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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 8,001-8,100)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,001 | Ruslan Akun | $500,005 | 1 | $500,005 |
| 8,002 | Bian Yuan | $500,000 | 1 | $500,000 |
| 8,003 | Ricky Lau | $500,000 | 1 | $500,000 |
| 8,004 | Xie Lianghong | $500,000 | 1 | $500,000 |
| 8,005 | Aishwarya Dhanush | $499,903 | 2 | $249,952 |
| 8,006 | Brandon Trost | $499,737 | 2 | $249,869 |
| 8,007 | Anastasia Mikova | $499,575 | 1 | $499,575 |
| 8,008 | Xabi Molia | $498,915 | 2 | $249,458 |
| 8,009 | Sung Sin-Hyo | $498,107 | 1 | $498,107 |
| 8,010 | Sadaf Foroughi | $497,676 | 1 | $497,676 |
| 8,011 | Miguel Faria Jr. | $497,210 | 1 | $497,210 |
| 8,012 | Maxime Giroux | $496,714 | 2 | $248,357 |
| 8,013 | Lee Jeong-jae | $496,077 | 1 | $496,077 |
| 8,014 | Derik Murray | $495,980 | 4 | $123,995 |
| 8,015 | Alfonso Albacete | $495,907 | 2 | $247,954 |
| 8,016 | Jiangnan Zhang | $495,742 | 1 | $495,742 |
| 8,017 | Saulius Baradinskas | $495,707 | 1 | $495,707 |
| 8,018 | Nico van den Brink | $495,697 | 1 | $495,697 |
| 8,019 | Laura Bispuri | $495,257 | 3 | $165,086 |
| 8,020 | Pan Nalin | $495,130 | 5 | $99,026 |
| 8,021 | Tetsuro Amino | $494,787 | 1 | $494,787 |
| 8,022 | Arunraja Kamaraj | $494,666 | 2 | $247,333 |
| 8,023 | Julian Higgins | $493,679 | 1 | $493,679 |
| 8,024 | Yevgeny Abyzov | $493,346 | 1 | $493,346 |
| 8,025 | Asier Altuna | $493,120 | 3 | $164,373 |
| 8,026 | Valerio Mieli | $492,760 | 1 | $492,760 |
| 8,027 | Lena Dunham | $492,747 | 3 | $164,249 |
| 8,028 | Süleyman Mert Özdemir | $492,041 | 2 | $246,021 |
| 8,029 | Chris Patterson | $492,009 | 7 | $70,287 |
| 8,030 | Vittorio de Sica | $491,906 | 9 | $54,656 |
| 8,031 | Tomasz Winski | $491,717 | 1 | $491,717 |
| 8,032 | Ryan Schifrin | $491,506 | 2 | $245,753 |
| 8,033 | Ishiro Honda | $491,389 | 11 | $44,672 |
| 8,034 | Steven de Jong | $491,281 | 1 | $491,281 |
| 8,035 | Mathias Malzieu | $491,117 | 2 | $245,559 |
| 8,036 | Robin Hardy | $491,005 | 2 | $245,503 |
| 8,037 | Peter Templeton | $490,578 | 1 | $490,578 |
| 8,038 | Sujuan Zhang (张素娟) | $490,558 | 1 | $490,558 |
| 8,039 | K. Hari Shankar | $490,435 | 1 | $490,435 |
| 8,040 | Haresh Narayan | $490,435 | 1 | $490,435 |
| 8,041 | Goh Young-jae | $490,433 | 2 | $245,217 |
| 8,042 | Antonio Pisu | $490,378 | 3 | $163,459 |
| 8,043 | Sergei Popov | $490,337 | 1 | $490,337 |
| 8,044 | Ping Wang | $490,000 | 1 | $490,000 |
| 8,045 | Andrew Kasch | $489,696 | 2 | $244,848 |
| 8,046 | Dave Parker | $489,696 | 3 | $163,232 |
| 8,047 | Adam Gierasch | $489,696 | 3 | $163,232 |
| 8,048 | John Skipp | $489,696 | 1 | $489,696 |
| 8,049 | Axelle Carolyn | $489,696 | 1 | $489,696 |
