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Top Grossing Cinematographer at the Domestic Box OfficeBETA
See also: Top Domestic Art Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Editors - Top Domestic Associate Producers - Top Domestic Casting Directors - Top Domestic Co-Producers - Top Domestic Composers - Top Domestic Costume Designers - Top Domestic Costume Supervisors - Top Domestic Dialogue Editors - Top Domestic Directors - 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 Cinematographers - Top Worldwide Cinematographers
This list shows the highest grossing Cinematographers based on the domestic box office of the movies they worked on.
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Best known as a Cinematographer based on credits in that role in 28 films. |
Top films contributed to this record: Jurassic World ($652,306,625 in 2015), Meet the Fockers ($279,167,575 in 2004), The Amazing Spider-Man ($262,717,220 in 2012), National Treasure: Book of Secrets ($219,961,501 in 2007), Armageddon ($201,578,182 in 1998), Pearl Harbor ($198,539,855 in 2001), Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian ($177,243,721 in 2009), The Rock ($134,069,511 in 1996), Seabiscuit ($120,277,854 in 2003), Fifty Shades Darker ($114,434,010 in 2017) |
Best known as a Cinematographer based on credits in that role in 27 films. |
Top films contributed to this record: Spider-Man ($404,652,858 in 2002), Aquaman ($335,061,807 in 2018), Forrest Gump ($330,151,138 in 1994), Cast Away ($233,632,142 in 2000), The Polar Express ($188,042,855 in 2004), What Lies Beneath ($155,464,351 in 2000), Wonder ($132,422,809 in 2017), Enchanted ($127,706,877 in 2007), Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom ($124,481,226 in 2023), The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist ($102,470,008 in 2016) |
Best known as a Cinematographer based on credits in that role in 35 films. |
Top films contributed to this record: Bruce Almighty ($242,704,995 in 2003), Maleficent ($241,407,328 in 2014), Dances with Wolves ($184,208,842 in 1990), 2012 ($166,112,167 in 2009), The Longest Yard ($158,119,460 in 2005), xXx ($141,930,000 in 2002), Click ($137,355,633 in 2006), Get Smart ($130,319,208 in 2008), City Slickers ($124,033,791 in 1991), Nutty Professor II: The Klumps ($123,307,945 in 2000) |
Complete List
Rank | Name | Domestic Box Office |
Movies | Average |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | John Schwartzman | $3,128,615,662 | 28 | $111,736,274 |
2 | Don Burgess | $3,107,078,139 | 27 | $115,076,968 |
3 | Dean Semler | $2,995,911,840 | 35 | $85,597,481 |
4 | Dariusz Wolski | $2,862,384,849 | 26 | $110,091,725 |
5 | Jeremy Lasky | $2,820,961,879 | 9 | $313,440,209 |
6 | Dan Mindel | $2,748,511,167 | 14 | $196,322,226 |
7 | Andrew Lesnie | $2,684,800,358 | 13 | $206,523,104 |
8 | Janusz Kaminski | $2,606,893,954 | 24 | $108,620,581 |
9 | Bill Pope | $2,500,229,802 | 20 | $125,011,490 |
10 | Russell Carpenter | $2,478,221,874 | 19 | $130,432,730 |
11 | Trent Opaloch | $2,445,285,409 | 7 | $349,326,487 |
12 | Mauro Fiore | $2,442,694,311 | 22 | $111,031,560 |
13 | Robert Richardson | $2,370,712,193 | 34 | $69,726,829 |
14 | Dean Cundey | $2,322,524,322 | 28 | $82,947,297 |
15 | David Tattersall | $2,153,414,929 | 26 | $82,823,651 |
16 | Ben Davis | $2,149,463,854 | 22 | $97,702,902 |
17 | Matthew Libatique | $2,076,047,496 | 21 | $98,859,405 |
18 | Oliver Wood | $2,017,887,680 | 24 | $84,078,653 |
19 | Roger Deakins | $1,868,797,116 | 29 | $64,441,280 |
20 | Stephen F. Windon | $1,847,701,018 | 11 | $167,972,820 |
21 | Wally Pfister | $1,807,924,003 | 9 | $200,880,445 |
22 | Philippe Rousselot | $1,771,534,202 | 20 | $88,576,710 |
23 | Amir Mokri | $1,753,057,666 | 19 | $92,266,193 |
24 | Greig Fraser | $1,746,532,313 | 13 | $134,348,639 |
25 | Tom Stern | $1,719,199,276 | 19 | $90,484,172 |
26 | John Mathieson | $1,697,361,883 | 21 | $80,826,756 |
27 | Seamus McGarvey | $1,674,612,020 | 20 | $83,730,601 |
28 | Caleb Deschanel | $1,669,588,718 | 17 | $98,211,101 |
29 | Guillermo Navarro | $1,628,013,907 | 15 | $108,534,260 |
