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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 4,901-5,000)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,901 | Ningyu Zhao (赵宁宇) | $4,142,883 | 2 | $2,071,442 |
| 4,902 | Peter M. Cohen | $4,142,507 | 1 | $4,142,507 |
| 4,903 | Cui Siwei | $4,140,502 | 1 | $4,140,502 |
| 4,904 | Carles Torrens | $4,137,481 | 2 | $2,068,741 |
| 4,905 | James D. Parriott | $4,134,992 | 1 | $4,134,992 |
| 4,906 | Yusel Aksu | $4,134,490 | 1 | $4,134,490 |
| 4,907 | Mae Czarina Cruz | $4,134,148 | 4 | $1,033,537 |
| 4,908 | Angel Gracia | $4,133,692 | 2 | $2,066,846 |
| 4,909 | Maggie Carey | $4,128,828 | 1 | $4,128,828 |
| 4,910 | Chow Hin Yeung Roy | $4,127,470 | 3 | $1,375,823 |
| 4,911 | Kim Ji-young-V | $4,119,881 | 2 | $2,059,941 |
| 4,912 | Teemu Nikki | $4,119,426 | 5 | $823,885 |
| 4,913 | Shirish Kunder | $4,116,517 | 1 | $4,116,517 |
| 4,914 | Teng Congcong | $4,111,753 | 1 | $4,111,753 |
| 4,915 | James Burrows | $4,109,724 | 1 | $4,109,724 |
| 4,916 | Kari Juusonen | $4,107,995 | 2 | $2,053,998 |
| 4,917 | Jørgen Lerdam | $4,107,995 | 1 | $4,107,995 |
| 4,918 | Tony Mitchell | $4,103,401 | 2 | $2,051,701 |
| 4,919 | Craig Roberts | $4,103,230 | 5 | $820,646 |
| 4,920 | Jonathan Betuel | $4,100,000 | 1 | $4,100,000 |
| 4,921 | Barbora Chalupová | $4,095,488 | 3 | $1,365,163 |
| 4,922 | Sean Byrne | $4,086,340 | 3 | $1,362,113 |
| 4,923 | Jan Holoubek | $4,079,808 | 1 | $4,079,808 |
| 4,924 | Luis Javier Henaine | $4,078,121 | 2 | $2,039,061 |
| 4,925 | Frank Tashlin | $4,075,000 | 3 | $1,358,333 |
| 4,926 | Peter Baldwin | $4,073,582 | 2 | $2,036,791 |
| 4,927 | André Erkau | $4,070,976 | 2 | $2,035,488 |
| 4,928 | Robert Cullen | $4,068,084 | 1 | $4,068,084 |
| 4,929 | Jose Ucha | $4,068,084 | 1 | $4,068,084 |
| 4,930 | Mark Fattibene | $4,068,084 | 1 | $4,068,084 |
| 4,931 | Fyodor Dmitriev | $4,065,368 | 4 | $1,016,342 |
| 4,932 | Prosit Roy | $4,065,233 | 2 | $2,032,617 |
| 4,933 | Valdimar Jóhannsson | $4,064,302 | 1 | $4,064,302 |
| 4,934 | Patrik Hartl | $4,053,767 | 1 | $4,053,767 |
| 4,935 | Vijay Chandar | $4,053,606 | 3 | $1,351,202 |
| 4,936 | Yi Li | $4,050,000 | 1 | $4,050,000 |
| 4,937 | Dong hoon Park | $4,046,387 | 2 | $2,023,194 |
| 4,938 | Antonio Albanese | $4,039,492 | 2 | $2,019,746 |
| 4,939 | Murat Kepez | $4,034,053 | 2 | $2,017,027 |
| 4,940 | Charlie Peters | $4,030,793 | 1 | $4,030,793 |
| 4,941 | Julien Hervé | $4,029,415 | 3 | $1,343,138 |
| 4,942 | J. Lee Thompson | $4,022,408 | 5 | $804,482 |
| 4,943 | Brian Goodman | $4,019,910 | 2 | $2,009,955 |
| 4,944 | Kevin Tsai | $4,013,033 | 1 | $4,013,033 |
| 4,945 | Alfonso Sánchez | $4,011,157 | 5 | $802,231 |
| 4,946 | J.R. | $4,009,982 | 2 | $2,004,991 |
| 4,947 | Yong Hwa Kim (김용화) | $4,009,701 | 3 | $1,336,567 |
| 4,948 | Albert Jan van Rees | $4,004,250 | 3 | $1,334,750 |
| 4,949 | Wagner Moura | $4,003,501 | 1 | $4,003,501 |
