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Top Grossing Casting Director at the International Box OfficeBETA
See also: Top Domestic Casting Directors - Top International Art Directors - Top International Assistant Directors - Top International Assistant Editors - Top International Associate Producers - Top International Cinematographers - Top International Co-Producers - Top International Composers - Top International Costume Designers - Top International Costume Supervisors - Top International Dialogue Editors - Top International Directors - Top International Editors - Top International Executive Producers - Top International Make-up and Hair Designers - Top International Music Editors - Top International Music Supervisors - Top International Producers - Top International Production Designers - Top International Re-recording Mixers - Top International Screenwriters - Top International Second Unit Directors - Top International Set Decorators - Top International Set Designers - Top International Sound Designers - Top International Sound Editors - Top International Sound Effects Editors - Top International Sound Mixers - Top International Story Creators - Top International Stunt Coordinators - Top International Supervising Sound Editors - Top International Unit Production Managers - Top International Visual Effects Supervisors - Top Worldwide Casting Directors
This list shows the highest grossing Casting Directors based on the international 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 ($1,859,130,922 in 2019), Avengers: Infinity War ($1,369,544,272 in 2018), Avengers: Age of Ultron ($936,311,111 in 2015), The Avengers ($891,742,301 in 2012), Iron Man 3 ($805,638,684 in 2013), Captain America: Civil War ($743,815,237 in 2016), Spider-Man: Far From Home ($740,936,182 in 2019), Captain Marvel ($702,746,255 in 2019), Black Panther ($634,097,516 in 2018), The Jungle Book ($587,805,599 in 2016) |
2
Francine Maisler
| Best known as a Casting Director based on credits in that role in 92 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($804,642,000 in 2011), Spider-Man 3 ($558,329,917 in 2007), The Amazing Spider-Man ($495,859,604 in 2012), Mufasa: The Lion King ($468,044,316 in 2024), Dune: Part Two ($432,002,455 in 2024), Fifty Shades of Grey ($404,627,720 in 2015), Hancock ($396,287,998 in 2008), The Revenant ($349,300,408 in 2015), The Mummy ($329,852,780 in 2017), Jason Bourne ($253,975,396 in 2016) |
3
John Papsidera
| Best known as a Casting Director based on credits in that role in 68 films. |
| Top films contributed to this record: Jurassic World ($1,017,657,016 in 2015), The Fate of the Furious ($963,244,567 in 2017), Venom ($642,569,645 in 2018), The Dark Knight Rises ($634,089,008 in 2012), The Dark Knight ($473,460,281 in 2008), Interstellar ($438,531,265 in 2014), Dunkirk ($319,668,648 in 2017), Tenet ($306,800,000 in 2020), Independence Day: Resurgence ($281,025,138 in 2016), Oz the Great and Powerful ($255,588,055 in 2013) |
Complete List
