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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 4,701-4,800)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,701 | Martin Sheen | $3,784,867 | 2 | $1,892,434 |
| 4,702 | Kei Ishikawa | $3,781,269 | 3 | $1,260,423 |
| 4,703 | Terry Leonard | $3,776,540 | 1 | $3,776,540 |
| 4,704 | François Ruffin | $3,770,001 | 2 | $1,885,001 |
| 4,705 | Jan Lachauer | $3,769,554 | 5 | $753,911 |
| 4,706 | Paco Cabezas | $3,769,116 | 4 | $942,279 |
| 4,707 | Michael Damian | $3,764,332 | 7 | $537,762 |
| 4,708 | Atlee Kumar | $3,760,738 | 3 | $1,253,579 |
| 4,709 | Paul Dano | $3,754,539 | 1 | $3,754,539 |
| 4,710 | Andrew Solt | $3,753,977 | 1 | $3,753,977 |
| 4,711 | Steven Baigelman | $3,752,446 | 1 | $3,752,446 |
| 4,712 | Manele Labidi | $3,751,039 | 1 | $3,751,039 |
| 4,713 | Viktor Glukhushin | $3,750,171 | 1 | $3,750,171 |
| 4,714 | Peter Greenaway | $3,749,032 | 8 | $468,629 |
| 4,715 | Kyle Henry | $3,742,521 | 2 | $1,871,261 |
| 4,716 | Emmanuel Gillibert | $3,741,800 | 2 | $1,870,900 |
| 4,717 | Mark Buntzman | $3,739,406 | 1 | $3,739,406 |
| 4,718 | Xianhe Lei | $3,737,568 | 1 | $3,737,568 |
| 4,719 | Qi Lu | $3,737,568 | 1 | $3,737,568 |
| 4,720 | Zana Briski | $3,735,969 | 1 | $3,735,969 |
| 4,721 | Ross Kauffman | $3,735,969 | 2 | $1,867,985 |
| 4,722 | Marc Meyers | $3,735,809 | 6 | $622,635 |
| 4,723 | Ilker Çatak | $3,735,661 | 2 | $1,867,831 |
| 4,724 | Arantxa Echevarria | $3,734,422 | 5 | $746,884 |
| 4,725 | A.L. Vijay | $3,731,325 | 8 | $466,416 |
| 4,726 | Jacques Doillon | $3,729,936 | 4 | $932,484 |
| 4,727 | Rodrigo Large | $3,720,805 | 1 | $3,720,805 |
| 4,728 | Sujeeth | $3,717,911 | 1 | $3,717,911 |
| 4,729 | Roman Artemyev | $3,717,013 | 2 | $1,858,507 |
| 4,730 | Alex Holmes | $3,714,196 | 3 | $1,238,065 |
| 4,731 | John Swanbeck | $3,713,451 | 1 | $3,713,451 |
| 4,732 | T.C. Christensen | $3,710,844 | 5 | $742,169 |
| 4,733 | Hiroshi Nishikiori | $3,710,154 | 4 | $927,539 |
| 4,734 | Hongchun Lan (蓝鸿春) | $3,710,000 | 1 | $3,710,000 |
| 4,735 | Christopher B. Stokes | $3,702,722 | 4 | $925,681 |
| 4,736 | Michal Wegrzyn | $3,702,616 | 3 | $1,234,205 |
| 4,737 | Theodore Anthony Ty | $3,699,399 | 1 | $3,699,399 |
| 4,738 | Laurent Zeitoun | $3,699,399 | 1 | $3,699,399 |
| 4,739 | Justin Barber | $3,697,729 | 1 | $3,697,729 |
| 4,740 | Lewis Milestone | $3,696,722 | 3 | $1,232,241 |
| 4,741 | Will Mackenzie | $3,690,328 | 1 | $3,690,328 |
| 4,742 | Richard Kwietniowski | $3,690,135 | 2 | $1,845,068 |
| 4,743 | Wang Mengyuan | $3,690,000 | 1 | $3,690,000 |
| 4,744 | Darya Charusha | $3,688,637 | 2 | $1,844,319 |
| 4,745 | Aleksandr Kott | $3,687,047 | 4 | $921,762 |
| 4,746 | David Serrano | $3,686,575 | 2 | $1,843,288 |
| 4,747 | Kirill Pletnyov | $3,684,972 | 3 | $1,228,324 |
| 4,748 | Julien Leclercq | $3,680,059 | 7 | $525,723 |
| 4,749 | Nick Searcy | $3,679,893 | 1 | $3,679,893 |
