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Top Grossing Casting Director at the Domestic Box OfficeBETA
See also: Top Domestic Art Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Editors - Top Domestic Associate Producers - Top Domestic Cinematographers - Top Domestic Co-Producers - Top Domestic Composers - Top Domestic Costume Designers - Top Domestic Costume Supervisors - Top Domestic Dialogue Editors - Top Domestic Directors - 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 Casting Directors - Top Worldwide Casting Directors
This list shows the highest grossing Casting Directors based on the domestic box office of the movies they worked on.
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1
Sarah Halley Finn
| Best known as a Casting Director based on credits in that role in 63 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Avengers: Endgame ($858,373,000 in 2019), Black Panther ($700,059,566 in 2018), Avengers: Infinity War ($678,815,482 in 2018), The Avengers ($623,357,910 in 2012), Avengers: Age of Ultron ($459,005,868 in 2015), Captain Marvel ($426,829,839 in 2019), Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ($411,331,607 in 2022), Iron Man 3 ($408,992,272 in 2013), Captain America: Civil War ($408,084,349 in 2016), Spider-Man: Far From Home ($391,362,492 in 2019) |
2
Jane Jenkins
| Best known as a Casting Director based on credits in that role in 120 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Jurassic Park ($415,404,543 in 1993), Transformers ($319,246,193 in 2007), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ($317,871,467 in 2001), How the Grinch Stole Christmas ($262,425,630 in 2000), The Lost World: Jurassic Park ($229,086,679 in 1997), Mrs. Doubtfire ($219,195,051 in 1993), Ghost ($217,631,306 in 1990), The Da Vinci Code ($217,536,138 in 2006), The Perfect Storm ($182,618,434 in 2000), Apollo 13 ($173,772,767 in 1995) |
3
Janet Hirshenson
| Best known as a Casting Director based on credits in that role in 115 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Jurassic Park ($415,404,543 in 1993), Transformers ($319,246,193 in 2007), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ($317,871,467 in 2001), How the Grinch Stole Christmas ($262,425,630 in 2000), The Lost World: Jurassic Park ($229,086,679 in 1997), Mrs. Doubtfire ($219,195,051 in 1993), Ghost ($217,631,306 in 1990), The Da Vinci Code ($217,536,138 in 2006), The Perfect Storm ($182,618,434 in 2000), Apollo 13 ($173,772,767 in 1995) |
Complete List
| Rank | Name | Domestic Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sarah Halley Finn | $12,297,157,398 | 63 | $195,192,975 |
| 2 | Jane Jenkins | $6,840,069,547 | 120 | $57,000,580 |
| 3 | Janet Hirshenson | $6,792,025,670 | 115 | $59,061,093 |
| 4 | Francine Maisler | $6,099,899,499 | 92 | $66,303,255 |
| 5 | Mary Vernieu | $5,531,494,128 | 136 | $40,672,751 |
| 6 | Debra Zane | $5,454,914,584 | 45 | $121,220,324 |
| 7 | John Papsidera | $5,176,368,394 | 68 | $76,123,065 |
| 8 | Denise Chamian | $4,908,900,906 | 55 | $89,252,744 |
| 9 | Leslee Feldman | $4,479,111,473 | 30 | $149,303,716 |
| 10 | Nina Gold | $4,460,940,526 | 67 | $66,581,202 |
| 11 | Kevin Reher | $4,416,188,130 | 16 | $276,011,758 |
| 12 | Ronna Kress | $4,024,241,429 | 54 | $74,522,989 |
| 13 | Natalie Lyon | $3,774,217,668 | 14 | $269,586,976 |
| 14 | Jeanne McCarthy | $3,682,171,055 | 67 | $54,957,777 |
| 15 | Deborah Aquila | $3,636,743,097 | 75 | $48,489,908 |
| 16 | Mary Hidalgo | $3,339,410,220 | 21 | $159,019,534 |
| 17 | Roger Mussenden | $2,963,391,928 | 27 | $109,755,257 |
| 18 | Tricia Wood | $2,957,779,860 | 64 | $46,215,310 |
| 19 | Allison Jones | $2,870,537,086 | 44 | $65,239,479 |
| 20 | Avy Kaufman | $2,854,974,861 | 116 | $24,611,852 |
| 21 | April Webster | $2,760,341,354 | 13 | $212,333,950 |
| 22 | Margery Simkin | $2,748,556,862 | 25 | $109,942,274 |
| 23 | Rich Delia | $2,638,302,884 | 49 | $53,842,916 |
| 24 | Ellen Lewis | $2,586,689,194 | 38 | $68,070,768 |
| 25 | Mali Finn | $2,571,554,405 | 24 | $107,148,100 |
| 26 | Fiona Weir | $2,550,766,859 | 31 | $82,282,802 |
| 27 | David Rubin | $2,540,253,042 | 34 | $74,713,325 |
| 28 | Randi Hiller | $2,513,163,245 | 28 | $89,755,830 |
