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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 4,901-5,000)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,901 | Buster Keaton | $3,400,000 | 4 | $850,000 |
| 4,902 | Emmanuel Finkiel | $3,396,089 | 1 | $3,396,089 |
| 4,903 | Marius Vaysberg | $3,391,639 | 1 | $3,391,639 |
| 4,904 | Michael Dweck | $3,391,225 | 2 | $1,695,613 |
| 4,905 | Zhang Chong | $3,382,890 | 3 | $1,127,630 |
| 4,906 | Youssef Delara | $3,380,861 | 4 | $845,215 |
| 4,907 | Harry Macqueen | $3,380,398 | 1 | $3,380,398 |
| 4,908 | Gergory Kershaw | $3,379,278 | 1 | $3,379,278 |
| 4,909 | Alexander Dydyna | $3,378,311 | 1 | $3,378,311 |
| 4,910 | Vivian Qu | $3,375,245 | 1 | $3,375,245 |
| 4,911 | Geraldine Nakache | $3,374,169 | 1 | $3,374,169 |
| 4,912 | Meg Ryan | $3,369,917 | 2 | $1,684,959 |
| 4,913 | Kenneth Kainz | $3,364,513 | 1 | $3,364,513 |
| 4,914 | Andac Haznedaroglu | $3,364,227 | 4 | $841,057 |
| 4,915 | Sonya Karpunina | $3,361,139 | 1 | $3,361,139 |
| 4,916 | Smeep Kang | $3,360,842 | 14 | $240,060 |
| 4,917 | Steven Hahn | $3,360,800 | 1 | $3,360,800 |
| 4,918 | Simerjit Singh | $3,357,637 | 8 | $419,705 |
| 4,919 | Andrew Slater | $3,355,266 | 1 | $3,355,266 |
| 4,920 | Gregg Araki | $3,354,318 | 7 | $479,188 |
| 4,921 | Russell Holt | $3,347,647 | 1 | $3,347,647 |
| 4,922 | Tona Errando | $3,347,219 | 1 | $3,347,219 |
| 4,923 | Rachel Ward | $3,344,958 | 2 | $1,672,479 |
| 4,924 | Jan Ole Gerster | $3,344,841 | 2 | $1,672,421 |
| 4,925 | Tanguy de Kermel | $3,341,130 | 1 | $3,341,130 |
| 4,926 | John Putch | $3,336,053 | 5 | $667,211 |
| 4,927 | Bruno Nuytten | $3,331,297 | 1 | $3,331,297 |
| 4,928 | Sang-soo Hong | $3,330,940 | 18 | $185,052 |
| 4,929 | Kenji Shibayama | $3,320,638 | 1 | $3,320,638 |
| 4,930 | Xavier Koller | $3,319,344 | 1 | $3,319,344 |
| 4,931 | Keith Samples | $3,317,930 | 1 | $3,317,930 |
| 4,932 | Pierre Falardeau | $3,316,272 | 1 | $3,316,272 |
| 4,933 | Jeethu Joseph | $3,316,191 | 8 | $414,524 |
| 4,934 | Andrejs Ekis | $3,314,554 | 3 | $1,104,851 |
| 4,935 | Darrel Campbell | $3,310,439 | 1 | $3,310,439 |
| 4,936 | Kevin McAfee | $3,310,439 | 1 | $3,310,439 |
| 4,937 | Carlos Sedes | $3,306,105 | 2 | $1,653,053 |
| 4,938 | Meryam Joobeur | $3,304,748 | 1 | $3,304,748 |
| 4,939 | Everett Downing | $3,304,748 | 1 | $3,304,748 |
| 4,940 | Bruno Collet | $3,304,748 | 1 | $3,304,748 |
| 4,941 | Jean-Francois Le Corre | $3,304,748 | 1 | $3,304,748 |
| 4,942 | Daria Kashcheeva | $3,304,748 | 1 | $3,304,748 |
| 4,943 | Rosana Sullivan | $3,304,748 | 1 | $3,304,748 |
| 4,944 | Siqi Song | $3,304,748 | 1 | $3,304,748 |
| 4,945 | Matthew A. Cherry | $3,304,748 | 3 | $1,101,583 |
| 4,946 | Kathryn Hendrickson | $3,304,748 | 1 | $3,304,748 |
| 4,947 | Matt Chow | $3,295,974 | 2 | $1,647,987 |
| 4,948 | Louis C.K. | $3,293,258 | 3 | $1,097,753 |
| 4,949 | Oleg Assadulin | $3,292,840 | 6 | $548,807 |
