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Top Grossing Composer at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 101-200)BETA
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This list shows the highest grossing Composers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Edward Shearmur | $1,125,191,351 | 17 | $66,187,727 |
| 102 | David Buckley | $1,112,610,099 | 16 | $69,538,131 |
| 103 | Charlie Clouser | $1,075,540,307 | 12 | $89,628,359 |
| 104 | Opetaia Tavita Foa’i | $1,059,135,998 | 1 | $1,059,135,998 |
| 105 | Bear McCreary | $1,027,029,395 | 21 | $48,906,162 |
| 106 | Clint Mansell | $1,018,329,066 | 26 | $39,166,503 |
| 107 | Nathaniel Mechaly | $1,016,327,759 | 8 | $127,040,970 |
| 108 | Brad Fiedel | $1,011,334,368 | 6 | $168,555,728 |
| 109 | Gabriel Yared | $1,004,119,494 | 16 | $62,757,468 |
| 110 | Eric Clapton | $954,511,350 | 5 | $190,902,270 |
| 111 | Robert Rodriguez | $953,559,090 | 9 | $105,951,010 |
| 112 | Maurice Jarre | $950,478,718 | 7 | $135,782,674 |
| 113 | Alberto Iglesias | $937,100,529 | 20 | $46,855,026 |
| 114 | Marcelo Zarvos | $935,989,418 | 29 | $32,275,497 |
| 115 | Joe Kraemer | $907,199,587 | 4 | $226,799,897 |
| 116 | Lucas Vidal | $874,479,431 | 10 | $87,447,943 |
| 117 | Ilan Eshkeri | $868,681,850 | 19 | $45,720,097 |
| 118 | David Sardy | $857,926,264 | 13 | $65,994,328 |
| 119 | A.R. Rahman | $852,377,077 | 13 | $65,567,467 |
| 120 | Terence Blanchard | $852,101,281 | 35 | $24,345,751 |
| 121 | Chris Bacon | $839,357,396 | 8 | $104,919,675 |
| 122 | Yuki Kajiura | $831,391,024 | 3 | $277,130,341 |
| 123 | Atli Orvarsson | $827,650,124 | 14 | $59,117,866 |
| 124 | Paul Haslinger | $817,222,206 | 10 | $81,722,221 |
| 125 | Clint Eastwood | $810,698,602 | 8 | $101,337,325 |
| 126 | John Barry | $801,873,397 | 8 | $100,234,175 |
| 127 | Bill Conti | $796,481,232 | 10 | $79,648,123 |
| 128 | John Morris | $787,874,008 | 29 | $27,168,069 |
| 129 | Go Shiina | $780,032,099 | 1 | $780,032,099 |
| 130 | Walter Murphy | $773,230,770 | 2 | $386,615,385 |
| 131 | Nathan Wang | $762,933,808 | 15 | $50,862,254 |
| 132 | Nami Melumad | $760,928,081 | 3 | $253,642,694 |
| 133 | David Kitay | $759,400,348 | 7 | $108,485,764 |
| 134 | Trevor Jones | $749,221,764 | 9 | $83,246,863 |
| 135 | Philip Glass | $742,020,750 | 26 | $28,539,260 |
| 136 | Fernando Velazquez | $735,123,384 | 14 | $52,508,813 |
| 137 | Bruce Broughton | $731,846,392 | 38 | $19,259,116 |
| 138 | Cliff Martinez | $727,969,496 | 15 | $48,531,300 |
| 139 | Dave Metzger | $722,618,595 | 1 | $722,618,595 |
| 140 | Justin Hurwitz | $714,273,119 | 4 | $178,568,280 |
| 141 | Richard Gibbs | $695,485,743 | 9 | $77,276,194 |
| 142 | Michael Abels | $682,860,248 | 6 | $113,810,041 |
| 143 | Roque Banos | $670,585,873 | 19 | $35,293,993 |
| 144 | Nick Urata | $663,808,638 | 17 | $39,047,567 |
| 145 | Ryuichi Sakamoto | $660,523,449 | 8 | $82,565,431 |
| 146 | Laura Karpman | $643,248,879 | 14 | $45,946,349 |
| 147 | Nick Glennie-Smith | $632,809,816 | 5 | $126,561,963 |
| 148 | West Dylan Thordson | $627,442,778 | 6 | $104,573,796 |
