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Top Grossing Director at the International Box Office (Rank 101-200)BETA
See also: Top Domestic Directors - Top International Art Directors - Top International Assistant Directors - Top International Assistant Editors - Top International Associate Producers - Top International Casting Directors - Top International Cinematographers - Top International Co-Producers - Top International Composers - Top International Costume Designers - Top International Costume Supervisors - Top International Dialogue Editors - Top International Editors - Top International Executive Producers - Top International Make-up and Hair Designers - Top International Music Editors - Top International Music Supervisors - Top International Producers - Top International Production Designers - Top International Re-recording Mixers - Top International Screenwriters - Top International Second Unit Directors - Top International Set Decorators - Top International Set Designers - Top International Sound Designers - Top International Sound Editors - Top International Sound Effects Editors - Top International Sound Mixers - Top International Story Creators - Top International Stunt Coordinators - Top International Supervising Sound Editors - Top International Unit Production Managers - Top International Visual Effects Supervisors - Top Worldwide Directors
This list shows the highest grossing Directors based on the international box office of the movies they worked on.
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| Rank | Name | International Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Ruben Fleischer | $1,035,544,948 | 7 | $147,934,993 |
| 102 | Alfonso Cuarón | $1,029,666,323 | 9 | $114,407,369 |
| 103 | Marc Webb | $1,017,686,915 | 8 | $127,210,864 |
| 104 | Tony Scott | $1,017,679,207 | 16 | $63,604,950 |
| 105 | Brett Ratner | $1,012,723,483 | 12 | $84,393,624 |
| 106 | Joachim Ronnin | $997,554,670 | 2 | $498,777,335 |
| 107 | Stephen Chow | $996,806,586 | 7 | $142,400,941 |
| 108 | Rob Letterman | $992,909,937 | 7 | $141,844,277 |
| 109 | Lana Wachowski | $989,467,354 | 7 | $141,352,479 |
| 110 | Steve Martino | $983,304,940 | 4 | $245,826,235 |
| 111 | Rian Johnson | $965,136,898 | 6 | $160,856,150 |
| 112 | Richard Donner | $951,002,966 | 19 | $50,052,788 |
| 113 | Shane Black | $950,791,466 | 6 | $158,465,244 |
| 114 | Luc Besson | $942,134,457 | 17 | $55,419,674 |
| 115 | Greta Gerwig | $938,007,166 | 3 | $312,669,055 |
| 116 | Kirk Wise | $933,515,022 | 5 | $186,703,004 |
| 117 | Doug Liman | $928,891,330 | 15 | $61,926,089 |
| 118 | Xu Zheng | $919,191,564 | 6 | $153,198,594 |
| 119 | Gareth Edwards | $918,843,491 | 6 | $153,140,582 |
| 120 | Chris Weitz | $918,194,774 | 9 | $102,021,642 |
| 121 | Brad Peyton | $916,284,455 | 9 | $101,809,384 |
| 122 | Jennifer Yuh Nelson | $901,914,827 | 3 | $300,638,276 |
| 123 | Genndy Tartakovsky | $896,592,948 | 5 | $179,318,590 |
| 124 | Wes Ball | $891,094,171 | 6 | $148,515,695 |
| 125 | Chris Miller | $890,337,965 | 4 | $222,584,491 |
| 126 | Joe Johnston | $869,760,840 | 11 | $79,069,167 |
| 127 | Edward Zwick | $868,865,493 | 14 | $62,061,821 |
| 128 | Peter Berg | $865,670,829 | 12 | $72,139,236 |
| 129 | Andy Muschietti | $863,002,441 | 6 | $143,833,740 |
| 130 | Jon M. Chu | $859,702,897 | 11 | $78,154,809 |
| 131 | Scott Derrickson | $839,500,334 | 10 | $83,950,033 |
| 132 | Stephen Sommers | $836,786,771 | 8 | $104,598,346 |
| 133 | Makoto Shinkai | $831,212,343 | 8 | $103,901,543 |
| 134 | Paul Greengrass | $827,066,747 | 10 | $82,706,675 |
| 135 | Sylvester Stallone | $816,299,861 | 8 | $102,037,483 |
| 136 | Aaron Horvath | $808,449,448 | 2 | $404,224,724 |
| 137 | Chris Sanders | $808,227,053 | 5 | $161,645,411 |
