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Top Grossing Composer at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 101-200)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 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 Composers - Top Worldwide Composers

This list shows the highest grossing Composers 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
101 Eric Clapton $489,541,466 5 $97,908,293
102 Maurice Jarre $487,036,913 7 $69,576,702
103 Michael Abels $477,209,357 6 $79,534,893
104 Jeff Danna $472,148,163 10 $47,214,816
105 Gabriel Yared $466,901,809 16 $29,181,363
106 Trent Reznor $463,969,590 13 $35,689,968
107 David Kitay $462,360,175 7 $66,051,454
108 Opetaia Tavita Foa’i $460,405,297 1 $460,405,297
109 Bear McCreary $456,600,107 21 $21,742,862
110 Hildur Guðnadóttir $456,587,024 8 $57,073,378
111 David Sardy $453,019,819 13 $34,847,678
112 Brad Fiedel $440,435,985 6 $73,405,998
113 Steve Mazzaro $440,194,552 5 $88,038,910
114 J. Peter Robinson $434,902,407 24 $18,120,934
115 Clint Mansell $421,703,979 26 $16,219,384
116 John Carpenter $418,910,940 11 $38,082,813
117 Nathaniel Mechaly $417,811,561 8 $52,226,445
118 Thomas Wander $409,907,614 5 $81,981,523
119 Richard Gibbs $407,909,554 9 $45,323,284
120 Georges Delerue $407,157,332 11 $37,014,303
121 John Barry $401,887,493 8 $50,235,937
122 Lennie Niehaus $395,635,655 7 $56,519,379
123 Alex Wurman $384,856,315 7 $54,979,474
124 Nick Glennie-Smith $383,457,650 5 $76,691,530
125 Clint Eastwood $380,140,933 8 $47,517,617
126 A.R. Rahman $377,954,130 12 $31,496,178
127 Waddy Wachtel $369,101,945 11 $33,554,722
128 Michael Brook $363,083,590 29 $12,520,124
129 Deborah Lurie $361,142,093 10 $36,114,209
130 Marcus Miller $360,863,135 19 $18,992,797
131 Chris Bacon $356,944,569 8 $44,618,071
132 Robert Folk $351,681,354 12 $29,306,780
133 Nami Melumad $343,256,830 2 $171,628,415
134 Cliff Martinez $342,917,932 15 $22,861,195
135 Philip Glass $340,370,126 26 $13,091,159
136 Daniel Davies $337,706,767 7 $48,243,824
137 Cody Carpenter $337,706,767 5 $67,541,353
138 Jack Nitzsche $337,298,513 6 $56,216,419
139 Nathan Barr $333,311,922 14 $23,807,994
140 Trevor Jones $330,626,886 9 $36,736,321
141 Atli Orvarsson $329,254,290 13 $25,327,253
142 Eric Serra $319,149,369 9 $35,461,041
143 Dave Grusin $312,548,153 10 $31,254,815
144 Nathan Whitehead $306,328,306 10 $30,632,831
145 West Dylan Thordson $306,195,512 6 $51,032,585
146 Walter Murphy $300,142,125 2 $150,071,063
147 Laura Karpman $298,080,818 14 $21,291,487
148 Roque Banos $286,304,770 18 $15,905,821
149 Paul Haslinger $285,369,470 9 $31,707,719
150 BT $282,011,972 8 $35,251,497
151 Nancy Wilson $281,417,876 3 $93,805,959
152 Clinton Shorter $280,955,728 5 $56,191,146
153 Lisa Gerrard $280,750,130 10 $28,075,013
154 Nicholas Britell $275,871,385 12 $22,989,282
155 David Sanborn $275,176,130 2 $137,588,065
156 Joe Kraemer $275,113,113 4 $68,778,278
157 Ira Newborn $273,242,889 8 $34,155,361
158 Nathan Johnson $272,192,665 6 $45,365,444
159 Germaine Franco $270,395,734 6 $45,065,956
160 Lucas Vidal $266,986,301 10 $26,698,630
161 Nick Urata $265,700,164 16 $16,606,260
162 Jóhann Jóhannsson $263,611,222 11 $23,964,657
163 Stephen Trask $260,861,955 7 $37,265,994
164 Erran Baron Cohen $255,085,696 5 $51,017,139
165 Dave Metzger $254,567,693 1 $254,567,693
166 Stanley Clarke $245,342,797 7 $35,048,971
167 Alexander Janko $241,441,332 3 $80,480,444
168 Chris Wilson $241,438,208 1 $241,438,208
169 Ryuichi Sakamoto $239,309,951 7 $34,187,136
170 David Hykes $234,362,462 1 $234,362,462
171 Gustavo Santaolalla $234,316,113 10 $23,431,611
172 Buck Sanders $228,360,732 5 $45,672,146
173 Angelo Badalamenti $228,266,634 9 $25,362,959
174 Justin Hurwitz $226,527,342 4 $56,631,836
175 Charles Fox $221,747,015 5 $44,349,403
176 Ilan Eshkeri $219,726,362 19 $11,564,545
177 Nathan Wang $219,146,807 15 $14,609,787
178 Volker Bertelmann $218,291,316 22 $9,922,333
179 Antonio Pinto $216,151,505 16 $13,509,469
180 Fernando Velazquez $211,873,133 13 $16,297,933
181 Craig Wedren $207,181,669 14 $14,798,691
182 Mateo Messina $204,087,390 14 $14,577,671
183 Andy Milburn $203,683,267 16 $12,730,204
184 Thomas Hajdu $203,683,267 16 $12,730,204
185 John Frizzell $203,323,061 10 $20,332,306
186 William Ross $203,071,562 10 $20,307,156
187 Micky Erbe $199,142,255 4 $49,785,564
188 Maribeth Solomon $199,142,255 4 $49,785,564
189 Max Steiner $198,680,470 3 $66,226,823
190 Antonio Di Iorio $196,805,338 1 $196,805,338
191 Son Lux $190,500,422 3 $63,500,141
192 Alberto Iglesias $188,159,133 19 $9,903,112
193 Kyle Eastwood $185,586,666 3 $61,862,222
194 Michael Stevens $185,586,666 2 $92,793,333
195 Alva Noto $183,637,894 1 $183,637,894
196 Stephen Sondheim $180,913,584 3 $60,304,528
197 Alex Heffes $177,978,349 16 $11,123,647
198 Jed Kurzel $177,585,349 14 $12,684,668
199 Stargate $177,397,510 1 $177,397,510
200 Jonathan Richman $176,484,651 1 $176,484,651

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.