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Top Grossing Director at the International Box Office (Rank 101-200)BETA
See also: Top Domestic Directors - Top International Art Directors - Top International Assistant Directors - Top International Assistant Editors - Top International Associate Producers - Top International Casting Directors - Top International Cinematographers - Top International Co-Producers - Top International Composers - Top International Costume Designers - Top International Costume Supervisors - Top International Dialogue Editors - Top International Editors - Top International Executive Producers - Top International Make-up and Hair Designers - Top International Music Editors - Top International Music Supervisors - Top International Producers - Top International Production Designers - Top International Re-recording Mixers - Top International Screenwriters - Top International Second Unit Directors - Top International Set Decorators - Top International Set Designers - Top International Sound Designers - Top International Sound Editors - Top International Sound Effects Editors - Top International Sound Mixers - Top International Story Creators - Top International Stunt Coordinators - Top International Supervising Sound Editors - Top International Unit Production Managers - Top International Visual Effects Supervisors - Top Worldwide Directors
This list shows the highest grossing Directors based on the international 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 | International Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Tony Scott | $1,095,969,282 | 16 | $68,498,080 |
| 102 | Matthew Vaughn | $1,086,089,850 | 8 | $135,761,231 |
| 103 | Raja Gosnell | $1,075,310,592 | 11 | $97,755,508 |
| 104 | Taika Waititi | $1,049,618,467 | 11 | $95,419,861 |
| 105 | Wolfgang Petersen | $1,049,361,200 | 11 | $95,396,473 |
| 106 | Marc Forster | $1,049,219,828 | 14 | $74,944,273 |
| 107 | Kelsey Mann | $1,045,851,588 | 1 | $1,045,851,588 |
| 108 | Alfonso Cuarón | $1,029,583,680 | 9 | $114,398,187 |
| 109 | Wu Jing | $1,023,637,086 | 2 | $511,818,543 |
| 110 | Han Han | $1,017,020,516 | 5 | $203,404,103 |
| 111 | Richard Donner | $1,015,698,705 | 20 | $50,784,935 |
| 112 | Brett Ratner | $1,012,723,483 | 14 | $72,337,392 |
| 113 | Luc Besson | $1,011,826,565 | 21 | $48,182,217 |
| 114 | Chris Sanders | $998,056,430 | 5 | $199,611,286 |
| 115 | Joachim Ronnin | $997,554,670 | 2 | $498,777,335 |
| 116 | Rob Letterman | $997,078,457 | 7 | $142,439,780 |
| 117 | Stephen Chow | $995,546,343 | 7 | $142,220,906 |
| 118 | Lana Wachowski | $992,829,559 | 7 | $141,832,794 |
| 119 | Steve Martino | $983,304,940 | 4 | $245,826,235 |
| 120 | Chris Miller | $979,862,522 | 4 | $244,965,631 |
| 121 | Shane Black | $961,695,166 | 6 | $160,282,528 |
| 122 | Rian Johnson | $956,082,828 | 6 | $159,347,138 |
| 123 | Greta Gerwig | $952,792,640 | 4 | $238,198,160 |
| 124 | Kirk Wise | $945,433,269 | 5 | $189,086,654 |
| 125 | Brad Peyton | $934,797,764 | 9 | $103,866,418 |
| 126 | Doug Liman | $928,902,436 | 17 | $54,641,320 |
| 127 | Chris Weitz | $920,493,552 | 9 | $102,277,061 |
| 128 | Shen Ao | $918,494,588 | 4 | $229,623,647 |
| 129 | Wes Ball | $908,846,866 | 6 | $151,474,478 |
| 130 | Jennifer Yuh Nelson | $901,914,827 | 3 | $300,638,276 |
| 131 | Genndy Tartakovsky | $894,476,145 | 5 | $178,895,229 |
| 132 | Scott Derrickson | $894,161,317 | 12 | $74,513,443 |
| 133 | Andy Muschietti | $876,567,386 | 6 | $146,094,564 |
| 134 | Joe Johnston | $869,760,840 | 11 | $79,069,167 |
| 135 | Edward Zwick | $868,865,493 | 14 | $62,061,821 |
| 136 | Peter Berg | $865,644,638 | 13 | $66,588,049 |
| 137 | Makoto Shinkai | $843,117,547 | 9 | $93,679,727 |
