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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 | David Buckley | $491,663,748 | 16 | $30,728,984 |
| 102 | Eric Clapton | $489,541,466 | 5 | $97,908,293 |
| 103 | Maurice Jarre | $487,055,732 | 7 | $69,579,390 |
| 104 | Michael Abels | $477,209,357 | 6 | $79,534,893 |
| 105 | Jeff Danna | $472,148,163 | 10 | $47,214,816 |
| 106 | Gabriel Yared | $466,901,809 | 16 | $29,181,363 |
| 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 | $456,595,417 | 11 | $41,508,674 |
| 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 | Robert Folk | $383,305,187 | 13 | $29,485,014 |
| 126 | A.R. Rahman | $380,230,557 | 13 | $29,248,504 |
| 127 | Clint Eastwood | $380,140,933 | 8 | $47,517,617 |
| 128 | Waddy Wachtel | $369,101,945 | 11 | $33,554,722 |
| 129 | Michael Brook | $363,083,590 | 29 | $12,520,124 |
| 130 | Chris Bacon | $361,804,964 | 8 | $45,225,621 |
| 131 | Deborah Lurie | $361,142,093 | 10 | $36,114,209 |
| 132 | Marcus Miller | $360,863,135 | 19 | $18,992,797 |
| 133 | Nami Melumad | $343,256,830 | 3 | $114,418,943 |
| 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 | $329,406,247 | 14 | $23,529,018 |
| 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 | Paul Haslinger | $299,958,914 | 10 | $29,995,891 |
| 148 | Laura Karpman | $298,084,405 | 14 | $21,291,743 |
| 149 | Roque Banos | $287,657,849 | 19 | $15,139,887 |
| 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 | 6 | $46,825,955 |
| 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 | Nathan Johnson | $274,692,665 | 7 | $39,241,809 |
| 158 | Ira Newborn | $273,242,889 | 8 | $34,155,361 |
| 159 | Germaine Franco | $270,395,734 | 6 | $45,065,956 |
| 160 | Nick Urata | $270,263,107 | 17 | $15,897,830 |
| 161 | Lucas Vidal | $266,986,301 | 10 | $26,698,630 |
| 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 | 8 | $29,913,744 |
| 170 | Taylor Newton Stewart | $237,308,933 | 16 | $14,831,808 |
| 171 | David Hykes | $234,362,462 | 1 | $234,362,462 |
| 172 | Gustavo Santaolalla | $234,316,113 | 10 | $23,431,611 |
| 173 | Buck Sanders | $228,360,732 | 5 | $45,672,146 |
| 174 | Angelo Badalamenti | $228,266,634 | 9 | $25,362,959 |
| 175 | Justin Hurwitz | $226,527,342 | 4 | $56,631,836 |
| 176 | Charles Fox | $221,747,015 | 5 | $44,349,403 |
| 177 | Volker Bertelmann | $220,699,512 | 26 | $8,488,443 |
| 178 | Ilan Eshkeri | $219,726,362 | 19 | $11,564,545 |
| 179 | Nathan Wang | $219,146,807 | 15 | $14,609,787 |
| 180 | Antonio Pinto | $216,151,505 | 16 | $13,509,469 |
| 181 | Fernando Velazquez | $211,873,133 | 14 | $15,133,795 |
| 182 | Craig Wedren | $207,181,669 | 14 | $14,798,691 |
| 183 | Mateo Messina | $204,087,390 | 14 | $14,577,671 |
| 184 | Andy Milburn | $203,683,267 | 16 | $12,730,204 |
| 185 | Thomas Hajdu | $203,683,267 | 16 | $12,730,204 |
| 186 | John Frizzell | $203,323,061 | 10 | $20,332,306 |
| 187 | William Ross | $203,071,562 | 10 | $20,307,156 |
| 188 | Richard Rodgers | $201,615,523 | 2 | $100,807,762 |
| 189 | Maribeth Solomon | $199,142,255 | 4 | $49,785,564 |
| 190 | Micky Erbe | $199,142,255 | 4 | $49,785,564 |
| 191 | Max Steiner | $198,680,470 | 3 | $66,226,823 |
| 192 | Antonio Di Iorio | $196,805,338 | 1 | $196,805,338 |
| 193 | Alejandro Amenábar | $195,143,036 | 3 | $65,047,679 |
| 194 | Son Lux | $190,861,480 | 3 | $63,620,493 |
| 195 | Alberto Iglesias | $189,961,654 | 20 | $9,498,083 |
| 196 | Kyle Eastwood | $185,586,666 | 3 | $61,862,222 |
| 197 | Michael Stevens | $185,586,666 | 2 | $92,793,333 |
| 198 | Alva Noto | $183,637,894 | 1 | $183,637,894 |
| 199 | Stephen Sondheim | $182,222,531 | 4 | $45,555,633 |
| 200 | Alex Heffes | $177,978,349 | 16 | $11,123,647 |
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.