
| 2,008 | Yann Demange | $1,270,847 | 2 | $635,424 |
| 2,009 | Ashutosh Gowariker | $1,264,339 | 1 | $1,264,339 |
| 2,010 | Leslye Headland | $1,261,545 | 2 | $630,773 |
| 2,011 | Jamie Travis | $1,251,749 | 1 | $1,251,749 |
| 2,012 | Jacob Kornbluth | $1,238,229 | 2 | $619,115 |
| 2,013 | Chad Burns | $1,236,094 | 1 | $1,236,094 |
| 2,014 | Carol Reed | $1,232,468 | 4 | $308,117 |
| 2,015 | Umesh Shukla | $1,227,657 | 3 | $409,219 |
| 2,016 | Lorraine Levy | $1,220,807 | 2 | $610,404 |
| 2,017 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | $1,219,173 | 5 | $243,835 |
| 2,018 | Emil Ben Shimon | $1,200,885 | 1 | $1,200,885 |
| 2,019 | Michael Rapaport | $1,200,046 | 1 | $1,200,046 |
| 2,020 | Bryan Foy | $1,200,000 | 1 | $1,200,000 |
| 2,021 | Kurt Wimmer | $1,190,018 | 1 | $1,190,018 |
| 2,022 | Philippe Caland | $1,189,612 | 1 | $1,189,612 |
| 2,023 | Sohail Khan | $1,187,266 | 2 | $593,633 |
| 2,024 | Matt Hullum | $1,186,426 | 1 | $1,186,426 |
| 2,025 | Chris Fiore | $1,184,727 | 1 | $1,184,727 |
| 2,026 | Severin Fiala | $1,178,196 | 1 | $1,178,196 |
| 2,027 | Veronika Franz | $1,178,196 | 1 | $1,178,196 |
| 2,028 | Casey La Scala | $1,169,603 | 1 | $1,169,603 |
| 2,029 | Tom DiCillo | $1,166,790 | 3 | $388,930 |
| 2,030 | Andrew Wakefield | $1,163,265 | 1 | $1,163,265 |
| 2,031 | Carlo Carlei | $1,162,635 | 1 | $1,162,635 |
| 2,032 | Chris Terrio | $1,158,405 | 1 | $1,158,405 |
| 2,033 | Chris Dowling | $1,156,000 | 1 | $1,156,000 |
| 2,034 | Seung-wan Ryoo | $1,155,652 | 2 | $577,826 |
| 2,035 | John Goldschmidt | $1,148,304 | 1 | $1,148,304 |
| 2,036 | Amanda Lipitz | $1,146,292 | 1 | $1,146,292 |
| 2,037 | Kaige Chen | $1,146,227 | 6 | $191,038 |
| 2,038 | William Oldroyd | $1,129,408 | 1 | $1,129,408 |
| 2,039 | Daniel Auteuil | $1,124,951 | 4 | $281,238 |
| 2,040 | Liza Johnson | $1,123,018 | 3 | $374,339 |
| 2,041 | Elliot Berlin | $1,121,744 | 1 | $1,121,744 |
| 2,042 | Joe Fab | $1,121,744 | 1 | $1,121,744 |
| 2,043 | Larysa Kondracki | $1,120,914 | 1 | $1,120,914 |
| 2,044 | Deniz Gamze Erguven | $1,119,784 | 2 | $559,892 |
| 2,045 | Philippe Le Guay | $1,118,459 | 3 | $372,820 |
| 2,046 | Bob Yari | $1,115,615 | 1 | $1,115,615 |
| 2,047 | John D. Hancock | $1,114,933 | 2 | $557,467 |
| 2,048 | Paul Bartel | $1,114,825 | 1 | $1,114,825 |
| 2,049 | Remo D'Souza | $1,114,231 | 3 | $371,410 |
| 2,050 | Patrick Brice | $1,109,808 | 3 | $369,936 |
| 2,051 | Brenna Sanchez | $1,109,276 | 1 | $1,109,276 |
| 2,052 | Tom Putnam | $1,109,276 | 1 | $1,109,276 |
| 2,053 | Steve De Jarnatt | $1,106,822 | 2 | $553,411 |
