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Top Grossing Director at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 201-300)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.
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 | Domestic Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 | Adrian Lyne | $447,793,921 | 10 | $44,779,392 |
| 202 | Juan Antonio Bayona | $447,639,612 | 5 | $89,527,922 |
| 203 | Paul Verhoeven | $446,068,538 | 13 | $34,312,964 |
| 204 | Steve Martino | $446,029,693 | 4 | $111,507,423 |
| 205 | Nicholas Stoller | $442,761,247 | 9 | $49,195,694 |
| 206 | George Roy Hill | $442,395,860 | 12 | $36,866,322 |
| 207 | Donald Petrie | $438,222,757 | 13 | $33,709,443 |
| 208 | Ryan Fleck | $437,103,868 | 6 | $72,850,645 |
| 209 | Blake Edwards | $435,890,593 | 27 | $16,144,096 |
| 210 | Vicky Jenson | $435,822,829 | 4 | $108,955,707 |
| 211 | Harold Ramis | $434,939,308 | 11 | $39,539,937 |
| 212 | Anna Boden | $434,405,930 | 5 | $86,881,186 |
| 213 | Josh Cooley | $434,038,008 | 3 | $144,679,336 |
| 214 | Garth Jennings | $433,120,035 | 2 | $216,560,018 |
| 215 | Seth Gordon | $430,926,630 | 6 | $71,821,105 |
| 216 | Taylor Hackford | $430,124,094 | 15 | $28,674,940 |
| 217 | Clyde Geronimi | $428,464,608 | 7 | $61,209,230 |
| 218 | David Dobkin | $427,851,530 | 7 | $61,121,647 |
| 219 | Spike Lee | $426,229,457 | 31 | $13,749,337 |
| 220 | Tim Miller | $425,323,786 | 2 | $212,661,893 |
| 221 | Jason Reitman | $423,225,671 | 10 | $42,322,567 |
| 222 | Sean Anders | $421,528,748 | 8 | $52,691,094 |
| 223 | Robert Luketic | $420,928,021 | 8 | $52,616,003 |
| 224 | John Krasinski | $418,919,805 | 5 | $83,783,961 |
| 225 | Hamilton Luske | $418,300,000 | 7 | $59,757,143 |
| 226 | Martin Brest | $417,707,236 | 6 | $69,617,873 |
| 227 | Jeff Tremaine | $414,037,186 | 11 | $37,639,744 |
| 228 | Tim Hill | $413,524,875 | 8 | $51,690,609 |
| 229 | Andy Fickman | $410,222,746 | 12 | $34,185,229 |
| 230 | Brad Peyton | $408,464,882 | 9 | $45,384,987 |
| 231 | Curtis Hanson | $406,721,391 | 11 | $36,974,672 |
| 232 | Penny Marshall | $401,784,154 | 8 | $50,223,019 |
| 233 | Kevin Lima | $401,076,694 | 6 | $66,846,116 |
| 234 | Kirk Wise | $400,574,664 | 5 | $80,114,933 |
| 235 | Arthur Hiller | $400,475,303 | 18 | $22,248,628 |
| 236 | Keenen Ivory Wayans | $398,430,178 | 6 | $66,405,030 |
| 237 | Jonathan Liebesman | $397,945,029 | 4 | $99,486,257 |
| 238 | Walter Hill | $395,212,161 | 23 | $17,183,137 |
| 239 | Chuck Russell | $394,211,034 | 10 | $39,421,103 |
| 240 | Alan J. Pakula | $394,107,305 | 14 | $28,150,522 |
| 241 | Mel Brooks | $393,104,033 | 10 | $39,310,403 |
| 242 | Jonathan Demme | $391,616,733 | 24 | $16,317,364 |
| 243 | Joe Dante | $391,263,989 | 17 | $23,015,529 |
| 244 | James L. Brooks | $390,616,956 | 7 | $55,802,422 |
| 245 | Gary Trousdale | $390,524,778 | 3 | $130,174,926 |
| 246 | Justin K. Thompson | $381,593,754 | 2 | $190,796,877 |
| 247 | Joaquim Dos Santos | $381,593,754 | 3 | $127,197,918 |
| 248 | Kemp Powers | $381,593,754 | 2 | $190,796,877 |
