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Top Grossing Composer at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 101-200)BETA
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This list shows the highest grossing Composers based on the worldwide 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 | Worldwide Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Robert Rodriguez | $953,559,090 | 9 | $105,951,010 |
| 102 | Maurice Jarre | $940,181,324 | 6 | $156,696,887 |
| 103 | Rob Simonsen | $908,731,075 | 31 | $29,313,906 |
| 104 | Joe Kraemer | $906,229,728 | 4 | $226,557,432 |
| 105 | Marcelo Zarvos | $902,697,350 | 27 | $33,433,235 |
| 106 | Alberto Iglesias | $884,031,889 | 18 | $49,112,883 |
| 107 | Lucas Vidal | $874,479,431 | 10 | $87,447,943 |
| 108 | Kris Bowers | $872,032,709 | 15 | $58,135,514 |
| 109 | Ilan Eshkeri | $868,681,850 | 19 | $45,720,097 |
| 110 | David Sardy | $857,921,679 | 12 | $71,493,473 |
| 111 | Dan Romer | $852,903,590 | 15 | $56,860,239 |
| 112 | Terence Blanchard | $852,046,411 | 35 | $24,344,183 |
| 113 | A.R. Rahman | $821,394,836 | 12 | $68,449,570 |
| 114 | Clint Eastwood | $810,698,602 | 8 | $101,337,325 |
| 115 | Pharrell Williams | $792,562,648 | 4 | $198,140,662 |
| 116 | Bill Conti | $788,081,232 | 9 | $87,564,581 |
| 117 | John Morris | $787,304,336 | 29 | $27,148,425 |
| 118 | Paul Haslinger | $785,587,056 | 9 | $87,287,451 |
| 119 | Atli Orvarsson | $777,494,476 | 13 | $59,807,267 |
| 120 | Walter Murphy | $773,230,770 | 2 | $386,615,385 |
| 121 | Nami Melumad | $760,928,081 | 2 | $380,464,041 |
| 122 | David Kitay | $759,304,349 | 7 | $108,472,050 |
| 123 | Trevor Jones | $749,179,692 | 8 | $93,647,462 |
| 124 | John Barry | $748,321,899 | 5 | $149,664,380 |
| 125 | Wan Pin Chu | $742,718,496 | 1 | $742,718,496 |
| 126 | Chris Bacon | $742,176,612 | 6 | $123,696,102 |
| 127 | Philip Glass | $742,020,750 | 26 | $28,539,260 |
| 128 | Roc Chen | $709,637,009 | 3 | $236,545,670 |
| 129 | Fernando Velazquez | $700,894,271 | 12 | $58,407,856 |
| 130 | Bruce Broughton | $697,846,392 | 37 | $18,860,713 |
| 131 | Richard Gibbs | $695,485,743 | 9 | $77,276,194 |
| 132 | Cliff Martinez | $690,746,543 | 14 | $49,339,039 |
| 133 | Nathan Wang | $687,394,582 | 12 | $57,282,882 |
| 134 | Michael Abels | $683,368,961 | 6 | $113,894,827 |
| 135 | Ryuichi Sakamoto | $648,383,238 | 7 | $92,626,177 |
| 136 | Justin Hurwitz | $643,076,692 | 4 | $160,769,173 |
| 137 | Nick Urata | $642,577,198 | 15 | $42,838,480 |
| 138 | Hong Han | $634,631,282 | 1 | $634,631,282 |
| 139 | Nick Glennie-Smith | $632,809,816 | 5 | $126,561,963 |
| 140 | West Dylan Thordson | $627,442,778 | 6 | $104,573,796 |
| 141 | Roque Banos | $621,241,139 | 16 | $38,827,571 |
| 142 | Lisa Gerrard | $616,475,333 | 9 | $68,497,259 |
| 143 | Jed Kurzel | $610,102,649 | 13 | $46,930,973 |
| 144 | Erran Baron Cohen | $609,032,106 | 5 | $121,806,421 |
| 145 | David Sanborn | $605,100,000 | 2 | $302,550,000 |
| 146 | J. Peter Robinson | $603,873,894 | 24 | $25,161,412 |
| 147 | Lennie Niehaus | $596,055,655 | 7 | $85,150,808 |
