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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 7,001-7,100)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,001 | Philippe Caland | $1,194,961 | 1 | $1,194,961 |
| 7,002 | Benjamin Brewer | $1,194,506 | 2 | $597,253 |
| 7,003 | Dario Argento | $1,194,258 | 16 | $74,641 |
| 7,004 | Edward Burtynsky | $1,193,932 | 2 | $596,966 |
| 7,005 | Christopher Wheeldon | $1,193,447 | 1 | $1,193,447 |
| 7,006 | Tolga Örnek | $1,192,061 | 2 | $596,031 |
| 7,007 | Samir Karnik | $1,191,642 | 2 | $595,821 |
| 7,008 | Karole Rocher | $1,190,994 | 2 | $595,497 |
| 7,009 | Timo Koivusalo | $1,190,405 | 2 | $595,203 |
| 7,010 | Aku Louhimies | $1,190,016 | 3 | $396,672 |
| 7,011 | Xuhui Jing | $1,190,000 | 1 | $1,190,000 |
| 7,012 | Stephen Deutsch | $1,190,000 | 1 | $1,190,000 |
| 7,013 | Nathalia Hencker | $1,189,613 | 1 | $1,189,613 |
| 7,014 | Augustine Frizzell | $1,189,088 | 3 | $396,363 |
| 7,015 | Ildiko Enyedi | $1,188,868 | 2 | $594,434 |
| 7,016 | Carmen Alessandrin | $1,186,762 | 1 | $1,186,762 |
| 7,017 | Celal Çimen | $1,186,730 | 1 | $1,186,730 |
| 7,018 | Manuela Burló Moreno | $1,186,184 | 2 | $593,092 |
| 7,019 | Leo Liao | $1,185,945 | 1 | $1,185,945 |
| 7,020 | Yoon Soo Jo (조윤수) | $1,185,694 | 5 | $237,139 |
| 7,021 | Murat Dundar | $1,185,579 | 1 | $1,185,579 |
| 7,022 | Hamish Bennett | $1,185,103 | 2 | $592,552 |
| 7,023 | Chris Fiore | $1,184,727 | 1 | $1,184,727 |
| 7,024 | Cristian Marazziti | $1,184,616 | 1 | $1,184,616 |
| 7,025 | Liam O'Donnell | $1,182,949 | 3 | $394,316 |
| 7,026 | Varvara Matsenova | $1,182,762 | 1 | $1,182,762 |
| 7,027 | Arkin Aktaç | $1,182,454 | 5 | $236,491 |
| 7,028 | Taewon Jeong | $1,181,498 | 1 | $1,181,498 |
| 7,029 | Roberto Faenza | $1,180,683 | 7 | $168,669 |
| 7,030 | Amanda Lipitz | $1,176,294 | 1 | $1,176,294 |
| 7,031 | Raaj Shaandilyaa | $1,174,570 | 3 | $391,523 |
| 7,032 | Daniel Minahan | $1,172,949 | 2 | $586,475 |
| 7,033 | David Allen | $1,172,867 | 2 | $586,434 |
| 7,034 | Claudio Noce | $1,172,089 | 1 | $1,172,089 |
| 7,035 | Lionel Delplanque | $1,171,515 | 1 | $1,171,515 |
| 7,036 | Kim Sunhyung | $1,171,298 | 1 | $1,171,298 |
| 7,037 | William Kan | $1,171,214 | 2 | $585,607 |
| 7,038 | Marco Petry | $1,171,012 | 2 | $585,506 |
| 7,039 | Vince Null | $1,170,387 | 1 | $1,170,387 |
| 7,040 | Sadullah Sentürk | $1,170,329 | 1 | $1,170,329 |
| 7,041 | Shan Qing | $1,170,000 | 1 | $1,170,000 |
| 7,042 | Maria Kravchenko | $1,169,761 | 1 | $1,169,761 |
| 7,043 | Scott Chambers | $1,169,570 | 2 | $584,785 |
| 7,044 | Patrick Brice | $1,169,499 | 5 | $233,900 |
| 7,045 | Pepón Montero | $1,169,406 | 1 | $1,169,406 |
| 7,046 | Chris Terrio | $1,168,405 | 1 | $1,168,405 |
| 7,047 | Jade Bartlett | $1,167,591 | 1 | $1,167,591 |
| 7,048 | Daniel Ribeiro | $1,166,737 | 2 | $583,369 |
| 7,049 | Moshe Leiser | $1,166,475 | 2 | $583,238 |
