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Top Grossing Director at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 501-600)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 501 | Sam Taylor-Johnson | $173,770,301 | 5 | $34,754,060 |
| 502 | Steve Barron | $173,736,935 | 7 | $24,819,562 |
| 503 | Marc Lawrence | $173,507,594 | 5 | $34,701,519 |
| 504 | Colin Higgins | $172,992,137 | 2 | $86,496,069 |
| 505 | Roman Polanski | $172,537,280 | 21 | $8,216,061 |
| 506 | Nick Park | $172,132,008 | 9 | $19,125,779 |
| 507 | Kevin Rodney Sullivan | $171,659,244 | 4 | $42,914,811 |
| 508 | Sam Fell | $171,545,868 | 4 | $42,886,467 |
| 509 | James McTeigue | $171,482,780 | 5 | $34,296,556 |
| 510 | Peter Hewitt | $171,351,512 | 8 | $21,418,939 |
| 511 | Chirs Buck | $171,091,819 | 1 | $171,091,819 |
| 512 | Chloé Zhao | $171,023,736 | 5 | $34,204,747 |
| 513 | Rod Daniel | $169,961,188 | 5 | $33,992,238 |
| 514 | Paul Thomas Anderson | $169,891,993 | 10 | $16,989,199 |
| 515 | Mike Gabriel | $169,511,234 | 2 | $84,755,617 |
| 516 | Jordan Vogt-Roberts | $169,368,312 | 3 | $56,456,104 |
| 517 | David Twohy | $169,109,764 | 8 | $21,138,721 |
| 518 | Jonathan Lynn | $169,043,587 | 8 | $21,130,448 |
| 519 | Richard Fleischer | $168,749,903 | 17 | $9,926,465 |
| 520 | Jay Russell | $168,258,163 | 6 | $28,043,027 |
| 521 | Gregory Hoblit | $168,153,921 | 5 | $33,630,784 |
| 522 | Philip Kaufman | $167,833,444 | 11 | $15,257,586 |
| 523 | Mikael Hafstrom | $166,971,453 | 9 | $18,552,384 |
| 524 | Dwight H. Little | $166,755,302 | 12 | $13,896,275 |
| 525 | Jay Chandrasekhar | $166,586,297 | 7 | $23,798,042 |
| 526 | Stephen Chbosky | $165,168,403 | 5 | $33,033,681 |
| 527 | Lee Daniels | $164,875,819 | 6 | $27,479,303 |
| 528 | Glenn Ficarra | $163,334,953 | 6 | $27,222,492 |
| 529 | John Requa | $163,334,953 | 6 | $27,222,492 |
| 530 | Paul Tibbitt | $162,994,032 | 1 | $162,994,032 |
| 531 | Michel Gondry | $162,316,276 | 15 | $10,821,085 |
| 532 | Peter Bogdanovich | $161,769,547 | 15 | $10,784,636 |
| 533 | Toni Myers | $161,634,850 | 3 | $53,878,283 |
| 534 | Bibo Bergeron | $161,412,000 | 2 | $80,706,000 |
| 535 | Michael Thurmeier | $161,321,843 | 1 | $161,321,843 |
| 536 | Roger Kumble | $161,319,821 | 9 | $17,924,425 |
| 537 | James Wong | $160,668,896 | 4 | $40,167,224 |
| 538 | Jeff Wadlow | $159,556,539 | 10 | $15,955,654 |
| 539 | Stuart Baird | $157,767,204 | 3 | $52,589,068 |
| 540 | Ava Duvernay | $157,599,216 | 7 | $22,514,174 |
| 541 | Jesse Dylan | $157,196,929 | 3 | $52,398,976 |
| 542 | Fred Schepisi | $157,145,710 | 13 | $12,088,132 |
| 543 | David Soren | $156,949,130 | 3 | $52,316,377 |
| 544 | Michael B. Jordan | $156,248,615 | 2 | $78,124,308 |
| 545 | John Boorman | $156,055,154 | 14 | $11,146,797 |
| 546 | Stan Dragoti | $155,666,897 | 5 | $31,133,379 |
| 547 | Barbra Streisand | $155,067,309 | 3 | $51,689,103 |
| 548 | Franco Zeffirelli | $154,878,920 | 14 | $11,062,780 |
| 549 | Rob Bowman | $154,229,828 | 4 | $38,557,457 |
