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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 4,001-4,100)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
4,001 Paolo Costella $7,792,325 5 $1,558,465
4,002 Leo Lee $7,784,033 2 $3,892,017
4,003 Albert Pintó $7,782,161 2 $3,891,081
4,004 Mia Hansen-Love $7,778,798 6 $1,296,466
4,005 Claudio Fah $7,771,869 6 $1,295,312
4,006 Anurag Singh $7,771,412 5 $1,554,282
4,007 Bart Layton $7,768,126 3 $2,589,375
4,008 Carlos Bolado $7,763,108 2 $3,881,554
4,009 Pim van Hoeve $7,761,862 6 $1,293,644
4,010 Oleg Kuzovkov $7,759,243 4 $1,939,811
4,011 Sanjay Gadhvi $7,744,485 2 $3,872,243
4,012 Quentin Dupieux $7,737,394 13 $595,184
4,013 Zheng Chang $7,736,408 1 $7,736,408
4,014 Chang-joo Kim $7,735,834 1 $7,735,834
4,015 Leos Carax $7,727,582 6 $1,287,930
4,016 Huang Jianming $7,723,884 2 $3,861,942
4,017 Bill Forsyth $7,723,276 3 $2,574,425
4,018 Robin Campillo $7,716,198 4 $1,929,050
4,019 Kevin Hart $7,712,436 1 $7,712,436
4,020 Samuel Bodin $7,711,647 1 $7,711,647
4,021 Ilya Aksenov $7,708,826 1 $7,708,826
4,022 Laxman Utekar $7,703,913 3 $2,567,971
4,023 Jeff Wilson $7,699,452 4 $1,924,863
4,024 Kazuo Sakai $7,697,028 1 $7,697,028
4,025 Yu Zhao $7,690,000 1 $7,690,000
4,026 Siddharth S. Malhotra $7,678,147 1 $7,678,147
4,027 Denis Delic $7,672,577 2 $3,836,289
4,028 Sun Hao $7,666,828 2 $3,833,414
4,029 Jeff Celentano $7,665,865 3 $2,555,288
4,030 Martijn Koevoets $7,662,926 5 $1,532,585
4,031 Yoon-Sung Kang $7,652,406 2 $3,826,203
4,032 Stephen Walker $7,649,255 1 $7,649,255
4,033 Sally George $7,649,255 1 $7,649,255
4,034 Kelly Reichardt $7,648,580 9 $849,842
4,035 Thomas Michael Donnelly $7,634,909 1 $7,634,909
4,036 Xu Zhanxiong $7,621,338 1 $7,621,338
4,037 Steve Boyum $7,608,676 3 $2,536,225
4,038 Robert Rossen $7,600,738 3 $2,533,579
4,039 Chen Chen (陈晨) $7,598,009 1 $7,598,009
4,040 Chris Dowling $7,590,472 3 $2,530,157
4,041 Marek Benes $7,584,331 6 $1,264,055
4,042 Alexander Nezolbin $7,579,923 1 $7,579,923
4,043 Arnaud Desplechin $7,575,478 7 $1,082,211
4,044 James Melkonian $7,555,256 1 $7,555,256
4,045 Jiří Vejdělek $7,551,561 3 $2,517,187
4,046 Michael Mason $7,546,115 1 $7,546,115
4,047 Tengdong Li (李腾栋) $7,542,795 3 $2,514,265
4,048 Wei Ming $7,530,000 1 $7,530,000
4,049 Alfredo De Villa $7,519,490 2 $3,759,745
4,050 Sion Sono $7,516,527 11 $683,321
4,051 Sydney Sibilia $7,509,386 5 $1,501,877
4,052 Tristan Séguéla $7,505,691 4 $1,876,423
4,053 Inés de León $7,505,348 2 $3,752,674
4,054 Christophe Offenstein $7,501,925 4 $1,875,481
4,055 Robert Scheerer $7,500,000 2 $3,750,000
4,056 Walter Lang $7,500,000 3 $2,500,000
4,057 Ferdinand Fairfax $7,498,414 2 $3,749,207
4,058 Prithviraj Sukumaran $7,495,311 2 $3,747,656
4,059 Tao Lian $7,489,619 1 $7,489,619
4,060 Shaka King $7,478,009 2 $3,739,005
4,061 Steven Kampmann $7,473,364 2 $3,736,682
4,062 Aleksandr Amirov $7,471,567 5 $1,494,313
4,063 G Ashok $7,468,217 1 $7,468,217
4,064 Özcan Deniz $7,467,545 3 $2,489,182
4,065 Will Porter $7,467,504 1 $7,467,504
4,066 Luo Deng $7,465,380 2 $3,732,690
4,067 Chris Sivertson $7,465,244 8 $933,156
4,068 Xixi Cao (曹茜茜) $7,460,000 1 $7,460,000
4,069 Luca Miniero $7,456,015 5 $1,491,203
4,070 Arman Marutyan $7,444,187 2 $3,722,094
4,071 Bruno Garotti $7,436,918 7 $1,062,417
4,072 Stephen King $7,433,663 1 $7,433,663
4,073 Mamoru Oshii $7,431,271 6 $1,238,545
4,074 David Miller $7,424,760 7 $1,060,680
4,075 Yonggang Chen (陈永刚) $7,423,918 2 $3,711,959
4,076 Paul Downs Colaizzo $7,422,058 1 $7,422,058
4,077 Vipul Shah $7,418,282 1 $7,418,282
4,078 Antoine Blossier $7,406,890 2 $3,703,445
4,079 Taige Li(李太阁) $7,403,786 1 $7,403,786
4,080 Sebastian del Amo $7,400,343 2 $3,700,172
4,081 Paco Leon $7,386,174 3 $2,462,058
4,082 Jean-François Tosti $7,374,957 1 $7,374,957
4,083 Peng Zhang $7,353,354 1 $7,353,354
4,084 Yukio Kaizawa $7,350,621 1 $7,350,621
4,085 Xingliang Li (李星良) $7,349,604 1 $7,349,604
4,086 Kelly Makin $7,327,473 2 $3,663,737
4,087 Michael Grandage $7,315,496 3 $2,438,499
4,088 Clarence Brown $7,300,000 9 $811,111
4,089 Luke Scott $7,298,786 1 $7,298,786
4,090 Benoit Delepine $7,289,330 5 $1,457,866
4,091 Anton Fedotov $7,283,097 2 $3,641,549
4,092 Lloyd Bacon $7,281,000 13 $560,077
4,093 Chen Muh $7,272,220 1 $7,272,220
4,094 Allan Mauduit $7,260,661 1 $7,260,661
4,095 Santiago Mitre $7,255,855 4 $1,813,964
4,096 Marcel Barrena $7,248,723 4 $1,812,181
4,097 Emmanuel Mouret $7,244,821 7 $1,034,974
4,098 Christopher Crowe $7,242,035 1 $7,242,035
4,099 Wang Yu $7,234,823 2 $3,617,412
4,100 Aristomenis Tsirbas $7,233,557 2 $3,616,779

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

Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.