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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 David Leitch $746,391,552 10 $74,639,155
102 Kenneth Branagh $736,478,129 23 $32,020,788
103 Rich Moore $731,772,636 4 $182,943,159
104 Gary Ross $729,901,714 6 $121,650,286
105 Martin Campbell $727,139,147 17 $42,772,891
106 Andy Muschietti $720,217,789 6 $120,036,298
107 Peter Berg $714,018,305 13 $54,924,485
108 Andy Wachowski $713,665,444 6 $118,944,241
109 Stephen Sommers $713,547,285 8 $89,193,411
110 Christopher Miller $713,401,410 5 $142,680,282
111 Phil Lord $713,401,410 6 $118,900,235
112 Taika Waititi $707,330,757 11 $64,302,796
113 Francis Ford Coppola $703,616,731 25 $28,144,669
114 Denis Villeneuve $703,513,449 12 $58,626,121
115 Adam McKay $697,548,385 10 $69,754,839
116 John Landis $687,991,265 18 $38,221,737
117 George Miller $687,239,381 14 $49,088,527
118 Marc Forster $684,196,021 13 $52,630,463
119 Rob Reiner $678,286,617 22 $30,831,210
120 Kelly Asbury $678,174,384 5 $135,634,877
121 Paul Feig $673,608,153 13 $51,816,012
122 Rob Letterman $673,414,912 7 $96,202,130
123 Louis Leterrier $661,665,745 11 $60,151,431
124 Jaume Collet-Serra $654,693,578 13 $50,361,044
125 Kelsey Mann $652,980,194 1 $652,980,194
126 Rob Cohen $644,747,527 15 $42,983,168
127 Brian De Palma $628,790,469 24 $26,199,603
128 Sylvester Stallone $626,039,003 8 $78,254,875
129 Nancy Meyers $625,578,930 6 $104,263,155
130 Lee Unkrich $625,464,895 3 $208,488,298
131 Mel Gibson $618,948,692 9 $68,772,077
132 Alfonso Cuarón $615,354,645 9 $68,372,738
133 Marc Webb $611,302,735 9 $67,922,526
134 John McTiernan $611,186,310 11 $55,562,392
135 Aaron Horvath $604,724,566 2 $302,362,283
136 Woody Allen $601,954,566 50 $12,039,091
137 Chris Weitz $600,660,762 9 $66,740,085
138 Ang Lee $598,188,201 14 $42,727,729
139 David Ayer $596,451,905 13 $45,880,916
140 Andy Tennant $596,062,209 11 $54,187,474
141 Ruben Fleischer $593,923,471 8 $74,240,434
142 Mike Newell $585,578,828 17 $34,445,813
143 Doug Liman $585,538,481 16 $36,596,155
144 Wes Craven $579,341,715 20 $28,967,086
145 Michael Apted $577,927,386 25 $23,117,095
146 Frank Coraci $575,039,088 9 $63,893,232
147 Michael Jelenic $574,934,330 1 $574,934,330
148 Frank Oz $574,346,799 13 $44,180,523
149 John Badham $573,468,670 14 $40,962,048
150 Jeff Fowler $573,054,474 3 $191,018,158
151 Joel Coen $572,556,430 19 $30,134,549
152 Andrew Davis $571,872,708 11 $51,988,428
153 Herbert Ross $571,632,141 20 $28,581,607
154 David Zucker $571,466,794 10 $57,146,679
155 Jan De Bont $571,407,071 6 $95,234,512
156 Jared Hess $566,191,502 8 $70,773,938
157 Phillip Noyce $565,699,585 17 $33,276,446
158 Malcolm D. Lee $563,843,895 13 $43,372,607
159 Betty Thomas $563,123,893 7 $80,446,270
160 Renny Harlin $560,714,106 29 $19,334,969
161 Scott Derrickson $555,868,607 12 $46,322,384
162 John G. Avildsen $552,831,770 15 $36,855,451
163 Norman Jewison $549,765,190 22 $24,989,327
164 Matthew Vaughn $546,334,713 8 $68,291,839
165 David O. Russell $536,857,583 14 $38,346,970
166 Michael Mann $533,984,143 14 $38,141,725
167 David Gordon Green $533,708,511 18 $29,650,473
168 John Woo $533,310,921 18 $29,628,385
169 Lasse Hallström $529,512,669 20 $26,475,633
170 Edward Zwick $524,114,236 14 $37,436,731
171 Steve Carr $515,931,411 11 $46,902,856
172 Nora Ephron $511,970,444 7 $73,138,635
173 Roger Allers $509,427,021 3 $169,809,007
174 Robert Schwentke $501,857,525 10 $50,185,753
175 Shane Black $500,514,580 6 $83,419,097
176 Simon West $497,271,590 14 $35,519,399
177 Brian Levant $496,571,336 10 $49,657,134
178 William Friedkin $494,055,109 19 $26,002,900
179 Patty Jenkins $493,833,654 4 $123,458,414
180 Chad Stahelski $493,215,552 9 $54,801,728
181 Josh Cooley $493,136,429 2 $246,568,215
182 Guillermo del Toro $489,930,876 15 $32,662,058
183 Judd Apatow $488,548,538 9 $54,283,171
184 Jerry Zucker $487,778,359 6 $81,296,393
185 Genndy Tartakovsky $485,513,250 5 $97,102,650
186 Garth Jennings $484,139,147 3 $161,379,716
187 Joseph McGinty Nichol $480,446,496 13 $36,957,423
188 Lana Wachowski $476,377,212 7 $68,053,887
189 Mark Waters $475,228,846 16 $29,701,803
190 Jordan Peele $474,199,595 4 $118,549,899
191 David Silverman $473,284,439 3 $157,761,480
192 Chris Miller $471,980,448 4 $117,995,112
193 John Lee Hancock $465,394,469 9 $51,710,497
194 Stephen Herek $465,184,822 19 $24,483,412
195 John Singleton $463,532,640 9 $51,503,627
196 Will Gluck $461,402,249 9 $51,266,917
197 Baz Luhrmann $461,273,671 6 $76,878,945
198 John Krasinski $460,666,773 5 $92,133,355
199 Rawson Marshall Thurber $460,662,129 9 $51,184,681
200 Dana Ledoux Miller $460,405,297 1 $460,405,297

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.