30 | John Seale | $1,623,580,566 | 16 | $101,473,785 |
31 | Lawrence Sher | $1,612,516,876 | 14 | $115,179,777 |
32 | Newton Thomas Sigel | $1,560,108,054 | 18 | $86,672,670 |
33 | Julio Macat | $1,547,007,252 | 17 | $91,000,427 |
34 | Donald M. McAlpine | $1,506,396,718 | 15 | $100,426,448 |
35 | Javier Aguirresarobe | $1,491,025,299 | 19 | $78,475,016 |
36 | Phedon Papamichael | $1,460,905,394 | 22 | $66,404,791 |
37 | Claudio Miranda | $1,432,937,917 | 9 | $159,215,324 |
38 | Dion Beebe | $1,429,474,647 | 16 | $89,342,165 |
39 | Robert Elswit | $1,409,329,533 | 28 | $50,333,198 |
40 | Patrick Lin | $1,344,944,975 | 4 | $336,236,244 |
41 | Robert Yeoman | $1,336,078,662 | 21 | $63,622,793 |
42 | Stephen Goldblatt | $1,324,701,945 | 18 | $73,594,553 |
43 | John Toll | $1,320,925,171 | 18 | $73,384,732 |
44 | Dante Spinotti | $1,299,807,092 | 21 | $61,895,576 |
45 | Rodrigo Prieto | $1,284,666,913 | 14 | $91,761,922 |
46 | Hoyte Van Hoytema | $1,283,327,097 | 10 | $128,332,710 |
47 | Tobias Schliessler | $1,276,945,680 | 13 | $98,226,591 |
48 | Sharon Calahan | $1,180,268,033 | 6 | $196,711,339 |
49 | Salvatore Totino | $1,177,227,010 | 16 | $73,576,688 |
50 | Larry Fong | $1,153,493,912 | 10 | $115,349,391 |
51 | Barry Peterson | $1,140,846,955 | 15 | $76,056,464 |
52 | Ben Seresin | $1,140,158,648 | 9 | $126,684,294 |
53 | Henry Braham | $1,110,639,719 | 6 | $185,106,620 |
54 | Roger Pratt | $1,104,683,573 | 8 | $138,085,447 |
55 | Mitchell Amundsen | $1,070,654,973 | 13 | $82,358,075 |
56 | Steve Yedlin | $1,051,985,339 | 11 | $95,635,031 |
57 | Emmanuel Lubezki | $1,047,138,647 | 16 | $65,446,165 |
58 | Michael Ballhaus | $1,019,963,871 | 13 | $78,458,759 |
59 | Florian Ballhaus | $988,097,520 | 16 | $61,756,095 |
60 | Gyula Pados | $958,855,609 | 8 | $119,856,951 |
61 | Adam Greenberg | $943,938,104 | 12 | $78,661,509 |
62 | Bojan Bazelli | $916,442,067 | 15 | $61,096,138 |
63 | Theo Van de Sande | $914,548,886 | 14 | $65,324,920 |
64 | Andrew Dunn | $905,490,172 | 20 | $45,274,509 |
65 | Jonathan Sela | $903,656,506 | 9 | $100,406,278 |
66 | Allen Daviau | $901,517,876 | 8 | $112,689,735 |
67 | Michael Barrett | $900,296,931 | 17 | $52,958,643 |
68 | Peter Deming | $885,112,420 | 19 | $46,584,864 |
69 | Jack N. Green | $883,517,932 | 12 | $73,626,494 |
70 | Scott Beattie | $878,326,587 | 2 | $439,163,294 |
71 | Phil Meheux | $848,860,619 | 10 | $84,886,062 |
72 | Karl Walter Lindenlaub | $845,042,666 | 13 | $65,003,282 |
73 | Ueli Steiger | $836,202,974 | 11 | $76,018,452 |
74 | Matthew F. Leonetti | $830,444,271 | 12 | $69,203,689 |
75 | Greg Gardiner | $826,895,755 | 15 | $55,126,384 |
76 | Eduardo Serra | $815,871,665 | 5 | $163,174,333 |
77 | Stuart Dryburgh | $815,588,171 | 16 | $50,974,261 |
78 | Tak Fujimoto | $800,600,656 | 8 | $100,075,082 |
79 | Peter Andrews | $797,602,524 | 15 | $53,173,502 |
80 | Douglas Slocombe | $794,411,305 | 6 | $132,401,884 |
81 | Shelly Johnson | $790,419,680 | 15 | $52,694,645 |
82 | Jo Willems | $789,261,097 | 6 | $131,543,516 |
83 | Simon Duggan | $774,074,622 | 10 | $77,407,462 |
84 | Renato Falcao | $758,587,560 | 6 | $126,431,260 |
85 | Brandon Trost | $755,847,741 | 17 | $44,461,632 |
86 | Paul Cameron | $754,320,467 | 13 | $58,024,651 |
87 | Peter Lyons Collister | $744,782,292 | 9 | $82,753,588 |
88 | Donald Peterman | $740,999,174 | 6 | $123,499,862 |
89 | Gabriel Beristain | $737,931,758 | 10 | $73,793,176 |
90 | Rachel Morrison | $736,042,027 | 11 | $66,912,912 |
91 | Mahyar Abousaeedi | $731,668,864 | 2 | $365,834,432 |
92 | Michael Seresin | $729,339,394 | 9 | $81,037,710 |
93 | Haris Zambarloukos | $713,525,580 | 10 | $71,352,558 |
94 | Laszlo Kovacs | $709,205,336 | 10 | $70,920,534 |
95 | Linus Sandgren | $696,767,287 | 10 | $69,676,729 |
96 | Thomas Ackerman | $688,380,869 | 10 | $68,838,087 |
97 | Dan Laustsen | $687,083,996 | 9 | $76,342,666 |
98 | Peter Menzies | $677,016,986 | 8 | $84,627,123 |
99 | Richard A. Harris | $674,460,013 | 1 | $674,460,013 |
100 | Conrad Buff | $674,460,013 | 1 | $674,460,013 |
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.