| 550 | Scott Cooper | $153,817,053 | 8 | $19,227,132 |
| 551 | David Cronenberg | $153,609,885 | 21 | $7,314,756 |
| 552 | Michael Dougherty | $153,225,613 | 3 | $51,075,204 |
| 553 | Brian Fee | $152,901,115 | 1 | $152,901,115 |
| 554 | Patrick Hughes | $152,826,941 | 5 | $30,565,388 |
| 555 | Jason Moore | $152,045,738 | 4 | $38,011,435 |
| 556 | Parker Finn | $151,821,588 | 2 | $75,910,794 |
| 557 | Andrew Erwin | $151,603,546 | 8 | $18,950,443 |
| 558 | James Fargo | $151,468,727 | 3 | $50,489,576 |
| 559 | Ronny Yu | $151,313,397 | 6 | $25,218,900 |
| 560 | Jeannot Szwarc | $150,645,702 | 7 | $21,520,815 |
| 561 | Alexandre Aja | $150,639,302 | 11 | $13,694,482 |
| 562 | Ted Demme | $150,569,759 | 7 | $21,509,966 |
| 563 | Cecil B. DeMille | $150,200,591 | 11 | $13,654,599 |
| 564 | Adam Robitel | $150,060,839 | 4 | $37,515,210 |
| 565 | Neil LaBute | $150,027,001 | 13 | $11,540,539 |
| 566 | Josh Boone | $148,806,869 | 4 | $37,201,717 |
| 567 | Rob Zombie | $148,318,805 | 11 | $13,483,528 |
| 568 | Spike Jonze | $148,159,164 | 5 | $29,631,833 |
| 569 | Steve Pink | $147,802,277 | 7 | $21,114,611 |
| 570 | Gina Prince-Bythewood | $147,168,465 | 5 | $29,433,693 |
| 571 | Ralph Zondag | $147,063,639 | 4 | $36,765,910 |
| 572 | Kunihiko Yuyama | $146,543,713 | 11 | $13,322,156 |
| 573 | Michael Lehmann | $146,338,730 | 9 | $16,259,859 |
| 574 | Jill Culton | $145,866,649 | 2 | $72,933,325 |
| 575 | Nia DaCosta | $145,836,803 | 5 | $29,167,361 |
| 576 | Stephen Gaghan | $145,818,090 | 5 | $29,163,618 |
| 577 | Jeremiah Chechik | $145,791,608 | 6 | $24,298,601 |
| 578 | Robert Stevenson | $145,524,726 | 5 | $29,104,945 |
| 579 | James B. Rogers | $145,096,820 | 1 | $145,096,820 |
| 580 | Alessandro Carloni | $143,528,619 | 1 | $143,528,619 |
| 581 | Jim Sheridan | $142,816,272 | 9 | $15,868,475 |
| 582 | Jared Hess | $142,242,307 | 8 | $17,780,288 |
| 583 | Jack Lee Thompson | $142,240,067 | 14 | $10,160,005 |
| 584 | Ted Kotcheff | $142,127,096 | 10 | $14,212,710 |
| 585 | Michael Sarnoski | $142,117,220 | 3 | $47,372,407 |
| 586 | Eric Goldberg | $141,579,773 | 1 | $141,579,773 |
| 587 | Martin Ritt | $140,619,130 | 12 | $11,718,261 |
| 588 | Eduardo Sanchez | $140,583,046 | 7 | $20,083,292 |
| 589 | Daniel Myrick | $140,539,099 | 4 | $35,134,775 |
| 590 | Andrew Bergman | $140,346,898 | 6 | $23,391,150 |
| 591 | Norton Virgien | $139,897,257 | 2 | $69,948,629 |
| 592 | Tommy Chong | $139,663,872 | 6 | $23,277,312 |
| 593 | Iain Softley | $139,603,219 | 9 | $15,511,469 |
| 594 | Peter Lord | $137,845,041 | 2 | $68,922,521 |
| 595 | Eric Leighton | $137,748,063 | 1 | $137,748,063 |
| 596 | Emma Tammi | $137,304,231 | 4 | $34,326,058 |
| 597 | Sidney Poitier | $136,781,950 | 5 | $27,356,390 |
| 598 | Stephen Norrington | $136,607,080 | 4 | $34,151,770 |
| 599 | David Green | $136,286,894 | 5 | $27,257,379 |
| 600 | Forest Whitaker | $136,113,271 | 3 | $45,371,090 |
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.