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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 401-500)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401 | Brian Robbins | $464,734,306 | 10 | $46,473,431 |
| 402 | Joseph Ruben | $463,461,326 | 10 | $46,346,133 |
| 403 | Greg Tiernan | $461,338,145 | 5 | $92,267,629 |
| 404 | Patrick Hughes | $461,078,413 | 5 | $92,215,683 |
| 405 | Robert Redford | $460,681,656 | 9 | $51,186,851 |
| 406 | Chiyu Zhang | $460,303,199 | 1 | $460,303,199 |
| 407 | Terry Gilliam | $459,711,283 | 13 | $35,362,406 |
| 408 | Edgar Wright | $456,844,280 | 8 | $57,105,535 |
| 409 | David Hand | $455,171,725 | 4 | $113,792,931 |
| 410 | Les Mayfield | $454,924,803 | 8 | $56,865,600 |
| 411 | Kunihiko Yuyama | $454,915,174 | 11 | $41,355,925 |
| 412 | Tony Gilroy | $454,423,137 | 3 | $151,474,379 |
| 413 | Wolfgang Reitherman | $453,835,510 | 6 | $75,639,252 |
| 414 | Peter Chelsom | $453,308,188 | 12 | $37,775,682 |
| 415 | David R. Ellis | $452,842,101 | 6 | $75,473,684 |
| 416 | Joe Dante | $452,559,314 | 17 | $26,621,136 |
| 417 | Gil Kenan | $452,554,040 | 5 | $90,510,808 |
| 418 | Dean Parisot | $451,819,609 | 5 | $90,363,922 |
| 419 | Olivier Megaton | $450,102,666 | 4 | $112,525,667 |
| 420 | Tian Yusheng | $449,654,341 | 2 | $224,827,171 |
| 421 | Joon-ho Bong | $449,225,826 | 8 | $56,153,228 |
| 422 | Chirs Buck | $448,191,819 | 1 | $448,191,819 |
| 423 | Eric Brevig | $447,955,627 | 2 | $223,977,814 |
| 424 | Michael Dougherty | $445,116,216 | 3 | $148,372,072 |
| 425 | Chloé Zhao | $444,813,627 | 5 | $88,962,725 |
| 426 | George Roy Hill | $442,398,273 | 12 | $36,866,523 |
| 427 | Eli Roth | $441,724,900 | 12 | $36,810,408 |
| 428 | S.S. Rajamouli | $440,799,882 | 4 | $110,199,971 |
| 429 | Henry Joost | $439,792,275 | 7 | $62,827,468 |
| 430 | Ariel Schulman | $439,792,275 | 7 | $62,827,468 |
| 431 | George Clooney | $438,439,074 | 9 | $48,715,453 |
| 432 | Matt Bettinelli-Olpin | $438,226,549 | 9 | $48,691,839 |
| 433 | Tyler Gillett | $438,226,549 | 9 | $48,691,839 |
| 434 | Roman Polanski | $437,638,538 | 20 | $21,881,927 |
| 435 | Stephen Hopkins | $436,549,629 | 11 | $39,686,330 |
| 436 | Blake Edwards | $436,125,602 | 27 | $16,152,800 |
| 437 | Arthur Hiller | $432,875,303 | 18 | $24,048,628 |
| 438 | Bradley Cooper | $432,197,943 | 2 | $216,098,972 |
| 439 | Victor Fleming | $431,228,064 | 4 | $107,807,016 |
| 440 | Craig Gillespie | $430,347,419 | 8 | $53,793,427 |
| 441 | Michael Gracey | $429,054,204 | 3 | $143,018,068 |
| 442 | Joel Zwick | $428,453,590 | 4 | $107,113,398 |
| 443 | Jonathan Goldstein | $427,539,531 | 3 | $142,513,177 |
| 444 | John Francis Daley | $427,539,531 | 3 | $142,513,177 |
| 445 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | $427,054,605 | 8 | $53,381,826 |
| 446 | Marc Lawrence | $426,607,649 | 5 | $85,321,530 |
| 447 | George P. Cosmatos | $424,545,859 | 8 | $53,068,232 |
| 448 | Bilall Fallah | $424,538,855 | 4 | $106,134,714 |
| 449 | Adil El Arbi | $424,538,855 | 4 | $106,134,714 |
