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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.