| 138 | John Woo | $804,686,042 | 18 | $44,704,780 |
| 139 | Robert Rodriguez | $795,291,151 | 25 | $31,811,646 |
| 140 | Paul King | $788,505,160 | 4 | $197,126,290 |
| 141 | Michael Jelenic | $786,619,091 | 1 | $786,619,091 |
| 142 | Kelly Asbury | $786,136,700 | 5 | $157,227,340 |
| 143 | Alan Taylor | $785,152,458 | 4 | $196,288,115 |
| 144 | Jaume Collet-Serra | $784,812,586 | 12 | $65,401,049 |
| 145 | Rob Cohen | $767,825,221 | 14 | $54,844,659 |
| 146 | Peter Farrelly | $767,397,446 | 17 | $45,141,026 |
| 147 | Guillermo del Toro | $757,965,169 | 14 | $54,140,369 |
| 148 | Adam Wingard | $747,404,694 | 11 | $67,945,881 |
| 149 | Garry Marshall | $742,251,858 | 18 | $41,236,214 |
| 150 | Antoine Fuqua | $740,094,263 | 23 | $32,178,011 |
| 151 | Yang Yu | $739,022,963 | 1 | $739,022,963 |
| 152 | George Miller | $736,457,915 | 14 | $52,604,137 |
| 153 | Peter Sohn | $731,159,224 | 3 | $243,719,741 |
| 154 | Baz Luhrmann | $726,553,193 | 6 | $121,092,199 |
| 155 | Nancy Meyers | $725,839,754 | 6 | $120,973,292 |
| 156 | Woody Allen | $724,025,348 | 50 | $14,480,507 |
| 157 | Raman Hui | $720,240,487 | 2 | $360,120,244 |
| 158 | Michael Thurmeier | $718,443,294 | 1 | $718,443,294 |
| 159 | Ivan Reitman | $718,162,647 | 15 | $47,877,510 |
| 160 | Yibai Zhang | $716,340,848 | 5 | $143,268,170 |
| 161 | Ryan Fleck | $705,609,464 | 6 | $117,601,577 |
| 162 | Joel Schumacher | $705,065,960 | 23 | $30,655,042 |
| 163 | Dennis Dugan | $704,215,901 | 15 | $46,947,727 |
| 164 | Anna Boden | $703,395,677 | 5 | $140,679,135 |
| 165 | Jan De Bont | $698,773,574 | 6 | $116,462,262 |
| 166 | David Ayer | $697,974,835 | 12 | $58,164,570 |
| 167 | Tom Hooper | $685,604,206 | 5 | $137,120,841 |
| 168 | Tom Shadyac | $684,316,904 | 8 | $85,539,613 |
| 169 | Renny Harlin | $683,723,956 | 29 | $23,576,688 |
| 170 | Phillip Noyce | $673,159,057 | 16 | $42,072,441 |
| 171 | Roger Allers | $671,975,225 | 3 | $223,991,742 |
| 172 | Jay Roach | $671,818,467 | 14 | $47,987,033 |
| 173 | Wong Jing | $663,616,466 | 11 | $60,328,770 |
| 174 | Jonathan Liebesman | $656,311,547 | 4 | $164,077,887 |
| 175 | Simon West | $652,631,108 | 13 | $50,202,393 |
| 176 | Will Gluck | $648,111,718 | 8 | $81,013,965 |
| 177 | Espen Sandberg | $642,631,899 | 4 | $160,657,975 |
| 178 | Josh Cooley | $638,779,956 | 3 | $212,926,652 |
| 179 | Chris Williams | $638,696,627 | 3 | $212,898,876 |
| 180 | John McTiernan | $636,313,726 | 11 | $57,846,702 |
| 181 | Herman Yau | $633,901,018 | 20 | $31,695,051 |
| 182 | Bobby Farrelly | $632,100,822 | 14 | $45,150,059 |
| 183 | Andrew Lau | $629,536,278 | 8 | $78,692,035 |
| 184 | Xue Xiaolu | $628,070,891 | 3 | $209,356,964 |
| 185 | Wuershan | $627,365,361 | 3 | $209,121,787 |
| 186 | David Silverman | $627,095,106 | 3 | $209,031,702 |
| 187 | Cary Joji Fukunaga | $625,279,716 | 5 | $125,055,943 |
| 188 | John Glen | $623,914,996 | 7 | $89,130,714 |
| 189 | Paul Verhoeven | $620,092,783 | 13 | $47,699,445 |
| 190 | Joseph McGinty Nichol | $611,424,480 | 11 | $55,584,044 |
| 191 | Tim Miller | $606,991,571 | 2 | $303,495,786 |
| 192 | Garth Jennings | $602,478,735 | 2 | $301,239,368 |
| 193 | Robert Schwentke | $592,585,586 | 10 | $59,258,559 |
| 194 | Michael Apted | $592,000,808 | 25 | $23,680,032 |
| 195 | Joel Coen | $590,515,479 | 19 | $31,079,762 |
| 196 | Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu | $585,886,288 | 7 | $83,698,041 |
| 197 | Danny Boyle | $584,277,371 | 16 | $36,517,336 |
| 198 | David F. Sandberg | $582,576,946 | 6 | $97,096,158 |
| 199 | James Foley | $578,034,266 | 13 | $44,464,174 |
| 200 | Darren Aronofsky | $570,175,861 | 10 | $57,017,586 |
The International Market is defined as all territories excluding 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.