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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 701-800)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 701 | Eduardo Sanchez | $248,743,453 | 7 | $35,534,779 |
| 702 | Bob Clark | $248,529,138 | 15 | $16,568,609 |
| 703 | Daniel Myrick | $248,302,552 | 4 | $62,075,638 |
| 704 | Anthony Leondis | $247,578,188 | 2 | $123,789,094 |
| 705 | Stuart Baird | $247,225,621 | 3 | $82,408,540 |
| 706 | Kim Yong-hwa | $246,673,411 | 3 | $82,224,470 |
| 707 | Li Wei | $245,851,162 | 5 | $49,170,232 |
| 708 | Ron Underwood | $245,697,279 | 9 | $27,299,698 |
| 709 | Ben Falcone | $245,119,773 | 5 | $49,023,955 |
| 710 | Robert Benton | $245,098,156 | 9 | $27,233,128 |
| 711 | Dexter Fletcher | $244,917,692 | 5 | $48,983,538 |
| 712 | Teng Cheng | $243,887,233 | 1 | $243,887,233 |
| 713 | James Gray | $243,701,491 | 10 | $24,370,149 |
| 714 | Ronny Yu | $243,555,145 | 6 | $40,592,524 |
| 715 | Sheng Ding | $243,226,928 | 8 | $30,403,366 |
| 716 | Ric Roman Waugh | $242,958,480 | 10 | $24,295,848 |
| 717 | David Cronenberg | $240,804,881 | 21 | $11,466,899 |
| 718 | Cornell John | $239,606,210 | 1 | $239,606,210 |
| 719 | JiangJiang Liu | $238,913,515 | 2 | $119,456,758 |
| 720 | Tom Vaughan | $238,350,483 | 5 | $47,670,097 |
| 721 | Frank Miller | $238,184,948 | 3 | $79,394,983 |
| 722 | Klay Hall | $238,059,569 | 1 | $238,059,569 |
| 723 | Fawn Veerasunthorn | $237,954,897 | 1 | $237,954,897 |
| 724 | Russell Mulcahy | $237,337,364 | 14 | $16,952,669 |
| 725 | Choi Dong-hoon | $237,160,192 | 5 | $47,432,038 |
| 726 | Jon Hurwitz | $236,799,211 | 2 | $118,399,606 |
| 727 | Hayden Schlossberg | $236,799,211 | 2 | $118,399,606 |
| 728 | Scott Cooper | $235,484,042 | 8 | $29,435,505 |
| 729 | Steve Bendelack | $234,981,342 | 1 | $234,981,342 |
| 730 | Thea Sharrock | $234,339,860 | 4 | $58,584,965 |
| 731 | David S. Goyer | $233,103,892 | 4 | $58,275,973 |
| 732 | Gary Dauberman | $232,101,885 | 2 | $116,050,943 |
| 733 | Derek Tsang | $231,482,787 | 1 | $231,482,787 |
| 734 | Yuzuru Tachikawa | $231,022,593 | 4 | $57,755,648 |
| 735 | Jared Bush | $230,815,162 | 1 | $230,815,162 |
| 736 | Michael Lehmann | $230,411,908 | 9 | $25,601,323 |
| 737 | Jing Zou | $229,620,158 | 1 | $229,620,158 |
| 738 | Junwei Xie (谢君伟) | $229,620,158 | 1 | $229,620,158 |
| 739 | Dean Devlin | $228,181,798 | 2 | $114,090,899 |
| 740 | Philippe de Chauveron | $226,954,994 | 5 | $45,390,999 |
| 741 | Simon Curtis | $226,602,014 | 6 | $37,767,002 |
| 742 | Jason Moore | $226,412,616 | 4 | $56,603,154 |
| 743 | Dmitry Dyachenko | $225,094,166 | 8 | $28,136,771 |
| 744 | Alfred Hitchcock | $224,116,464 | 43 | $5,212,011 |
| 745 | Hideo Nakata | $223,144,768 | 17 | $13,126,163 |
| 746 | Alex Kendrick | $223,094,423 | 7 | $31,870,632 |
| 747 | Tom Laughlin | $223,040,907 | 4 | $55,760,227 |
| 748 | Shao Heqi | $222,103,379 | 1 | $222,103,379 |
| 749 | Gary Shore | $221,782,818 | 3 | $73,927,606 |
