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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 Stephen Daldry $384,087,610 8 $48,010,951
502 Brian Fee $383,541,369 1 $383,541,369
503 John Hamburg $382,793,278 6 $63,798,880
504 Adam Robitel $382,401,790 4 $95,600,448
505 Sidney Lumet $381,467,187 32 $11,920,850
506 Jill Culton $380,601,047 2 $190,300,524
507 Albert Hughes $379,227,500 7 $54,175,357
508 Kathryn Bigelow $378,863,264 9 $42,095,918
509 Sam Fell $377,959,105 4 $94,489,776
510 John Pasquin $376,239,359 4 $94,059,840
511 Pierre Morel $375,604,865 9 $41,733,874
512 Bob Persichetti $373,807,069 2 $186,903,535
513 Rodney Rothman $373,807,069 1 $373,807,069
514 Kirk Jones $373,717,279 5 $74,743,456
515 Don Bluth $369,897,897 10 $36,989,790
516 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck $368,975,360 3 $122,991,787
517 Michel Gondry $368,729,091 15 $24,581,939
518 Stephen Gaghan $368,597,728 5 $73,719,546
519 Tom Dey $368,437,431 5 $73,687,486
520 Richard Curtis $368,381,384 4 $92,095,346
521 Simon J. Smith $366,942,531 1 $366,942,531
522 Steve Miner $366,898,859 14 $26,207,061
523 Ralph Zondag $366,208,130 4 $91,552,033
524 Corin Hardy $364,982,778 4 $91,245,695
525 Peter Lord $363,937,520 2 $181,968,760
526 John Requa $362,924,448 6 $60,487,408
527 Glenn Ficarra $362,924,448 6 $60,487,408
528 Frank Marshall $362,445,293 9 $40,271,699
529 Tom Tykwer $361,094,949 11 $32,826,814
530 Jon Lucas $360,993,044 6 $60,165,507
531 Scott Moore $360,993,044 6 $60,165,507
532 Stephen Chbosky $360,758,782 5 $72,151,756
533 Chris McKay $356,176,627 5 $71,235,325
534 Eric Leighton $356,148,063 1 $356,148,063
535 Penelope Spheeris $356,086,924 12 $29,673,910
536 Bora Dagtekin $355,679,839 6 $59,279,973
537 Parker Finn $355,063,185 2 $177,531,593
538 Josh Boone $354,820,354 4 $88,705,089
539 Michael Moore $354,058,852 11 $32,187,168
540 James Wong $354,035,504 4 $88,508,876
541 Fergal Reilly $352,288,341 1 $352,288,341
542 Clay Kaytis $352,288,341 4 $88,072,085
543 Alexandre Aja $351,913,957 11 $31,992,178
544 Lu Yang $351,827,869 4 $87,956,967
545 Hal Needham $350,973,795 10 $35,097,380
546 Hugh Wilson $347,622,020 8 $43,452,753
547 Alan Parker $347,615,672 14 $24,829,691
548 Chao Deng $347,414,748 4 $86,853,687
549 Jon Avnet $347,382,230 9 $38,598,026
550 Eric Goldberg $347,100,000 1 $347,100,000
551 Warren Beatty $344,613,687 5 $68,922,737
552 Michael Caton-Jones $344,324,571 12 $28,693,714
553 Felix Chong $344,098,831 4 $86,024,708
554 Christopher Landon $342,837,067 8 $42,854,633
555 Noam Murro $342,435,670 2 $171,217,835
556 Joe Carnahan $341,150,545 13 $26,242,350
557 Steven Brill $340,478,394 9 $37,830,933
558 Michael Ritchie $339,966,005 20 $16,998,300
559 Kevin Greutert $337,000,082 7 $48,142,869
560 David Lam $336,956,441 9 $37,439,605
561 Peter Hewitt $336,023,809 8 $42,002,976
562 Jonathan Frakes $334,820,272 6 $55,803,379
563 Robert Altman $334,569,262 24 $13,940,386
564 Baimei Yu $333,329,075 3 $111,109,692
565 Randall Wallace $332,916,234 4 $83,229,059
566 Peter Faiman $332,474,203 2 $166,237,102
567 Rob Bowman $331,011,050 4 $82,752,763
568 Gavin O’Connor $330,753,248 8 $41,344,156
569 Lewis Gilbert $330,559,300 5 $66,111,860
570 Xing Wenxiong $330,321,790 1 $330,321,790
571 Scott Waugh $329,423,261 8 $41,177,908
572 Richard Linklater $328,595,802 24 $13,691,492
573 Olivier Magaton $327,656,424 1 $327,656,424
574 Gary Winick $327,346,184 6 $54,557,697
575 Howard Deutch $326,558,383 10 $32,655,838
576 Allen Hughes $326,442,664 9 $36,271,407
577 Jonathan Levine $324,451,649 8 $40,556,456
578 Wayne Wang $323,421,384 18 $17,967,855
579 John Hughes $322,273,465 8 $40,284,183
580 James DeMonaco $321,316,189 6 $53,552,698
581 Greg Mottola $320,226,645 8 $40,028,331
582 Roger Kumble $320,089,196 9 $35,565,466
583 Tommy Wirkola $319,865,760 11 $29,078,705
584 Steven Quale $319,727,892 5 $63,945,578
585 Simon Wincer $318,635,111 13 $24,510,393
586 Beeban Kidron $318,601,467 5 $63,720,293
587 Jackie Chan $318,221,384 7 $45,460,198
588 Benjamin Renner $317,691,914 3 $105,897,305
589 Paul Thomas Anderson $317,691,624 10 $31,769,162
590 Kobun Shizuno $317,687,652 12 $26,473,971
591 Harold Becker $317,475,718 9 $35,275,080
592 Jose Padilha $316,917,988 4 $79,229,497
593 Alejandro Amenábar $316,137,417 7 $45,162,488
594 Miloš Forman $315,748,740 9 $35,083,193
595 Ron Shelton $315,251,774 9 $35,027,975
596 Andrew Niccol $314,168,662 7 $44,881,237
597 Kenny Ortega $312,932,499 8 $39,116,562
598 Nitesh Tiwari $312,196,710 5 $62,439,342
599 George Tillman, Jr $311,940,294 8 $38,992,537
600 Leigh Whannell $311,592,324 5 $62,318,465

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

Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.