| Rank | Name | International Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sarah Halley Finn | $19,069,131,860 | 63 | $302,684,633 |
| 2 | Francine Maisler | $8,885,855,355 | 92 | $96,585,384 |
| 3 | John Papsidera | $8,192,526,526 | 68 | $120,478,331 |
| 4 | Nina Gold | $7,836,528,525 | 67 | $116,963,112 |
| 5 | Leslee Feldman | $7,599,989,737 | 30 | $253,332,991 |
| 6 | Jane Jenkins | $7,349,053,165 | 120 | $61,242,110 |
| 7 | Janet Hirshenson | $7,348,983,488 | 115 | $63,904,204 |
| 8 | Debra Zane | $7,287,459,397 | 45 | $161,943,542 |
| 9 | Denise Chamian | $6,757,417,715 | 55 | $122,862,140 |
| 10 | Kevin Reher | $6,720,865,078 | 16 | $420,054,067 |
| 11 | Fiona Weir | $5,900,945,227 | 31 | $190,353,072 |
| 12 | Natalie Lyon | $5,795,299,596 | 14 | $413,949,971 |
| 13 | Mary Vernieu | $5,380,469,128 | 136 | $39,562,273 |
| 14 | Lucy Bevan | $5,154,795,833 | 34 | $151,611,642 |
| 15 | Margery Simkin | $4,984,368,667 | 25 | $199,374,747 |
| 16 | Ronna Kress | $4,923,940,378 | 54 | $91,184,081 |
| 17 | Deborah Aquila | $4,793,358,699 | 75 | $63,911,449 |
| 18 | John Hubbard | $4,537,636,963 | 31 | $146,375,386 |
| 19 | Lucinda Syson | $4,474,082,633 | 32 | $139,815,082 |
| 20 | Tricia Wood | $4,168,972,479 | 64 | $65,140,195 |
| 21 | Mary Hidalgo | $4,130,121,830 | 21 | $196,672,468 |
| 22 | April Webster | $3,976,019,236 | 13 | $305,847,634 |
| 23 | Mali Finn | $3,928,337,066 | 24 | $163,680,711 |
| 24 | Christian Kaplan | $3,742,738,609 | 14 | $267,338,472 |
| 25 | Christi Soper | $3,408,662,503 | 14 | $243,475,893 |
| 26 | David Rubin | $3,372,907,439 | 34 | $99,203,160 |
| 27 | Ellen Lewis | $3,334,208,203 | 38 | $87,742,321 |
| 28 | Anne McCarthy | $3,183,691,617 | 43 | $74,039,340 |
| 29 | Mindy Marin | $3,171,340,767 | 32 | $99,104,399 |
| 30 | Jina Jay | $3,143,074,912 | 47 | $66,873,934 |
| 31 | Priscilla John | $3,117,910,261 | 16 | $194,869,391 |
| 32 | Avy Kaufman | $2,995,708,326 | 116 | $25,825,072 |
| 33 | Jeanne McCarthy | $2,925,666,509 | 67 | $43,666,664 |
| 34 | Alyssa Weisberg | $2,900,299,809 | 11 | $263,663,619 |
| 35 | Rich Delia | $2,870,084,372 | 49 | $58,573,150 |
| 36 | Jamie Sparer Roberts | $2,863,007,886 | 7 | $409,001,127 |
| 37 | Susie Figgis | $2,791,329,925 | 20 | $139,566,496 |
| 38 | Roger Mussenden | $2,759,789,900 | 27 | $102,214,441 |
| 39 | Victoria Burrows | $2,706,563,452 | 19 | $142,450,708 |
| 40 | Lindsay Graham | $2,569,078,901 | 41 | $62,660,461 |
| 41 | Debbie McWilliams | $2,490,922,978 | 12 | $207,576,915 |
| 42 | Randi Hiller | $2,483,264,485 | 28 | $88,688,017 |
| 43 | Ellen Chenoweth | $2,230,862,395 | 35 | $63,738,926 |
| 44 | Amy Hubbard | $2,188,703,290 | 12 | $182,391,941 |
| 45 | Scot Boland | $2,109,159,054 | 14 | $150,654,218 |
| 46 | Amanda Mackey | $2,086,011,129 | 54 | $38,629,836 |
| 47 | Kathy Driscoll-Mohler | $2,040,620,922 | 16 | $127,538,808 |
| 48 | Victoria Thomas | $2,027,897,952 | 42 | $48,283,285 |
| 49 | Douglas Aibel | $1,990,166,779 | 57 | $34,915,207 |
| 50 | Allison Jones | $1,968,194,349 | 44 | $44,731,690 |