| 7,050 | Patrice Caurier | $1,166,475 | 2 | $583,238 |
| 7,051 | Giovanni Troilo | $1,166,161 | 4 | $291,540 |
| 7,052 | Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren | $1,165,963 | 1 | $1,165,963 |
| 7,053 | Bart van Leemputten | $1,165,596 | 2 | $582,798 |
| 7,054 | Mei Feng | $1,164,932 | 1 | $1,164,932 |
| 7,055 | Didier Bivel | $1,163,175 | 1 | $1,163,175 |
| 7,056 | Roy Chow | $1,162,914 | 1 | $1,162,914 |
| 7,057 | Peter Georgi | $1,161,866 | 1 | $1,161,866 |
| 7,058 | Sen Wang (王森) | $1,160,670 | 1 | $1,160,670 |
| 7,059 | Wei Shi (石伟) | $1,160,458 | 1 | $1,160,458 |
| 7,060 | Jop de Vries | $1,160,300 | 1 | $1,160,300 |
| 7,061 | Simonas Askelavicius | $1,160,022 | 2 | $580,011 |
| 7,062 | Billy Tang | $1,160,000 | 1 | $1,160,000 |
| 7,063 | Xu Kerr | $1,160,000 | 4 | $290,000 |
| 7,064 | Li Wang | $1,160,000 | 2 | $580,000 |
| 7,065 | Andrzej Żuławski | $1,159,009 | 5 | $231,802 |
| 7,066 | Arie Posin | $1,158,877 | 2 | $579,439 |
| 7,067 | Rich Christiano | $1,158,687 | 3 | $386,229 |
| 7,068 | Joseph Winter | $1,158,670 | 1 | $1,158,670 |
| 7,069 | Vanessa Winter | $1,158,670 | 1 | $1,158,670 |
| 7,070 | Soo kyung I Jeon | $1,157,620 | 1 | $1,157,620 |
| 7,071 | Aharon Keshales | $1,157,577 | 5 | $231,515 |
| 7,072 | Navot Papushado | $1,157,577 | 3 | $385,859 |
| 7,073 | Slavek Horak | $1,156,492 | 2 | $578,246 |
| 7,074 | Shannon Murphy | $1,156,354 | 1 | $1,156,354 |
| 7,075 | Patchanon Thammajira | $1,155,756 | 1 | $1,155,756 |
| 7,076 | Adrien Piquet-Gauthier | $1,155,316 | 1 | $1,155,316 |
| 7,077 | Adam Randall | $1,153,820 | 3 | $384,607 |
| 7,078 | Joe Fab | $1,153,221 | 1 | $1,153,221 |
| 7,079 | Elliot Berlin | $1,153,221 | 1 | $1,153,221 |
| 7,080 | Juanfer Andres | $1,152,968 | 1 | $1,152,968 |
| 7,081 | Esteban Roel | $1,152,968 | 1 | $1,152,968 |
| 7,082 | Miro Small | $1,151,782 | 1 | $1,151,782 |
| 7,083 | Anton Bormatov | $1,151,642 | 2 | $575,821 |
| 7,084 | Giorgio Diritti | $1,151,066 | 3 | $383,689 |
| 7,085 | Olga Belyaeva | $1,151,032 | 4 | $287,758 |
| 7,086 | Hiroshi Kôjina | $1,150,575 | 1 | $1,150,575 |
| 7,087 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | $1,148,622 | 7 | $164,089 |
| 7,088 | Shlomi Elkabetz | $1,148,619 | 2 | $574,310 |
| 7,089 | Ronit Elkabetz | $1,148,619 | 1 | $1,148,619 |
| 7,090 | Emilis Velyvis | $1,146,979 | 2 | $573,490 |
| 7,091 | David Trueba | $1,146,977 | 5 | $229,395 |
| 7,092 | Ursula Meier | $1,146,695 | 3 | $382,232 |
| 7,093 | Gregory Doran | $1,144,561 | 4 | $286,140 |
| 7,094 | Gary Andrews | $1,143,809 | 2 | $571,905 |
| 7,095 | Sergio Rezende | $1,142,143 | 2 | $571,072 |
| 7,096 | Aleksey Kharitonov | $1,141,174 | 1 | $1,141,174 |
| 7,097 | Shunli Xu | $1,140,975 | 1 | $1,140,975 |
| 7,098 | Zhou Yaowa | $1,140,000 | 1 | $1,140,000 |
| 7,099 | Ogura Hirofumi | $1,140,000 | 1 | $1,140,000 |
| 7,100 | Vlad Yudin | $1,139,859 | 7 | $162,837 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.