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Top Grossing Director at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 2,901-3,000)BETA
See also: Top Domestic Art Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Editors - Top Domestic Associate Producers - Top Domestic Casting Directors - Top Domestic Cinematographers - Top Domestic Co-Producers - Top Domestic Composers - Top Domestic Costume Designers - Top Domestic Costume Supervisors - Top Domestic Dialogue Editors - Top Domestic Editors - Top Domestic Executive Producers - Top Domestic Make-up and Hair Designers - Top Domestic Music Editors - Top Domestic Music Supervisors - Top Domestic Producers - Top Domestic Production Designers - Top Domestic Re-recording Mixers - Top Domestic Screenwriters - Top Domestic Second Unit Directors - Top Domestic Set Decorators - Top Domestic Set Designers - Top Domestic Sound Designers - Top Domestic Sound Editors - Top Domestic Sound Effects Editors - Top Domestic Sound Mixers - Top Domestic Story Creators - Top Domestic Stunt Coordinators - Top Domestic Supervising Sound Editors - Top Domestic Unit Production Managers - Top Domestic Visual Effects Supervisors - Top International Directors - Top Worldwide Directors
This list shows the highest grossing Directors based on the domestic box office of the movies they worked on.
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| Rank | Name | Domestic Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,901 | James F. Collier | $3,254,801 | 1 | $3,254,801 |
| 2,902 | Jennie Livingston | $3,247,160 | 1 | $3,247,160 |
| 2,903 | François Truffaut | $3,243,398 | 14 | $231,671 |
| 2,904 | Rowan Joffe | $3,242,457 | 1 | $3,242,457 |
| 2,905 | Lake Bell | $3,239,879 | 3 | $1,079,960 |
| 2,906 | Philippe Claudel | $3,223,275 | 3 | $1,074,425 |
| 2,907 | Alexis Durand-Brault | $3,210,072 | 2 | $1,605,036 |
| 2,908 | Andy Wolk | $3,206,713 | 2 | $1,603,357 |
| 2,909 | Victor Schertzinger | $3,200,000 | 2 | $1,600,000 |
| 2,910 | Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | $3,195,695 | 9 | $355,077 |
| 2,911 | Youssef Delara | $3,191,313 | 4 | $797,828 |
| 2,912 | Rama Burshtein | $3,187,043 | 2 | $1,593,522 |
| 2,913 | Graeme Clifford | $3,184,690 | 3 | $1,061,563 |
| 2,914 | Julio Medem | $3,179,722 | 4 | $794,931 |
| 2,915 | Otto Bell | $3,168,664 | 1 | $3,168,664 |
| 2,916 | John Swanbeck | $3,150,107 | 1 | $3,150,107 |
| 2,917 | Alex Ross Perry | $3,144,047 | 9 | $349,339 |
| 2,918 | Sally Field | $3,134,509 | 1 | $3,134,509 |
| 2,919 | Jon Stewart | $3,128,941 | 2 | $1,564,471 |
| 2,920 | Steven Baigelman | $3,124,440 | 1 | $3,124,440 |
| 2,921 | Andrew Jarecki | $3,117,985 | 1 | $3,117,985 |
| 2,922 | Jean-Pierre Dardenne | $3,113,410 | 6 | $518,902 |
| 2,923 | Luc Dardenne | $3,113,410 | 6 | $518,902 |
| 2,924 | Kim Yong-hwa | $3,109,068 | 2 | $1,554,534 |
| 2,925 | Damian Szifron | $3,107,072 | 2 | $1,553,536 |
| 2,926 | Eytan Fox | $3,104,723 | 5 | $620,945 |
| 2,927 | Boris Sagal | $3,100,000 | 2 | $1,550,000 |
| 2,928 | Hao Ning | $3,098,370 | 8 | $387,296 |
| 2,929 | Laurice Guillen | $3,094,699 | 1 | $3,094,699 |
| 2,930 | Kevin Macdonald | $3,093,069 | 4 | $773,267 |
| 2,931 | Xiaogang Feng | $3,092,971 | 8 | $386,621 |
| 2,932 | Jean-Jacques Beineix | $3,088,581 | 2 | $1,544,291 |
| 2,933 | J.T. Mollner | $3,083,595 | 2 | $1,541,798 |
| 2,934 | Darren Stein | $3,076,820 | 2 | $1,538,410 |
| 2,935 | Ricki Stern | $3,063,469 | 5 | $612,694 |
| 2,936 | Anne Sundberg | $3,063,469 | 4 | $765,867 |
| 2,937 | Oliver Hermanus | $3,062,378 | 2 | $1,531,189 |
| 2,938 | Julio Quintana | $3,060,040 | 3 | $1,020,013 |
| 2,939 | Eran Kolirin | $3,059,823 | 3 | $1,019,941 |
| 2,940 | Judy Irving | $3,058,527 | 3 | $1,019,509 |
