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Top Grossing Story Creator at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 2,801-2,900)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 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 Stunt Coordinators - Top Domestic Supervising Sound Editors - Top Domestic Unit Production Managers - Top Domestic Visual Effects Supervisors - Top International Story Creators - Top Worldwide Story Creators
This list shows the highest grossing Story Creators 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,801 | Julian Barnes | $1,274,420 | 1 | $1,274,420 |
| 2,802 | Ashutosh Gowariker | $1,264,339 | 1 | $1,264,339 |
| 2,803 | Anton Chekhov | $1,252,960 | 2 | $626,480 |
| 2,804 | Rajkumar Hirani | $1,249,233 | 1 | $1,249,233 |
| 2,805 | Abhijat Joshi | $1,249,233 | 1 | $1,249,233 |
| 2,806 | B.W.L. Norton | $1,246,141 | 1 | $1,246,141 |
| 2,807 | Bryan Gindoff | $1,246,141 | 1 | $1,246,141 |
| 2,808 | Tianxia Bachang | $1,243,810 | 1 | $1,243,810 |
| 2,809 | Wayne Beach | $1,237,615 | 1 | $1,237,615 |
| 2,810 | Anthony Walton | $1,237,615 | 1 | $1,237,615 |
| 2,811 | Claire Tomalin | $1,233,347 | 1 | $1,233,347 |
| 2,812 | Rohit Shetty | $1,226,581 | 1 | $1,226,581 |
| 2,813 | Tom Rob Smith | $1,224,330 | 1 | $1,224,330 |
| 2,814 | Noam Fitoussi | $1,220,807 | 1 | $1,220,807 |
| 2,815 | Charles Williams | $1,206,153 | 1 | $1,206,153 |
| 2,816 | Ian McEwan | $1,203,775 | 2 | $601,888 |
| 2,817 | Philippe Caland | $1,189,612 | 1 | $1,189,612 |
| 2,818 | Rick Porrello | $1,188,194 | 1 | $1,188,194 |
| 2,819 | Tiziano Sclavi | $1,186,538 | 1 | $1,186,538 |
| 2,820 | Casey La Scala | $1,169,603 | 2 | $584,802 |
| 2,821 | Willy Vlautin | $1,163,056 | 2 | $581,528 |
| 2,822 | George Plimpton | $1,151,330 | 1 | $1,151,330 |
| 2,823 | George R.R. Martin | $1,149,470 | 2 | $574,735 |
| 2,824 | Nikolai Leskov | $1,129,408 | 1 | $1,129,408 |
| 2,825 | Francois LeLord | $1,124,445 | 1 | $1,124,445 |
| 2,826 | Lino Disalvo | $1,115,008 | 1 | $1,115,008 |
| 2,827 | David Michod | $1,109,199 | 1 | $1,109,199 |
| 2,828 | Joel Edgerton | $1,109,199 | 1 | $1,109,199 |
| 2,829 | Masami Kurumada | $1,090,155 | 1 | $1,090,155 |
| 2,830 | W. William Winokur | $1,089,445 | 1 | $1,089,445 |
| 2,831 | Jonas Jonasson | $1,083,762 | 1 | $1,083,762 |
| 2,832 | Norman Lebrecht | $1,077,584 | 1 | $1,077,584 |
| 2,833 | Maile Meloy | $1,068,054 | 1 | $1,068,054 |
| 2,834 | Philippe Maynial | $1,065,665 | 1 | $1,065,665 |
| 2,835 | Mike Figgis | $1,057,750 | 1 | $1,057,750 |
| 2,836 | Vladimir Nabokov | $1,051,811 | 1 | $1,051,811 |
| 2,837 | Richard Ford | $1,050,616 | 1 | $1,050,616 |
| 2,838 | Peter Turner | $1,024,266 | 1 | $1,024,266 |
| 2,839 | Jill Ciment | $1,020,921 | 1 | $1,020,921 |
| 2,840 | Adriana Trigiani | $1,009,984 | 1 | $1,009,984 |
| 2,841 | Carey Scott | $1,004,105 | 1 | $1,004,105 |
| 2,842 | Chizuru Takahashi | $1,000,878 | 1 | $1,000,878 |
| 2,843 | Tetsuro Sayama | $1,000,878 | 1 | $1,000,878 |