| 8,050 | Mike Mendez | $489,696 | 5 | $97,939 |
| 8,051 | Mark Jonathan Harris | $489,617 | 2 | $244,809 |
| 8,052 | Chang-geun Lee | $488,152 | 1 | $488,152 |
| 8,053 | Willem Gerritsen | $488,113 | 1 | $488,113 |
| 8,054 | Owen Trevor | $487,181 | 1 | $487,181 |
| 8,055 | Georgi Kostov | $487,005 | 4 | $121,751 |
| 8,056 | Kim Jin chul II | $486,855 | 1 | $486,855 |
| 8,057 | Bohdan Slama | $486,800 | 3 | $162,267 |
| 8,058 | Michael Fischa | $486,722 | 1 | $486,722 |
| 8,059 | Gaizka Urresti | $486,678 | 5 | $97,336 |
| 8,060 | Takeshi Yashiro | $485,327 | 1 | $485,327 |
| 8,061 | Nithiwat Tharatorn | $485,201 | 1 | $485,201 |
| 8,062 | Aleem Khan | $485,017 | 1 | $485,017 |
| 8,063 | Yang Chao | $484,727 | 1 | $484,727 |
| 8,064 | Sergio Dow | $484,699 | 1 | $484,699 |
| 8,065 | Chris Evans | $483,938 | 1 | $483,938 |
| 8,066 | Cüneyt Inay | $483,384 | 2 | $241,692 |
| 8,067 | Jiangnan Tong | $483,331 | 1 | $483,331 |
| 8,068 | Bowie Lau | $482,745 | 2 | $241,373 |
| 8,069 | Tom Cairns | $482,637 | 1 | $482,637 |
| 8,070 | Paddy Considine | $480,680 | 2 | $240,340 |
| 8,071 | Nadav Schirman | $480,408 | 1 | $480,408 |
| 8,072 | Anton Bormatov | $480,232 | 2 | $240,116 |
| 8,073 | Xin Han | $480,000 | 1 | $480,000 |
| 8,074 | Jie Ren | $480,000 | 1 | $480,000 |
| 8,075 | Zhen Ding | $480,000 | 1 | $480,000 |
| 8,076 | Zeva Oelbaum | $479,651 | 1 | $479,651 |
| 8,077 | Andrea Segre | $478,822 | 5 | $95,764 |
| 8,078 | Caroline Bottaro | $478,710 | 1 | $478,710 |
| 8,079 | Coline Assous | $478,454 | 1 | $478,454 |
| 8,080 | Petr Hátle | $478,168 | 1 | $478,168 |
| 8,081 | Adam Rehmeier | $478,072 | 2 | $239,036 |
| 8,082 | Francesco Picone | $477,512 | 1 | $477,512 |
| 8,083 | Pierre-Luc Granjon | $476,835 | 2 | $238,418 |
| 8,084 | Léonor Serraille | $476,706 | 2 | $238,353 |
| 8,085 | Nick Wickham | $476,613 | 2 | $238,307 |
| 8,086 | Alice Waddington | $476,062 | 1 | $476,062 |
| 8,087 | Shady El-Hamus | $475,716 | 3 | $158,572 |
| 8,088 | Karen Moncrieff | $475,367 | 3 | $158,456 |
| 8,089 | Marius Kunigenas | $475,157 | 1 | $475,157 |
| 8,090 | Jim Capobianco | $474,602 | 1 | $474,602 |
| 8,091 | Seung-woo-I Han | $474,584 | 1 | $474,584 |
| 8,092 | Jane Schoenbrun | $474,409 | 2 | $237,205 |
| 8,093 | Panah Panahi | $473,357 | 1 | $473,357 |
| 8,094 | Kiyotaka Taguchi | $473,282 | 2 | $236,641 |
| 8,095 | Petr Slavik | $473,093 | 1 | $473,093 |
| 8,096 | Nancy Savoca | $472,829 | 4 | $118,207 |
| 8,097 | Sonia Liza Kenterman | $472,809 | 1 | $472,809 |
| 8,098 | Avi Nesher | $472,139 | 7 | $67,448 |
| 8,099 | Kenshi Fushihara | $471,514 | 1 | $471,514 |
| 8,100 | Kasper Holten | $471,309 | 2 | $235,655 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.