| 2,941 | Richard Lanni | $3,054,285 | 1 | $3,054,285 |
| 2,942 | John Bailey | $3,038,499 | 2 | $1,519,250 |
| 2,943 | Angel Gracia | $3,033,623 | 2 | $1,516,812 |
| 2,944 | Matt Spicer | $3,021,133 | 1 | $3,021,133 |
| 2,945 | Christopher Scott Cherot | $3,020,784 | 1 | $3,020,784 |
| 2,946 | Alma Har'el | $3,012,615 | 4 | $753,154 |
| 2,947 | Shinji Higuchi | $3,011,668 | 4 | $752,917 |
| 2,948 | Abhishek Pathak | $3,004,180 | 2 | $1,502,090 |
| 2,949 | Charlie Loventhal | $3,000,000 | 1 | $3,000,000 |
| 2,950 | Sarne Michael | $3,000,000 | 1 | $3,000,000 |
| 2,951 | Harry F. Millarde | $3,000,000 | 1 | $3,000,000 |
| 2,952 | Dan Goldberg | $3,000,000 | 1 | $3,000,000 |
| 2,953 | Maurice Tourneur | $3,000,000 | 1 | $3,000,000 |
| 2,954 | George Sherman | $3,000,000 | 3 | $1,000,000 |
| 2,955 | Wuershan | $2,998,062 | 3 | $999,354 |
| 2,956 | David Prior | $2,995,698 | 3 | $998,566 |
| 2,957 | Paul Lynch | $2,995,527 | 1 | $2,995,527 |
| 2,958 | Diego Kaplan | $2,971,116 | 2 | $1,485,558 |
| 2,959 | Henry Alex Rubin | $2,968,016 | 3 | $989,339 |
| 2,960 | Michael D. Olmos | $2,964,044 | 3 | $988,015 |
| 2,961 | Robert Englund | $2,955,917 | 1 | $2,955,917 |
| 2,962 | Joe Mantello | $2,936,611 | 1 | $2,936,611 |
| 2,963 | Robert Ramirez | $2,922,354 | 1 | $2,922,354 |
| 2,964 | Euros Lyn | $2,913,328 | 2 | $1,456,664 |
| 2,965 | Nathaniel Kahn | $2,909,922 | 4 | $727,481 |
| 2,966 | John Broderick | $2,886,225 | 1 | $2,886,225 |
| 2,967 | Lynn Shelton | $2,878,948 | 7 | $411,278 |
| 2,968 | Peter Werner | $2,877,571 | 4 | $719,393 |
| 2,969 | W.S. Van Dyke | $2,868,000 | 8 | $358,500 |
| 2,970 | Chen Sicheng | $2,867,414 | 7 | $409,631 |
| 2,971 | David Boyd | $2,859,955 | 1 | $2,859,955 |
| 2,972 | Dan Krauss | $2,854,538 | 5 | $570,908 |
| 2,973 | Dante Lam | $2,848,783 | 10 | $284,878 |
| 2,974 | David Nixon | $2,848,587 | 2 | $1,424,294 |
| 2,975 | R. Balki | $2,845,510 | 5 | $569,102 |
| 2,976 | Robert B. Weide | $2,835,982 | 2 | $1,417,991 |
| 2,977 | Marc Sondheimer | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 2,978 | Selim Aazzazi | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 2,979 | Lou Hamou-Lhadj | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 2,980 | Orlando von Einsiedel | $2,835,355 | 4 | $708,839 |
| 2,981 | Nathan Kahane | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 2,982 | Aske Bang | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 2,983 | Patrick Osborne | $2,835,355 | 2 | $1,417,678 |
| 2,984 | Theodore Ushev | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 2,985 | Raphaela Neihausen | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 2,986 | Kim Magnusson | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 2,987 | Robert Valley | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 2,988 | Marcel Mettelsiefen | $2,835,355 | 3 | $945,118 |
| 2,989 | Juanjo Gimenez Pena | $2,835,355 | 2 | $1,417,678 |
| 2,990 | Daphne Matziaraki | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 2,991 | Timo von Gunten | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 2,992 | Cara Speller | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 2,993 | Stephen Ellis | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 2,994 | Kristof Deak | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 2,995 | Alan Barillaro | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 2,996 | Giacun Caduff | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 2,997 | Andrew Coats | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 2,998 | Joanna Natasegara | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 2,999 | Anna Udvardy | $2,835,355 | 1 | $2,835,355 |
| 3,000 | Ceyda Torun | $2,834,262 | 1 | $2,834,262 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.