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Box Office Star Records > Worldwide > Lifetime Specific Technical Role > Top Worldwide Directors
Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 501-600)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 501 | Roger Kumble | $271,894,251 | 5 | $54,378,850 |
| 502 | Mathieu Kassovitz | $271,833,857 | 3 | $90,611,286 |
| 503 | Joe Roth | $271,768,896 | 3 | $90,589,632 |
| 504 | George Tillman, Jr | $270,927,504 | 7 | $38,703,929 |
| 505 | Jonathan Levine | $268,696,387 | 7 | $38,385,198 |
| 506 | Boaz Yakin | $268,169,134 | 7 | $38,309,876 |
| 507 | James Dashner | $265,878,841 | 1 | $265,878,841 |
| 508 | Harold Becker | $265,167,718 | 9 | $29,463,080 |
| 509 | Eli Roth | $264,238,649 | 9 | $29,359,850 |
| 510 | Beeban Kidron | $264,177,632 | 3 | $88,059,211 |
| 511 | Wilfred Jackson | $263,609,844 | 3 | $87,869,948 |
| 512 | Trish Sie | $263,540,796 | 2 | $131,770,398 |
| 513 | Richard Benjamin | $263,532,086 | 10 | $26,353,209 |
| 514 | Takashi Yamazaki | $262,071,190 | 7 | $37,438,741 |
| 515 | Steve Barron | $261,771,020 | 6 | $43,628,503 |
| 516 | Roberto Benigni | $261,647,240 | 4 | $65,411,810 |
| 517 | Alejandro Amenábar | $261,640,843 | 3 | $87,213,614 |
| 518 | Wuershan | $261,293,279 | 2 | $130,646,640 |
| 519 | Miloš Forman | $261,287,563 | 8 | $32,660,945 |
| 520 | Jay Russell | $260,902,537 | 5 | $52,180,507 |
| 521 | Kevin Smith | $259,934,747 | 15 | $17,328,983 |
| 522 | Howard Zieff | $257,338,596 | 7 | $36,762,657 |
| 523 | Fede Álvarez | $256,826,005 | 3 | $85,608,668 |
| 524 | Mel Smith | $256,574,128 | 1 | $256,574,128 |
| 525 | John Huston | $256,274,062 | 14 | $18,305,290 |
| 526 | Jordan Peele | $255,209,057 | 2 | $127,604,529 |
| 527 | Joe Pytka | $255,171,088 | 2 | $127,585,544 |
| 528 | Gil Kenan | $254,924,053 | 3 | $84,974,684 |
| 529 | Justin Kurzel | $253,943,100 | 3 | $84,647,700 |
| 530 | Han Han | $252,043,650 | 2 | $126,021,825 |
| 531 | Camille Delamarre | $250,355,311 | 3 | $83,451,770 |
| 532 | Lee Daniels | $249,270,499 | 5 | $49,854,100 |
| 533 | Eduardo Sanchez | $248,363,763 | 4 | $62,090,941 |
| 534 | Daniel Myrick | $248,300,000 | 1 | $248,300,000 |
| 535 | Anthony Leondis | $247,810,438 | 2 | $123,905,219 |
| 536 | Chad Stahelski | $247,764,185 | 4 | $61,941,046 |
| 537 | Ruben Fleischer | $247,304,215 | 6 | $41,217,369 |
| 538 | Sofia Coppola | $246,037,188 | 6 | $41,006,198 |
| 539 | Scott Hicks | $244,297,428 | 7 | $34,899,633 |
| 540 | Tommy Wirkola | $243,035,837 | 4 | $60,758,959 |
| 541 | Yuen Woo Ping | $242,431,047 | 4 | $60,607,762 |
| 542 | Da Peng | $239,454,588 | 2 | $119,727,294 |
| 543 | Ronny Yu | $238,351,138 | 4 | $59,587,785 |
| 544 | Frank Miller | $238,184,948 | 3 | $79,394,983 |
| 545 | Ben Falcone | $238,168,223 | 4 | $59,542,056 |
| 546 | Klay Hall | $238,059,569 | 1 | $238,059,569 |
| 547 | Hamilton Luske | $237,300,000 | 3 | $79,100,000 |
| 548 | Tom Vaughan | $236,965,395 | 5 | $47,393,079 |