| 750 | John Frankenheimer | $220,705,262 | 21 | $10,509,774 |
| 751 | Stephen Anderson | $220,698,326 | 2 | $110,349,163 |
| 752 | Toni Myers | $220,565,515 | 3 | $73,521,838 |
| 753 | Andrew Bergman | $220,546,898 | 6 | $36,757,816 |
| 754 | Tomoka Nagaoka | $220,317,067 | 2 | $110,158,534 |
| 755 | Ted Kotcheff | $220,150,415 | 10 | $22,015,042 |
| 756 | Kabir Khan | $219,457,932 | 7 | $31,351,133 |
| 757 | Angus Maclane | $218,878,024 | 1 | $218,878,024 |
| 758 | Ding Liang | $218,779,552 | 3 | $72,926,517 |
| 759 | Reinaldo Marcus Green | $218,601,916 | 4 | $54,650,479 |
| 760 | Philip Kaufman | $217,829,667 | 11 | $19,802,697 |
| 761 | David Koepp | $217,490,494 | 7 | $31,070,071 |
| 762 | Shinsuke Sato | $217,329,998 | 10 | $21,733,000 |
| 763 | Zhao Ji | $217,083,250 | 3 | $72,361,083 |
| 764 | Danny DeVito | $217,015,578 | 6 | $36,169,263 |
| 765 | Babak Najafi | $216,903,624 | 3 | $72,301,208 |
| 766 | Leon Ding | $216,222,026 | 3 | $72,074,009 |
| 767 | Ryan Murphy | $215,497,364 | 5 | $43,099,473 |
| 768 | James Watkins | $215,022,282 | 4 | $53,755,571 |
| 769 | Gary Rydstrom | $214,978,980 | 3 | $71,659,660 |
| 770 | Jon Erwin | $213,733,062 | 9 | $23,748,118 |
| 771 | Ryuichi Yagi | $213,606,471 | 2 | $106,803,236 |
| 772 | Gerard Johnstone | $213,411,265 | 3 | $71,137,088 |
| 773 | Spike Jonze | $212,076,602 | 5 | $42,415,320 |
| 774 | Oz Perkins | $211,320,784 | 7 | $30,188,683 |
| 775 | Tim Heitz | $210,651,834 | 1 | $210,651,834 |
| 776 | Shen Teng | $210,617,350 | 1 | $210,617,350 |
| 777 | Zhang Ziyi | $210,617,350 | 1 | $210,617,350 |
| 778 | Mike Flanagan | $210,533,923 | 9 | $23,392,658 |
| 779 | Michael Sucsy | $210,444,191 | 3 | $70,148,064 |
| 780 | Taniguchi Goro | $210,399,094 | 5 | $42,079,819 |
| 781 | Gilbert Lewis | $210,300,000 | 1 | $210,300,000 |
| 782 | Burr Steers | $210,103,441 | 4 | $52,525,860 |
| 783 | Kevin MacDonald | $210,054,485 | 10 | $21,005,449 |
| 784 | Peter Yates | $209,723,249 | 17 | $12,336,662 |
| 785 | Greg Berlanti | $209,606,821 | 4 | $52,401,705 |
| 786 | Rene Liu | $209,221,328 | 1 | $209,221,328 |
| 787 | John Whitesell | $209,206,126 | 7 | $29,886,589 |
| 788 | Mamoru Hosoda | $207,980,117 | 8 | $25,997,515 |
| 789 | Jared Stern | $207,557,117 | 1 | $207,557,117 |
| 790 | Clark Johnson | $207,311,083 | 3 | $69,103,694 |
| 791 | George A. Romero | $207,303,458 | 17 | $12,194,321 |
| 792 | Peter Spierig | $207,015,925 | 4 | $51,753,981 |
| 793 | Michael Spierig | $207,015,925 | 4 | $51,753,981 |
| 794 | Shekhar Kapur | $206,911,252 | 8 | $25,863,907 |
| 795 | Rob Zombie | $206,743,801 | 11 | $18,794,891 |
| 796 | Jay Chandrasekhar | $206,008,705 | 7 | $29,429,815 |
| 797 | Jim Sheridan | $205,830,534 | 9 | $22,870,059 |
| 798 | Sarah Smith | $205,790,051 | 2 | $102,895,026 |
| 799 | Kevin Rodney Sullivan | $205,631,244 | 4 | $51,407,811 |
| 800 | Dwight H. Little | $205,555,302 | 12 | $17,129,609 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.