| 51 | Lora Kennedy | $1,939,244,948 | 14 | $138,517,496 |
| 52 | Ruth Lambert | $1,910,226,974 | 14 | $136,444,784 |
| 53 | Kathleen Chopin | $1,904,122,241 | 19 | $100,216,960 |
| 54 | Kate Dowd | $1,894,269,752 | 20 | $94,713,488 |
| 55 | Kristy Carlson | $1,876,774,330 | 8 | $234,596,791 |
| 56 | Liz Mullane | $1,854,786,585 | 7 | $264,969,512 |
| 57 | Ann Robinson | $1,814,101,163 | 6 | $302,350,194 |
| 58 | Cathy Sandrich | $1,807,169,101 | 49 | $36,881,002 |
| 59 | Kerry Barden | $1,716,459,784 | 96 | $17,879,789 |
| 60 | Billy Hopkins | $1,672,901,852 | 37 | $45,213,564 |
| 61 | Coreen Mayrs | $1,666,433,646 | 23 | $72,453,637 |
| 62 | Joseph Middleton | $1,564,063,727 | 19 | $82,319,144 |
| 63 | Terri Taylor | $1,530,455,287 | 39 | $39,242,443 |
| 64 | Nicole Abellera | $1,508,258,253 | 28 | $53,866,366 |
| 65 | Juel Bestrop | $1,499,995,535 | 28 | $53,571,269 |
| 66 | Heike Brandstatter | $1,498,151,075 | 20 | $74,907,554 |
| 67 | Mary Selway | $1,475,436,886 | 11 | $134,130,626 |
| 68 | Richard Hicks | $1,436,241,481 | 25 | $57,449,659 |
| 69 | Nikki Barrett | $1,423,527,077 | 34 | $41,868,443 |
| 70 | Rachel Tenner | $1,407,893,308 | 13 | $108,299,485 |
| 71 | Kellie Roy | $1,390,165,848 | 24 | $57,923,577 |
| 72 | Lisa Beach | $1,375,938,114 | 23 | $59,823,396 |
| 73 | Bonnie Timmermann | $1,329,556,788 | 18 | $73,864,266 |
| 74 | Dianne Crittenden | $1,287,280,962 | 11 | $117,025,542 |
| 75 | Justine Baddeley | $1,284,356,233 | 17 | $75,550,367 |
| 76 | Matthew Jon Beck | $1,261,224,808 | 5 | $252,244,962 |
| 77 | Kim Davis-Wagner | $1,246,669,964 | 20 | $62,333,498 |
| 78 | Reg Poerscout-Edgerton | $1,236,841,403 | 19 | $65,096,916 |
| 79 | Sarah Katzman | $1,230,287,185 | 18 | $68,349,288 |
| 80 | Carmen Cuba | $1,188,187,832 | 29 | $40,971,994 |
| 81 | Juliet Taylor | $1,171,229,434 | 20 | $58,561,472 |
| 82 | Christine King | $1,164,280,351 | 10 | $116,428,035 |
| 83 | Ros Hubbard | $1,136,545,083 | 21 | $54,121,194 |
| 84 | Laray Mayfield | $1,114,622,025 | 12 | $92,885,169 |
| 85 | Beatrice Kruger | $1,112,210,459 | 6 | $185,368,410 |
| 86 | Sheila Jaffe | $1,109,775,295 | 36 | $30,827,092 |
| 87 | Kelly Roy | $1,104,212,755 | 1 | $1,104,212,755 |
| 88 | Suzanne Smith | $1,098,218,374 | 23 | $47,748,625 |
| 89 | Dan Hubbard | $1,087,284,695 | 26 | $41,818,642 |
| 90 | Gail Stevens | $1,059,845,627 | 19 | $55,781,349 |
| 91 | Mike Fenton | $1,059,530,004 | 28 | $37,840,357 |
| 92 | Shauna Wolifson | $1,037,030,164 | 3 | $345,676,721 |
| 93 | Marisol Roncali | $983,831,878 | 14 | $70,273,706 |
| 94 | Denis Chamian | $978,495,051 | 2 | $489,247,526 |
| 95 | Ilene Starger | $967,003,442 | 9 | $107,444,827 |
| 96 | Marci Liroff | $917,805,880 | 14 | $65,557,563 |
| 97 | Robin Gurland | $904,957,660 | 3 | $301,652,553 |
| 98 | Elaine Grainger | $903,034,974 | 25 | $36,121,399 |
| 99 | Robin D. Cook | $876,380,615 | 15 | $58,425,374 |
| 100 | Nancy Foy | $872,994,437 | 17 | $51,352,614 |
The International Market is defined as all territories excluding 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.