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Top Grossing Director at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 3,401-3,500)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.
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| Rank | Name | Domestic Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,401 | Thom Zimny | $1,581,681 | 5 | $316,336 |
| 3,402 | Bruce Springsteen | $1,581,681 | 1 | $1,581,681 |
| 3,403 | Fengliang Yang | $1,581,618 | 1 | $1,581,618 |
| 3,404 | Abbas Mustan | $1,579,940 | 2 | $789,970 |
| 3,405 | Marie Perennou | $1,573,842 | 1 | $1,573,842 |
| 3,406 | Louie Schwartzberg | $1,573,734 | 3 | $524,578 |
| 3,407 | Yôjirô Takita | $1,569,834 | 5 | $313,967 |
| 3,408 | Lawrence Dane | $1,567,386 | 1 | $1,567,386 |
| 3,409 | Byeong-Hun Lee | $1,565,885 | 1 | $1,565,885 |
| 3,410 | Lukas Moodysson | $1,565,835 | 6 | $260,973 |
| 3,411 | John Scheinfeld | $1,564,976 | 7 | $223,568 |
| 3,412 | Crystal Moselle | $1,563,674 | 4 | $390,919 |
| 3,413 | Frederick Wiseman | $1,562,186 | 13 | $120,168 |
| 3,414 | Daniel Lusko | $1,557,494 | 4 | $389,374 |
| 3,415 | Neema Barnette | $1,555,855 | 2 | $777,928 |
| 3,416 | Dana Adam Shapiro | $1,552,681 | 3 | $517,560 |
| 3,417 | Tomm Moore | $1,547,814 | 3 | $515,938 |
| 3,418 | Stephanie Soechtig | $1,538,898 | 3 | $512,966 |
| 3,419 | Cristian Mungiu | $1,535,943 | 5 | $307,189 |
| 3,420 | Heidi Ewing | $1,529,921 | 7 | $218,560 |
| 3,421 | Jang Hun | $1,527,829 | 2 | $763,915 |
| 3,422 | Joachim Roenning | $1,517,410 | 1 | $1,517,410 |
| 3,423 | Marty Roberts | $1,511,980 | 1 | $1,511,980 |
| 3,424 | Jimmy Womble | $1,511,980 | 1 | $1,511,980 |
| 3,425 | Lisa Leeman | $1,511,750 | 2 | $755,875 |
| 3,426 | Paola di Florio | $1,511,750 | 1 | $1,511,750 |
| 3,427 | Richard Press | $1,510,026 | 2 | $755,013 |
| 3,428 | John Maloof | $1,509,131 | 1 | $1,509,131 |
| 3,429 | Charlie Siskel | $1,509,131 | 2 | $754,566 |
| 3,430 | Vincent D'Onofrio | $1,508,593 | 2 | $754,297 |
| 3,431 | Colm Bairéad | $1,500,014 | 1 | $1,500,014 |
| 3,432 | Christopher Morahan | $1,484,347 | 3 | $494,782 |
| 3,433 | Margarethe Von Trotta | $1,482,516 | 6 | $247,086 |
| 3,434 | Haifaa Al-Mansour | $1,481,489 | 5 | $296,298 |
| 3,435 | Jean-Pierre Melville | $1,480,850 | 9 | $164,539 |
| 3,436 | Maren Ade | $1,480,370 | 2 | $740,185 |
| 3,437 | Kunal Kohli | $1,468,083 | 2 | $734,042 |
| 3,438 | Jafar Panahi | $1,460,061 | 9 | $162,229 |
| 3,439 | John Caird | $1,455,081 | 1 | $1,455,081 |
| 3,440 | Pierre Magny | $1,448,640 | 1 | $1,448,640 |
| 3,441 | Jacques Dorfmann | $1,448,640 | 1 | $1,448,640 |
| 3,442 | Matthew Warchus | $1,447,022 | 3 | $482,341 |
| 3,443 | Nikole Beckwith | $1,436,324 | 2 | $718,162 |
| 3,444 | Gerard Corbiau | $1,434,847 | 1 | $1,434,847 |
| 3,445 | Sohail Khan | $1,432,300 | 3 | $477,433 |
| 3,446 | Takashi Miike | $1,432,239 | 27 | $53,046 |
| 3,447 | Gavin Wiesen | $1,430,241 | 2 | $715,121 |
| 3,448 | Stephen Milburn Anderson | $1,419,684 | 2 | $709,842 |
