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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 101-200)BETA
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This list shows the highest grossing Directors 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Chris Sanders | $1,690,186,065 | 5 | $338,037,213 |
| 102 | Rob Letterman | $1,666,324,849 | 7 | $238,046,407 |
| 103 | Joel Schumacher | $1,666,288,973 | 23 | $72,447,347 |
| 104 | Paul W.S. Anderson | $1,659,106,850 | 13 | $127,623,604 |
| 105 | Alfonso Cuarón | $1,643,924,885 | 9 | $182,658,321 |
| 106 | Matthew Vaughn | $1,632,412,463 | 8 | $204,051,558 |
| 107 | Dean DeBlois | $1,630,437,163 | 5 | $326,087,433 |
| 108 | Fan Guo (郭帆) | $1,629,489,726 | 5 | $325,897,945 |
| 109 | Ruben Fleischer | $1,629,468,419 | 7 | $232,781,203 |
| 110 | Juan Antonio Bayona | $1,603,579,912 | 5 | $320,715,982 |
| 111 | Robert Rodriguez | $1,596,273,460 | 25 | $63,850,938 |
| 112 | Andy Muschietti | $1,583,220,230 | 6 | $263,870,038 |
| 113 | Paul Greengrass | $1,580,532,627 | 10 | $158,053,263 |
| 114 | Peter Berg | $1,579,662,943 | 12 | $131,638,579 |
| 115 | Tom Shadyac | $1,579,209,212 | 8 | $197,401,152 |
| 116 | Antoine Fuqua | $1,566,747,384 | 23 | $68,119,451 |
| 117 | Stephen Sommers | $1,545,934,566 | 8 | $193,241,821 |
| 118 | Marc Webb | $1,541,785,687 | 9 | $171,309,521 |
| 119 | Peter Farrelly | $1,526,128,386 | 18 | $84,784,910 |
| 120 | Chris Weitz | $1,521,154,314 | 9 | $169,017,146 |
| 121 | Doug Liman | $1,514,440,917 | 15 | $100,962,728 |
| 122 | Kelly Asbury | $1,465,917,010 | 5 | $293,183,402 |
| 123 | Lana Wachowski | $1,465,533,665 | 7 | $209,361,952 |
| 124 | Shane Black | $1,450,544,730 | 6 | $241,757,455 |
| 125 | Hayao Miyazaki | $1,449,188,753 | 12 | $120,765,729 |
| 126 | Hao Ning | $1,442,453,607 | 8 | $180,306,701 |
| 127 | Sylvester Stallone | $1,442,338,864 | 8 | $180,292,358 |
| 128 | George Miller | $1,441,697,781 | 14 | $102,978,413 |
| 129 | Bobby Farrelly | $1,440,484,698 | 14 | $102,891,764 |
| 130 | Jon M. Chu | $1,433,632,707 | 12 | $119,469,392 |
| 131 | Steve Martino | $1,429,334,633 | 4 | $357,333,658 |
| 132 | Tim Story | $1,425,634,806 | 18 | $79,201,934 |
| 133 | Jaume Collet-Serra | $1,417,100,179 | 12 | $118,091,682 |
| 134 | Aaron Horvath | $1,414,945,526 | 2 | $707,472,763 |
| 135 | Rob Cohen | $1,412,045,943 | 14 | $100,860,425 |
| 136 | Scott Derrickson | $1,395,368,941 | 10 | $139,536,894 |
| 137 | Edward Zwick | $1,392,979,729 | 14 | $99,498,552 |
| 138 | Genndy Tartakovsky | $1,380,218,122 | 5 | $276,043,624 |
| 139 | Barry Levinson | $1,363,627,957 | 28 | $48,700,998 |
| 140 | Michael Jelenic | $1,363,324,933 | 1 | $1,363,324,933 |
| 141 | Chris Miller | $1,362,318,413 | 4 | $340,579,603 |
| 142 | Nancy Meyers | $1,351,418,684 | 6 | $225,236,447 |
| 143 | John Woo | $1,338,194,765 | 18 | $74,344,154 |
| 144 | Kirk Wise | $1,334,176,585 | 5 | $266,835,317 |
| 145 | Woody Allen | $1,326,034,007 | 50 | $26,520,680 |
| 146 | Brad Peyton | $1,324,749,337 | 9 | $147,194,371 |
| 147 | Wes Ball | $1,322,134,528 | 6 | $220,355,755 |
| 148 | Jia Ling | $1,318,695,749 | 2 | $659,347,875 |
