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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 301-400)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 301 | Herman Yau | $633,938,902 | 20 | $31,696,945 |
| 302 | Taylor Hackford | $632,738,278 | 15 | $42,182,552 |
| 303 | Xue Xiaolu | $630,544,781 | 3 | $210,181,594 |
| 304 | Wuershan | $630,363,423 | 3 | $210,121,141 |
| 305 | Andrew Lau | $630,336,568 | 8 | $78,792,071 |
| 306 | Andy Fickman | $630,009,841 | 12 | $52,500,820 |
| 307 | David Dobkin | $623,700,070 | 7 | $89,100,010 |
| 308 | Ben Stiller | $618,041,759 | 8 | $77,255,220 |
| 309 | Sam Taylor-Johnson | $611,752,206 | 5 | $122,350,441 |
| 310 | Clyde Geronimi | $607,396,772 | 7 | $86,770,967 |
| 311 | James L. Brooks | $604,048,590 | 7 | $86,292,656 |
| 312 | Larry Charles | $596,564,556 | 8 | $74,570,570 |
| 313 | Wes Anderson | $596,465,746 | 15 | $39,764,383 |
| 314 | Stephen Frears | $596,078,302 | 22 | $27,094,468 |
| 315 | Harold Ramis | $595,733,928 | 11 | $54,157,630 |
| 316 | Catherine Hardwicke | $594,844,952 | 14 | $42,488,925 |
| 317 | Michael Chaves | $591,461,025 | 3 | $197,153,675 |
| 318 | Duncan Jones | $590,004,396 | 5 | $118,000,879 |
| 319 | Gavin Hood | $585,824,188 | 7 | $83,689,170 |
| 320 | Spike Lee | $585,306,616 | 31 | $18,880,859 |
| 321 | Herbert Ross | $583,034,336 | 19 | $30,686,018 |
| 322 | Nathan Greno | $582,440,151 | 1 | $582,440,151 |
| 323 | Karey Kirkpatrick | $580,079,586 | 3 | $193,359,862 |
| 324 | Haruo Sotozaki | $579,058,728 | 9 | $64,339,859 |
| 325 | John Lee Hancock | $579,042,193 | 9 | $64,338,021 |
| 326 | Mick Jackson | $576,836,762 | 7 | $82,405,252 |
| 327 | Norman Jewison | $573,947,588 | 22 | $26,088,527 |
| 328 | Kirk De Micco | $573,068,425 | 1 | $573,068,425 |
| 329 | Jeff Tremaine | $571,939,128 | 11 | $51,994,466 |
| 330 | Ol Parker | $569,899,087 | 4 | $142,474,772 |
| 331 | Baltasar Kormakur | $569,347,351 | 10 | $56,934,735 |
| 332 | Rupert Sanders | $569,040,854 | 5 | $113,808,171 |
| 333 | Randal Kleiser | $568,872,812 | 10 | $56,887,281 |
| 334 | Yan Han (韩延) | $564,300,763 | 8 | $70,537,595 |
| 335 | Neil Burger | $564,154,799 | 6 | $94,025,800 |
| 336 | Shen Ao | $563,915,539 | 2 | $281,957,770 |
| 337 | Jordan Vogt-Roberts | $562,434,668 | 3 | $187,478,223 |
| 338 | Jim Abrahams | $560,178,776 | 8 | $70,022,347 |
| 339 | Harald Zwart | $556,019,223 | 5 | $111,203,845 |
| 340 | Mark Andrews | $554,763,947 | 2 | $277,381,974 |
| 341 | Robert Wise | $554,160,166 | 17 | $32,597,657 |
| 342 | Peter Hyams | $552,814,089 | 17 | $32,518,476 |
| 343 | Morten Tyldum | $549,752,465 | 3 | $183,250,822 |
| 344 | Nick Cassavetes | $549,325,630 | 12 | $45,777,136 |
| 345 | Stephanie Ma Stine | $544,745,863 | 1 | $544,745,863 |
| 346 | Richard Marquand | $544,536,543 | 4 | $136,134,136 |
| 347 | Ethan Coen | $543,513,706 | 10 | $54,351,371 |
| 348 | Martin Brest | $543,485,218 | 6 | $90,580,870 |
| 349 | Travis Knight | $542,743,711 | 5 | $108,548,742 |
