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Top Grossing Screenwriter at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 6,001-6,100)BETA
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This list shows the highest grossing Screenwriters based on the domestic box office of the movies they worked on.
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| Rank | Name | Domestic Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,001 | Oscar Redding | $780,266 | 1 | $780,266 |
| 6,002 | Arshad Sayed | $778,566 | 2 | $389,283 |
| 6,003 | Melissa Leilani Larson | $777,139 | 2 | $388,570 |
| 6,004 | Sun Xiaohang | $774,961 | 1 | $774,961 |
| 6,005 | Xiaojun Yue (岳小军) | $774,961 | 1 | $774,961 |
| 6,006 | Sylvio Tabet | $773,490 | 1 | $773,490 |
| 6,007 | Wings Hauser | $773,490 | 1 | $773,490 |
| 6,008 | Doug Miles | $773,490 | 1 | $773,490 |
| 6,009 | R.J. Robertson | $773,490 | 2 | $386,745 |
| 6,010 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | $773,193 | 1 | $773,193 |
| 6,011 | Ali Abbasi | $771,930 | 1 | $771,930 |
| 6,012 | Isabella Eklof | $771,930 | 1 | $771,930 |
| 6,013 | Dee Rees | $769,552 | 4 | $192,388 |
| 6,014 | Scarlett Amaris | $765,561 | 1 | $765,561 |
| 6,015 | Ed Alan | $765,218 | 1 | $765,218 |
| 6,016 | Roger Hedden | $764,083 | 1 | $764,083 |
| 6,017 | Amy Berg | $759,676 | 4 | $189,919 |
| 6,018 | Marcia Romano | $757,325 | 5 | $151,465 |
| 6,019 | Robert Budreau | $755,153 | 4 | $188,788 |
| 6,020 | Anusha Rizvi | $754,836 | 1 | $754,836 |
| 6,021 | Peter Carey | $752,856 | 1 | $752,856 |
| 6,022 | Gabe Polsky | $752,737 | 4 | $188,184 |
| 6,023 | Ariela Barer | $750,010 | 1 | $750,010 |
| 6,024 | Jordan Sjol | $750,010 | 1 | $750,010 |
| 6,025 | Danny Goldhaber | $750,010 | 2 | $375,005 |
| 6,026 | Steve Buscemi | $749,741 | 1 | $749,741 |
| 6,027 | Scott Murray | $748,805 | 1 | $748,805 |
| 6,028 | Su Lun | $746,933 | 1 | $746,933 |
| 6,029 | Rob Gardner | $744,812 | 1 | $744,812 |
| 6,030 | Heather Ravarino | $744,046 | 1 | $744,046 |
| 6,031 | Michael Buster | $744,046 | 1 | $744,046 |
| 6,032 | Ran Ping | $743,194 | 2 | $371,597 |
| 6,033 | Matthew Newton | $740,054 | 4 | $185,014 |
| 6,034 | Keiko Niwa | $738,746 | 2 | $369,373 |
| 6,035 | Marie Kreutzer | $734,938 | 2 | $367,469 |
| 6,036 | Keith Fulton | $734,514 | 1 | $734,514 |
| 6,037 | Louis Pepe | $734,514 | 1 | $734,514 |
| 6,038 | Dominique Abel | $729,996 | 2 | $364,998 |
| 6,039 | Fiona Gordon | $729,996 | 2 | $364,998 |
| 6,040 | Brady Corbet | $729,755 | 3 | $243,252 |
| 6,041 | Martha Stephens | $727,430 | 1 | $727,430 |
| 6,042 | John Davies | $725,205 | 3 | $241,735 |
| 6,043 | Alex Ranarivelo | $725,042 | 4 | $181,261 |
| 6,044 | Ana Lily Amirpour | $724,883 | 3 | $241,628 |
| 6,045 | Marie-Pierre Huster | $723,593 | 1 | $723,593 |
| 6,046 | Jalil Lespert | $723,593 | 1 | $723,593 |
