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Top Grossing Director at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 3,201-3,300)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
3,201 Wayne Blair $2,450,867 5 $490,173
3,202 Abdellatif Kechiche $2,450,504 3 $816,835
3,203 Mark Polish $2,450,371 4 $612,593
3,204 Trevor Nunn $2,446,490 4 $611,623
3,205 Dror Moreh $2,445,246 3 $815,082
3,206 Koji Hashimoto $2,443,200 2 $1,221,600
3,207 Matt Johnson $2,418,546 2 $1,209,273
3,208 Giles New $2,418,404 1 $2,418,404
3,209 Joe Penna $2,409,826 4 $602,457
3,210 Kim Ki-Duk $2,405,208 5 $481,042
3,211 Farhad Mann $2,396,302 1 $2,396,302
3,212 Michael John Warren $2,394,725 2 $1,197,363
3,213 Andrey Zvyagintsev $2,390,695 5 $478,139
3,214 Eric Rohmer $2,389,587 19 $125,768
3,215 Steve Race $2,387,730 1 $2,387,730
3,216 Marc Meyers $2,385,168 6 $397,528
3,217 Fatih Akin $2,378,522 8 $297,315
3,218 John Malkovich $2,374,732 1 $2,374,732
3,219 Shashank Khaitan $2,373,270 3 $791,090
3,220 Rahul Dholakia $2,369,469 1 $2,369,469
3,221 Jean-Paul Rappeneau $2,353,728 3 $784,576
3,222 Matthew Crouch $2,347,896 2 $1,173,948
3,223 Abbas Kiarostami $2,344,550 10 $234,455
3,224 James Yukich $2,341,309 1 $2,341,309
3,225 Michael Noer $2,335,896 3 $778,632
3,226 Muye Wen $2,330,161 4 $582,540
3,227 Cinzia Angelini $2,324,019 1 $2,324,019
3,228 David Feiss $2,324,019 2 $1,162,010
3,229 Questlove $2,320,649 4 $580,162
3,230 Jae Hyeon Jang (장재현) $2,310,900 1 $2,310,900
3,231 Youn Jk $2,305,912 4 $576,478
3,232 Nikita Mikhalkov $2,302,338 6 $383,723
3,233 Prashanth Varma $2,300,000 3 $766,667
3,234 Gilles Bourdos $2,291,047 3 $763,682
3,235 Eran Creevy $2,287,038 3 $762,346
3,236 Max Mayer $2,284,723 2 $1,142,362
3,237 Michael Verhoeven $2,281,569 1 $2,281,569
3,238 Hal Hartley $2,278,594 5 $455,719
3,239 Sujoy Ghosh $2,270,202 4 $567,551
3,240 Louise Archambault $2,268,961 4 $567,240
3,241 Julio Torres $2,259,752 1 $2,259,752
3,242 Priyadarshan $2,247,919 10 $224,792
3,243 Angelo Pizzo $2,246,000 1 $2,246,000
3,244 Nadine Labaki $2,224,503 3 $741,501
3,245 Prithviraj Sukumaran $2,210,556 2 $1,105,278
3,246 Jamie Babbit $2,205,627 4 $551,407
3,247 David Dhawan $2,202,391 5 $440,478
3,248 Lowell Sherman $2,200,000 1 $2,200,000
3,249 Paul Cox $2,194,919 1 $2,194,919
3,250 Tony Cervone $2,188,425 4 $547,106
3,251 Amar Kaushik $2,184,000 4 $546,000
3,252 Natalie Portman $2,160,299 3 $720,100
3,253 John Patton Ford $2,156,296 2 $1,078,148
3,254 Ahmed Khan $2,156,018 4 $539,005
3,255 Timo Vuorensolam $2,155,139 5 $431,028
3,256 David Michod $2,153,238 6 $358,873
3,257 Coline Serreau $2,152,268 2 $1,076,134
3,258 Mamoru Oshii $2,150,822 6 $358,470
3,259 Jerusha Hess $2,137,573 1 $2,137,573
3,260 Andrew Ahn $2,128,807 4 $532,202
3,261 Iris K. Shim $2,121,025 1 $2,121,025
3,262 Noel Marshall $2,110,050 1 $2,110,050
3,263 Ricardo Curtis $2,108,907 2 $1,054,454
3,264 Rodrigo Perez-Castro $2,108,907 2 $1,054,454
3,265 Ralph Strean $2,097,560 2 $1,048,780
3,266 Ethan Hawke $2,090,760 6 $348,460
3,267 Steph Clattenburg $2,090,607 2 $1,045,304
3,268 Nathan Silver $2,084,121 4 $521,030
3,269 Rafal Zielinski $2,082,000 2 $1,041,000
3,270 S. Shankar $2,060,000 3 $686,667
3,271 Kyle Edward Bell $2,052,272 1 $2,052,272
3,272 Satoshi Kon $2,048,671 4 $512,168
3,273 David Atkins $2,025,238 1 $2,025,238
3,274 Jeffrey Obrow $2,019,984 2 $1,009,992
3,275 Sam Levinson $2,014,262 3 $671,421
3,276 Bill Melendez $2,013,193 8 $251,649
3,277 Ellen Kuras $2,005,488 1 $2,005,488
3,278 Kiyotaka Oshiyama $2,002,270 1 $2,002,270
3,279 Jonas Cuaron $2,002,036 3 $667,345
3,280 Jia Ling $2,001,584 2 $1,000,792
3,281 David Hunt $2,000,093 3 $666,698
3,282 Saul Swimmer $2,000,000 1 $2,000,000
3,283 Cornel Wilde $2,000,000 3 $666,667
3,284 Raymond Jafelice $2,000,000 1 $2,000,000
3,285 Nancy Walker $2,000,000 1 $2,000,000
3,286 Ramin Bahrani $1,970,580 8 $246,323
3,287 Chloe Okuno $1,961,207 4 $490,302
3,288 Isao Takahata $1,960,216 7 $280,031
3,289 Julia Ducournau $1,957,858 3 $652,619
3,290 Takeshi Kitano $1,956,780 13 $150,522
3,291 Antonio Banderas $1,954,202 1 $1,954,202
3,292 Andrew Cumming $1,951,546 1 $1,951,546
3,293 Anil Sharma $1,947,587 6 $324,598
3,294 Laszlo Nemes $1,941,760 3 $647,253
3,295 David Zellner $1,937,181 4 $484,295
3,296 Steven C. Miller $1,935,248 12 $161,271
3,297 Derek Tsang $1,921,657 1 $1,921,657
3,298 Hal Barwood $1,918,117 1 $1,918,117
3,299 Catalina Aguilar Mastretta $1,915,789 2 $957,895
3,300 Rik Swartzwelder $1,914,090 1 $1,914,090

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.