| 2,844 | James Michener | $1,000,000 | 2 | $500,000 |
| 2,845 | Terry Bohle Montague | $998,562 | 1 | $998,562 |
| 2,846 | Lee Minoff | $993,385 | 1 | $993,385 |
| 2,847 | Sri Rao | $981,947 | 1 | $981,947 |
| 2,848 | Rachel Seiffert | $970,325 | 1 | $970,325 |
| 2,849 | Darryl Ponicsan | $965,481 | 1 | $965,481 |
| 2,850 | Kemp Powers | $946,154 | 1 | $946,154 |
| 2,851 | Mike Jones | $946,154 | 1 | $946,154 |
| 2,852 | Tom Bean | $940,854 | 1 | $940,854 |
| 2,853 | Gopimohan | $934,951 | 1 | $934,951 |
| 2,854 | Nisar Akhtar | $934,951 | 1 | $934,951 |
| 2,855 | Michael Dudok di Wit | $920,057 | 1 | $920,057 |
| 2,856 | Vasilis Katsoupis | $918,415 | 1 | $918,415 |
| 2,857 | Mark St. Germain | $906,283 | 1 | $906,283 |
| 2,858 | Armand Nicholi | $906,283 | 1 | $906,283 |
| 2,859 | Emily M. Danforth | $905,111 | 1 | $905,111 |
| 2,860 | R. David Nathan | $897,876 | 1 | $897,876 |
| 2,861 | Roland Barthes | $892,421 | 1 | $892,421 |
| 2,862 | Remo D'Souza | $892,133 | 2 | $446,067 |
| 2,863 | Tomm Moore | $857,524 | 1 | $857,524 |
| 2,864 | Pete Dexter | $843,657 | 3 | $281,219 |
| 2,865 | Carolyn S. Briggs | $841,056 | 1 | $841,056 |
| 2,866 | Eli Saslow | $837,849 | 1 | $837,849 |
| 2,867 | Mohamedou Ould Slahi | $836,536 | 1 | $836,536 |
| 2,868 | M.B. Traven | $836,536 | 1 | $836,536 |
| 2,869 | Kate DiCamillo | $835,162 | 1 | $835,162 |
| 2,870 | Hideaki Anno | $826,140 | 2 | $413,070 |
| 2,871 | Anna Seghers | $815,290 | 1 | $815,290 |
| 2,872 | Jack Weyland | $814,666 | 1 | $814,666 |
| 2,873 | Shoichirou Ikemiya | $802,778 | 1 | $802,778 |
| 2,874 | Tracy Leininger Craven | $795,755 | 1 | $795,755 |
| 2,875 | James Franco | $776,857 | 4 | $194,214 |
| 2,876 | John Ajvide Lindqvist | $771,930 | 1 | $771,930 |
| 2,877 | Roger Hedden | $764,083 | 1 | $764,083 |
| 2,878 | Andreas Malm | $750,010 | 1 | $750,010 |
| 2,879 | Joseph Kessel | $749,866 | 1 | $749,866 |
| 2,880 | Lex de Azevedo | $744,046 | 1 | $744,046 |
| 2,881 | Don DeLillo | $743,636 | 2 | $371,818 |
| 2,882 | Jack Kerouac | $725,562 | 2 | $362,781 |
| 2,883 | Nicholas Dawidoff | $725,223 | 1 | $725,223 |
| 2,884 | Laurence Benaim | $723,593 | 1 | $723,593 |
| 2,885 | Ruthanne Lum McCunn | $717,772 | 1 | $717,772 |
| 2,886 | Alan Judd | $708,972 | 1 | $708,972 |
| 2,887 | Sita Menon | $705,634 | 2 | $352,817 |
| 2,888 | Dan Pulick | $687,609 | 1 | $687,609 |
| 2,889 | D.H. Lawrence | $687,414 | 2 | $343,707 |
| 2,890 | George Green | $687,081 | 1 | $687,081 |
| 2,891 | Jonathan Lopez | $685,380 | 1 | $685,380 |
| 2,892 | Ritesh Shah | $682,210 | 3 | $227,403 |
| 2,893 | Adrian Tomine | $675,257 | 1 | $675,257 |
| 2,894 | Kunal Kohli | $671,442 | 1 | $671,442 |
| 2,895 | Valerie Lemercier | $667,815 | 1 | $667,815 |
| 2,896 | Brigitte Buc | $667,815 | 1 | $667,815 |
| 2,897 | Graham Yost | $650,565 | 1 | $650,565 |
| 2,898 | Philip Zimbardo | $649,690 | 1 | $649,690 |
| 2,899 | Liu Zhenyun | $649,273 | 2 | $324,637 |
| 2,900 | Vincent Bugliosi | $641,439 | 1 | $641,439 |
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.