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Top Grossing Director at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 501-600)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
501 Nick Park $172,132,008 8 $21,516,501
502 Kevin Rodney Sullivan $171,659,244 4 $42,914,811
503 Sam Fell $171,545,868 4 $42,886,467
504 James McTeigue $171,482,780 5 $34,296,556
505 Peter Hewitt $171,351,512 8 $21,418,939
506 Chirs Buck $171,091,819 1 $171,091,819
507 Chloé Zhao $171,023,736 5 $34,204,747
508 Paul Thomas Anderson $169,891,993 10 $16,989,199
509 Mike Gabriel $169,511,234 2 $84,755,617
510 Jordan Vogt-Roberts $169,368,312 3 $56,456,104
511 David Twohy $169,109,764 8 $21,138,721
512 Jonathan Lynn $169,043,587 8 $21,130,448
513 Richard Fleischer $168,749,903 17 $9,926,465
514 Jay Russell $168,258,163 6 $28,043,027
515 Gregory Hoblit $168,153,921 5 $33,630,784
516 Philip Kaufman $167,833,444 10 $16,783,344
517 Sam Taylor-Johnson $167,612,596 5 $33,522,519
518 Dwight H. Little $166,755,302 12 $13,896,275
519 Jay Chandrasekhar $166,586,297 7 $23,798,042
520 Mikael Hafstrom $166,235,714 9 $18,470,635
521 Stephen Chbosky $165,168,403 4 $41,292,101
522 Lee Daniels $164,875,819 6 $27,479,303
523 Glenn Ficarra $163,334,953 6 $27,222,492
524 John Requa $163,334,953 6 $27,222,492
525 Paul Tibbitt $162,994,032 1 $162,994,032
526 Michel Gondry $162,316,276 14 $11,594,020
527 Peter Bogdanovich $161,769,547 14 $11,554,968
528 Toni Myers $161,634,850 3 $53,878,283
529 Bibo Bergeron $161,412,000 2 $80,706,000
530 Michael Thurmeier $161,321,843 1 $161,321,843
531 Roger Kumble $161,319,821 9 $17,924,425
532 James Wong $160,668,896 4 $40,167,224
533 Jeff Wadlow $159,513,404 10 $15,951,340
534 Fede Álvarez $158,286,286 5 $31,657,257
535 Stuart Baird $157,767,204 3 $52,589,068
536 Ava Duvernay $157,599,216 7 $22,514,174
537 Jesse Dylan $157,196,929 3 $52,398,976
538 Fred Schepisi $157,145,710 13 $12,088,132
539 David Soren $156,949,130 3 $52,316,377
540 Michael B. Jordan $156,248,615 2 $78,124,308
541 John Boorman $156,055,154 13 $12,004,243
542 Stan Dragoti $155,666,897 5 $31,133,379
543 Barbra Streisand $155,067,309 3 $51,689,103
544 Franco Zeffirelli $154,878,920 13 $11,913,763
545 Rob Bowman $154,229,828 4 $38,557,457
546 Scott Cooper $153,817,053 8 $19,227,132
547 David Cronenberg $153,609,885 21 $7,314,756
548 Michael Dougherty $153,225,613 3 $51,075,204
549 Brian Fee $152,901,115 1 $152,901,115
550 Patrick Hughes $152,826,941 5 $30,565,388
551 Jason Moore $152,045,738 4 $38,011,435
552 Andrew Erwin $151,603,546 8 $18,950,443
553 James Fargo $151,468,727 3 $50,489,576
554 Ronny Yu $151,313,397 6 $25,218,900
555 Jeannot Szwarc $150,645,702 7 $21,520,815
556 Ted Demme $150,569,759 7 $21,509,966
557 Cecil B. DeMille $150,200,591 11 $13,654,599
558 Adam Robitel $150,060,839 4 $37,515,210
559 Neil LaBute $150,027,001 13 $11,540,539
560 Josh Boone $148,806,869 3 $49,602,290
561 Rob Zombie $148,318,805 11 $13,483,528
562 Spike Jonze $148,159,164 5 $29,631,833
563 Steve Pink $147,802,277 7 $21,114,611
564 Gina Prince-Bythewood $147,168,465 5 $29,433,693
565 Ralph Zondag $147,063,639 4 $36,765,910
566 Kunihiko Yuyama $146,543,713 11 $13,322,156
567 Michael Lehmann $146,338,730 9 $16,259,859
568 Jill Culton $145,866,649 2 $72,933,325
569 Nia DaCosta $145,836,803 5 $29,167,361
570 Stephen Gaghan $145,818,090 5 $29,163,618
571 Jeremiah Chechik $145,791,608 6 $24,298,601
572 Robert Stevenson $145,524,726 5 $29,104,945
573 Alessandro Carloni $143,528,619 1 $143,528,619
574 Jim Sheridan $142,816,272 9 $15,868,475
575 Jared Hess $142,242,307 8 $17,780,288
576 Jack Lee Thompson $142,240,067 14 $10,160,005
577 Ted Kotcheff $142,127,096 10 $14,212,710
578 Eric Goldberg $141,579,773 1 $141,579,773
579 Martin Ritt $140,619,130 12 $11,718,261
580 Eduardo Sanchez $140,583,046 7 $20,083,292
581 Daniel Myrick $140,539,099 3 $46,846,366
582 Andrew Bergman $140,346,898 6 $23,391,150
583 Alexandre Aja $140,333,196 11 $12,757,563
584 Norton Virgien $139,897,257 2 $69,948,629
585 Tommy Chong $139,663,872 6 $23,277,312
586 Iain Softley $139,124,633 9 $15,458,293
587 Peter Lord $137,845,041 2 $68,922,521
588 Eric Leighton $137,748,063 1 $137,748,063
589 Emma Tammi $137,304,231 3 $45,768,077
590 Sidney Poitier $136,781,950 5 $27,356,390
591 Stephen Norrington $136,607,080 3 $45,535,693
592 David Green $136,286,894 5 $27,257,379
593 Forest Whitaker $136,113,271 3 $45,371,090
594 Barbet Schroeder $135,877,640 12 $11,323,137
595 Breck Eisner $135,163,174 3 $45,054,391
596 Martha Coolidge $134,934,517 13 $10,379,578
597 William Brent Bell $134,706,604 8 $16,838,326
598 Tobe Hooper $134,573,538 9 $14,952,615
599 Gene Stupnitsky $133,592,588 2 $66,796,294
600 Miguel Arteta $132,411,380 8 $16,551,423

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.