| 450 | Alex Kurtzman | $422,571,377 | 2 | $211,285,689 |
| 451 | Jimmy Hayward | $420,887,654 | 3 | $140,295,885 |
| 452 | Hamilton Luske | $418,640,749 | 7 | $59,805,821 |
| 453 | Josh Gordon | $417,742,955 | 5 | $83,548,591 |
| 454 | Will Speck | $417,742,955 | 5 | $83,548,591 |
| 455 | Wang Baoqiang | $414,484,500 | 2 | $207,242,250 |
| 456 | Frank Darabont | $413,615,423 | 5 | $82,723,085 |
| 457 | Brian Helgeland | $413,559,599 | 6 | $68,926,600 |
| 458 | David Soren | $413,319,527 | 3 | $137,773,176 |
| 459 | Jason Friedberg | $413,130,983 | 10 | $41,313,098 |
| 460 | Lawrence Guterman | $413,076,285 | 3 | $137,692,095 |
| 461 | Steve Oedekerk | $412,611,461 | 4 | $103,152,865 |
| 462 | Sam Wood | $408,316,513 | 5 | $81,663,303 |
| 463 | Ben Wheatley | $408,236,165 | 12 | $34,019,680 |
| 464 | Lawrence Kasdan | $406,557,149 | 11 | $36,959,741 |
| 465 | Bruce Beresford | $405,539,259 | 29 | $13,984,112 |
| 466 | Mikael Hafstrom | $405,268,356 | 9 | $45,029,817 |
| 467 | Michael Lembeck | $404,918,010 | 10 | $40,491,801 |
| 468 | Pedro Almodovar | $403,599,498 | 26 | $15,523,058 |
| 469 | Thor Freudenthal | $403,355,217 | 4 | $100,838,804 |
| 470 | Mike Thurmeier | $402,156,682 | 1 | $402,156,682 |
| 471 | Ken Kwapis | $401,624,979 | 10 | $40,162,498 |
| 472 | Leonard Nimoy | $401,387,573 | 6 | $66,897,929 |
| 473 | Bibo Bergeron | $398,741,342 | 2 | $199,370,671 |
| 474 | Stanley Tong | $398,038,678 | 9 | $44,226,520 |
| 475 | Simon Wells | $397,949,526 | 7 | $56,849,932 |
| 476 | Stanley Kubrick | $395,621,778 | 12 | $32,968,482 |
| 477 | Mike Gabriel | $394,531,461 | 2 | $197,265,731 |
| 478 | Mel Brooks | $393,154,574 | 10 | $39,315,457 |
| 479 | Xing Wenxiong | $393,014,816 | 1 | $393,014,816 |
| 480 | Cate Shortland | $384,474,052 | 4 | $96,118,513 |
| 481 | Stephen Daldry | $384,079,560 | 8 | $48,009,945 |
| 482 | Brian Fee | $383,541,369 | 1 | $383,541,369 |
| 483 | John Hamburg | $382,793,278 | 5 | $76,558,656 |
| 484 | Adam Robitel | $382,401,790 | 4 | $95,600,448 |
| 485 | Sidney Lumet | $381,456,377 | 29 | $13,153,668 |
| 486 | Jill Culton | $380,601,047 | 2 | $190,300,524 |
| 487 | Albert Hughes | $379,227,500 | 7 | $54,175,357 |
| 488 | Kathryn Bigelow | $378,863,264 | 9 | $42,095,918 |
| 489 | Sam Fell | $377,959,105 | 4 | $94,489,776 |
| 490 | John Pasquin | $376,239,359 | 4 | $94,059,840 |
| 491 | Bob Persichetti | $375,464,627 | 1 | $375,464,627 |
| 492 | Rodney Rothman | $375,464,627 | 1 | $375,464,627 |
| 493 | Pierre Morel | $375,102,187 | 9 | $41,678,021 |
| 494 | Kirk Jones | $373,717,279 | 5 | $74,743,456 |
| 495 | Don Bluth | $369,755,472 | 10 | $36,975,547 |
| 496 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | $368,977,367 | 3 | $122,992,456 |
| 497 | Michel Gondry | $368,698,220 | 14 | $26,335,587 |
| 498 | Stephen Gaghan | $368,597,728 | 5 | $73,719,546 |
| 499 | Tom Dey | $368,437,431 | 5 | $73,687,486 |
| 500 | Richard Curtis | $368,250,509 | 4 | $92,062,627 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.