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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 801-900)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 801 | Irwin Winkler | $190,992,119 | 7 | $27,284,588 |
| 802 | John Erick Dowdle | $189,947,470 | 6 | $31,657,912 |
| 803 | Dong Runnian | $188,547,881 | 2 | $94,273,941 |
| 804 | Woo-seok Yang | $188,388,307 | 5 | $37,677,661 |
| 805 | Jazz Boon | $188,065,089 | 3 | $62,688,363 |
| 806 | Jason Kwan | $188,023,790 | 3 | $62,674,597 |
| 807 | Tom Laughlin | $187,040,907 | 3 | $62,346,969 |
| 808 | Patrick Wilson | $186,258,928 | 1 | $186,258,928 |
| 809 | Victor Salva | $185,757,450 | 5 | $37,151,490 |
| 810 | Youn Jk | $185,427,109 | 4 | $46,356,777 |
| 811 | Ericson Core | $185,205,718 | 3 | $61,735,239 |
| 812 | Tod Williams | $184,634,337 | 3 | $61,544,779 |
| 813 | Paul Mazursky | $183,464,162 | 10 | $18,346,416 |
| 814 | Doug Sweetland | $183,353,431 | 1 | $183,353,431 |
| 815 | Neil LaBute | $182,721,616 | 13 | $14,055,509 |
| 816 | Alastair Fothergill | $182,436,287 | 11 | $16,585,117 |
| 817 | Tobe Hooper | $181,721,316 | 9 | $20,191,257 |
| 818 | Gerard Johnstone | $181,371,279 | 2 | $90,685,640 |
| 819 | Bennett Miller | $180,527,972 | 3 | $60,175,991 |
| 820 | Nigel Cole | $180,487,337 | 6 | $30,081,223 |
| 821 | Jeff Rowe | $180,329,865 | 3 | $60,109,955 |
| 822 | Dennis Gansel | $180,232,191 | 6 | $30,038,699 |
| 823 | Scott Stewart | $179,557,103 | 4 | $44,889,276 |
| 824 | Miguel Arteta | $179,377,310 | 8 | $22,422,164 |
| 825 | Luca Guadagnino | $179,071,431 | 14 | $12,790,817 |
| 826 | William Wyler | $179,046,037 | 13 | $13,772,772 |
| 827 | David Lowery | $178,604,175 | 7 | $25,514,882 |
| 828 | Yuichi Fukuda | $177,977,315 | 9 | $19,775,257 |
| 829 | Patrick Lussier | $177,273,272 | 9 | $19,697,030 |
| 830 | Gina Prince-Bythewood | $176,697,448 | 5 | $35,339,490 |
| 831 | Brett Leonard | $176,563,708 | 9 | $19,618,190 |
| 832 | Jared Hess | $176,421,105 | 8 | $22,052,638 |
| 833 | Jiang Wen | $176,258,656 | 4 | $44,064,664 |
| 834 | Dean Israelite | $175,440,989 | 5 | $35,088,198 |
| 835 | John A. Davis | $175,362,568 | 3 | $58,454,189 |
| 836 | John Schultz | $174,824,009 | 10 | $17,482,401 |
| 837 | Niels Arden Oplev | $174,531,552 | 6 | $29,088,592 |
| 838 | Marco Brambilla | $173,407,200 | 2 | $86,703,600 |
| 839 | Forest Whitaker | $173,296,032 | 3 | $57,765,344 |
| 840 | Colin Higgins | $173,002,296 | 2 | $86,501,148 |
| 841 | Brad Furman | $172,620,981 | 5 | $34,524,196 |
| 842 | Peter Billingsley | $172,539,969 | 2 | $86,269,985 |
| 843 | Prashanth Neel | $171,549,859 | 4 | $42,887,465 |
| 844 | Taniguchi Goro | $171,460,945 | 5 | $34,292,189 |
| 845 | Greg Berlanti | $171,408,470 | 4 | $42,852,118 |
| 846 | Derek Kwok | $171,248,617 | 2 | $85,624,309 |
| 847 | Jeremiah Chechik | $171,010,429 | 6 | $28,501,738 |
| 848 | Mark Linfield | $170,767,670 | 5 | $34,153,534 |
| 849 | John Boorman | $170,329,225 | 14 | $12,166,373 |