| 138 | Stephen Sommers | $836,786,771 | 8 | $104,598,346 |
| 139 | Paul Greengrass | $827,066,747 | 12 | $68,922,229 |
| 140 | Sylvester Stallone | $816,299,861 | 8 | $102,037,483 |
| 141 | Aaron Horvath | $806,891,945 | 3 | $268,963,982 |
| 142 | John Woo | $805,322,696 | 20 | $40,266,135 |
| 143 | Robert Rodriguez | $795,291,404 | 25 | $31,811,656 |
| 144 | Paul King | $794,965,359 | 5 | $158,993,072 |
| 145 | Jaume Collet-Serra | $788,946,359 | 14 | $56,353,311 |
| 146 | Kelly Asbury | $786,136,700 | 5 | $157,227,340 |
| 147 | Alan Taylor | $785,457,822 | 4 | $196,364,456 |
| 148 | Michael Jelenic | $784,291,945 | 2 | $392,145,973 |
| 149 | Adam Wingard | $775,077,115 | 12 | $64,589,760 |
| 150 | Rob Cohen | $767,825,221 | 15 | $51,188,348 |
| 151 | Peter Farrelly | $767,397,446 | 19 | $40,389,339 |
| 152 | David Ayer | $762,345,803 | 13 | $58,641,985 |
| 153 | Guillermo del Toro | $758,445,847 | 15 | $50,563,056 |
| 154 | Antoine Fuqua | $745,475,259 | 23 | $32,411,968 |
| 155 | Garry Marshall | $742,251,858 | 18 | $41,236,214 |
| 156 | Yang Yu | $739,022,963 | 1 | $739,022,963 |
| 157 | Baz Luhrmann | $734,684,961 | 7 | $104,954,994 |
| 158 | Peter Sohn | $731,159,224 | 4 | $182,789,806 |
| 159 | Nancy Meyers | $725,839,754 | 6 | $120,973,292 |
| 160 | Woody Allen | $723,903,000 | 50 | $14,478,060 |
| 161 | Mo Dai | $720,747,360 | 3 | $240,249,120 |
| 162 | Michael Thurmeier | $718,443,294 | 1 | $718,443,294 |
| 163 | Ivan Reitman | $718,162,647 | 15 | $47,877,510 |
| 164 | Huida Lin | $716,862,821 | 5 | $143,372,564 |
| 165 | Michael Chaves | $709,500,000 | 4 | $177,375,000 |
| 166 | Jay Roach | $708,436,256 | 16 | $44,277,266 |
| 167 | Josh Cooley | $706,358,452 | 2 | $353,179,226 |
| 168 | Ryan Fleck | $705,612,221 | 6 | $117,602,037 |
| 169 | Joel Schumacher | $705,067,373 | 23 | $30,655,103 |
| 170 | Dennis Dugan | $704,215,901 | 15 | $46,947,727 |
| 171 | Anna Boden | $703,398,434 | 5 | $140,679,687 |
| 172 | Raman Hui | $701,914,715 | 3 | $233,971,572 |
| 173 | Jan De Bont | $698,773,574 | 6 | $116,462,262 |
| 174 | Renny Harlin | $698,372,675 | 31 | $22,528,151 |
| 175 | Herman Yau | $689,454,408 | 20 | $34,472,720 |
| 176 | Yibai Zhang | $688,028,701 | 5 | $137,605,740 |
| 177 | Tom Hooper | $685,578,736 | 6 | $114,263,123 |
| 178 | Tom Shadyac | $684,316,904 | 8 | $85,539,613 |
| 179 | George Miller | $677,723,874 | 14 | $48,408,848 |
| 180 | Phillip Noyce | $673,231,760 | 17 | $39,601,868 |
| 181 | Roger Allers | $671,975,225 | 3 | $223,991,742 |
| 182 | Danny Boyle | $663,929,780 | 16 | $41,495,611 |
| 183 | Wong Jing | $663,616,466 | 11 | $60,328,770 |
| 184 | Jonathan Liebesman | $656,311,547 | 4 | $164,077,887 |
| 185 | Garth Jennings | $654,205,837 | 3 | $218,068,612 |
| 186 | Simon West | $654,203,328 | 14 | $46,728,809 |
| 187 | Will Gluck | $654,070,630 | 9 | $72,674,514 |
| 188 | Espen Sandberg | $642,631,899 | 4 | $160,657,975 |
| 189 | Fei Yan | $640,015,320 | 3 | $213,338,440 |
| 190 | Da-Mo Peng | $639,385,320 | 2 | $319,692,660 |
| 191 | Chris Williams | $638,017,990 | 3 | $212,672,663 |
| 192 | John McTiernan | $636,313,726 | 11 | $57,846,702 |
| 193 | Bobby Farrelly | $632,101,673 | 16 | $39,506,355 |
| 194 | David Silverman | $627,094,923 | 3 | $209,031,641 |
| 195 | Cary Joji Fukunaga | $625,274,203 | 5 | $125,054,841 |
| 196 | John Glen | $623,914,996 | 7 | $89,130,714 |
| 197 | Jeff Fowler | $622,837,822 | 3 | $207,612,607 |
| 198 | Paul Verhoeven | $620,092,916 | 12 | $51,674,410 |
| 199 | Xiaogang Feng | $619,741,065 | 9 | $68,860,118 |
| 200 | David F. Sandberg | $618,700,000 | 8 | $77,337,500 |
The International Market is defined as all territories excluding 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.