| 148 | Benny Andersson | $586,265,197 | 1 | $586,265,197 |
| 149 | Bjorn Ulvaeus | $586,265,197 | 1 | $586,265,197 |
| 150 | Michael Brook | $581,400,088 | 29 | $20,048,279 |
| 151 | John Carpenter | $576,803,407 | 9 | $64,089,267 |
| 152 | Nathan Johnson | $573,072,204 | 6 | $95,512,034 |
| 153 | Jóhann Jóhannsson | $569,415,695 | 11 | $51,765,063 |
| 154 | Nathan Barr | $567,153,225 | 14 | $40,510,945 |
| 155 | Nicholas Britell | $563,508,092 | 13 | $43,346,776 |
| 156 | Clinton Shorter | $553,823,398 | 5 | $110,764,680 |
| 157 | Alva Noto | $532,938,302 | 1 | $532,938,302 |
| 158 | Nancy Wilson | $526,998,570 | 3 | $175,666,190 |
| 159 | Gustavo Santaolalla | $524,299,609 | 10 | $52,429,961 |
| 160 | Thomas Hajdu | $518,034,057 | 16 | $32,377,129 |
| 161 | Andy Milburn | $518,034,057 | 16 | $32,377,129 |
| 162 | Deborah Lurie | $510,017,670 | 10 | $51,001,767 |
| 163 | Georges Delerue | $508,192,290 | 10 | $50,819,229 |
| 164 | Cody Carpenter | $506,698,291 | 4 | $126,674,573 |
| 165 | Daniel Davies | $506,698,291 | 6 | $84,449,715 |
| 166 | Alex Heffes | $503,491,070 | 16 | $31,468,192 |
| 167 | Jack Nitzsche | $502,103,109 | 5 | $100,420,622 |
| 168 | Joe Hisaishi | $499,615,672 | 6 | $83,269,279 |
| 169 | Germaine Franco | $497,728,552 | 6 | $82,954,759 |
| 170 | Johnny Klimek | $489,048,152 | 11 | $44,458,923 |
| 171 | Antonio Di Iorio | $485,331,973 | 1 | $485,331,973 |
| 172 | Stephen Trask | $482,737,352 | 7 | $68,962,479 |
| 173 | Nathan Whitehead | $481,484,897 | 10 | $48,148,490 |
| 174 | Anne Dudley | $480,975,982 | 5 | $96,195,196 |
| 175 | Alex Wurman | $473,705,781 | 7 | $67,672,254 |
| 176 | Andrew Kawczynski | $472,814,696 | 2 | $236,407,348 |
| 177 | Chan Kwong Wing | $462,092,909 | 4 | $115,523,227 |
| 178 | David Hykes | $459,260,946 | 1 | $459,260,946 |
| 179 | Jongnic Bontemps | $443,971,437 | 4 | $110,992,859 |
| 180 | Waddy Wachtel | $443,401,979 | 11 | $40,309,271 |
| 181 | Pritam | $442,988,864 | 14 | $31,642,062 |
| 182 | Trevor Morris | $442,598,671 | 7 | $63,228,382 |
| 183 | Claude-Michel Schönberg | $435,292,452 | 1 | $435,292,452 |
| 184 | Abel Korzeniowski | $433,450,383 | 9 | $48,161,154 |
| 185 | Buck Sanders | $431,995,548 | 5 | $86,399,110 |
| 186 | Marcus Miller | $428,696,696 | 19 | $22,562,984 |
| 187 | Javier Navarrete | $426,381,974 | 5 | $85,276,395 |
| 188 | Dave Grusin | $422,169,777 | 7 | $60,309,968 |
| 189 | M.M. Keeravani | $414,084,367 | 4 | $103,521,092 |
| 190 | Daft Punk | $399,866,199 | 1 | $399,866,199 |
| 191 | Kyle Eastwood | $399,058,682 | 3 | $133,019,561 |
| 192 | Michael Stevens | $399,057,096 | 2 | $199,528,548 |
| 193 | John Frizzell | $395,264,926 | 10 | $39,526,493 |
| 194 | Mike Mogis | $392,735,587 | 3 | $130,911,862 |
| 195 | Max Steiner | $390,516,513 | 3 | $130,172,171 |
| 196 | Stargate | $385,997,896 | 1 | $385,997,896 |
| 197 | Thomas Wanker | $384,169,424 | 1 | $384,169,424 |
| 198 | Federico Jusid | $382,457,489 | 9 | $42,495,277 |
| 199 | BT | $375,080,567 | 7 | $53,582,938 |
| 200 | Alexander Janko | $374,893,158 | 3 | $124,964,386 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.