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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 201-300)BETA
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This list shows the highest grossing Directors 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 | Chris Williams | $975,278,034 | 3 | $325,092,678 |
| 202 | Francis Ford Coppola | $968,900,828 | 24 | $40,370,868 |
| 203 | Tim Johnson | $962,620,890 | 5 | $192,524,178 |
| 204 | John Landis | $961,753,744 | 18 | $53,430,764 |
| 205 | Danny Boyle | $958,428,592 | 16 | $59,901,787 |
| 206 | Rawson Marshall Thurber | $957,914,827 | 8 | $119,739,353 |
| 207 | Rob Reiner | $955,442,151 | 21 | $45,497,245 |
| 208 | Andy Tennant | $953,235,557 | 11 | $86,657,778 |
| 209 | Gary Trousdale | $950,205,863 | 3 | $316,735,288 |
| 210 | David F. Sandberg | $950,031,457 | 6 | $158,338,576 |
| 211 | Adrian Lyne | $948,596,185 | 10 | $94,859,619 |
| 212 | Andrew Davis | $935,717,764 | 11 | $85,065,251 |
| 213 | Adam McKay | $927,918,446 | 10 | $92,791,845 |
| 214 | Xu Zheng | $922,817,254 | 6 | $153,802,876 |
| 215 | James Foley | $908,908,212 | 13 | $69,916,016 |
| 216 | Jerry Zucker | $907,747,809 | 6 | $151,291,302 |
| 217 | Paul Weitz | $900,674,502 | 13 | $69,282,654 |
| 218 | David O. Russell | $899,499,770 | 12 | $74,958,314 |
| 219 | D.J. Caruso | $899,043,170 | 16 | $56,190,198 |
| 220 | Wes Craven | $897,483,799 | 20 | $44,874,190 |
| 221 | John Glen | $893,563,642 | 7 | $127,651,949 |
| 222 | Brian Levant | $891,685,930 | 10 | $89,168,593 |
| 223 | Kevin Lima | $890,853,958 | 6 | $148,475,660 |
| 224 | Mark Waters | $888,525,793 | 14 | $63,466,128 |
| 225 | Don Hall | $884,312,268 | 4 | $221,078,067 |
| 226 | Michael Thurmeier | $879,765,137 | 1 | $879,765,137 |
| 227 | Nora Ephron | $877,804,290 | 7 | $125,400,613 |
| 228 | Peter Weir | $875,761,670 | 12 | $72,980,139 |
| 229 | Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu | $873,267,860 | 7 | $124,752,551 |
| 230 | Vicky Jenson | $870,490,959 | 4 | $217,622,740 |
| 231 | Seth MacFarlane | $860,009,327 | 3 | $286,669,776 |
| 232 | Darren Aronofsky | $856,822,914 | 10 | $85,682,291 |
| 233 | Makoto Shinkai | $855,195,060 | 8 | $106,899,383 |
| 234 | Chuck Russell | $845,744,729 | 10 | $84,574,473 |
| 235 | Nicholas Stoller | $837,981,333 | 9 | $93,109,037 |
| 236 | John Badham | $825,101,546 | 14 | $58,935,825 |
| 237 | David Gordon Green | $816,848,065 | 18 | $45,380,448 |
| 238 | Espen Sandberg | $816,708,185 | 4 | $204,177,046 |
| 239 | David Frankel | $811,996,231 | 10 | $81,199,623 |
| 240 | Len Wiseman | $803,270,454 | 5 | $160,654,091 |
| 241 | Cary Joji Fukunaga | $800,040,825 | 5 | $160,008,165 |
| 242 | Kevin Reynolds | $799,973,995 | 8 | $99,996,749 |
| 243 | Robert Luketic | $792,426,955 | 8 | $99,053,369 |
| 244 | David Slade | $786,378,984 | 3 | $262,126,328 |
| 245 | Tim Hill | $784,311,514 | 8 | $98,038,939 |
| 246 | Frank Oz | $780,044,919 | 13 | $60,003,455 |
| 247 | Brenda Chapman | $774,963,369 | 4 | $193,740,842 |
| 248 | Brad Silberling | $770,873,845 | 8 | $96,359,231 |