| 2,054 | Dennis Cooper | $1,103,037 | 1 | $1,103,037 |
| 2,055 | Jim Wilson | $1,101,666 | 2 | $550,833 |
| 2,056 | Rodrigo Cortes | $1,093,664 | 3 | $364,555 |
| 2,057 | Felix Herngren | $1,083,762 | 1 | $1,083,762 |
| 2,058 | Abderrahmane Sissako | $1,076,075 | 1 | $1,076,075 |
| 2,059 | Vlad Yudin | $1,074,521 | 4 | $268,630 |
| 2,060 | Aaron Katz | $1,069,128 | 3 | $356,376 |
| 2,061 | Stuart Blumberg | $1,066,256 | 1 | $1,066,256 |
| 2,062 | Matthew Diamond | $1,065,907 | 3 | $355,302 |
| 2,063 | David Siegel | $1,065,000 | 1 | $1,065,000 |
| 2,064 | Seong-hoon Kim | $1,061,057 | 3 | $353,686 |
| 2,065 | Shashanka Ghosh | $1,055,593 | 1 | $1,055,593 |
| 2,066 | Chloe Zhao | $1,052,182 | 2 | $526,091 |
| 2,067 | Marleen Gorris | $1,051,811 | 1 | $1,051,811 |
| 2,068 | Goro Miyazaki | $1,049,536 | 2 | $524,768 |
| 2,069 | Takashi Miike | $1,049,283 | 9 | $116,587 |
| 2,070 | Vishal Bhardwaj | $1,048,143 | 3 | $349,381 |
| 2,071 | Todd Robinson | $1,034,589 | 2 | $517,295 |
| 2,072 | John Krokidas | $1,029,949 | 2 | $514,975 |
| 2,073 | Frederic Tcheng | $1,028,953 | 1 | $1,028,953 |
| 2,074 | Raymond De Felitta | $1,027,559 | 3 | $342,520 |
| 2,075 | Joe Cornish | $1,024,175 | 2 | $512,088 |
| 2,076 | John R. Lee | $1,022,720 | 1 | $1,022,720 |
| 2,077 | Kogonada | $1,017,107 | 1 | $1,017,107 |
| 2,078 | Fedor Bondarchuk | $1,013,945 | 3 | $337,982 |
| 2,079 | Adriana Trigiani | $1,009,984 | 1 | $1,009,984 |
| 2,080 | Richard Ramsey | $1,005,691 | 1 | $1,005,691 |
| 2,081 | Carey Scott | $1,004,105 | 1 | $1,004,105 |
| 2,082 | Cate Shortland | $998,985 | 2 | $499,493 |
| 2,083 | Shlomi Elkabetz | $988,150 | 1 | $988,150 |
| 2,084 | Ronit Elkabetz | $988,150 | 1 | $988,150 |
| 2,085 | Nitya Mehra | $981,947 | 1 | $981,947 |
| 2,086 | Dante Lam | $972,022 | 5 | $194,404 |
| 2,087 | Gregory Jacobs | $969,595 | 2 | $484,798 |
| 2,088 | Stephen Belber | $965,224 | 2 | $482,612 |
| 2,089 | Jackie Chan | $964,978 | 4 | $241,245 |
| 2,090 | Matthew Heineman | $958,605 | 3 | $319,535 |
| 2,091 | John Carroll Lynch | $955,925 | 1 | $955,925 |
| 2,092 | Agnes Varda | $952,432 | 1 | $952,432 |
| 2,093 | J.R. | $952,432 | 1 | $952,432 |
| 2,094 | Jennifer Kent | $950,792 | 3 | $316,931 |
| 2,095 | Louise Osmond | $940,715 | 2 | $470,358 |
| 2,096 | Stephen Fry | $933,637 | 2 | $466,819 |
| 2,097 | Julien Temple | $930,211 | 5 | $186,042 |
| 2,098 | A.R. Murugadoss | $926,294 | 3 | $308,765 |
| 2,099 | Patrice Chereau | $925,820 | 1 | $925,820 |
| 2,100 | Julian Fellowes | $924,260 | 2 | $462,130 |
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.