| 4,950 | Cho Owen | $3,289,899 | 1 | $3,289,899 |
| 4,951 | Gözde Kural | $3,288,150 | 1 | $3,288,150 |
| 4,952 | Stephane Brize | $3,285,039 | 4 | $821,260 |
| 4,953 | Alan Yuen | $3,283,238 | 1 | $3,283,238 |
| 4,954 | Euzhan Palcy | $3,282,890 | 1 | $3,282,890 |
| 4,955 | Florian Gallenberger | $3,281,855 | 2 | $1,640,928 |
| 4,956 | Gustave Kervern | $3,280,759 | 3 | $1,093,586 |
| 4,957 | Henry Alex Rubin | $3,280,289 | 3 | $1,093,430 |
| 4,958 | Larry Cohen | $3,279,266 | 5 | $655,853 |
| 4,959 | Peter Djigirr | $3,277,991 | 1 | $3,277,991 |
| 4,960 | Norio Tsuruta | $3,276,117 | 2 | $1,638,059 |
| 4,961 | Yeon Woo Lee (이연우) | $3,275,695 | 1 | $3,275,695 |
| 4,962 | Matt Spicer | $3,271,468 | 1 | $3,271,468 |
| 4,963 | Paul Bartel | $3,271,296 | 3 | $1,090,432 |
| 4,964 | Peter Mortimer | $3,268,689 | 3 | $1,089,563 |
| 4,965 | Nora Twomey | $3,266,749 | 2 | $1,633,375 |
| 4,966 | Hal Sutherland | $3,261,638 | 1 | $3,261,638 |
| 4,967 | Ge Zhu | $3,260,000 | 1 | $3,260,000 |
| 4,968 | EuiJeong Hong | $3,259,071 | 1 | $3,259,071 |
| 4,969 | Robert Ramirez | $3,255,426 | 1 | $3,255,426 |
| 4,970 | Rajesh Krishnan | $3,255,229 | 2 | $1,627,615 |
| 4,971 | James F. Collier | $3,254,801 | 1 | $3,254,801 |
| 4,972 | Chia-Kai Wu | $3,250,000 | 1 | $3,250,000 |
| 4,973 | Jennie Livingston | $3,247,160 | 1 | $3,247,160 |
| 4,974 | Vianney Lebasque | $3,245,786 | 2 | $1,622,893 |
| 4,975 | Simon Baker | $3,243,312 | 1 | $3,243,312 |
| 4,976 | Ross Stewart | $3,241,142 | 1 | $3,241,142 |
| 4,977 | Marcus H. Rosenmüller | $3,238,579 | 4 | $809,645 |
| 4,978 | Natalie Erika James | $3,238,539 | 2 | $1,619,270 |
| 4,979 | Brand Tan | $3,233,185 | 1 | $3,233,185 |
| 4,980 | Antoinette Beumer | $3,232,516 | 3 | $1,077,505 |
| 4,981 | Dan Krauss | $3,229,242 | 5 | $645,848 |
| 4,982 | Ketche | $3,227,933 | 2 | $1,613,967 |
| 4,983 | Jack Clough | $3,227,805 | 1 | $3,227,805 |
| 4,984 | Antoine Raimbault | $3,225,703 | 2 | $1,612,852 |
| 4,985 | Jeffrey Walker | $3,225,607 | 3 | $1,075,202 |
| 4,986 | Judy Irving | $3,218,709 | 3 | $1,072,903 |
| 4,987 | Alexis Durand-Brault | $3,210,072 | 2 | $1,605,036 |
| 4,988 | Salvador Simó | $3,209,792 | 2 | $1,604,896 |
| 4,989 | Andy Wolk | $3,206,713 | 2 | $1,603,357 |
| 4,990 | Stephen Foenkinos | $3,200,055 | 1 | $3,200,055 |
| 4,991 | Vishesh Bhatt | $3,200,000 | 1 | $3,200,000 |
| 4,992 | Victor Schertzinger | $3,200,000 | 2 | $1,600,000 |
| 4,993 | Tair Mamedov | $3,199,844 | 2 | $1,599,922 |
| 4,994 | Dmitriy Vysotskiy | $3,195,673 | 2 | $1,597,837 |
| 4,995 | Igor Zaytsev | $3,190,979 | 2 | $1,595,490 |
| 4,996 | Yuqi Yin | $3,190,549 | 1 | $3,190,549 |
| 4,997 | Graeme Clifford | $3,184,690 | 3 | $1,061,563 |
| 4,998 | Jin-yeong Kim | $3,181,670 | 1 | $3,181,670 |
| 4,999 | Alain Guiraudie | $3,179,804 | 3 | $1,059,935 |
| 5,000 | Cao Dawei | $3,177,786 | 2 | $1,588,893 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.