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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 401-500)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | $505,759,323 | 11 | $45,978,120 |
| 402 | S.S. Rajamouli | $501,543,821 | 6 | $83,590,637 |
| 403 | Darren Lynn Bousman | $500,669,357 | 15 | $33,377,957 |
| 404 | Cal Brunker | $499,328,979 | 5 | $99,865,796 |
| 405 | Daniel Espinosa | $490,676,122 | 7 | $70,096,589 |
| 406 | Pierre Perifel | $490,569,963 | 2 | $245,284,982 |
| 407 | George Cukor | $486,639,515 | 19 | $25,612,606 |
| 408 | John Moore | $486,607,662 | 6 | $81,101,277 |
| 409 | Walter Hill | $486,063,316 | 23 | $21,133,188 |
| 410 | Tate Taylor | $485,803,895 | 9 | $53,978,211 |
| 411 | Dominic Sena | $485,499,998 | 5 | $97,100,000 |
| 412 | Elizabeth Banks | $481,581,564 | 7 | $68,797,366 |
| 413 | Sharon Maguire | $479,893,436 | 3 | $159,964,479 |
| 414 | Gus Van Sant | $479,881,722 | 18 | $26,660,096 |
| 415 | Dany Boon | $479,564,433 | 6 | $79,927,406 |
| 416 | Jon Amiel | $474,809,599 | 9 | $52,756,622 |
| 417 | Greg MacGillivray | $474,712,193 | 12 | $39,559,349 |
| 418 | Eli Roth | $474,663,196 | 13 | $36,512,554 |
| 419 | Kelly Marcel | $474,492,936 | 2 | $237,246,468 |
| 420 | Mark Steven Johnson | $474,487,895 | 10 | $47,448,790 |
| 421 | Jake Schreier | $472,824,226 | 4 | $118,206,057 |
| 422 | Nick Park | $472,125,671 | 9 | $52,458,408 |
| 423 | Penny Marshall | $471,716,719 | 8 | $58,964,590 |
| 424 | Neil Jordan | $470,953,127 | 20 | $23,547,656 |
| 425 | Daniel Lee | $467,066,746 | 7 | $66,723,821 |
| 426 | Xiang Liu | $465,410,251 | 2 | $232,705,126 |
| 427 | Brian Robbins | $464,734,306 | 10 | $46,473,431 |
| 428 | Joe Dante | $464,143,159 | 17 | $27,302,539 |
| 429 | Joseph Ruben | $463,461,326 | 10 | $46,346,133 |
| 430 | Xiaozhi Rao (饶晓志) | $461,483,783 | 5 | $92,296,757 |
| 431 | Greg Tiernan | $461,338,145 | 5 | $92,267,629 |
| 432 | Patrick Hughes | $461,078,413 | 7 | $65,868,345 |
| 433 | Robert Redford | $460,683,030 | 9 | $51,187,003 |
| 434 | Chiyu Zhang | $460,303,199 | 1 | $460,303,199 |
| 435 | Ben Stassen | $459,987,823 | 14 | $32,856,273 |
| 436 | Terry Gilliam | $459,711,283 | 13 | $35,362,406 |
| 437 | Tian Yusheng | $459,112,743 | 3 | $153,037,581 |
| 438 | Gil Kenan | $457,144,911 | 5 | $91,428,982 |
| 439 | Chloé Zhao | $456,721,983 | 5 | $91,344,397 |
| 440 | David Hand | $455,171,725 | 4 | $113,792,931 |
| 441 | Les Mayfield | $454,924,803 | 8 | $56,865,600 |
| 442 | Rui Cui (崔睿) | $454,890,251 | 1 | $454,890,251 |
| 443 | Tony Gilroy | $454,423,137 | 4 | $113,605,784 |
| 444 | Peter Chelsom | $453,530,901 | 13 | $34,886,992 |
| 445 | David R. Ellis | $452,842,101 | 6 | $75,473,684 |
| 446 | Dean Parisot | $451,819,609 | 5 | $90,363,922 |
| 447 | Olivier Megaton | $450,102,666 | 4 | $112,525,667 |
| 448 | Michael Dougherty | $449,116,667 | 3 | $149,705,556 |
| 449 | Michael Gracey | $448,945,185 | 3 | $149,648,395 |
| 450 | Chirs Buck | $448,191,819 | 1 | $448,191,819 |
