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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 20,001-20,100)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
20,001 Yan Zeng (曾艳) $1,274 1 $1,274
20,002 Sergey Ivanov $1,274 1 $1,274
20,003 Christopher Munch $1,273 1 $1,273
20,004 Jace Pickard $1,272 1 $1,272
20,005 Josh Davidsburg $1,269 1 $1,269
20,006 Ron Cicero $1,268 1 $1,268
20,007 Kimo Easterwood $1,268 1 $1,268
20,008 Mariano Fernández $1,267 1 $1,267
20,009 Nurul Alam Atique $1,262 1 $1,262
20,010 Alistair Banks Griffin $1,259 2 $630
20,011 Vaughan Sivell $1,256 1 $1,256
20,012 Nanni Loy $1,253 2 $627
20,013 Tomás Lipgot $1,250 2 $625
20,014 Nicolas Grosso $1,249 1 $1,249
20,015 Ahmet Levent Pala $1,248 1 $1,248
20,016 Stephen Soucy $1,247 1 $1,247
20,017 Pedro Pérez Rosado $1,245 2 $623
20,018 Murray Ball $1,245 1 $1,245
20,019 D.C. Hamilton $1,243 2 $622
20,020 Binghan Zhang (张冰寒) $1,242 1 $1,242
20,021 Ekachai Uekrongtham $1,242 1 $1,242
20,022 Róbert Lakatos $1,241 1 $1,241
20,023 Venkata Krishna Roghanth $1,241 1 $1,241
20,024 Umut Kaya $1,241 1 $1,241
20,025 Jamie Dack $1,239 1 $1,239
20,026 Mirlan Abdykalykov $1,238 2 $619
20,027 Efe Öztezdogan $1,237 1 $1,237
20,028 Ipek Kent $1,237 1 $1,237
20,029 Tarik Aktas $1,231 1 $1,231
20,030 Rodolfo Petriz $1,228 1 $1,228
20,031 Jorge Vaz Gomes $1,225 1 $1,225
20,032 Daniel Andrade $1,224 1 $1,224
20,033 Anahi Hoeneisen $1,224 1 $1,224
20,034 Scott Quayle $1,223 1 $1,223
20,035 Praveen Prabharam $1,222 1 $1,222
20,036 Patricia Franquesa $1,221 1 $1,221
20,037 Djin Sganzerla $1,221 1 $1,221
20,038 Jerzy Domaradzki $1,220 1 $1,220
20,039 Preetham Gubbi $1,219 1 $1,219
20,040 Ramón Luque $1,218 1 $1,218
20,041 Atilla Özyüksel $1,218 1 $1,218
20,042 Samet Başormancı $1,214 1 $1,214
20,043 Georgi Bogdanov $1,212 1 $1,212
20,044 Boris Missirkov $1,212 1 $1,212
20,045 Nick Parsons $1,209 1 $1,209
20,046 A.R. Mohan $1,209 1 $1,209
20,047 In-yeob Jeong $1,208 1 $1,208
20,048 Noboru Tanaka $1,207 1 $1,207
20,049 Rúben Gonçalves $1,204 1 $1,204
20,050 Monica Lairana $1,203 1 $1,203
20,051 Marcos Rodriguez $1,202 2 $601
20,052 Tony Heino $1,202 1 $1,202
20,053 Bernardo Francese $1,201 1 $1,201
20,054 Jim Stevens $1,200 1 $1,200
20,055 Mahesh Surapaneni $1,199 2 $600
20,056 J.L. Rojas $1,196 1 $1,196
20,057 Pamela Tanner Boll $1,196 1 $1,196
20,058 Basil Alchalakkal $1,194 1 $1,194
20,059 Ivailo Spasov $1,192 1 $1,192
20,060 Tomasz Thomson $1,190 1 $1,190
20,061 Alejandro Seri $1,190 1 $1,190
20,062 Santiago Garcia Isler $1,190 1 $1,190
20,063 Dallas Jackson $1,188 3 $396
20,064 Claudio Perrin $1,188 1 $1,188
20,065 Santiago Ríos $1,186 1 $1,186
20,066 Teodoro Ríos $1,186 1 $1,186
20,067 Guillermo Casanova $1,186 1 $1,186
20,068 Víctor Moreno $1,186 1 $1,186
20,069 Octavio Lasheras $1,185 1 $1,185
20,070 Anna Utrecht $1,185 1 $1,185
20,071 Alberto Sciamma $1,183 2 $592
20,072 Jean-Paul Jaud $1,181 1 $1,181
20,073 Sneha Taurani $1,180 1 $1,180
20,074 Gustavo Garzon $1,179 1 $1,179
20,075 Anto Jose Periera $1,178 1 $1,178
20,076 Aby Treesa Paul $1,178 1 $1,178
20,077 Banu Kaptanogullari $1,176 1 $1,176
20,078 Bob Shirohata $1,174 3 $391
20,079 Dea Kulumbegashvili $1,172 2 $586
20,080 Ernesto Aguilar $1,171 5 $234
20,081 Seung-hyun Son $1,171 1 $1,171
20,082 Matt Green $1,170 1 $1,170
20,083 Adam Oldroyd $1,169 1 $1,169
20,084 Martin Krejci $1,168 1 $1,168
20,085 Maureen Blackwood $1,168 1 $1,168
20,086 Rodrigo Salomon $1,164 1 $1,164
20,087 Armand Rovira $1,163 1 $1,163
20,088 Saida Benzal $1,163 1 $1,163
20,089 Dante Yore $1,157 3 $386
20,090 Vivek Srivastava $1,156 1 $1,156
20,091 Luís Margalhau $1,156 1 $1,156
20,092 Mukesh Modi $1,156 1 $1,156
20,093 Dario Arcella $1,155 1 $1,155
20,094 Mathivanan Sakthivel $1,151 1 $1,151
20,095 Caarthick Raju $1,150 1 $1,150
20,096 Trish Adlesic $1,145 2 $573
20,097 Ricardo Preve $1,145 1 $1,145
20,098 Arpad Sopsits $1,144 1 $1,144
20,099 Pedro B. Abreu $1,142 1 $1,142
20,100 Thierry Donard $1,138 3 $379

This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.

Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.