| 6,047 | Oh Jung-Mi | $719,772 | 1 | $719,772 |
| 6,048 | Lee Changdong | $719,772 | 1 | $719,772 |
| 6,049 | Anne Makepeace | $717,772 | 1 | $717,772 |
| 6,050 | Pamela Katz | $717,205 | 1 | $717,205 |
| 6,051 | Margarethe Von Trotta | $717,205 | 1 | $717,205 |
| 6,052 | Martin Guigui | $713,633 | 3 | $237,878 |
| 6,053 | David Jacobson | $712,940 | 2 | $356,470 |
| 6,054 | Ross Venokur | $711,005 | 2 | $355,503 |
| 6,055 | Ran Jianan | $709,982 | 1 | $709,982 |
| 6,056 | Elvis Man | $709,982 | 1 | $709,982 |
| 6,057 | Yin Yiyi | $709,982 | 1 | $709,982 |
| 6,058 | Matthew Miele | $709,062 | 4 | $177,266 |
| 6,059 | Simon Burke | $708,972 | 1 | $708,972 |
| 6,060 | Marko King | $706,547 | 1 | $706,547 |
| 6,061 | Mary King | $706,547 | 1 | $706,547 |
| 6,062 | Jonathan Watters | $706,547 | 1 | $706,547 |
| 6,063 | Cheryl Edwards | $706,547 | 1 | $706,547 |
| 6,064 | Sunny Chan | $706,153 | 1 | $706,153 |
| 6,065 | Liang Su | $706,153 | 1 | $706,153 |
| 6,066 | Sybil Rosen | $704,955 | 1 | $704,955 |
| 6,067 | Nadia Conners | $703,464 | 1 | $703,464 |
| 6,068 | Leila Conners Petersen | $703,464 | 1 | $703,464 |
| 6,069 | Jonas Pate | $699,062 | 1 | $699,062 |
| 6,070 | Josh Pate | $699,062 | 1 | $699,062 |
| 6,071 | Suo Jieun min | $696,717 | 1 | $696,717 |
| 6,072 | Edson Oda | $694,849 | 1 | $694,849 |
| 6,073 | Janice Engel | $694,410 | 1 | $694,410 |
| 6,074 | Monique Zavistovski | $694,410 | 2 | $347,205 |
| 6,075 | Daina O. Pusic | $693,351 | 1 | $693,351 |
| 6,076 | Jeremy Chilnick | $691,536 | 4 | $172,884 |
| 6,077 | William Phillips | $688,366 | 2 | $344,183 |
| 6,078 | Ernest Cline | $687,609 | 1 | $687,609 |
| 6,079 | Adam Goldberg | $687,609 | 2 | $343,805 |
| 6,080 | Thomas Vinterberg | $687,185 | 1 | $687,185 |
| 6,081 | George Green | $687,081 | 1 | $687,081 |
| 6,082 | James McGee | $685,380 | 1 | $685,380 |
| 6,083 | Suresh Nair | $682,210 | 4 | $170,553 |
| 6,084 | Lee Daniels | $677,200 | 2 | $338,600 |
| 6,085 | Marshall Curry | $676,822 | 3 | $225,607 |
| 6,086 | Adrian Tomine | $675,257 | 1 | $675,257 |
| 6,087 | Emmanuelle Bercot | $672,915 | 4 | $168,229 |
| 6,088 | Huang Bo | $670,883 | 1 | $670,883 |
| 6,089 | Kent Jones | $670,011 | 3 | $223,337 |
| 6,090 | Brigitte Buc | $667,815 | 1 | $667,815 |
| 6,091 | Valerie Lemercier | $667,815 | 1 | $667,815 |
| 6,092 | Andrea Arnold | $663,247 | 1 | $663,247 |
| 6,093 | Sophie Sartain | $657,475 | 3 | $219,158 |
| 6,094 | Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh | $655,871 | 1 | $655,871 |
| 6,095 | Dana Nachman | $653,426 | 2 | $326,713 |
| 6,096 | Zhangke Jia | $651,611 | 4 | $162,903 |
| 6,097 | Anjum Rajabali | $651,096 | 2 | $325,548 |
| 6,098 | Prakash Jha | $651,096 | 2 | $325,548 |
| 6,099 | Moira Walley-Beckett | $650,565 | 1 | $650,565 |
| 6,100 | Tim Talbott | $649,690 | 1 | $649,690 |
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.