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Top Grossing Director at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 401-500)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401 | Jonathan Levine | $190,284,683 | 7 | $27,183,526 |
| 402 | John Krasinski | $188,707,526 | 3 | $62,902,509 |
| 403 | Guy Hamilton | $188,453,189 | 8 | $23,556,649 |
| 404 | John Moore | $187,903,503 | 6 | $31,317,251 |
| 405 | Kirk De Micco | $187,168,425 | 1 | $187,168,425 |
| 406 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | $186,575,907 | 11 | $16,961,446 |
| 407 | Lawrence Guterman | $184,133,014 | 2 | $92,066,507 |
| 408 | Wes Ball | $184,125,054 | 2 | $92,062,527 |
| 409 | Paul Mazursky | $183,464,162 | 10 | $18,346,416 |
| 410 | Pierre Morel | $180,943,381 | 5 | $36,188,676 |
| 411 | Joe Roth | $179,822,461 | 3 | $59,940,820 |
| 412 | Andrzej Bartkowiak | $179,344,264 | 5 | $35,868,853 |
| 413 | Peter Faiman | $179,074,528 | 2 | $89,537,264 |
| 414 | William Wyler | $178,807,416 | 5 | $35,761,483 |
| 415 | Albert Hughes | $178,572,812 | 6 | $29,762,135 |
| 416 | Ron Underwood | $177,745,265 | 4 | $44,436,316 |
| 417 | Olivier Megaton | $176,520,141 | 3 | $58,840,047 |
| 418 | Jordan Peele | $176,040,665 | 2 | $88,020,333 |
| 419 | Greg Mottola | $175,876,853 | 5 | $35,175,371 |
| 420 | Chris McKay | $175,750,384 | 2 | $87,875,192 |
| 421 | Kent Seki | $175,003,033 | 1 | $175,003,033 |
| 422 | Joe Carnahan | $174,930,625 | 9 | $19,436,736 |
| 423 | Dean Parisot | $174,326,539 | 4 | $43,581,635 |
| 424 | Michael Gracey | $174,312,158 | 1 | $174,312,158 |
| 425 | Phyllida Lloyd | $174,089,499 | 2 | $87,044,750 |
| 426 | Espen Sandberg | $174,076,286 | 2 | $87,038,143 |
| 427 | Steve Barron | $173,736,935 | 6 | $28,956,156 |
| 428 | Josh Gordon | $173,362,042 | 2 | $86,681,021 |
| 429 | Will Speck | $173,362,042 | 2 | $86,681,021 |
| 430 | Paul W.S. Anderson | $172,865,735 | 5 | $34,573,147 |
| 431 | Joachim Ronnin | $172,558,876 | 2 | $86,279,438 |
| 432 | Roman Polanski | $172,517,380 | 16 | $10,782,336 |
| 433 | Nick Park | $172,132,008 | 5 | $34,426,402 |
| 434 | Sam Fell | $171,545,868 | 3 | $57,181,956 |
| 435 | Peter Hewitt | $171,351,512 | 7 | $24,478,787 |
| 436 | Karey Kirkpatrick | $171,241,732 | 3 | $57,080,577 |
| 437 | Chirs Buck | $171,091,819 | 1 | $171,091,819 |
| 438 | James McTeigue | $171,025,310 | 5 | $34,205,062 |
| 439 | Jordan Vogt-Roberts | $169,368,312 | 3 | $56,456,104 |
| 440 | David F. Sandberg | $169,361,036 | 4 | $42,340,259 |
| 441 | Jay Russell | $168,216,163 | 5 | $33,643,233 |
| 442 | Philip Kaufman | $167,833,444 | 9 | $18,648,160 |
| 443 | Sam Taylor-Johnson | $167,612,596 | 3 | $55,870,865 |
| 444 | Dwight H. Little | $166,755,302 | 9 | $18,528,367 |
| 445 | Mikael Hafstrom | $166,235,714 | 5 | $33,247,143 |
| 446 | Lee Daniels | $164,875,819 | 5 | $32,975,164 |
| 447 | Damien Chazelle | $164,227,650 | 4 | $41,056,913 |
| 448 | Glenn Ficarra | $163,334,953 | 6 | $27,222,492 |
| 449 | John Requa | $163,334,953 | 6 | $27,222,492 |
