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Top Grossing Director at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 3,101-3,200)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,101 | Rahul Dholakia | $2,369,469 | 1 | $2,369,469 |
| 3,102 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | $2,353,728 | 3 | $784,576 |
| 3,103 | Matthew Crouch | $2,347,896 | 2 | $1,173,948 |
| 3,104 | James Yukich | $2,341,309 | 1 | $2,341,309 |
| 3,105 | Ben Smallbone | $2,340,185 | 3 | $780,062 |
| 3,106 | Michael Noer | $2,335,896 | 3 | $778,632 |
| 3,107 | Vishal Bhardwaj | $2,334,286 | 6 | $389,048 |
| 3,108 | Muye Wen | $2,330,161 | 4 | $582,540 |
| 3,109 | Questlove | $2,320,649 | 2 | $1,160,325 |
| 3,110 | Jae Hyeon Jang (장재현) | $2,310,900 | 1 | $2,310,900 |
| 3,111 | Youn Jk | $2,305,912 | 4 | $576,478 |
| 3,112 | Nikita Mikhalkov | $2,302,338 | 5 | $460,468 |
| 3,113 | Prashanth Varma | $2,300,000 | 3 | $766,667 |
| 3,114 | Gilles Bourdos | $2,291,047 | 2 | $1,145,524 |
| 3,115 | Eran Creevy | $2,287,038 | 3 | $762,346 |
| 3,116 | Max Mayer | $2,284,723 | 2 | $1,142,362 |
| 3,117 | Michael Verhoeven | $2,281,569 | 1 | $2,281,569 |
| 3,118 | Hal Hartley | $2,278,594 | 5 | $455,719 |
| 3,119 | Sujoy Ghosh | $2,270,202 | 4 | $567,551 |
| 3,120 | Louise Archambault | $2,268,961 | 4 | $567,240 |
| 3,121 | Julio Torres | $2,259,752 | 1 | $2,259,752 |
| 3,122 | Angelo Pizzo | $2,246,000 | 1 | $2,246,000 |
| 3,123 | Nadine Labaki | $2,224,503 | 3 | $741,501 |
| 3,124 | Jamie Babbit | $2,205,627 | 4 | $551,407 |
| 3,125 | Lowell Sherman | $2,200,000 | 1 | $2,200,000 |
| 3,126 | Paul Cox | $2,194,919 | 1 | $2,194,919 |
| 3,127 | Tony Cervone | $2,188,425 | 4 | $547,106 |
| 3,128 | Amar Kaushik | $2,184,000 | 4 | $546,000 |
| 3,129 | Natalie Portman | $2,160,299 | 3 | $720,100 |
| 3,130 | John Patton Ford | $2,156,296 | 2 | $1,078,148 |
| 3,131 | Ahmed Khan | $2,156,018 | 4 | $539,005 |
| 3,132 | Timo Vuorensolam | $2,155,139 | 5 | $431,028 |
| 3,133 | David Michod | $2,153,238 | 5 | $430,648 |
| 3,134 | Coline Serreau | $2,152,268 | 2 | $1,076,134 |
| 3,135 | Mamoru Oshii | $2,150,822 | 4 | $537,706 |
| 3,136 | Jerusha Hess | $2,137,573 | 1 | $2,137,573 |
| 3,137 | Kazuya Tsurumaki | $2,128,440 | 3 | $709,480 |
| 3,138 | Iris K. Shim | $2,121,025 | 1 | $2,121,025 |
| 3,139 | Noel Marshall | $2,110,050 | 1 | $2,110,050 |
| 3,140 | Ralph Strean | $2,097,560 | 2 | $1,048,780 |
| 3,141 | Ethan Hawke | $2,090,760 | 6 | $348,460 |
| 3,142 | Steph Clattenburg | $2,090,607 | 2 | $1,045,304 |
| 3,143 | Abbas Kiarostami | $2,088,982 | 9 | $232,109 |
| 3,144 | Vance Null | $2,083,529 | 1 | $2,083,529 |
| 3,145 | Rafal Zielinski | $2,082,000 | 2 | $1,041,000 |
| 3,146 | Kyle Edward Bell | $2,052,272 | 1 | $2,052,272 |
| 3,147 | Satoshi Kon | $2,048,671 | 4 | $512,168 |
| 3,148 | David Atkins | $2,025,238 | 1 | $2,025,238 |
