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Top Grossing Composer at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 101-200)BETA
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This list shows the highest grossing Composers based on the worldwide 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 | Worldwide Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Bear McCreary | $1,016,931,349 | 21 | $48,425,302 |
| 102 | Nathaniel Mechaly | $1,016,327,759 | 8 | $127,040,970 |
| 103 | Brad Fiedel | $1,011,334,368 | 6 | $168,555,728 |
| 104 | Gabriel Yared | $1,004,119,520 | 16 | $62,757,470 |
| 105 | Stephen Schwartz | $973,355,990 | 2 | $486,677,995 |
| 106 | Eric Clapton | $954,511,350 | 5 | $190,902,270 |
| 107 | Robert Rodriguez | $953,559,090 | 9 | $105,951,010 |
| 108 | Maurice Jarre | $950,459,899 | 7 | $135,779,986 |
| 109 | Marcelo Zarvos | $911,189,002 | 28 | $32,542,464 |
| 110 | Joe Kraemer | $906,229,728 | 4 | $226,557,432 |
| 111 | Alberto Iglesias | $905,351,379 | 19 | $47,650,073 |
| 112 | Lucas Vidal | $874,479,431 | 10 | $87,447,943 |
| 113 | Ilan Eshkeri | $868,681,850 | 19 | $45,720,097 |
| 114 | David Sardy | $857,921,679 | 13 | $65,993,975 |
| 115 | Dan Romer | $853,651,784 | 16 | $53,353,237 |
| 116 | Terence Blanchard | $852,046,411 | 35 | $24,344,183 |
| 117 | A.R. Rahman | $821,109,585 | 12 | $68,425,799 |
| 118 | Clint Eastwood | $810,698,602 | 8 | $101,337,325 |
| 119 | Chris Bacon | $800,279,129 | 7 | $114,325,590 |
| 120 | Bill Conti | $796,481,232 | 10 | $79,648,123 |
| 121 | John Morris | $787,712,971 | 29 | $27,162,516 |
| 122 | Paul Haslinger | $785,587,056 | 9 | $87,287,451 |
| 123 | Atli Orvarsson | $777,494,476 | 13 | $59,807,267 |
| 124 | Walter Murphy | $773,230,770 | 2 | $386,615,385 |
| 125 | John Barry | $766,031,496 | 7 | $109,433,071 |
| 126 | Nami Melumad | $760,928,081 | 2 | $380,464,041 |
| 127 | David Kitay | $759,304,349 | 7 | $108,472,050 |
| 128 | Trevor Jones | $749,221,764 | 9 | $83,246,863 |
| 129 | Wan Pin Chu | $742,718,496 | 1 | $742,718,496 |
| 130 | Philip Glass | $742,020,750 | 26 | $28,539,260 |
| 131 | Nathan Wang | $727,500,794 | 14 | $51,964,342 |
| 132 | Cliff Martinez | $727,488,210 | 15 | $48,499,214 |
| 133 | Dave Metzger | $722,612,009 | 1 | $722,612,009 |
| 134 | Justin Hurwitz | $714,970,562 | 4 | $178,742,641 |
| 135 | Fernando Velazquez | $704,297,087 | 13 | $54,176,699 |
| 136 | Bruce Broughton | $697,846,392 | 37 | $18,860,713 |
| 137 | Richard Gibbs | $695,485,743 | 9 | $77,276,194 |
| 138 | Michael Abels | $682,967,253 | 6 | $113,827,876 |
| 139 | Roque Banos | $667,764,307 | 17 | $39,280,253 |
| 140 | Nick Urata | $657,898,251 | 16 | $41,118,641 |
| 141 | Ryuichi Sakamoto | $648,383,238 | 7 | $92,626,177 |
| 142 | Laura Karpman | $638,177,709 | 13 | $49,090,593 |
| 143 | Nick Glennie-Smith | $632,809,816 | 5 | $126,561,963 |
| 144 | West Dylan Thordson | $627,442,778 | 6 | $104,573,796 |
| 145 | Roc Chen | $618,594,966 | 3 | $206,198,322 |
| 146 | Lisa Gerrard | $618,188,760 | 10 | $61,818,876 |
| 147 | Jed Kurzel | $610,102,649 | 13 | $46,930,973 |