| 149 | Oliver Stone | $1,309,386,345 | 22 | $59,517,561 |
| 150 | Joachim Ronnin | $1,284,043,151 | 2 | $642,021,576 |
| 151 | Hu Guan | $1,279,090,903 | 6 | $213,181,817 |
| 152 | Luc Besson | $1,275,378,404 | 17 | $75,022,259 |
| 153 | Sydney Pollack | $1,272,536,860 | 18 | $70,696,492 |
| 154 | Jan De Bont | $1,266,649,848 | 6 | $211,108,308 |
| 155 | David Ayer | $1,257,426,029 | 13 | $96,725,079 |
| 156 | Renny Harlin | $1,252,318,378 | 29 | $43,183,392 |
| 157 | Guillermo del Toro | $1,247,844,554 | 14 | $89,131,754 |
| 158 | John McTiernan | $1,247,500,036 | 11 | $113,409,094 |
| 159 | Phillip Noyce | $1,238,931,345 | 16 | $77,433,209 |
| 160 | Phil Lord | $1,238,550,410 | 6 | $206,425,068 |
| 161 | Christopher Miller | $1,238,550,410 | 5 | $247,710,082 |
| 162 | Paul Feig | $1,225,525,492 | 11 | $111,411,408 |
| 163 | Jennifer Yuh Nelson | $1,223,388,200 | 3 | $407,796,067 |
| 164 | Peter Segal | $1,222,614,091 | 12 | $101,884,508 |
| 165 | Josh Cooley | $1,197,583,940 | 2 | $598,791,970 |
| 166 | Gary Ross | $1,197,400,146 | 6 | $199,566,691 |
| 167 | Adam Shankman | $1,193,722,633 | 10 | $119,372,263 |
| 168 | Baz Luhrmann | $1,187,826,864 | 6 | $197,971,144 |
| 169 | Xu Zheng | $1,183,997,669 | 8 | $147,999,709 |
| 170 | Roger Allers | $1,181,402,246 | 3 | $393,800,749 |
| 171 | Michael Apted | $1,169,928,194 | 25 | $46,797,128 |
| 172 | Joel Coen | $1,162,884,389 | 19 | $61,204,442 |
| 173 | Simon West | $1,149,902,698 | 13 | $88,454,054 |
| 174 | Mel Gibson | $1,145,574,738 | 9 | $127,286,082 |
| 175 | Ryan Fleck | $1,142,713,332 | 6 | $190,452,222 |
| 176 | Garth Jennings | $1,138,344,984 | 3 | $379,448,328 |
| 177 | Muye Wen | $1,137,900,519 | 4 | $284,475,130 |
| 178 | Anna Boden | $1,137,801,607 | 5 | $227,560,321 |
| 179 | Paul King | $1,121,911,886 | 5 | $224,382,377 |
| 180 | Will Gluck | $1,109,744,460 | 8 | $138,718,058 |
| 181 | David Silverman | $1,100,379,545 | 3 | $366,793,182 |
| 182 | Robert Schwentke | $1,094,443,111 | 10 | $109,444,311 |
| 183 | Joseph McGinty Nichol | $1,091,870,976 | 12 | $90,989,248 |
| 184 | Alan Taylor | $1,090,174,860 | 4 | $272,543,715 |
| 185 | Adam Wingard | $1,088,133,922 | 11 | $98,921,266 |
| 186 | Michael Mann | $1,082,657,101 | 14 | $77,332,650 |
| 187 | Wu Jing | $1,080,942,789 | 2 | $540,471,395 |
| 188 | Paul Verhoeven | $1,066,161,175 | 13 | $82,012,398 |
| 189 | Han Han | $1,061,257,826 | 5 | $212,251,565 |
| 190 | Jonathan Liebesman | $1,054,256,576 | 4 | $263,564,144 |
| 191 | Lasse Hallström | $1,051,382,766 | 19 | $55,335,935 |
| 192 | Patty Jenkins | $1,048,252,319 | 4 | $262,063,080 |
| 193 | Brian De Palma | $1,037,190,306 | 24 | $43,216,263 |
| 194 | Tim Miller | $1,032,315,357 | 2 | $516,157,679 |
| 195 | Chad Stahelski | $1,026,361,983 | 8 | $128,295,248 |
| 196 | Tyler Perry | $1,024,494,330 | 30 | $34,149,811 |
| 197 | Peter Sohn | $1,023,763,440 | 3 | $341,254,480 |
| 198 | Mike Nichols | $1,018,834,328 | 18 | $56,601,907 |
| 199 | Stephen Chow | $1,017,854,320 | 7 | $145,407,760 |
| 200 | Betty Thomas | $1,016,552,451 | 7 | $145,221,779 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.