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Top Grossing Director at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 101-200)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.
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 | Domestic Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Gary Ross | $729,901,714 | 6 | $121,650,286 |
| 102 | Martin Campbell | $726,345,056 | 15 | $48,423,004 |
| 103 | Andy Muschietti | $720,217,789 | 6 | $120,036,298 |
| 104 | Peter Berg | $714,018,305 | 12 | $59,501,525 |
| 105 | Andy Wachowski | $713,354,543 | 6 | $118,892,424 |
| 106 | Phil Lord | $712,821,997 | 6 | $118,803,666 |
| 107 | Christopher Miller | $712,821,997 | 5 | $142,564,399 |
| 108 | Stephen Sommers | $709,147,795 | 8 | $88,643,474 |
| 109 | Taika Waititi | $707,330,757 | 11 | $64,302,796 |
| 110 | Francis Ford Coppola | $703,467,817 | 25 | $28,138,713 |
| 111 | Denis Villeneuve | $700,487,001 | 9 | $77,831,889 |
| 112 | Adam McKay | $697,548,385 | 10 | $69,754,839 |
| 113 | John Landis | $687,991,265 | 18 | $38,221,737 |
| 114 | George Miller | $686,377,057 | 14 | $49,026,933 |
| 115 | Marc Forster | $683,747,829 | 13 | $52,595,987 |
| 116 | Kelly Asbury | $679,780,310 | 5 | $135,956,062 |
| 117 | Rob Reiner | $678,286,617 | 21 | $32,299,363 |
| 118 | Christopher McQuarrie | $673,961,053 | 6 | $112,326,842 |
| 119 | Paul Feig | $673,608,153 | 11 | $61,237,105 |
| 120 | Rob Letterman | $673,414,912 | 7 | $96,202,130 |
| 121 | Louis Leterrier | $661,665,745 | 11 | $60,151,431 |
| 122 | Kelsey Mann | $652,980,194 | 1 | $652,980,194 |
| 123 | Rob Cohen | $644,220,722 | 14 | $46,015,766 |
| 124 | Jaume Collet-Serra | $632,287,593 | 12 | $52,690,633 |
| 125 | Brian De Palma | $628,790,469 | 24 | $26,199,603 |
| 126 | Sylvester Stallone | $626,039,003 | 8 | $78,254,875 |
| 127 | Nancy Meyers | $625,578,930 | 6 | $104,263,155 |
| 128 | Lee Unkrich | $625,464,895 | 2 | $312,732,448 |
| 129 | Alfonso Cuarón | $614,258,562 | 9 | $68,250,951 |
| 130 | John McTiernan | $611,186,310 | 11 | $55,562,392 |
| 131 | Aaron Horvath | $604,724,566 | 2 | $302,362,283 |
| 132 | Woody Allen | $601,954,566 | 50 | $12,039,091 |
| 133 | Chris Weitz | $600,660,762 | 9 | $66,740,085 |
| 134 | Ang Lee | $597,120,146 | 14 | $42,651,439 |
| 135 | Andy Tennant | $596,062,209 | 11 | $54,187,474 |
| 136 | Ruben Fleischer | $593,923,471 | 7 | $84,846,210 |
| 137 | Mel Gibson | $589,165,165 | 9 | $65,462,796 |
| 138 | Doug Liman | $585,538,481 | 15 | $39,035,899 |
| 139 | Mike Newell | $584,633,156 | 17 | $34,390,186 |
| 140 | Wes Craven | $579,041,335 | 20 | $28,952,067 |
| 141 | Michael Apted | $577,927,386 | 25 | $23,117,095 |
| 142 | Frank Coraci | $575,039,088 | 9 | $63,893,232 |
| 143 | Michael Jelenic | $574,934,330 | 1 | $574,934,330 |
| 144 | Frank Oz | $574,147,219 | 13 | $44,165,171 |
| 145 | Jon M. Chu | $573,929,810 | 12 | $47,827,484 |
| 146 | John Badham | $573,468,670 | 14 | $40,962,048 |
| 147 | Joel Coen | $572,368,910 | 19 | $30,124,679 |
| 148 | Andrew Davis | $571,779,803 | 11 | $51,979,982 |