| 4,950 | Tom Schulman | $4,002,884 | 2 | $2,001,442 |
| 4,951 | Rudolf Biermann | $4,001,026 | 2 | $2,000,513 |
| 4,952 | Kad Merad | $4,000,349 | 1 | $4,000,349 |
| 4,953 | Arthur Lubin | $4,000,217 | 4 | $1,000,054 |
| 4,954 | Daryl Duke | $4,000,000 | 2 | $2,000,000 |
| 4,955 | William S. Campbell | $4,000,000 | 1 | $4,000,000 |
| 4,956 | Herschell Gordon Lewis | $4,000,000 | 7 | $571,429 |
| 4,957 | Richard Wenk | $4,000,000 | 1 | $4,000,000 |
| 4,958 | Won-pyung Sohn | $3,999,690 | 1 | $3,999,690 |
| 4,959 | Paul Bartel | $3,998,935 | 4 | $999,734 |
| 4,960 | Serdar Akar | $3,997,483 | 5 | $799,497 |
| 4,961 | Katja Benrath | $3,997,055 | 2 | $1,998,528 |
| 4,962 | Carl Schenkel | $3,992,420 | 2 | $1,996,210 |
| 4,963 | Levent Görgeç | $3,990,860 | 1 | $3,990,860 |
| 4,964 | Yoichi Fujita | $3,987,805 | 1 | $3,987,805 |
| 4,965 | Eun-young Seo | $3,986,126 | 3 | $1,328,709 |
| 4,966 | Seung-wook Byeon | $3,980,234 | 1 | $3,980,234 |
| 4,967 | Jonathan Elbers | $3,979,530 | 4 | $994,883 |
| 4,968 | Filip Renc | $3,976,851 | 2 | $1,988,426 |
| 4,969 | Dave Franco | $3,976,834 | 2 | $1,988,417 |
| 4,970 | Paul Dugdale | $3,976,464 | 11 | $361,497 |
| 4,971 | Byambasuren Davaa | $3,975,628 | 2 | $1,987,814 |
| 4,972 | Marco Tullio Giordana | $3,974,626 | 7 | $567,804 |
| 4,973 | Brian Cates | $3,973,263 | 1 | $3,973,263 |
| 4,974 | Tomáš Hoffman | $3,972,354 | 2 | $1,986,177 |
| 4,975 | David Prior | $3,969,680 | 3 | $1,323,227 |
| 4,976 | Luigi Falorni | $3,966,448 | 2 | $1,983,224 |
| 4,977 | Henry Winkler | $3,965,000 | 1 | $3,965,000 |
| 4,978 | Lee Hirsch | $3,959,718 | 2 | $1,979,859 |
| 4,979 | Claude Berri | $3,958,572 | 3 | $1,319,524 |
| 4,980 | Don McKellar | $3,958,388 | 3 | $1,319,463 |
| 4,981 | Konstantin Maksimov | $3,956,885 | 3 | $1,318,962 |
| 4,982 | Bill Couturié | $3,956,785 | 1 | $3,956,785 |
| 4,983 | Willard Carroll | $3,956,212 | 1 | $3,956,212 |
| 4,984 | Greydon Clark | $3,952,000 | 4 | $988,000 |
| 4,985 | Takaomi Kanasaki | $3,950,466 | 1 | $3,950,466 |
| 4,986 | Alan Corno | $3,947,091 | 1 | $3,947,091 |
| 4,987 | Lodewijk van Lelyveld | $3,945,484 | 2 | $1,972,742 |
| 4,988 | Michael Jacobs | $3,942,007 | 1 | $3,942,007 |
| 4,989 | Mark Lewis | $3,941,146 | 1 | $3,941,146 |
| 4,990 | James Madigan | $3,935,116 | 1 | $3,935,116 |
| 4,991 | Kazuya Murata | $3,934,008 | 1 | $3,934,008 |
| 4,992 | Nathaniel Kahn | $3,928,430 | 4 | $982,108 |
| 4,993 | Aron Lehmann | $3,911,181 | 4 | $977,795 |
| 4,994 | Mark de Cloe | $3,910,012 | 2 | $1,955,006 |
| 4,995 | Max Webster | $3,907,407 | 2 | $1,953,704 |
| 4,996 | Jinchul Kim | $3,901,110 | 1 | $3,901,110 |
| 4,997 | Yuan Benli | $3,899,028 | 2 | $1,949,514 |
| 4,998 | Pamela Adlon | $3,898,110 | 1 | $3,898,110 |
| 4,999 | Kinga Debska | $3,896,131 | 2 | $1,948,066 |
| 5,000 | Christian Haas | $3,894,713 | 1 | $3,894,713 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.