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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 201-300)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
201 Tim Johnson $962,620,890 5 $192,524,178
202 John Landis $961,753,558 18 $53,430,753
203 Danny Boyle $958,599,708 16 $59,912,482
204 Rawson Marshall Thurber $957,914,827 8 $119,739,353
205 Rob Reiner $955,442,151 21 $45,497,245
206 Andy Tennant $953,235,557 11 $86,657,778
207 Gary Trousdale $950,205,863 3 $316,735,288
208 David F. Sandberg $950,031,457 6 $158,338,576
209 Adrian Lyne $948,596,185 10 $94,859,619
210 Andrew Davis $935,717,764 11 $85,065,251
211 Adam McKay $927,918,446 10 $92,791,845
212 Wes Ball $924,764,559 6 $154,127,427
213 Xu Zheng $922,817,254 6 $153,802,876
214 James Foley $908,908,212 13 $69,916,016
215 Jerry Zucker $907,747,809 6 $151,291,302
216 Paul Weitz $900,674,502 13 $69,282,654
217 David O. Russell $899,499,770 12 $74,958,314
218 D.J. Caruso $899,043,170 15 $59,936,211
219 Wes Craven $897,483,799 20 $44,874,190
220 John Glen $893,563,642 7 $127,651,949
221 Brian Levant $891,685,930 10 $89,168,593
222 Kevin Lima $890,853,958 6 $148,475,660
223 Mark Waters $888,735,482 14 $63,481,106
224 Don Hall $884,218,748 4 $221,054,687
225 Michael Thurmeier $879,765,137 1 $879,765,137
226 Nora Ephron $877,804,290 7 $125,400,613
227 Peter Weir $875,761,670 12 $72,980,139
228 Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu $873,267,860 7 $124,752,551
229 Vicky Jenson $870,490,959 4 $217,622,740
230 Seth MacFarlane $860,009,327 3 $286,669,776
231 Darren Aronofsky $856,822,914 10 $85,682,291
232 Makoto Shinkai $855,205,963 8 $106,900,745
233 Chuck Russell $845,744,729 10 $84,574,473
234 Nicholas Stoller $837,981,333 9 $93,109,037
235 John Badham $825,101,546 14 $58,935,825
236 David Gordon Green $816,836,704 18 $45,379,817
237 Espen Sandberg $816,708,185 4 $204,177,046
238 David Frankel $811,996,231 10 $81,199,623
239 Len Wiseman $803,270,454 5 $160,654,091
240 Cary Joji Fukunaga $800,040,825 5 $160,008,165
241 Kevin Reynolds $799,973,995 8 $99,996,749
242 Robert Luketic $792,426,955 8 $99,053,369
243 David Slade $786,378,984 3 $262,126,328
244 Tim Hill $784,311,514 8 $98,038,939
245 Frank Oz $780,044,919 13 $60,003,455
246 Brenda Chapman $774,963,369 4 $193,740,842
247 Brad Silberling $770,873,845 8 $96,359,231
248 Robert Stromberg $758,536,735 1 $758,536,735
249 Cameron Crowe $757,465,846 9 $84,162,872
250 Roger Donaldson $755,985,566 18 $41,999,198
251 Alex Proyas $752,288,625 6 $125,381,438
252 Dan Scanlon $743,455,810 1 $743,455,810
253 Malcolm D. Lee $742,828,760 13 $57,140,674
254 Yang Yu $742,718,496 1 $742,718,496
255 John G. Avildsen $741,399,381 15 $49,426,625
256 Joe Wright $739,520,633 10 $73,952,063
257 Lee Tamahori $736,483,955 11 $66,953,087
258 Mark Osborne $733,937,806 3 $244,645,935
259 Seth Gordon $732,745,505 6 $122,124,251
260 Jonathan Mostow $730,584,420 7 $104,369,203
261 John Stevenson $729,369,637 3 $243,123,212
262 Irvin Kershner $727,901,086 3 $242,633,695
263 Neill Blomkamp $721,719,685 5 $144,343,937
264 Raman Hui $720,979,406 2 $360,489,703
265 Yibai Zhang $719,974,617 5 $143,994,923
266 William Friedkin $719,908,670 19 $37,889,930
267 Steve Carr $716,323,487 9 $79,591,499
268 Jonathan Demme $712,710,570 24 $29,696,274
269 Timur Bekmambetov $712,443,704 11 $64,767,609
270 Sean Anders $712,285,883 8 $89,035,735
271 Curtis Hanson $711,185,778 11 $64,653,253
272 Chris Wedge $710,553,582 3 $236,851,194
273 Michael Patrick King $709,928,036 3 $236,642,679
274 Jeff Fowler $707,690,550 3 $235,896,850
275 David Zucker $704,692,127 10 $70,469,213
276 Phyllida Lloyd $702,725,250 3 $234,241,750
277 Judd Apatow $701,203,034 9 $77,911,448
278 Joel Crawford $700,050,912 3 $233,350,304
279 Jason Reitman $699,735,860 11 $63,612,351
280 John Singleton $686,271,634 9 $76,252,404
281 Peter Ramsey $682,406,297 2 $341,203,149
282 Justin K. Thompson $681,611,770 2 $340,805,885
283 Joaquim Dos Santos $681,611,770 3 $227,203,923
284 Kemp Powers $681,611,770 2 $340,805,885
285 Jordan Peele $680,359,199 4 $170,089,800
286 Roger Spottiswoode $680,195,204 14 $48,585,372
287 Anne Fletcher $678,820,666 7 $96,974,381
288 Alan J. Pakula $676,146,911 13 $52,011,301
289 Keenen Ivory Wayans $673,822,088 6 $112,303,681
290 Wong Jing $664,269,954 11 $60,388,178
291 Stephen Herek $661,713,517 18 $36,761,862
292 John Madden $653,830,421 13 $50,294,648
293 Steven Caple Jr $651,579,916 3 $217,193,305
294 Donald Petrie $650,245,188 13 $50,018,861
295 Damien Chazelle $643,130,493 5 $128,626,099
296 James Bobin $637,804,611 5 $127,560,922
297 Walt Becker $637,418,966 5 $127,483,793
298 Herman Yau $633,938,902 19 $33,365,205
299 Taylor Hackford $632,738,278 15 $42,182,552
300 John Krasinski $632,700,273 5 $126,540,055

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

Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.