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Top Grossing Screenwriter at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 201-300)BETA
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This list shows the highest grossing Screenwriters 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
201 | Dean Georgaris | $1,291,071,205 | 6 | $215,178,534 |
202 | Matt Reeves | $1,283,813,145 | 3 | $427,937,715 |
203 | Steven E. de Souza | $1,281,489,560 | 15 | $85,432,637 |
204 | Melissa Mathison | $1,281,230,312 | 6 | $213,538,385 |
205 | Ethan Coen | $1,259,912,252 | 25 | $50,396,490 |
206 | Fan Guo (郭帆) | $1,249,122,223 | 2 | $624,561,112 |
207 | Gong Geer | $1,249,122,223 | 2 | $624,561,112 |
208 | Michael Dougherty | $1,242,518,129 | 4 | $310,629,532 |
209 | Robert Zemeckis | $1,241,639,223 | 12 | $103,469,935 |
210 | Paul Rudd | $1,236,503,935 | 3 | $412,167,978 |
211 | Will Beall | $1,235,950,605 | 3 | $411,983,535 |
212 | David Lindsay-Abaire | $1,227,094,298 | 7 | $175,299,185 |
213 | Jac Schaeffer | $1,226,965,662 | 2 | $613,482,831 |
214 | Miles Millar | $1,221,445,267 | 6 | $203,574,211 |
215 | T.S. Nowlin | $1,219,392,436 | 5 | $243,878,487 |
216 | Michael Goldenberg | $1,217,162,495 | 5 | $243,432,499 |
217 | Tab Murphy | $1,217,147,179 | 5 | $243,429,436 |
218 | Anthony McCarten | $1,212,889,820 | 6 | $202,148,303 |
219 | Mark Burton | $1,202,441,144 | 8 | $150,305,143 |
220 | Baz Luhrmann | $1,187,826,864 | 6 | $197,971,144 |
221 | Harold Ramis | $1,184,447,618 | 12 | $98,703,968 |
222 | Bobby Farrelly | $1,184,125,089 | 10 | $118,412,509 |
223 | Rob Letterman | $1,182,348,329 | 3 | $394,116,110 |
224 | David Benioff | $1,173,263,150 | 7 | $167,609,021 |
225 | Evan Daugherty | $1,162,090,387 | 5 | $232,418,077 |
226 | Michael J. Wilson | $1,160,014,148 | 3 | $386,671,383 |
227 | Tom McGrath | $1,156,240,340 | 2 | $578,120,170 |
228 | Denis Villeneuve | $1,155,525,169 | 4 | $288,881,292 |
229 | Dana Fox | $1,143,655,017 | 8 | $142,956,877 |
230 | Anna Boden | $1,142,713,332 | 5 | $228,542,666 |
231 | Ryan Fleck | $1,142,713,332 | 5 | $228,542,666 |
232 | Robert Ben Garant | $1,137,421,536 | 7 | $162,488,791 |
233 | Paul King | $1,123,939,987 | 4 | $280,984,997 |
234 | Judd Apatow | $1,115,627,298 | 12 | $92,968,942 |
235 | Oliver Stone | $1,110,950,935 | 15 | $74,063,396 |
236 | Jeffrey Boam | $1,104,512,245 | 7 | $157,787,464 |
237 | Skip Woods | $1,103,955,788 | 6 | $183,992,631 |
238 | Yu Yonggan | $1,095,701,716 | 4 | $273,925,429 |
239 | Cormac Wibberley | $1,094,732,813 | 6 | $182,455,469 |
240 | Marianne Wibberley | $1,094,732,813 | 6 | $182,455,469 |
241 | Bruce Joel Rubin | $1,088,092,916 | 8 | $136,011,615 |
242 | Bob Gale | $1,086,683,408 | 7 | $155,240,487 |
243 | Harald Kloser | $1,085,796,621 | 3 | $361,932,207 |
244 | Stephen Chow | $1,083,785,714 | 4 | $270,946,429 |
245 | Alfred Gough | $1,075,250,108 | 5 | $215,050,022 |
246 | Stephany Folsom | $1,072,817,964 | 1 | $1,072,817,964 |
247 | Jon Lucas | $1,071,961,543 | 9 | $119,106,838 |
