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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 1,801-1,900)BETA


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This list shows the highest grossing Directors 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
1,801 Elizabeth Allen $50,448,574 3 $16,816,191
1,802 Terry Jones $50,421,190 7 $7,203,027
1,803 Ayuko Tsukahara $50,405,030 5 $10,081,006
1,804 Anthony Hemingway $50,365,498 1 $50,365,498
1,805 Jacques Perrin $50,188,638 2 $25,094,319
1,806 Jacques Cluzaud $50,188,638 2 $25,094,319
1,807 Stuart Gordon $50,132,999 10 $5,013,300
1,808 Diane English $50,103,808 1 $50,103,808
1,809 Fred Cavaye $50,093,120 7 $7,156,160
1,810 Anthony Bell $50,006,787 4 $12,501,697
1,811 Frank Capra $50,001,095 12 $4,166,758
1,812 Hur Jin-ho $49,774,019 3 $16,591,340
1,813 Kerry Conran $49,730,854 1 $49,730,854
1,814 Nicolas Pesce $49,700,387 4 $12,425,097
1,815 Asger Leth $49,621,440 1 $49,621,440
1,816 Olatunde Osunsanmi $49,514,554 3 $16,504,851
1,817 Billy Crystal $49,456,132 3 $16,485,377
1,818 Adam Green $49,380,527 6 $8,230,088
1,819 A.R. Murugadoss $49,329,415 9 $5,481,046
1,820 Chaoxian Lin (林超贤) $49,286,339 1 $49,286,339
1,821 Guang Fu Yang $49,272,573 3 $16,424,191
1,822 Sriram Raghavan $49,259,090 3 $16,419,697
1,823 Roxann Dawson $49,231,674 1 $49,231,674
1,824 Tina Gordon $49,207,917 2 $24,603,959
1,825 John R. Lee $49,196,532 1 $49,196,532
1,826 Spenser Cohen $49,104,745 1 $49,104,745
1,827 Anna Halberg $49,104,745 1 $49,104,745
1,828 Keith Scholey $49,069,683 8 $6,133,710
1,829 Alek Keshishian $49,056,189 3 $16,352,063
1,830 Zhou Tuo Ru $49,002,398 1 $49,002,398
1,831 Albert Pyun $48,993,772 10 $4,899,377
1,832 Walt Dohrn $48,866,407 2 $24,433,204
1,833 Kat Coiro $48,805,898 5 $9,761,180
1,834 Jim Field Smith $48,785,683 2 $24,392,842
1,835 Paola Cortellesi $48,775,608 1 $48,775,608
1,836 John Lounsbery $48,775,599 1 $48,775,599
1,837 Shane Acker $48,717,414 2 $24,358,707
1,838 Sarik Andreasyan $48,550,421 16 $3,034,401
1,839 Tim McCanlies $48,524,709 4 $12,131,177
1,840 Diederik Van Rooijen $48,510,449 2 $24,255,225
1,841 William Eubank $48,437,864 5 $9,687,573
1,842 Justin Zackham $48,425,971 1 $48,425,971
1,843 Melina Matsoukas $48,266,163 1 $48,266,163
1,844 Dan Bradley $48,164,150 1 $48,164,150
1,845 Liu Jiang $48,153,767 2 $24,076,884
1,846 Zoë Kravitz $48,093,906 1 $48,093,906
1,847 Leo Zhang $48,021,928 2 $24,010,964
1,848 Stephen Surjik $47,965,000 1 $47,965,000
1,849 Will Becher $47,862,290 1 $47,862,290
1,850 Jason Winer $47,810,537 2 $23,905,269
1,851 John Sullivan $47,794,443 2 $23,897,222
1,852 Michael Anderson $47,738,482 5 $9,547,696
1,853 Jerome Robbins $47,596,274 1 $47,596,274
1,854 Morgan Neville $47,509,171 11 $4,319,016
1,855 Sajid Nadiadwala $47,493,530 1 $47,493,530
1,856 Hendel Butoy $47,431,461 1 $47,431,461
1,857 Abhinav Singh Kashyap $47,405,933 2 $23,702,967
1,858 Cheng He $47,404,207 4 $11,851,052
1,859 George Armitage $47,350,934 4 $11,837,734
1,860 David Lickley $47,347,645 2 $23,673,823
1,861 John Fortenberry $47,272,717 3 $15,757,572
1,862 Fuyuan Liu $47,269,723 3 $15,756,574
1,863 Joe Charbanic $47,267,829 1 $47,267,829
1,864 Rodo Sayagues $47,201,347 1 $47,201,347
1,865 Mutou MTJJ $47,151,157 1 $47,151,157
1,866 Caroline Link $47,149,383 3 $15,716,461
1,867 John Lafia $47,141,208 2 $23,570,604
1,868 Terry George $47,071,868 3 $15,690,623
1,869 Shusuke Kaneko $47,000,000 2 $23,500,000
1,870 Ding Leang $46,998,773 1 $46,998,773
1,871 Dennis Iliadis $46,980,724 2 $23,490,362
1,872 Alessandro Siani $46,892,678 6 $7,815,446
1,873 Lucia Aniello $46,844,357 1 $46,844,357
1,874 John Sayles $46,767,188 16 $2,922,949
1,875 Katsuhide Motoki $46,581,772 5 $9,316,354
1,876 Nick Johnson $46,537,213 1 $46,537,213
1,877 Will Merrick $46,537,213 1 $46,537,213
1,878 Giuseppe Tornatore $46,444,166 7 $6,634,881
1,879 Remo D'Souza $46,429,937 5 $9,285,987
1,880 Xu Hongyu $46,389,109 1 $46,389,109
1,881 Ethan Maniquis $46,370,970 1 $46,370,970
1,882 Asif Kapadia $46,357,802 9 $5,150,867
1,883 Joseph Kahn $46,290,278 4 $11,572,570
1,884 Aleksey Sidorov $46,266,605 2 $23,133,303
1,885 Chin Kar Lok $46,165,078 1 $46,165,078
1,886 Eichiro Hasumi $46,117,323 5 $9,223,465
1,887 Uli Edel $46,036,636 5 $9,207,327
1,888 Daniel Barnz $46,029,132 3 $15,343,044
1,889 Susan Seidelman $45,910,893 6 $7,651,816
1,890 David Dhawan $45,788,131 5 $9,157,626
1,891 Jung Huh $45,724,301 2 $22,862,151
1,892 Michael Wadleigh $45,699,266 2 $22,849,633
1,893 Xie Dongshen $45,698,504 1 $45,698,504
1,894 Ilya Kulikov $45,614,296 4 $11,403,574
1,895 Ruben Ostlund $45,591,256 5 $9,118,251
1,896 John Derek $45,590,000 3 $15,196,667
1,897 He Nian $45,533,735 2 $22,766,868
1,898 Gary Hardwick $45,531,785 2 $22,765,893
1,899 Takumi Doyama $45,525,160 1 $45,525,160
1,900 Julian Schnabel $45,521,643 6 $7,586,941

This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.

Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.