| 350 | Alexander Payne | $538,691,737 | 10 | $53,869,174 |
| 351 | Guy Hamilton | $537,457,339 | 10 | $53,745,734 |
| 352 | Emile Ardolino | $537,282,767 | 6 | $89,547,128 |
| 353 | Roger Michell | $536,334,307 | 12 | $44,694,526 |
| 354 | Anthony Minghella | $534,590,495 | 7 | $76,370,071 |
| 355 | Gabriele Muccino | $533,338,493 | 11 | $48,485,318 |
| 356 | Phil Johnston | $529,290,830 | 1 | $529,290,830 |
| 357 | Kent Seki | $527,909,949 | 1 | $527,909,949 |
| 358 | Wilson Yip | $526,423,842 | 6 | $87,737,307 |
| 359 | Tarsem Singh | $525,526,331 | 6 | $87,587,722 |
| 360 | Ben Affleck | $525,039,183 | 6 | $87,506,531 |
| 361 | Takashi Yamazaki | $523,872,207 | 14 | $37,419,443 |
| 362 | P.J. Hogan | $521,781,347 | 6 | $86,963,558 |
| 363 | Alessandro Carloni | $520,189,225 | 1 | $520,189,225 |
| 364 | Rupert Wyatt | $519,067,441 | 5 | $103,813,488 |
| 365 | Eric Toledano | $515,468,298 | 4 | $128,867,075 |
| 366 | Olivier Nakache | $515,468,298 | 4 | $128,867,075 |
| 367 | Yarrow Cheney | $514,873,747 | 1 | $514,873,747 |
| 368 | Scott Mosier | $514,873,747 | 1 | $514,873,747 |
| 369 | Amy Heckerling | $514,226,329 | 9 | $57,136,259 |
| 370 | Kevin Costner | $513,663,920 | 7 | $73,380,560 |
| 371 | Wilfred Jackson | $509,648,028 | 8 | $63,706,004 |
| 372 | Destin Daniel Cretton | $507,008,991 | 6 | $84,501,499 |
| 373 | Mimi Leder | $506,909,625 | 7 | $72,415,661 |
| 374 | Andy Serkis | $506,450,038 | 5 | $101,290,008 |
| 375 | Steve Hickner | $506,207,765 | 2 | $253,103,883 |
| 376 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | $505,759,323 | 11 | $45,978,120 |
| 377 | Darren Lynn Bousman | $500,669,357 | 14 | $35,762,097 |
| 378 | Huida Lin | $500,340,631 | 3 | $166,780,210 |
| 379 | Xiang Liu | $498,899,038 | 2 | $249,449,519 |
| 380 | Daniel Espinosa | $490,676,122 | 6 | $81,779,354 |
| 381 | Rui Cui (崔睿) | $488,379,038 | 1 | $488,379,038 |
| 382 | Walter Hill | $487,501,762 | 23 | $21,195,729 |
| 383 | John Moore | $486,607,662 | 6 | $81,101,277 |
| 384 | David Bowers | $485,956,472 | 7 | $69,422,353 |
| 385 | Tate Taylor | $485,803,895 | 8 | $60,725,487 |
| 386 | Dominic Sena | $485,499,998 | 5 | $97,100,000 |
| 387 | Cal Brunker | $484,760,450 | 5 | $96,952,090 |
| 388 | Elizabeth Banks | $481,581,564 | 7 | $68,797,366 |
| 389 | Sharon Maguire | $479,893,436 | 3 | $159,964,479 |
| 390 | Gus Van Sant | $479,881,582 | 17 | $28,228,328 |
| 391 | Xiaogang Feng | $477,939,056 | 7 | $68,277,008 |
| 392 | Jon Amiel | $474,809,599 | 9 | $52,756,622 |
| 393 | Mark Steven Johnson | $474,487,895 | 9 | $52,720,877 |
| 394 | George Cukor | $473,639,059 | 14 | $33,831,361 |
| 395 | Chengpeng Dong (董成鹏) | $472,002,258 | 5 | $94,400,452 |
| 396 | Xiaozhi Rao (饶晓志) | $471,948,563 | 3 | $157,316,188 |
| 397 | Nick Park | $471,875,442 | 8 | $58,984,430 |
| 398 | Penny Marshall | $471,716,719 | 8 | $58,964,590 |
| 399 | Neil Jordan | $470,876,186 | 20 | $23,543,809 |
| 400 | Daniel Lee | $466,683,685 | 6 | $77,780,614 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.