| 149 | Lisa Gerrard | $618,188,760 | 10 | $61,818,876 |
| 150 | Jed Kurzel | $610,102,649 | 14 | $43,578,761 |
| 151 | Erran Baron Cohen | $609,032,106 | 5 | $121,806,421 |
| 152 | David Sanborn | $605,100,000 | 2 | $302,550,000 |
| 153 | John Carpenter | $603,976,837 | 11 | $54,906,985 |
| 154 | J. Peter Robinson | $603,873,940 | 24 | $25,161,414 |
| 155 | Joe Hisaishi | $602,948,959 | 7 | $86,135,566 |
| 156 | Lennie Niehaus | $596,055,655 | 7 | $85,150,808 |
| 157 | Hong Han | $581,641,120 | 1 | $581,641,120 |
| 158 | Michael Brook | $581,400,088 | 29 | $20,048,279 |
| 159 | Benny Andersson | $581,335,584 | 1 | $581,335,584 |
| 160 | Bjorn Ulvaeus | $581,335,584 | 1 | $581,335,584 |
| 161 | Nathan Johnson | $575,572,204 | 7 | $82,224,601 |
| 162 | Antonio Di Iorio | $572,505,338 | 1 | $572,505,338 |
| 163 | Jóhann Jóhannsson | $569,287,518 | 11 | $51,753,411 |
| 164 | Nathan Barr | $567,153,225 | 14 | $40,510,945 |
| 165 | Nicholas Britell | $563,441,433 | 12 | $46,953,453 |
| 166 | Clinton Shorter | $553,823,398 | 6 | $92,303,900 |
| 167 | Volker Bertelmann | $550,261,217 | 26 | $21,163,893 |
| 168 | Jack Nitzsche | $535,168,086 | 6 | $89,194,681 |
| 169 | Alva Noto | $532,938,302 | 1 | $532,938,302 |
| 170 | Nancy Wilson | $526,998,570 | 3 | $175,666,190 |
| 171 | Gustavo Santaolalla | $525,367,664 | 10 | $52,536,766 |
| 172 | Daniel Davies | $522,662,754 | 7 | $74,666,108 |
| 173 | Cody Carpenter | $522,662,754 | 5 | $104,532,551 |
| 174 | Georges Delerue | $520,492,186 | 11 | $47,317,471 |
| 175 | Chan Kwong Wing | $518,370,776 | 7 | $74,052,968 |
| 176 | Thomas Hajdu | $518,034,057 | 16 | $32,377,129 |
| 177 | Andy Milburn | $518,034,057 | 16 | $32,377,129 |
| 178 | Deborah Lurie | $510,017,670 | 10 | $51,001,767 |
| 179 | Alex Heffes | $503,491,070 | 16 | $31,468,192 |
| 180 | Germaine Franco | $498,707,796 | 6 | $83,117,966 |
| 181 | Johnny Klimek | $490,823,809 | 11 | $44,620,346 |
| 182 | Robert Folk | $487,345,124 | 13 | $37,488,086 |
| 183 | Stephen Trask | $482,737,352 | 7 | $68,962,479 |
| 184 | Nathan Whitehead | $481,546,609 | 10 | $48,154,661 |
| 185 | Anne Dudley | $477,944,304 | 6 | $79,657,384 |
| 186 | Alex Wurman | $473,705,781 | 7 | $67,672,254 |
| 187 | Andrew Kawczynski | $470,484,899 | 3 | $156,828,300 |
| 188 | Pritam | $470,088,910 | 15 | $31,339,261 |
| 189 | Abel Korzeniowski | $470,064,493 | 9 | $52,229,388 |
| 190 | Taylor Newton Stewart | $461,534,632 | 16 | $28,845,915 |
| 191 | David Hykes | $459,260,946 | 1 | $459,260,946 |
| 192 | BT | $451,497,313 | 8 | $56,437,164 |
| 193 | Dave Grusin | $445,970,045 | 10 | $44,597,005 |
| 194 | Jongnic Bontemps | $445,268,548 | 4 | $111,317,137 |
| 195 | Waddy Wachtel | $443,401,979 | 11 | $40,309,271 |
| 196 | Trevor Morris | $442,650,131 | 8 | $55,331,266 |
| 197 | Claude-Michel Schönberg | $435,292,452 | 1 | $435,292,452 |
| 198 | Buck Sanders | $431,995,548 | 5 | $86,399,110 |
| 199 | Marcus Miller | $428,696,696 | 19 | $22,562,984 |
| 200 | Javier Navarrete | $426,381,974 | 5 | $85,276,395 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.