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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 7,901-8,000)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,901 | Michael Rowe | $545,159 | 2 | $272,580 |
| 7,902 | Steve Lichtag | $545,016 | 1 | $545,016 |
| 7,903 | Elliot Scott | $544,538 | 1 | $544,538 |
| 7,904 | Claude Lalonde | $544,516 | 1 | $544,516 |
| 7,905 | Mustafa Ugur Yagcioglu | $544,210 | 5 | $108,842 |
| 7,906 | Frédéric Fonteyne | $543,800 | 2 | $271,900 |
| 7,907 | Amar Hundal | $543,563 | 4 | $135,891 |
| 7,908 | Richard Greenberg | $542,939 | 1 | $542,939 |
| 7,909 | He Wen | $542,586 | 1 | $542,586 |
| 7,910 | Yau Nai Hoi | $542,554 | 1 | $542,554 |
| 7,911 | Patricio Guzman | $542,501 | 4 | $135,625 |
| 7,912 | Hiroki Kazama | $542,378 | 2 | $271,189 |
| 7,913 | Danny Leysner | $542,355 | 1 | $542,355 |
| 7,914 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | $541,992 | 1 | $541,992 |
| 7,915 | Denis Eleonskiy | $541,753 | 1 | $541,753 |
| 7,916 | Heather Lenz | $541,221 | 1 | $541,221 |
| 7,917 | Matt Dillon | $541,050 | 3 | $180,350 |
| 7,918 | Felix Moati | $540,812 | 1 | $540,812 |
| 7,919 | Momina Duraid | $540,639 | 1 | $540,639 |
| 7,920 | Shehzad Kashmiri | $540,639 | 1 | $540,639 |
| 7,921 | Roan Johnson | $540,629 | 3 | $180,210 |
| 7,922 | Gerardo Gatica | $540,490 | 1 | $540,490 |
| 7,923 | Adam Sedlak | $540,295 | 2 | $270,148 |
| 7,924 | Baiju Liu | $540,000 | 1 | $540,000 |
| 7,925 | Rachel House | $539,955 | 1 | $539,955 |
| 7,926 | Krzysztof Lang | $539,932 | 1 | $539,932 |
| 7,927 | Xu Li | $539,444 | 1 | $539,444 |
| 7,928 | Lee Dong-hee | $539,407 | 1 | $539,407 |
| 7,929 | Iginio Straffi | $538,917 | 1 | $538,917 |
| 7,930 | Hudaverdi Yavuz | $538,551 | 1 | $538,551 |
| 7,931 | Len Dell’amico | $538,507 | 2 | $269,254 |
| 7,932 | Murat Serezli | $538,102 | 1 | $538,102 |
| 7,933 | Emilis Velivisa | $538,086 | 1 | $538,086 |
| 7,934 | Ali Adnan Özgür | $536,603 | 3 | $178,868 |
| 7,935 | Valerie Breiman | $536,287 | 2 | $268,144 |
| 7,936 | Tomáš Vorel | $536,035 | 2 | $268,018 |
| 7,937 | Ha-ra Kim | $535,952 | 1 | $535,952 |
| 7,938 | Joe Lynch | $535,483 | 6 | $89,247 |
| 7,939 | Evgeny Vikharev | $535,413 | 1 | $535,413 |
| 7,940 | Yann Arthus-Bertrand | $534,491 | 4 | $133,623 |
| 7,941 | Fred M. Andrews | $533,235 | 1 | $533,235 |
| 7,942 | Gustavo Cova | $533,158 | 1 | $533,158 |
| 7,943 | Zhen Shiming | $533,102 | 1 | $533,102 |
| 7,944 | Petr Vodicka | $532,896 | 2 | $266,448 |
| 7,945 | Sergei Loznitsa | $532,804 | 10 | $53,280 |
| 7,946 | Darragh O’Connell | $532,566 | 1 | $532,566 |
| 7,947 | Penny Lane | $532,011 | 4 | $133,003 |
| 7,948 | Micaela Ramazzotti | $532,004 | 1 | $532,004 |
| 7,949 | Diego Muñoz | $531,942 | 1 | $531,942 |