| 29 | John Hubbard | $2,451,044,939 | 31 | $79,065,966 |
| 30 | Lucy Bevan | $2,444,487,234 | 34 | $71,896,683 |
| 31 | Juel Bestrop | $2,419,161,984 | 28 | $86,398,642 |
| 32 | Lucinda Syson | $2,385,644,605 | 32 | $74,551,394 |
| 33 | Amanda Mackey | $2,371,594,041 | 54 | $43,918,408 |
| 34 | Alyssa Weisberg | $2,302,852,357 | 11 | $209,350,214 |
| 35 | Kerry Barden | $2,276,142,247 | 96 | $23,709,815 |
| 36 | Mindy Marin | $2,274,879,267 | 32 | $71,089,977 |
| 37 | Victoria Thomas | $2,184,070,833 | 42 | $52,001,687 |
| 38 | Lindsay Graham | $2,093,237,850 | 41 | $51,054,582 |
| 39 | Cathy Sandrich | $2,070,145,497 | 49 | $42,247,867 |
| 40 | Terri Taylor | $2,015,353,368 | 39 | $51,675,727 |
| 41 | Anne McCarthy | $1,996,860,187 | 43 | $46,438,609 |
| 42 | Ellen Chenoweth | $1,892,471,996 | 35 | $54,070,628 |
| 43 | Billy Hopkins | $1,801,445,630 | 37 | $48,687,720 |
| 44 | Priscilla John | $1,726,116,019 | 16 | $107,882,251 |
| 45 | Lisa Beach | $1,699,204,068 | 23 | $73,878,438 |
| 46 | Nicole Abellera | $1,691,988,440 | 28 | $60,428,159 |
| 47 | Douglas Aibel | $1,691,961,633 | 57 | $29,683,537 |
| 48 | Victoria Burrows | $1,683,409,513 | 19 | $88,600,501 |
| 49 | Christi Soper | $1,678,824,211 | 14 | $119,916,015 |
| 50 | Christian Kaplan | $1,649,539,809 | 14 | $117,824,272 |
| 51 | Lora Kennedy | $1,641,648,317 | 14 | $117,260,594 |
| 52 | Mike Fenton | $1,576,160,503 | 28 | $56,291,447 |
| 53 | Kathleen Chopin | $1,517,814,183 | 19 | $79,884,957 |
| 54 | Ruth Lambert | $1,514,976,325 | 14 | $108,212,595 |
| 55 | Jamie Sparer Roberts | $1,505,800,352 | 7 | $215,114,336 |
| 56 | Kristy Carlson | $1,493,872,491 | 8 | $186,734,061 |
| 57 | Sarah Katzman | $1,486,747,914 | 18 | $82,597,106 |
| 58 | Coreen Mayrs | $1,476,341,665 | 23 | $64,188,768 |
| 59 | Jina Jay | $1,457,783,624 | 47 | $31,016,673 |
| 60 | Kate Dowd | $1,445,204,317 | 20 | $72,260,216 |
| 61 | Joseph Middleton | $1,440,229,909 | 19 | $75,801,574 |
| 62 | Kathy Driscoll-Mohler | $1,436,230,802 | 16 | $89,764,425 |
| 63 | Paul Schnee | $1,383,888,085 | 83 | $16,673,350 |
| 64 | Sheila Jaffe | $1,371,124,257 | 36 | $38,086,785 |
| 65 | Heike Brandstatter | $1,324,373,584 | 20 | $66,218,679 |
| 66 | Susie Figgis | $1,282,086,116 | 20 | $64,104,306 |
| 67 | Dianne Crittenden | $1,247,870,838 | 11 | $113,442,803 |
| 68 | Justine Baddeley | $1,244,695,862 | 17 | $73,217,404 |
| 69 | Bonnie Timmermann | $1,129,523,431 | 18 | $62,751,302 |
| 70 | Scot Boland | $1,119,033,021 | 14 | $79,930,930 |
| 71 | Kim Davis-Wagner | $1,118,776,140 | 20 | $55,938,807 |
| 72 | Mary Selway | $1,077,612,514 | 11 | $97,964,774 |
| 73 | Debbie McWilliams | $1,052,353,931 | 12 | $87,696,161 |
| 74 | Marci Liroff | $1,007,816,048 | 14 | $71,986,861 |
| 75 | Rachel Tenner | $998,800,028 | 13 | $76,830,771 |
| 76 | Nancy Nayor | $986,534,503 | 41 | $24,061,817 |
| 77 | Matthew Jon Beck | $978,702,788 | 5 | $195,740,558 |
| 78 | Carmen Cuba | $978,642,274 | 29 | $33,746,285 |
| 79 | Richard Hicks | $978,481,186 | 25 | $39,139,247 |
| 80 | Juliet Taylor | $950,539,625 | 20 | $47,526,981 |
| 81 | Suzanne Smith | $918,255,534 | 23 | $39,924,154 |
| 82 | Nikki Barrett | $894,503,740 | 34 | $26,308,934 |
| 83 | Ilene Starger | $879,250,586 | 9 | $97,694,510 |
| 84 | Robin D. Cook | $868,952,492 | 15 | $57,930,166 |
| 85 | Ann Robinson | $863,445,231 | 6 | $143,907,539 |
| 86 | Liz Mullane | $860,818,657 | 7 | $122,974,094 |
| 87 | Marcia Ross | $859,369,302 | 14 | $61,383,522 |
| 88 | Christine King | $846,637,687 | 10 | $84,663,769 |
| 89 | Amy Hubbard | $846,578,396 | 12 | $70,548,200 |
| 90 | Dan Hubbard | $841,534,157 | 26 | $32,366,698 |
| 91 | Irene Lamb | $839,012,197 | 11 | $76,273,836 |
| 92 | Robin Gurland | $798,257,908 | 3 | $266,085,969 |
| 93 | Rick Montgomery | $794,164,089 | 15 | $52,944,273 |
| 94 | Louis DiGiaimo | $787,880,918 | 13 | $60,606,224 |
| 95 | Nancy Foy | $784,739,950 | 17 | $46,161,174 |
| 96 | Jane Feinberg | $772,224,546 | 12 | $64,352,046 |
| 97 | Ros Hubbard | $770,478,923 | 21 | $36,689,473 |
| 98 | Joanna Colbert | $767,951,141 | 18 | $42,663,952 |
| 99 | Gail Stevens | $767,670,986 | 19 | $40,403,736 |
| 100 | Kim Taylor-Coleman | $732,256,067 | 19 | $38,539,793 |
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.