Box Office Star Records > Domestic > Lifetime Specific Technical Role > Top Domestic Directors
Top Grossing Director at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 3,701-3,800)BETA
See also: Top Domestic Art Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Editors - Top Domestic Associate Producers - Top Domestic Casting Directors - Top Domestic Cinematographers - Top Domestic Co-Producers - Top Domestic Composers - Top Domestic Costume Designers - Top Domestic Costume Supervisors - Top Domestic Dialogue Editors - Top Domestic Editors - Top Domestic Executive Producers - Top Domestic Make-up and Hair Designers - Top Domestic Music Editors - Top Domestic Music Supervisors - Top Domestic Producers - Top Domestic Production Designers - Top Domestic Re-recording Mixers - Top Domestic Screenwriters - Top Domestic Second Unit Directors - Top Domestic Set Decorators - Top Domestic Set Designers - Top Domestic Sound Designers - Top Domestic Sound Editors - Top Domestic Sound Effects Editors - Top Domestic Sound Mixers - Top Domestic Story Creators - Top Domestic Stunt Coordinators - Top Domestic Supervising Sound Editors - Top Domestic Unit Production Managers - Top Domestic Visual Effects Supervisors - Top International Directors - Top Worldwide Directors
This list shows the highest grossing Directors based on the domestic box office of the movies they worked on.
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| Rank | Name | Domestic Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,701 | Sailesh Kolanu | $600,000 | 4 | $150,000 |
| 3,702 | Madhur Bhandarkar | $598,668 | 2 | $299,334 |
| 3,703 | Sabir Khan | $597,986 | 4 | $149,497 |
| 3,704 | Morgan Matthews | $596,944 | 3 | $198,981 |
| 3,705 | Lucy Walker | $596,576 | 6 | $99,429 |
| 3,706 | Joshua Oppenheimer | $596,008 | 3 | $198,669 |
| 3,707 | Alison Klayman | $595,133 | 3 | $198,378 |
| 3,708 | Steve Taylor | $595,018 | 1 | $595,018 |
| 3,709 | Sean Evans | $594,982 | 3 | $198,327 |
| 3,710 | Roger Waters | $594,982 | 3 | $198,327 |
| 3,711 | Le Van Kiet | $594,788 | 4 | $148,697 |
| 3,712 | Gastón Duprat | $593,926 | 3 | $197,975 |
| 3,713 | Mariano Cohn | $593,926 | 4 | $148,482 |
| 3,714 | Joe Swanberg | $593,727 | 9 | $65,970 |
| 3,715 | Alex Ross Perry | $593,408 | 8 | $74,176 |
| 3,716 | Aaron Lieber | $590,671 | 1 | $590,671 |
| 3,717 | J.P. Dutta | $590,000 | 2 | $295,000 |
| 3,718 | Rajkumar Santoshi | $587,877 | 3 | $195,959 |
| 3,719 | Robert Abel | $587,818 | 1 | $587,818 |
| 3,720 | Leste Chen | $587,470 | 4 | $146,868 |
| 3,721 | Ned Benson | $587,152 | 2 | $293,576 |
| 3,722 | Bejoy Nambiar | $586,028 | 4 | $146,507 |
| 3,723 | Ui-seok Jo | $584,298 | 1 | $584,298 |
| 3,724 | Shane Salerno | $583,633 | 1 | $583,633 |
| 3,725 | Soundarya Rajinkanth | $583,172 | 1 | $583,172 |
| 3,726 | Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari | $582,720 | 4 | $145,680 |
| 3,727 | Margaret Betts | $580,346 | 1 | $580,346 |
| 3,728 | Don Hardy Jr. | $578,717 | 3 | $192,906 |
| 3,729 | Antonio Peláez | $578,323 | 1 | $578,323 |
| 3,730 | Kiran Rao | $577,485 | 2 | $288,743 |
| 3,731 | Johnny Mack | $576,242 | 1 | $576,242 |
| 3,732 | Josh Ruben | $575,783 | 2 | $287,892 |
| 3,733 | Ross Patterson | $575,258 | 1 | $575,258 |
| 3,734 | Sanjay Gadhvi | $574,329 | 2 | $287,165 |
| 3,735 | Jason Connery | $569,306 | 4 | $142,327 |
| 3,736 | Nicholas de Pencier | $565,568 | 2 | $282,784 |