| 249 | Richard Marquand | $378,636,262 | 4 | $94,659,066 |
| 250 | Anne Fletcher | $377,809,222 | 7 | $53,972,746 |
| 251 | David Frankel | $374,827,551 | 10 | $37,482,755 |
| 252 | Danny Boyle | $374,183,701 | 16 | $23,386,481 |
| 253 | Wes Ball | $373,353,556 | 6 | $62,225,593 |
| 254 | Robert Wise | $370,512,177 | 17 | $21,794,834 |
| 255 | Leonard Nimoy | $367,571,751 | 6 | $61,261,959 |
| 256 | David F. Sandberg | $367,454,511 | 6 | $61,242,419 |
| 257 | Irvin Kershner | $366,138,960 | 3 | $122,046,320 |
| 258 | Kevin Reynolds | $365,721,904 | 8 | $45,715,238 |
| 259 | Randal Kleiser | $363,214,265 | 10 | $36,321,427 |
| 260 | Sidney Lumet | $359,106,140 | 29 | $12,382,970 |
| 261 | Brad Silberling | $354,462,861 | 8 | $44,307,858 |
| 262 | Amy Heckerling | $352,386,399 | 9 | $39,154,044 |
| 263 | Hal Needham | $350,973,707 | 10 | $35,097,371 |
| 264 | D.J. Caruso | $350,246,473 | 16 | $21,890,405 |
| 265 | Jim Abrahams | $347,048,155 | 8 | $43,381,019 |
| 266 | Peter Hyams | $344,647,049 | 17 | $20,273,356 |
| 267 | Neil Burger | $343,375,687 | 6 | $57,229,281 |
| 268 | Don Hall | $343,032,708 | 4 | $85,758,177 |
| 269 | Seth MacFarlane | $342,863,090 | 3 | $114,287,697 |
| 270 | Roger Spottiswoode | $342,820,522 | 14 | $24,487,180 |
| 271 | David Slade | $340,100,747 | 3 | $113,366,916 |
| 272 | Michael Ritchie | $339,966,005 | 18 | $18,887,000 |
| 273 | Brenda Chapman | $338,879,847 | 4 | $84,719,962 |
| 274 | Jeff Fowler | $336,939,374 | 3 | $112,313,125 |
| 275 | Chris Williams | $336,581,407 | 3 | $112,193,802 |
| 276 | Adam Wingard | $336,557,575 | 11 | $30,596,143 |
| 277 | Paul King | $335,517,481 | 4 | $83,879,370 |
| 278 | Luc Besson | $333,146,176 | 17 | $19,596,834 |
| 279 | Wilfred Jackson | $331,000,000 | 8 | $41,375,000 |
| 280 | James Foley | $330,873,946 | 13 | $25,451,842 |
| 281 | Brian Robbins | $329,342,564 | 10 | $32,934,256 |
| 282 | Tom Hooper | $326,788,242 | 5 | $65,357,648 |
| 283 | Walt Becker | $324,897,890 | 5 | $64,979,578 |
| 284 | Ben Stiller | $323,093,239 | 8 | $40,386,655 |
| 285 | Lee Tamahori | $322,951,865 | 11 | $29,359,260 |
| 286 | Tate Taylor | $322,064,332 | 8 | $40,258,042 |
| 287 | John Hughes | $321,958,435 | 8 | $40,244,804 |
| 288 | Jennifer Yuh Nelson | $321,473,373 | 3 | $107,157,791 |
| 289 | Alex Proyas | $321,005,872 | 6 | $53,500,979 |
| 290 | Chris Wedge | $317,276,253 | 3 | $105,758,751 |
| 291 | Jonathan Mostow | $316,181,242 | 8 | $39,522,655 |
| 292 | Ben Affleck | $311,350,644 | 6 | $51,891,774 |
| 293 | Bruce Beresford | $310,904,814 | 29 | $10,720,856 |
| 294 | Nick Cassavetes | $308,032,781 | 12 | $25,669,398 |
| 295 | Len Wiseman | $307,696,937 | 5 | $61,539,387 |
| 296 | Wes Anderson | $307,659,819 | 15 | $20,510,655 |
| 297 | Alan Taylor | $305,022,402 | 4 | $76,255,601 |
| 298 | Catherine Hardwicke | $303,596,928 | 14 | $21,685,495 |
| 299 | Alexander Payne | $301,729,948 | 10 | $30,172,995 |
| 300 | Stanley Kubrick | $300,700,151 | 12 | $25,058,346 |
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.