| 4,750 | Carlos Eduardo Gutierrez Medrano | $3,677,649 | 1 | $3,677,649 |
| 4,751 | Xavier Legrand | $3,676,105 | 2 | $1,838,053 |
| 4,752 | Eric Judor | $3,666,038 | 2 | $1,833,019 |
| 4,753 | Luciano Ligabue | $3,665,888 | 1 | $3,665,888 |
| 4,754 | Shen Dong | $3,665,824 | 3 | $1,221,941 |
| 4,755 | Patrick Cassir | $3,662,643 | 1 | $3,662,643 |
| 4,756 | Eisaku Kawanami | $3,658,878 | 4 | $914,720 |
| 4,757 | Kei Suezawa | $3,658,090 | 1 | $3,658,090 |
| 4,758 | Christopher Hampton | $3,656,899 | 3 | $1,218,966 |
| 4,759 | Amarjit Singh | $3,653,938 | 4 | $913,485 |
| 4,760 | Cyrille Droux | $3,652,697 | 2 | $1,826,349 |
| 4,761 | Stanley Tsang | $3,652,230 | 2 | $1,826,115 |
| 4,762 | Erick Zonca | $3,647,058 | 2 | $1,823,529 |
| 4,763 | Mike P. Nelson | $3,643,761 | 2 | $1,821,881 |
| 4,764 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | $3,641,163 | 5 | $728,233 |
| 4,765 | Gaetano Morbioli | $3,638,796 | 1 | $3,638,796 |
| 4,766 | Ana Murugarren | $3,637,178 | 3 | $1,212,393 |
| 4,767 | James Schamus | $3,635,525 | 1 | $3,635,525 |
| 4,768 | Aram van de Rest | $3,634,311 | 4 | $908,578 |
| 4,769 | Krishna D.K. | $3,631,107 | 2 | $1,815,554 |
| 4,770 | Raj Nidimoru | $3,631,107 | 2 | $1,815,554 |
| 4,771 | Andrey Konchalovskiy | $3,628,258 | 5 | $725,652 |
| 4,772 | Pietro Marcello | $3,625,540 | 5 | $725,108 |
| 4,773 | Desmond Nakano | $3,622,433 | 1 | $3,622,433 |
| 4,774 | Omar Naim | $3,618,825 | 2 | $1,809,413 |
| 4,775 | Tomáš Hoffman | $3,618,479 | 2 | $1,809,240 |
| 4,776 | Alain Corneau | $3,614,294 | 2 | $1,807,147 |
| 4,777 | Georgi Gitis | $3,613,376 | 1 | $3,613,376 |
| 4,778 | Omer Ugur | $3,610,047 | 3 | $1,203,349 |
| 4,779 | Clara Law | $3,606,224 | 2 | $1,803,112 |
| 4,780 | Dennis Bots | $3,605,617 | 7 | $515,088 |
| 4,781 | Dennis Lee | $3,600,905 | 3 | $1,200,302 |
| 4,782 | Maggie Greenwald | $3,600,015 | 6 | $600,003 |
| 4,783 | Roko Belic | $3,599,174 | 1 | $3,599,174 |
| 4,784 | Charlie Siskel | $3,596,550 | 2 | $1,798,275 |
| 4,785 | John Maloof | $3,596,550 | 1 | $3,596,550 |
| 4,786 | Juliano Dornelles | $3,594,115 | 1 | $3,594,115 |
| 4,787 | Ji-woo Jung | $3,593,741 | 1 | $3,593,741 |
| 4,788 | Cyril Gelblat | $3,591,982 | 2 | $1,795,991 |
| 4,789 | Mika Kaurismaki | $3,591,523 | 6 | $598,587 |
| 4,790 | Bing Wang | $3,590,000 | 3 | $1,196,667 |
| 4,791 | Mark Goldblatt | $3,588,626 | 1 | $3,588,626 |
| 4,792 | Jianping Li | $3,588,402 | 2 | $1,794,201 |
| 4,793 | Petr Kolečko | $3,586,237 | 2 | $1,793,119 |
| 4,794 | Michael Pearce | $3,583,278 | 3 | $1,194,426 |
| 4,795 | Dinesh Vijan | $3,582,830 | 1 | $3,582,830 |
| 4,796 | Bruce Springsteen | $3,581,681 | 1 | $3,581,681 |
| 4,797 | Thom Zimny | $3,581,681 | 4 | $895,420 |
| 4,798 | Javier Mariscal | $3,580,658 | 2 | $1,790,329 |
| 4,799 | Robert Ménard | $3,579,013 | 1 | $3,579,013 |
| 4,800 | Michel Cote | $3,579,013 | 1 | $3,579,013 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.