| 3,737 | Rohan Sippy | $564,489 | 2 | $282,245 |
| 3,738 | Mars Callahan | $563,711 | 1 | $563,711 |
| 3,739 | Christopher Smith | $562,893 | 6 | $93,816 |
| 3,740 | Ron Davis | $562,159 | 2 | $281,080 |
| 3,741 | Dan Lindsay | $561,054 | 2 | $280,527 |
| 3,742 | T.J. Martin | $561,054 | 3 | $187,018 |
| 3,743 | Lok Man Leung | $560,824 | 2 | $280,412 |
| 3,744 | Sunny Luk | $560,824 | 1 | $560,824 |
| 3,745 | Alan Rickman | $558,173 | 1 | $558,173 |
| 3,746 | Iciar Bollain | $558,132 | 6 | $93,022 |
| 3,747 | George Mendeluk | $557,241 | 3 | $185,747 |
| 3,748 | Peter Bratt | $555,309 | 1 | $555,309 |
| 3,749 | Shonali Bose | $555,030 | 2 | $277,515 |
| 3,750 | Andrei Kravchuk | $552,546 | 6 | $92,091 |
| 3,751 | Lei Zhilong | $551,196 | 1 | $551,196 |
| 3,752 | Xiaozhi Rao (饶晓志) | $551,196 | 3 | $183,732 |
| 3,753 | Bill Muir | $549,632 | 1 | $549,632 |
| 3,754 | Ajay Devgn | $549,624 | 2 | $274,812 |
| 3,755 | Max Lewkowicz | $549,385 | 2 | $274,693 |
| 3,756 | Dylan Baker | $549,185 | 1 | $549,185 |
| 3,757 | Gan Bi | $548,842 | 2 | $274,421 |
| 3,758 | Jimmie Nickerson | $548,787 | 1 | $548,787 |
| 3,759 | Yann Samuell | $548,707 | 4 | $137,177 |
| 3,760 | Omar Naim | $548,039 | 2 | $274,020 |
| 3,761 | Brian Hannant | $548,000 | 1 | $548,000 |
| 3,762 | Doug Pray | $547,992 | 4 | $136,998 |
| 3,763 | Sebastian Jones | $547,207 | 1 | $547,207 |
| 3,764 | Ramez Silyan | $547,207 | 1 | $547,207 |
| 3,765 | Demián Rugna | $546,626 | 3 | $182,209 |
| 3,766 | Johnny McPhail | $545,597 | 1 | $545,597 |
| 3,767 | Alain Corneau | $545,425 | 2 | $272,713 |
| 3,768 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | $544,665 | 6 | $90,778 |
| 3,769 | Elliot Scott | $544,538 | 1 | $544,538 |
| 3,770 | Ewan McGregor | $544,098 | 1 | $544,098 |
| 3,771 | John Hyams | $543,818 | 6 | $90,636 |
| 3,772 | Yôji Yamada | $543,628 | 7 | $77,661 |
| 3,773 | Richard Greenberg | $542,939 | 1 | $542,939 |
| 3,774 | Martin Koolhoven | $542,860 | 2 | $271,430 |
| 3,775 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | $541,992 | 1 | $541,992 |
| 3,776 | Ferzan Ozpetek | $541,682 | 6 | $90,280 |
| 3,777 | Antoine Le | $538,179 | 1 | $538,179 |
| 3,778 | Jim Mickle | $537,849 | 4 | $134,462 |
| 3,779 | Tobias Lindholm | $537,339 | 4 | $134,335 |
| 3,780 | Tony Chan | $536,701 | 5 | $107,340 |
| 3,781 | Valerie Breiman | $536,287 | 2 | $268,144 |
| 3,782 | Daniel Barber | $535,861 | 2 | $267,931 |
| 3,783 | Longman Leung | $535,596 | 1 | $535,596 |
| 3,784 | Josh Radnor | $535,286 | 2 | $267,643 |
| 3,785 | Zachary Wigon | $535,201 | 2 | $267,601 |
| 3,786 | Jem Cohen | $535,178 | 2 | $267,589 |
| 3,787 | Len Dell’amico | $534,611 | 2 | $267,306 |
| 3,788 | Michael Dweck | $533,149 | 2 | $266,575 |
| 3,789 | Jules Dassin | $529,179 | 6 | $88,197 |
| 3,790 | Ai Weiwei | $527,845 | 3 | $175,948 |
| 3,791 | Bilal Lashari | $525,000 | 1 | $525,000 |
| 3,792 | Mort Ransen | $524,963 | 1 | $524,963 |
| 3,793 | Josh Tickell | $524,001 | 9 | $58,222 |
| 3,794 | Jacob Tierney | $523,342 | 4 | $130,836 |
| 3,795 | Ron Frank | $522,836 | 2 | $261,418 |
| 3,796 | Eliza Hittman | $521,668 | 3 | $173,889 |
| 3,797 | Gergory Kershaw | $521,202 | 1 | $521,202 |
| 3,798 | Madeleine Olnek | $519,487 | 2 | $259,744 |
| 3,799 | Tatsuma Minamikawa | $519,461 | 1 | $519,461 |
| 3,800 | Pascal Chaumeil | $517,377 | 3 | $172,459 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.