| 3,149 | Jeffrey Obrow | $2,019,984 | 2 | $1,009,992 |
| 3,150 | Sam Levinson | $2,014,262 | 3 | $671,421 |
| 3,151 | Bill Melendez | $2,013,193 | 8 | $251,649 |
| 3,152 | Julius Onah | $2,010,613 | 5 | $402,123 |
| 3,153 | Jonas Cuaron | $2,002,036 | 3 | $667,345 |
| 3,154 | Jia Ling | $2,001,584 | 2 | $1,000,792 |
| 3,155 | David Hunt | $2,000,093 | 3 | $666,698 |
| 3,156 | Saul Swimmer | $2,000,000 | 1 | $2,000,000 |
| 3,157 | Nancy Walker | $2,000,000 | 1 | $2,000,000 |
| 3,158 | Cornel Wilde | $2,000,000 | 3 | $666,667 |
| 3,159 | Raymond Jafelice | $2,000,000 | 1 | $2,000,000 |
| 3,160 | Ramin Bahrani | $1,970,580 | 8 | $246,323 |
| 3,161 | Chloe Okuno | $1,961,207 | 3 | $653,736 |
| 3,162 | Isao Takahata | $1,960,216 | 7 | $280,031 |
| 3,163 | Julia Ducournau | $1,957,858 | 2 | $978,929 |
| 3,164 | Takeshi Kitano | $1,956,780 | 13 | $150,522 |
| 3,165 | Antonio Banderas | $1,954,202 | 1 | $1,954,202 |
| 3,166 | Andrew Cumming | $1,951,546 | 1 | $1,951,546 |
| 3,167 | Anil Sharma | $1,947,587 | 5 | $389,517 |
| 3,168 | Laszlo Nemes | $1,941,760 | 2 | $970,880 |
| 3,169 | David Zellner | $1,937,181 | 3 | $645,727 |
| 3,170 | Jessica Hausner | $1,929,463 | 4 | $482,366 |
| 3,171 | Derek Tsang | $1,921,657 | 1 | $1,921,657 |
| 3,172 | Hal Barwood | $1,918,117 | 1 | $1,918,117 |
| 3,173 | Catalina Aguilar Mastretta | $1,915,789 | 2 | $957,895 |
| 3,174 | Rik Swartzwelder | $1,914,090 | 1 | $1,914,090 |
| 3,175 | Tim Chambers | $1,891,936 | 1 | $1,891,936 |
| 3,176 | Yasuhito Kikuchi | $1,891,488 | 1 | $1,891,488 |
| 3,177 | Catherine Breillat | $1,888,613 | 6 | $314,769 |
| 3,178 | Emma Holly Jones | $1,885,720 | 1 | $1,885,720 |
| 3,179 | Peter Mortimer | $1,881,766 | 3 | $627,255 |
| 3,180 | Kitty Green | $1,880,576 | 3 | $626,859 |
| 3,181 | Rohit Dhawan | $1,878,904 | 3 | $626,301 |
| 3,182 | Raj Mehta | $1,875,775 | 3 | $625,258 |
| 3,183 | Keith Gordon | $1,863,153 | 2 | $931,577 |
| 3,184 | Tanya Wexler | $1,860,166 | 4 | $465,042 |
| 3,185 | Sajid Khan | $1,857,625 | 2 | $928,813 |
| 3,186 | Nathan Silver | $1,856,473 | 4 | $464,118 |
| 3,187 | Shunsuke Ishikawa | $1,855,384 | 1 | $1,855,384 |
| 3,188 | Ciro Guerra | $1,836,508 | 3 | $612,169 |
| 3,189 | Siddique | $1,834,384 | 4 | $458,596 |
| 3,190 | Raj Kumar Gupta | $1,832,323 | 5 | $366,465 |
| 3,191 | Brett Pierce | $1,815,440 | 2 | $907,720 |
| 3,192 | Drew T. Pierce | $1,815,440 | 2 | $907,720 |
| 3,193 | Stephen Kendrick | $1,803,226 | 1 | $1,803,226 |
| 3,194 | Ray Romano | $1,802,442 | 1 | $1,802,442 |
| 3,195 | Jagdeep Sidhu | $1,802,000 | 8 | $225,250 |
| 3,196 | Shoojit Sircar | $1,801,806 | 3 | $600,602 |
| 3,197 | Neeraj Pandey | $1,801,550 | 4 | $450,388 |
| 3,198 | K.K. Radhakrishna Kumar | $1,800,000 | 1 | $1,800,000 |
| 3,199 | Shunji Iwai | $1,792,654 | 10 | $179,265 |
| 3,200 | Peter Care | $1,779,284 | 1 | $1,779,284 |
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.