| 549 | Josh Gordon | $236,937,042 | 2 | $118,468,521 |
| 550 | Will Speck | $236,937,042 | 2 | $118,468,521 |
| 551 | Hayden Schlossberg | $236,799,211 | 1 | $236,799,211 |
| 552 | Jon Hurwitz | $236,799,211 | 1 | $236,799,211 |
| 553 | David Cronenberg | $235,635,015 | 18 | $13,090,834 |
| 554 | Steve Bendelack | $234,981,342 | 1 | $234,981,342 |
| 555 | Dante Lam | $233,607,013 | 5 | $46,721,403 |
| 556 | Russell Mulcahy | $233,585,259 | 9 | $25,953,918 |
| 557 | David S. Goyer | $233,103,892 | 4 | $58,275,973 |
| 558 | Iain Softley | $232,826,350 | 8 | $29,103,294 |
| 559 | Alexandre Aja | $231,893,939 | 6 | $38,648,990 |
| 560 | Michael Lehmann | $230,356,408 | 9 | $25,595,156 |
| 561 | Fei Yan | $228,579,747 | 1 | $228,579,747 |
| 562 | Da-Mo Peng | $228,579,747 | 1 | $228,579,747 |
| 563 | Christopher Landon | $227,773,242 | 5 | $45,554,648 |
| 564 | Robert Benton | $227,025,100 | 7 | $32,432,157 |
| 565 | Dean Devlin | $224,944,330 | 2 | $112,472,165 |
| 566 | Alfred Hitchcock | $223,310,479 | 28 | $7,975,374 |
| 567 | Yibai Zhang | $222,251,002 | 3 | $74,083,667 |
| 568 | Jason Moore | $222,075,007 | 2 | $111,037,504 |
| 569 | Han Yan | $221,128,088 | 2 | $110,564,044 |
| 570 | Martin McDonagh | $221,035,672 | 3 | $73,678,557 |
| 571 | Stephen Anderson | $220,698,326 | 2 | $110,349,163 |
| 572 | John Frankenheimer | $220,631,497 | 19 | $11,612,184 |
| 573 | Andrew Bergman | $220,546,898 | 6 | $36,757,816 |
| 574 | Gary Shore | $220,289,429 | 2 | $110,144,715 |
| 575 | Ted Kotcheff | $220,127,096 | 10 | $22,012,710 |
| 576 | John Francis Daley | $218,488,428 | 3 | $72,829,476 |
| 577 | Jonathan Goldstein | $218,488,428 | 3 | $72,829,476 |
| 578 | Philip Kaufman | $217,829,454 | 9 | $24,203,273 |
| 579 | Babak Najafi | $215,567,501 | 3 | $71,855,834 |
| 580 | Gary Rydstrom | $214,617,848 | 3 | $71,539,283 |
| 581 | Oliver Parker | $213,050,613 | 5 | $42,610,123 |
| 582 | Spike Jonze | $212,460,257 | 5 | $42,492,051 |
| 583 | Peter Yates | $209,721,540 | 14 | $14,980,110 |
| 584 | Rene Liu | $209,221,328 | 1 | $209,221,328 |
| 585 | David Koepp | $208,600,439 | 6 | $34,766,740 |
| 586 | Aaron Seltzer | $208,492,972 | 7 | $29,784,710 |
| 587 | Clark Johnson | $207,154,748 | 1 | $207,154,748 |
| 588 | Rob Zombie | $206,624,792 | 9 | $22,958,310 |
| 589 | Ryan Murphy | $206,598,789 | 2 | $103,299,395 |
| 590 | Michael Sucsy | $206,586,681 | 3 | $68,862,227 |
| 591 | Dwight H. Little | $205,555,302 | 9 | $22,839,478 |
| 592 | Thea Sharrock | $205,445,075 | 1 | $205,445,075 |
| 593 | Chao Deng | $205,431,151 | 2 | $102,715,576 |
| 594 | Baimei Yu | $205,431,151 | 2 | $102,715,576 |
| 595 | Brad Lewis | $205,312,666 | 1 | $205,312,666 |
| 596 | Kabir Khan | $205,208,354 | 4 | $51,302,089 |
| 597 | Kevin Greutert | $204,881,454 | 5 | $40,976,291 |
| 598 | David McNally | $204,639,690 | 2 | $102,319,845 |
| 599 | Jim Sheridan | $204,397,506 | 8 | $25,549,688 |
| 600 | Burr Steers | $204,264,325 | 3 | $68,088,108 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.