| 3,449 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | $1,418,314 | 5 | $283,663 |
| 3,450 | Amol Palekar | $1,409,499 | 1 | $1,409,499 |
| 3,451 | Jacques Doillon | $1,401,039 | 4 | $350,260 |
| 3,452 | Beto Gomez | $1,400,726 | 5 | $280,145 |
| 3,453 | Ben Bray | $1,400,603 | 2 | $700,302 |
| 3,454 | Steven Lawrence | $1,391,434 | 1 | $1,391,434 |
| 3,455 | Jan Hrebejk | $1,384,549 | 6 | $230,758 |
| 3,456 | Clare Niederpruem | $1,379,497 | 11 | $125,409 |
| 3,457 | Petr Jakl | $1,374,325 | 2 | $687,163 |
| 3,458 | Debbie D’ Souza | $1,372,091 | 2 | $686,046 |
| 3,459 | Wendy Sachs | $1,368,458 | 1 | $1,368,458 |
| 3,460 | Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla | $1,367,024 | 2 | $683,512 |
| 3,461 | Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla | $1,367,024 | 2 | $683,512 |
| 3,462 | Steve Buscemi | $1,364,150 | 5 | $272,830 |
| 3,463 | Rachel Grady | $1,363,518 | 6 | $227,253 |
| 3,464 | Michael Laughlin | $1,362,303 | 1 | $1,362,303 |
| 3,465 | Michael Grandage | $1,361,045 | 3 | $453,682 |
| 3,466 | Ron Krauss | $1,359,910 | 2 | $679,955 |
| 3,467 | Robert Collector | $1,359,124 | 2 | $679,562 |
| 3,468 | Jonathan Coussens | $1,358,690 | 1 | $1,358,690 |
| 3,469 | Jennifer Kent | $1,351,533 | 2 | $675,767 |
| 3,470 | Umesh Shukla | $1,345,036 | 5 | $269,007 |
| 3,471 | Juliano Ribeiro Salgado | $1,343,349 | 1 | $1,343,349 |
| 3,472 | Thordur Palsson | $1,342,796 | 1 | $1,342,796 |
| 3,473 | Alejandro Springall | $1,339,911 | 2 | $669,956 |
| 3,474 | Vincent Ward | $1,333,379 | 4 | $333,345 |
| 3,475 | Rajkumar Santoshi | $1,329,115 | 4 | $332,279 |
| 3,476 | Gregg Araki | $1,327,078 | 7 | $189,583 |
| 3,477 | Sajid Samji | $1,326,999 | 1 | $1,326,999 |
| 3,478 | Fax Bahr | $1,326,063 | 1 | $1,326,063 |
| 3,479 | Enrico Casarosa | $1,324,302 | 2 | $662,151 |
| 3,480 | Amarjit Singh | $1,319,170 | 4 | $329,793 |
| 3,481 | Nathan Zellner | $1,313,798 | 3 | $437,933 |
| 3,482 | Ryan Little | $1,310,470 | 4 | $327,618 |
| 3,483 | Christian Fry | $1,309,987 | 1 | $1,309,987 |
| 3,484 | Daniel Geller | $1,309,762 | 2 | $654,881 |
| 3,485 | Dayna Goldfine | $1,309,762 | 2 | $654,881 |
| 3,486 | Andrea Arnold | $1,309,179 | 5 | $261,836 |
| 3,487 | Lorcan Finnegan | $1,306,597 | 5 | $261,319 |
| 3,488 | Matthew Diamond | $1,306,421 | 6 | $217,737 |
| 3,489 | Alan Bunce | $1,305,187 | 1 | $1,305,187 |
| 3,490 | Michael Jacobs | $1,293,842 | 1 | $1,293,842 |
| 3,491 | Andy Blumenthal | $1,292,323 | 1 | $1,292,323 |
| 3,492 | Takehiko Inoue | $1,291,869 | 1 | $1,291,869 |
| 3,493 | Panos Cosmatos | $1,290,185 | 3 | $430,062 |
| 3,494 | Da-Mo Peng | $1,289,195 | 2 | $644,598 |
| 3,495 | Fei Yan | $1,289,195 | 3 | $429,732 |
| 3,496 | Kang Je-Kyu | $1,277,515 | 5 | $255,503 |
| 3,497 | Daniel Grou | $1,276,471 | 3 | $425,490 |
| 3,498 | Nicholas Jasenovec | $1,274,062 | 1 | $1,274,062 |
| 3,499 | Carlos Bolado | $1,273,871 | 2 | $636,936 |
| 3,500 | Frederic Tcheng | $1,272,984 | 3 | $424,328 |
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.