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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.