| 451 | Eric Brevig | $447,955,627 | 2 | $223,977,814 |
| 452 | Tyler Gillett | $445,979,363 | 10 | $44,597,936 |
| 453 | Matt Bettinelli-Olpin | $445,979,363 | 10 | $44,597,936 |
| 454 | Josh Boone | $445,273,302 | 4 | $111,318,326 |
| 455 | George Roy Hill | $442,400,328 | 12 | $36,866,694 |
| 456 | Justin Baldoni | $442,276,566 | 3 | $147,425,522 |
| 457 | Ariel Schulman | $439,792,275 | 7 | $62,827,468 |
| 458 | Henry Joost | $439,792,275 | 7 | $62,827,468 |
| 459 | George Clooney | $438,506,815 | 9 | $48,722,979 |
| 460 | Bradley Cooper | $437,941,588 | 3 | $145,980,529 |
| 461 | Roman Polanski | $437,641,627 | 21 | $20,840,077 |
| 462 | Stephen Hopkins | $436,549,629 | 11 | $39,686,330 |
| 463 | Blake Edwards | $436,126,124 | 27 | $16,152,819 |
| 464 | Arthur Hiller | $432,875,303 | 19 | $22,782,911 |
| 465 | Victor Fleming | $431,762,744 | 5 | $86,352,549 |
| 466 | Jonathan Goldstein | $430,418,201 | 4 | $107,604,550 |
| 467 | John Francis Daley | $430,418,201 | 4 | $107,604,550 |
| 468 | Craig Gillespie | $430,347,419 | 9 | $47,816,380 |
| 469 | Joel Zwick | $428,453,590 | 4 | $107,113,398 |
| 470 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | $427,062,453 | 8 | $53,382,807 |
| 471 | Marc Lawrence | $426,607,649 | 5 | $85,321,530 |
| 472 | Pedro Almodovar | $425,027,033 | 28 | $15,179,537 |
| 473 | George P. Cosmatos | $424,545,859 | 8 | $53,068,232 |
| 474 | Alex Kurtzman | $422,571,377 | 2 | $211,285,689 |
| 475 | Jimmy Hayward | $420,887,654 | 3 | $140,295,885 |
| 476 | Josh Gordon | $417,742,955 | 6 | $69,623,826 |
| 477 | Will Speck | $417,742,955 | 6 | $69,623,826 |
| 478 | Julius Onah | $416,039,367 | 5 | $83,207,873 |
| 479 | Wang Baoqiang | $414,484,500 | 2 | $207,242,250 |
| 480 | Frank Darabont | $413,982,053 | 5 | $82,796,411 |
| 481 | Brian Helgeland | $413,559,599 | 6 | $68,926,600 |
| 482 | David Soren | $413,319,527 | 3 | $137,773,176 |
| 483 | Lawrence Guterman | $413,076,285 | 3 | $137,692,095 |
| 484 | Steve Oedekerk | $412,611,461 | 4 | $103,152,865 |
| 485 | Ben Wheatley | $412,470,038 | 13 | $31,728,464 |
| 486 | Hamilton Luske | $410,521,268 | 7 | $58,645,895 |
| 487 | Stanley Tong | $409,280,734 | 9 | $45,475,637 |
| 488 | Sam Wood | $408,343,892 | 7 | $58,334,842 |
| 489 | Bruce Beresford | $406,890,134 | 30 | $13,563,004 |
| 490 | Lawrence Kasdan | $406,560,249 | 11 | $36,960,023 |
| 491 | Mikael Hafstrom | $406,053,205 | 9 | $45,117,023 |
| 492 | Michael Lembeck | $404,918,010 | 10 | $40,491,801 |
| 493 | Thor Freudenthal | $403,355,217 | 4 | $100,838,804 |
| 494 | Mike Thurmeier | $402,156,682 | 1 | $402,156,682 |
| 495 | Stanley Kubrick | $401,938,770 | 14 | $28,709,912 |
| 496 | Ken Kwapis | $401,624,979 | 10 | $40,162,498 |
| 497 | Lu Yang | $401,452,689 | 4 | $100,363,172 |
| 498 | Leonard Nimoy | $401,387,573 | 6 | $66,897,929 |
| 499 | Bibo Bergeron | $398,741,342 | 2 | $199,370,671 |
| 500 | Simon Wells | $397,949,526 | 7 | $56,849,932 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.