| 7,950 | Jiri Matousek | $531,837 | 1 | $531,837 |
| 7,951 | Claudia Llosa | $531,139 | 2 | $265,570 |
| 7,952 | Valeria Bertuccelli | $530,560 | 1 | $530,560 |
| 7,953 | Sahan Gökbakar | $530,331 | 1 | $530,331 |
| 7,954 | Vikas Vasistha | $530,049 | 2 | $265,025 |
| 7,955 | Josh Tickell | $530,001 | 9 | $58,889 |
| 7,956 | Tomás Dianiska | $529,832 | 1 | $529,832 |
| 7,957 | Jules Dassin | $529,179 | 6 | $88,197 |
| 7,958 | Mauro Lima | $528,837 | 1 | $528,837 |
| 7,959 | David Laňka | $528,373 | 2 | $264,187 |
| 7,960 | Ron Frank | $527,493 | 2 | $263,747 |
| 7,961 | Giuseppe Lo Console | $527,257 | 1 | $527,257 |
| 7,962 | Egor Salnikov | $526,951 | 2 | $263,476 |
| 7,963 | Jonás Trueba | $526,864 | 6 | $87,811 |
| 7,964 | Raj Kanwar | $526,694 | 1 | $526,694 |
| 7,965 | Roly Gutierrez | $526,206 | 1 | $526,206 |
| 7,966 | Daryl Wein | $526,058 | 6 | $87,676 |
| 7,967 | Hafsia Herzi | $525,248 | 2 | $262,624 |
| 7,968 | Mort Ransen | $524,963 | 1 | $524,963 |
| 7,969 | Serkan Karaarslan | $524,890 | 1 | $524,890 |
| 7,970 | Nathalie Biancheri | $524,838 | 2 | $262,419 |
| 7,971 | Stephen Amis | $524,213 | 2 | $262,107 |
| 7,972 | Gireesh Damodar | $524,004 | 1 | $524,004 |
| 7,973 | Madeleine Olnek | $523,971 | 2 | $261,986 |
| 7,974 | Paolo Ruffini | $523,561 | 3 | $174,520 |
| 7,975 | Jun Jiang | $523,354 | 1 | $523,354 |
| 7,976 | Jacob Tierney | $523,342 | 4 | $130,836 |
| 7,977 | Maite Alberdi | $523,208 | 3 | $174,403 |
| 7,978 | Vittorio de Sica | $522,382 | 9 | $58,042 |
| 7,979 | Steven Kostanski | $522,293 | 4 | $130,573 |
| 7,980 | Martin Muller | $522,238 | 1 | $522,238 |
| 7,981 | Kirby Atkins | $522,118 | 1 | $522,118 |
| 7,982 | Lei Wang | $521,939 | 1 | $521,939 |
| 7,983 | Kim Soojung V | $521,857 | 1 | $521,857 |
| 7,984 | Thierry Frémaux | $521,183 | 1 | $521,183 |
| 7,985 | Dave Grohl | $521,181 | 1 | $521,181 |
| 7,986 | Dimitry Menyaylo | $520,880 | 1 | $520,880 |
| 7,987 | Xiaowen Song (宋晓文) | $520,000 | 1 | $520,000 |
| 7,988 | Xiaopeng Zhou | $520,000 | 1 | $520,000 |
| 7,989 | Umberto Riccioni Carteni | $519,860 | 2 | $259,930 |
| 7,990 | David Dufresne | $519,433 | 1 | $519,433 |
| 7,991 | Pu Zhang | $519,018 | 1 | $519,018 |
| 7,992 | Svyatoslav Podgaevskiy | $519,013 | 1 | $519,013 |
| 7,993 | Stevan Riley | $517,793 | 1 | $517,793 |
| 7,994 | David White | $517,692 | 2 | $258,846 |
| 7,995 | German Kral | $517,651 | 2 | $258,826 |
| 7,996 | Pilar Fogliati | $517,398 | 1 | $517,398 |
| 7,997 | William Bindley | $517,262 | 1 | $517,262 |
| 7,998 | Joseph B. Vasquez | $516,855 | 1 | $516,855 |
| 7,999 | Darius Marder | $516,819 | 1 | $516,819 |
| 8,000 | Aislinn Clarke | $516,734 | 2 | $258,367 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.