| 850 | Ash Brannon | $169,544,233 | 2 | $84,772,117 |
| 851 | Richard Fleischer | $168,752,822 | 17 | $9,926,637 |
| 852 | Angelina Jolie | $167,764,763 | 6 | $27,960,794 |
| 853 | Lorene Scafaria | $167,761,820 | 3 | $55,920,607 |
| 854 | Peter Bogdanovich | $167,613,084 | 15 | $11,174,206 |
| 855 | Steve Pink | $167,555,057 | 7 | $23,936,437 |
| 856 | John Whitesell | $166,148,574 | 6 | $27,691,429 |
| 857 | Cedric Nicolas-Troyan | $165,149,302 | 2 | $82,574,651 |
| 858 | Troy Quane | $165,124,093 | 2 | $82,562,047 |
| 859 | Nick Bruno | $165,124,093 | 2 | $82,562,047 |
| 860 | Carl Franklin | $165,111,774 | 7 | $23,587,396 |
| 861 | Kim Jee-woon | $164,595,509 | 8 | $20,574,439 |
| 862 | Howard Hall | $164,576,931 | 4 | $41,144,233 |
| 863 | Mamoru Hosoda | $163,132,199 | 5 | $32,626,440 |
| 864 | Barbet Schroeder | $162,579,017 | 12 | $13,548,251 |
| 865 | Michael Hoffman | $162,574,614 | 8 | $20,321,827 |
| 866 | Richard Loncraine | $162,492,967 | 9 | $18,054,774 |
| 867 | Paul McGuigan | $162,213,480 | 8 | $20,276,685 |
| 868 | Franco Zeffirelli | $162,140,150 | 13 | $12,472,319 |
| 869 | Garth Davis | $161,345,989 | 3 | $53,781,996 |
| 870 | Mans Marlind | $161,123,188 | 3 | $53,707,729 |
| 871 | Björn Stein | $161,088,683 | 2 | $80,544,342 |
| 872 | Michel Hazanavicius | $160,788,735 | 8 | $20,098,592 |
| 873 | Yu Shan Chen | $160,687,692 | 3 | $53,562,564 |
| 874 | Fred Schepisi | $160,463,570 | 13 | $12,343,352 |
| 875 | Andrew Erwin | $160,352,081 | 8 | $20,044,010 |
| 876 | Siddharth Anand | $159,709,392 | 4 | $39,927,348 |
| 877 | David Kerr | $159,369,278 | 3 | $53,123,093 |
| 878 | Wong Amp | $158,354,730 | 2 | $79,177,365 |
| 879 | John Polson | $157,780,969 | 2 | $78,890,485 |
| 880 | Ali Abbas Zafar | $157,633,566 | 5 | $31,526,713 |
| 881 | Er Cheng | $157,466,859 | 2 | $78,733,430 |
| 882 | Sylvain White | $157,336,836 | 4 | $39,334,209 |
| 883 | Griffin Dunne | $157,080,746 | 6 | $26,180,124 |
| 884 | Rupert Wainwright | $157,064,028 | 3 | $52,354,676 |
| 885 | Jessie Nelson | $156,952,327 | 3 | $52,317,442 |
| 886 | Sheng Ding | $156,886,928 | 7 | $22,412,418 |
| 887 | Bobs Gannaway | $156,399,644 | 1 | $156,399,644 |
| 888 | Luis Llosa | $155,993,560 | 2 | $77,996,780 |
| 889 | Stan Dragoti | $155,666,897 | 5 | $31,133,379 |
| 890 | Barbra Streisand | $155,067,309 | 3 | $51,689,103 |
| 891 | Paul Weiland | $154,326,150 | 5 | $30,865,230 |
| 892 | Tom McCarthy | $153,821,762 | 8 | $19,227,720 |
| 893 | Etan Cohen | $153,638,058 | 2 | $76,819,029 |
| 894 | Zhang Hongwei | $153,018,738 | 1 | $153,018,738 |
| 895 | Thurop Van Orman | $152,255,188 | 1 | $152,255,188 |
| 896 | Kazuya Tsurumaki | $152,048,711 | 3 | $50,682,904 |
| 897 | Carl Rinsch | $151,716,815 | 1 | $151,716,815 |
| 898 | Jean-Marc Vallee | $151,639,860 | 5 | $30,327,972 |
| 899 | James Fargo | $151,468,727 | 3 | $50,489,576 |
| 900 | Gavin Lin | $151,056,221 | 1 | $151,056,221 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.