| 148 | Erran Baron Cohen | $609,032,106 | 5 | $121,806,421 |
| 149 | David Sanborn | $605,100,000 | 2 | $302,550,000 |
| 150 | J. Peter Robinson | $603,873,894 | 24 | $25,161,412 |
| 151 | John Carpenter | $603,749,651 | 11 | $54,886,332 |
| 152 | Lennie Niehaus | $596,055,655 | 7 | $85,150,808 |
| 153 | Benny Andersson | $583,178,277 | 1 | $583,178,277 |
| 154 | Bjorn Ulvaeus | $583,178,277 | 1 | $583,178,277 |
| 155 | Hong Han | $581,641,120 | 1 | $581,641,120 |
| 156 | Michael Brook | $581,400,088 | 29 | $20,048,279 |
| 157 | Nathan Johnson | $573,072,204 | 6 | $95,512,034 |
| 158 | Antonio Di Iorio | $572,305,338 | 1 | $572,305,338 |
| 159 | Joe Hisaishi | $572,065,090 | 6 | $95,344,182 |
| 160 | Jóhann Jóhannsson | $569,421,752 | 11 | $51,765,614 |
| 161 | Nathan Barr | $567,153,225 | 14 | $40,510,945 |
| 162 | Nicholas Britell | $563,508,092 | 12 | $46,959,008 |
| 163 | Clinton Shorter | $553,823,398 | 5 | $110,764,680 |
| 164 | Alva Noto | $532,938,302 | 1 | $532,938,302 |
| 165 | Volker Bertelmann | $532,575,606 | 22 | $24,207,982 |
| 166 | Nancy Wilson | $526,998,570 | 3 | $175,666,190 |
| 167 | Gustavo Santaolalla | $524,299,609 | 10 | $52,429,961 |
| 168 | Daniel Davies | $522,435,568 | 7 | $74,633,653 |
| 169 | Cody Carpenter | $522,435,568 | 5 | $104,487,114 |
| 170 | Georges Delerue | $520,480,171 | 11 | $47,316,379 |
| 171 | Chan Kwong Wing | $518,370,776 | 7 | $74,052,968 |
| 172 | Andy Milburn | $518,034,057 | 16 | $32,377,129 |
| 173 | Thomas Hajdu | $518,034,057 | 16 | $32,377,129 |
| 174 | Deborah Lurie | $510,017,670 | 10 | $51,001,767 |
| 175 | Alex Heffes | $503,491,070 | 16 | $31,468,192 |
| 176 | Jack Nitzsche | $502,167,846 | 5 | $100,433,569 |
| 177 | Germaine Franco | $497,502,115 | 6 | $82,917,019 |
| 178 | Johnny Klimek | $490,823,809 | 11 | $44,620,346 |
| 179 | Stephen Trask | $482,737,352 | 7 | $68,962,479 |
| 180 | Nathan Whitehead | $481,484,897 | 10 | $48,148,490 |
| 181 | Anne Dudley | $475,187,004 | 6 | $79,197,834 |
| 182 | Alex Wurman | $473,705,781 | 7 | $67,672,254 |
| 183 | Andrew Kawczynski | $470,484,899 | 3 | $156,828,300 |
| 184 | Abel Korzeniowski | $466,914,411 | 9 | $51,879,379 |
| 185 | Pritam | $464,845,042 | 15 | $30,989,669 |
| 186 | David Hykes | $459,260,946 | 1 | $459,260,946 |
| 187 | Robert Folk | $455,721,291 | 12 | $37,976,774 |
| 188 | BT | $451,497,313 | 8 | $56,437,164 |
| 189 | Dave Grusin | $445,970,045 | 10 | $44,597,005 |
| 190 | Jongnic Bontemps | $445,268,548 | 4 | $111,317,137 |
| 191 | Waddy Wachtel | $443,401,979 | 11 | $40,309,271 |
| 192 | Trevor Morris | $442,598,671 | 7 | $63,228,382 |
| 193 | Claude-Michel Schönberg | $435,292,452 | 1 | $435,292,452 |
| 194 | Buck Sanders | $431,995,548 | 5 | $86,399,110 |
| 195 | Marcus Miller | $428,696,696 | 19 | $22,562,984 |
| 196 | Javier Navarrete | $426,381,974 | 5 | $85,276,395 |
| 197 | Antonio Pinto | $418,553,449 | 16 | $26,159,591 |
| 198 | M.M. Keeravani | $414,047,596 | 4 | $103,511,899 |
| 199 | Daft Punk | $399,866,199 | 1 | $399,866,199 |
| 200 | Kyle Eastwood | $399,058,682 | 3 | $133,019,561 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.