| 450 | Paul Tibbitt | $162,994,032 | 2 | $81,497,016 |
| 451 | Michel Gondry | $162,316,276 | 12 | $13,526,356 |
| 452 | Tony Gilroy | $162,237,752 | 2 | $81,118,876 |
| 453 | Bibo Bergeron | $161,412,000 | 2 | $80,706,000 |
| 454 | Michael Thurmeier | $161,321,843 | 1 | $161,321,843 |
| 455 | James Wong | $160,668,896 | 4 | $40,167,224 |
| 456 | Peter Bogdanovich | $160,595,627 | 11 | $14,599,602 |
| 457 | Ruben Fleischer | $158,645,113 | 6 | $26,440,852 |
| 458 | Roger Kumble | $158,498,153 | 5 | $31,699,631 |
| 459 | Danny De Vito | $158,171,606 | 6 | $26,361,934 |
| 460 | Daniel Espinosa | $157,828,852 | 4 | $39,457,213 |
| 461 | Fred Schepisi | $157,145,710 | 14 | $11,224,694 |
| 462 | David Soren | $156,949,130 | 2 | $78,474,565 |
| 463 | John Boorman | $156,055,154 | 13 | $12,004,243 |
| 464 | Stan Dragoti | $155,666,897 | 5 | $31,133,379 |
| 465 | David Twohy | $155,077,858 | 5 | $31,015,572 |
| 466 | Barbra Streisand | $155,067,309 | 4 | $38,766,827 |
| 467 | Franco Zeffirelli | $154,689,878 | 10 | $15,468,988 |
| 468 | Scott Hicks | $154,564,731 | 7 | $22,080,676 |
| 469 | Jay Chandrasekhar | $153,572,607 | 6 | $25,595,435 |
| 470 | Toni Myers | $153,079,928 | 3 | $51,026,643 |
| 471 | Brian Fee | $152,901,115 | 1 | $152,901,115 |
| 472 | Ava Duvernay | $152,792,322 | 6 | $25,465,387 |
| 473 | David Gordon Green | $152,723,086 | 14 | $10,908,792 |
| 474 | Paul Thomas Anderson | $152,399,056 | 8 | $19,049,882 |
| 475 | Eli Roth | $152,306,165 | 9 | $16,922,907 |
| 476 | Jason Moore | $152,045,738 | 2 | $76,022,869 |
| 477 | Rob Bowman | $151,370,017 | 3 | $50,456,672 |
| 478 | David Cronenberg | $151,157,003 | 18 | $8,397,611 |
| 479 | Richard Fleischer | $150,939,009 | 12 | $12,578,251 |
| 480 | Ted Demme | $150,569,759 | 7 | $21,509,966 |
| 481 | Stephen Chbosky | $150,165,757 | 3 | $50,055,252 |
| 482 | Neil LaBute | $150,027,001 | 10 | $15,002,700 |
| 483 | Rob Zombie | $148,318,805 | 9 | $16,479,867 |
| 484 | Spike Jonze | $148,159,164 | 5 | $29,631,833 |
| 485 | Kirk Jones | $148,121,087 | 3 | $49,373,696 |
| 486 | Steve Pink | $147,802,277 | 4 | $36,950,569 |
| 487 | Ralph Zondag | $147,063,639 | 2 | $73,531,820 |
| 488 | Michael Lehmann | $146,338,730 | 9 | $16,259,859 |
| 489 | Ronny Yu | $146,109,390 | 4 | $36,527,348 |
| 490 | Alex Kendrick | $145,946,986 | 5 | $29,189,397 |
| 491 | Charles Martin Smith | $145,159,397 | 7 | $20,737,057 |
| 492 | Marc Lawrence | $143,927,507 | 4 | $35,981,877 |
| 493 | Alessandro Carloni | $143,528,619 | 2 | $71,764,310 |
| 494 | Fede Álvarez | $143,457,731 | 3 | $47,819,244 |
| 495 | Scott Cooper | $143,197,383 | 4 | $35,799,346 |
| 496 | Jared Hess | $142,242,307 | 6 | $23,707,051 |
| 497 | Jack Lee Thompson | $142,240,067 | 14 | $10,160,005 |
| 498 | Ted Kotcheff | $142,127,096 | 10 | $14,212,710 |
| 499 | Thor Freudenthal | $141,738,101 | 3 | $47,246,034 |
| 500 | Jim Sheridan | $141,402,255 | 8 | $17,675,282 |
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.
