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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 3,801-3,900)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,801 | George Pal | $8,920,615 | 3 | $2,973,538 |
| 3,802 | Babara Wong | $8,916,428 | 1 | $8,916,428 |
| 3,803 | Kazuya Shiraishi | $8,912,455 | 7 | $1,273,208 |
| 3,804 | Jonathan Barré | $8,912,003 | 3 | $2,970,668 |
| 3,805 | Soo Yong | $8,910,845 | 1 | $8,910,845 |
| 3,806 | John Watson | $8,890,685 | 1 | $8,890,685 |
| 3,807 | Vivek Agnihotri | $8,889,099 | 4 | $2,222,275 |
| 3,808 | Mitsutoshi Tanaka | $8,887,697 | 2 | $4,443,849 |
| 3,809 | Pedro Solís García | $8,881,122 | 1 | $8,881,122 |
| 3,810 | William Tannen | $8,854,833 | 2 | $4,427,417 |
| 3,811 | Soo-Yeon Lee | $8,849,149 | 1 | $8,849,149 |
| 3,812 | Richard J. Lewis | $8,845,575 | 1 | $8,845,575 |
| 3,813 | Mélanie Laurent | $8,835,453 | 7 | $1,262,208 |
| 3,814 | Daihachi Yoshida | $8,831,767 | 5 | $1,766,353 |
| 3,815 | Jung Byoung-Gil | $8,830,002 | 1 | $8,830,002 |
| 3,816 | Janus Metz | $8,824,873 | 3 | $2,941,624 |
| 3,817 | Allison Anders | $8,805,832 | 6 | $1,467,639 |
| 3,818 | Vicente Villanueva | $8,795,687 | 5 | $1,759,137 |
| 3,819 | Robert Boris | $8,793,000 | 2 | $4,396,500 |
| 3,820 | Guohua Yang | $8,780,000 | 1 | $8,780,000 |
| 3,821 | Joe Menendez | $8,777,680 | 4 | $2,194,420 |
| 3,822 | Byeong-ki Ahn | $8,774,592 | 2 | $4,387,296 |
| 3,823 | Nathan Frankowski | $8,752,451 | 6 | $1,458,742 |
| 3,824 | Ken Olin | $8,752,399 | 1 | $8,752,399 |
| 3,825 | Irving Reis | $8,750,000 | 1 | $8,750,000 |
| 3,826 | Mark Jones | $8,742,110 | 3 | $2,914,037 |
| 3,827 | C. B. Harding | $8,735,908 | 1 | $8,735,908 |
| 3,828 | Alberto Mar | $8,717,732 | 2 | $4,358,866 |
| 3,829 | Joshua John Miller | $8,716,378 | 1 | $8,716,378 |
| 3,830 | Rohit Jugraj | $8,704,615 | 4 | $2,176,154 |
| 3,831 | Andrew Rossi | $8,702,828 | 5 | $1,740,566 |
| 3,832 | Sebastian Borensztein | $8,694,815 | 3 | $2,898,272 |
| 3,833 | Paul Gross | $8,694,524 | 3 | $2,898,175 |
| 3,834 | Hanno Olderdissen | $8,679,256 | 6 | $1,446,543 |
| 3,835 | Eugene Levy | $8,669,847 | 1 | $8,669,847 |
| 3,836 | Scott Kalvert | $8,667,634 | 2 | $4,333,817 |
| 3,837 | Jae-gon Son | $8,647,125 | 1 | $8,647,125 |
| 3,838 | Kevin Spacey | $8,646,394 | 2 | $4,323,197 |
| 3,839 | Zhang Li | $8,646,093 | 3 | $2,882,031 |
| 3,840 | David Greenwalt | $8,622,973 | 1 | $8,622,973 |
| 3,841 | Caroline Vignal | $8,614,510 | 2 | $4,307,255 |
| 3,842 | Ben Sombogaart | $8,603,405 | 6 | $1,433,901 |
| 3,843 | Alexandre Coffre | $8,593,264 | 3 | $2,864,421 |
| 3,844 | Stuart Orme | $8,579,626 | 2 | $4,289,813 |
| 3,845 | Daisuke Miura | $8,577,483 | 1 | $8,577,483 |
| 3,846 | Jianqi Huo | $8,576,737 | 3 | $2,858,912 |
| 3,847 | Jeff Burr | $8,573,112 | 4 | $2,143,278 |
| 3,848 | Lingfeng Zhu (朱凌锋) | $8,571,731 | 2 | $4,285,866 |
| 3,849 | Lee Changdong | $8,560,214 | 3 | $2,853,405 |