| 249 | Robert Stromberg | $758,536,735 | 1 | $758,536,735 |
| 250 | Cameron Crowe | $757,465,846 | 9 | $84,162,872 |
| 251 | Roger Donaldson | $755,985,566 | 18 | $41,999,198 |
| 252 | Alex Proyas | $752,295,280 | 6 | $125,382,547 |
| 253 | Dan Scanlon | $743,455,810 | 1 | $743,455,810 |
| 254 | Malcolm D. Lee | $742,828,760 | 13 | $57,140,674 |
| 255 | Yang Yu | $742,718,496 | 1 | $742,718,496 |
| 256 | John G. Avildsen | $741,399,381 | 15 | $49,426,625 |
| 257 | Joe Wright | $739,520,633 | 10 | $73,952,063 |
| 258 | Lee Tamahori | $736,819,321 | 11 | $66,983,575 |
| 259 | Mark Osborne | $733,937,806 | 3 | $244,645,935 |
| 260 | Seth Gordon | $732,745,505 | 6 | $122,124,251 |
| 261 | Jonathan Mostow | $730,584,420 | 7 | $104,369,203 |
| 262 | John Stevenson | $729,369,637 | 3 | $243,123,212 |
| 263 | Irvin Kershner | $727,901,086 | 3 | $242,633,695 |
| 264 | Neill Blomkamp | $721,719,685 | 5 | $144,343,937 |
| 265 | Raman Hui | $720,979,406 | 2 | $360,489,703 |
| 266 | Yibai Zhang | $719,974,617 | 5 | $143,994,923 |
| 267 | William Friedkin | $719,908,885 | 19 | $37,889,941 |
| 268 | Steve Carr | $716,323,487 | 9 | $79,591,499 |
| 269 | Alan J. Pakula | $714,346,911 | 14 | $51,024,779 |
| 270 | Jonathan Demme | $712,706,854 | 24 | $29,696,119 |
| 271 | Timur Bekmambetov | $712,443,704 | 12 | $59,370,309 |
| 272 | Sean Anders | $712,285,883 | 8 | $89,035,735 |
| 273 | Curtis Hanson | $711,185,819 | 11 | $64,653,256 |
| 274 | Chris Wedge | $710,553,582 | 3 | $236,851,194 |
| 275 | Michael Patrick King | $709,928,036 | 3 | $236,642,679 |
| 276 | Jeff Fowler | $707,690,550 | 3 | $235,896,850 |
| 277 | David Zucker | $704,692,127 | 10 | $70,469,213 |
| 278 | Phyllida Lloyd | $702,725,250 | 3 | $234,241,750 |
| 279 | Judd Apatow | $701,203,034 | 9 | $77,911,448 |
| 280 | Joel Crawford | $700,052,096 | 3 | $233,350,699 |
| 281 | Jason Reitman | $699,661,899 | 10 | $69,966,190 |
| 282 | John Singleton | $686,271,634 | 9 | $76,252,404 |
| 283 | Peter Ramsey | $682,406,297 | 2 | $341,203,149 |
| 284 | Kemp Powers | $681,235,370 | 2 | $340,617,685 |
| 285 | Justin K. Thompson | $681,235,370 | 2 | $340,617,685 |
| 286 | Joaquim Dos Santos | $681,235,370 | 3 | $227,078,457 |
| 287 | Jordan Peele | $680,359,199 | 4 | $170,089,800 |
| 288 | Roger Spottiswoode | $680,195,204 | 14 | $48,585,372 |
| 289 | Anne Fletcher | $678,820,666 | 7 | $96,974,381 |
| 290 | Keenen Ivory Wayans | $673,822,088 | 6 | $112,303,681 |
| 291 | Wong Jing | $664,269,954 | 11 | $60,388,178 |
| 292 | Stephen Herek | $661,713,517 | 18 | $36,761,862 |
| 293 | John Madden | $653,830,421 | 13 | $50,294,648 |
| 294 | Steven Caple Jr | $651,579,916 | 3 | $217,193,305 |
| 295 | Donald Petrie | $650,245,188 | 13 | $50,018,861 |
| 296 | Damien Chazelle | $643,110,533 | 5 | $128,622,107 |
| 297 | James Bobin | $637,804,611 | 5 | $127,560,922 |
| 298 | Walt Becker | $637,418,966 | 5 | $127,483,793 |
| 299 | John Krasinski | $636,300,273 | 5 | $127,260,055 |
| 300 | Herman Yau | $633,938,902 | 20 | $31,696,945 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.