248 | Scott Moore | $1,071,961,543 | 9 | $119,106,838 |
249 | Scott Derrickson | $1,067,573,738 | 6 | $177,928,956 |
250 | Lowell Ganz | $1,064,925,880 | 14 | $76,066,134 |
251 | Babaloo Mandel | $1,064,925,880 | 14 | $76,066,134 |
252 | Sam Raimi | $1,062,637,176 | 6 | $177,106,196 |
253 | Bruce Feirstein | $1,057,664,869 | 3 | $352,554,956 |
254 | David Hayter | $1,056,182,834 | 5 | $211,236,567 |
255 | Robert Smigel | $1,055,830,460 | 4 | $263,957,615 |
256 | Josh Friedman | $1,053,445,029 | 3 | $351,148,343 |
257 | Matt Ember | $1,050,753,723 | 5 | $210,150,745 |
258 | Susannah Grant | $1,043,016,801 | 8 | $130,377,100 |
259 | Nora Ephron | $1,036,249,396 | 9 | $115,138,822 |
260 | Garth Jennings | $1,035,598,770 | 2 | $517,799,385 |
261 | Will Gluck | $1,033,543,739 | 6 | $172,257,290 |
262 | John-Henry Butterworth | $1,031,457,706 | 6 | $171,909,618 |
263 | Victoria Strouse | $1,025,006,125 | 3 | $341,668,708 |
264 | Craig Pearce | $1,021,224,138 | 6 | $170,204,023 |
265 | Dan Mazeau | $1,019,837,368 | 5 | $203,967,474 |
266 | Kurt Wimmer | $1,011,196,491 | 11 | $91,926,954 |
267 | Evan Goldberg | $1,004,872,404 | 10 | $100,487,240 |
268 | Mark L. Smith | $996,907,254 | 8 | $124,613,407 |
269 | Seth Rogen | $994,971,965 | 9 | $110,552,441 |
270 | David Twohy | $994,414,716 | 13 | $76,493,440 |
271 | Ronald Bass | $992,047,808 | 8 | $124,005,976 |
272 | Jared Stern | $987,138,331 | 6 | $164,523,055 |
273 | Zhang Yimou | $980,452,398 | 4 | $245,113,100 |
274 | Noni White | $980,434,474 | 4 | $245,108,619 |
275 | Bob Tzudiker | $980,434,474 | 4 | $245,108,619 |
276 | C. Robert Cargill | $979,805,879 | 5 | $195,961,176 |
277 | Han Han | $975,891,836 | 4 | $243,972,959 |
278 | Richard LaGravenese | $970,315,610 | 15 | $64,687,707 |
279 | Kurt Johnstad | $965,784,444 | 6 | $160,964,074 |
280 | Justin Marks | $964,467,009 | 2 | $482,233,505 |
281 | Christina Hodson | $959,869,579 | 6 | $159,978,263 |
282 | Matthew Michael Carnahan | $958,805,125 | 9 | $106,533,903 |
283 | Edward Zwick | $957,397,077 | 8 | $119,674,635 |
284 | James L. Brooks | $955,364,554 | 5 | $191,072,911 |
285 | Dan Gilroy | $952,253,930 | 8 | $119,031,741 |
286 | Michael Waldron | $952,224,986 | 1 | $952,224,986 |
287 | Ivan Raimi | $950,382,983 | 3 | $316,794,328 |
288 | Bill Condon | $938,263,631 | 10 | $93,826,363 |
289 | Aaron Sorkin | $935,089,094 | 10 | $93,508,909 |
290 | Peter Baynham | $930,358,758 | 8 | $116,294,845 |
291 | Joe Cornish | $927,608,566 | 5 | $185,521,713 |
292 | Drew Goddard | $926,773,409 | 5 | $185,354,682 |
293 | Joel Cohen | $924,387,791 | 5 | $184,877,558 |
294 | Steve Koren | $923,794,565 | 5 | $184,758,913 |
295 | Stephen Sinclair | $921,715,176 | 1 | $921,715,176 |
296 | Jenny Bicks | $921,642,291 | 2 | $460,821,146 |
297 | Christopher D. Ford | $914,185,904 | 6 | $152,364,317 |
298 | Alec Sokolow | $911,562,987 | 6 | $151,927,165 |
299 | Josh Klausner | $908,513,706 | 2 | $454,256,853 |
300 | Jim Cash | $907,890,645 | 7 | $129,698,664 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.