| 3,850 | Kugane Maruyama | $8,559,974 | 1 | $8,559,974 |
| 3,851 | Paul Sabella | $8,556,572 | 1 | $8,556,572 |
| 3,852 | Abhishek Kapur | $8,555,573 | 1 | $8,555,573 |
| 3,853 | Sandeep Kewlani | $8,555,573 | 1 | $8,555,573 |
| 3,854 | Anusha Rizvi | $8,544,969 | 1 | $8,544,969 |
| 3,855 | Dale Schott | $8,540,346 | 1 | $8,540,346 |
| 3,856 | Pankaj Kapur | $8,536,942 | 1 | $8,536,942 |
| 3,857 | Burak Aksak | $8,536,414 | 4 | $2,134,104 |
| 3,858 | Vasiko Bedoshvili | $8,535,631 | 3 | $2,845,210 |
| 3,859 | Teruyuki Yoshida | $8,529,656 | 2 | $4,264,828 |
| 3,860 | Shôjirô Nakazawa | $8,527,313 | 3 | $2,842,438 |
| 3,861 | Sngmoo Lee | $8,514,325 | 1 | $8,514,325 |
| 3,862 | Kim Sehwi | $8,513,200 | 1 | $8,513,200 |
| 3,863 | Alex Gibney | $8,512,578 | 20 | $425,629 |
| 3,864 | Thaddeus O'Sullivan | $8,509,243 | 4 | $2,127,311 |
| 3,865 | Ha Jung-woo | $8,508,554 | 2 | $4,254,277 |
| 3,866 | Christian De Vita | $8,503,401 | 1 | $8,503,401 |
| 3,867 | Jennifer Kent | $8,501,153 | 2 | $4,250,577 |
| 3,868 | Aleksandra Lupaško | $8,487,183 | 1 | $8,487,183 |
| 3,869 | Dan Aykroyd | $8,479,793 | 1 | $8,479,793 |
| 3,870 | Ji-Woo Jeong | $8,476,467 | 1 | $8,476,467 |
| 3,871 | Tran Anh Hung | $8,471,754 | 2 | $4,235,877 |
| 3,872 | Choi Gookhee | $8,455,255 | 1 | $8,455,255 |
| 3,873 | Daniel Rezende | $8,454,488 | 2 | $4,227,244 |
| 3,874 | Ruud Schuurman | $8,449,198 | 7 | $1,207,028 |
| 3,875 | Konstantin Buslov | $8,448,134 | 4 | $2,112,034 |
| 3,876 | Matt Piedmont | $8,446,952 | 1 | $8,446,952 |
| 3,877 | Sergey Seregin | $8,442,829 | 1 | $8,442,829 |
| 3,878 | Qin Zhou | $8,437,314 | 1 | $8,437,314 |
| 3,879 | Yu Xia | $8,427,657 | 2 | $4,213,829 |
| 3,880 | Oh Yoondong | $8,405,471 | 4 | $2,101,368 |
| 3,881 | Jiyuan Meng | $8,400,000 | 1 | $8,400,000 |
| 3,882 | Young-kyu Byun | $8,399,932 | 2 | $4,199,966 |
| 3,883 | Eric Red | $8,398,855 | 3 | $2,799,618 |
| 3,884 | Gabriel Le Bomin | $8,395,828 | 2 | $4,197,914 |
| 3,885 | Dmitry Yefimovich | $8,394,773 | 1 | $8,394,773 |
| 3,886 | Abel Ferrara | $8,385,976 | 21 | $399,332 |
| 3,887 | Tim Fehlbaum | $8,383,315 | 2 | $4,191,658 |
| 3,888 | Bo Kang (康博) | $8,380,650 | 1 | $8,380,650 |
| 3,889 | David Winning | $8,363,899 | 23 | $363,648 |
| 3,890 | Shuki Levy | $8,363,899 | 1 | $8,363,899 |
| 3,891 | Marleen Gorris | $8,362,909 | 4 | $2,090,727 |
| 3,892 | Berk Tokay | $8,354,144 | 2 | $4,177,072 |
| 3,893 | Takao Nagaishi | $8,353,721 | 1 | $8,353,721 |
| 3,894 | Cyril Dion | $8,338,539 | 2 | $4,169,270 |
| 3,895 | Drew Fellman | $8,338,156 | 1 | $8,338,156 |
| 3,896 | Jing Wang | $8,330,000 | 1 | $8,330,000 |
| 3,897 | Dmitriy Meskhiev | $8,320,815 | 2 | $4,160,408 |
| 3,898 | Andrew J. Kuehn | $8,316,206 | 2 | $4,158,103 |
| 3,899 | Rachel Perkins | $8,315,648 | 2 | $4,157,824 |
| 3,900 | Lukas Moodysson | $8,312,964 | 6 | $1,385,494 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.