| 149 | Herbert Ross | $571,632,141 | 19 | $30,085,902 |
| 150 | David Zucker | $571,466,794 | 10 | $57,146,679 |
| 151 | Jan De Bont | $567,876,274 | 6 | $94,646,046 |
| 152 | Phillip Noyce | $565,699,585 | 16 | $35,356,224 |
| 153 | Malcolm D. Lee | $563,843,895 | 13 | $43,372,607 |
| 154 | Betty Thomas | $563,123,893 | 7 | $80,446,270 |
| 155 | Renny Harlin | $560,714,106 | 29 | $19,334,969 |
| 156 | David Ayer | $559,451,194 | 13 | $43,034,707 |
| 157 | Scott Derrickson | $555,868,607 | 10 | $55,586,861 |
| 158 | Dean DeBlois | $555,383,661 | 5 | $111,076,732 |
| 159 | John G. Avildsen | $552,831,770 | 15 | $36,855,451 |
| 160 | Norman Jewison | $549,765,190 | 22 | $24,989,327 |
| 161 | Matthew Vaughn | $546,334,713 | 8 | $68,291,839 |
| 162 | David O. Russell | $536,857,583 | 13 | $41,296,737 |
| 163 | Michael Mann | $533,984,143 | 14 | $38,141,725 |
| 164 | David Gordon Green | $533,708,511 | 18 | $29,650,473 |
| 165 | John Woo | $533,310,921 | 18 | $29,628,385 |
| 166 | Lasse Hallström | $529,512,669 | 19 | $27,869,088 |
| 167 | Edward Zwick | $524,114,236 | 14 | $37,436,731 |
| 168 | Marc Webb | $524,098,772 | 9 | $58,233,197 |
| 169 | Steve Carr | $515,931,411 | 10 | $51,593,141 |
| 170 | Nora Ephron | $511,970,444 | 7 | $73,138,635 |
| 171 | Roger Allers | $509,427,021 | 3 | $169,809,007 |
| 172 | Robert Schwentke | $501,857,525 | 10 | $50,185,753 |
| 173 | Shane Black | $500,514,580 | 6 | $83,419,097 |
| 174 | Simon West | $497,271,590 | 13 | $38,251,661 |
| 175 | Brian Levant | $496,571,336 | 10 | $49,657,134 |
| 176 | William Friedkin | $493,991,337 | 19 | $25,999,544 |
| 177 | Patty Jenkins | $493,833,654 | 4 | $123,458,414 |
| 178 | Chad Stahelski | $493,215,552 | 8 | $61,651,944 |
| 179 | Josh Cooley | $492,604,008 | 2 | $246,302,004 |
| 180 | Guillermo del Toro | $489,879,385 | 14 | $34,991,385 |
| 181 | Judd Apatow | $488,548,538 | 9 | $54,283,171 |
| 182 | Jerry Zucker | $487,778,359 | 6 | $81,296,393 |
| 183 | Genndy Tartakovsky | $485,513,250 | 5 | $97,102,650 |
| 184 | Garth Jennings | $484,139,147 | 3 | $161,379,716 |
| 185 | Joseph McGinty Nichol | $480,446,496 | 12 | $40,037,208 |
| 186 | Lana Wachowski | $476,066,311 | 7 | $68,009,473 |
| 187 | Mark Waters | $475,228,846 | 15 | $31,681,923 |
| 188 | Jordan Peele | $474,199,595 | 4 | $118,549,899 |
| 189 | David Silverman | $473,284,439 | 3 | $157,761,480 |
| 190 | Chris Miller | $471,980,448 | 4 | $117,995,112 |
| 191 | John Lee Hancock | $465,394,469 | 9 | $51,710,497 |
| 192 | Stephen Herek | $465,184,822 | 19 | $24,483,412 |
| 193 | John Singleton | $463,532,640 | 9 | $51,503,627 |
| 194 | Will Gluck | $461,402,249 | 8 | $57,675,281 |
| 195 | Baz Luhrmann | $461,273,671 | 6 | $76,878,945 |
| 196 | Rawson Marshall Thurber | $460,662,129 | 8 | $57,582,766 |
| 197 | John Krasinski | $460,440,772 | 5 | $92,088,154 |
| 198 | Paul W.S. Anderson | $456,479,593 | 13 | $35,113,815 |
| 199 | Wolfgang Reitherman | $453,532,676 | 6 | $75,588,779 |
| 200 | Roger Donaldson | $450,885,551 | 18 | $25,049,197 |
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.