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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 16,901-17,000)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16,901 | Lee Yong-nam | $9,416 | 1 | $9,416 |
| 16,902 | Juan Vicente Córdoba | $9,409 | 1 | $9,409 |
| 16,903 | Chiara Bellosi | $9,401 | 2 | $4,701 |
| 16,904 | Jun-sik Kim | $9,397 | 1 | $9,397 |
| 16,905 | Stefano Di Polito | $9,395 | 1 | $9,395 |
| 16,906 | Il-Jin Lim | $9,394 | 1 | $9,394 |
| 16,907 | Ding Ding (丁叮) | $9,389 | 1 | $9,389 |
| 16,908 | Ziya Demirel | $9,388 | 1 | $9,388 |
| 16,909 | Çagil Nurhak Aydogdu | $9,384 | 1 | $9,384 |
| 16,910 | Tae-ee Han | $9,382 | 1 | $9,382 |
| 16,911 | Satinder Singh Dev | $9,377 | 2 | $4,689 |
| 16,912 | Saila Kivelä | $9,377 | 1 | $9,377 |
| 16,913 | Vesa Kuosmanen | $9,377 | 1 | $9,377 |
| 16,914 | Sinan Kaçar | $9,373 | 1 | $9,373 |
| 16,915 | Juan Villegas | $9,373 | 1 | $9,373 |
| 16,916 | Declan Shrubb | $9,372 | 1 | $9,372 |
| 16,917 | Gad Elmaleh | $9,369 | 1 | $9,369 |
| 16,918 | Liju Krishna | $9,365 | 1 | $9,365 |
| 16,919 | Lisa Brühlmann | $9,364 | 1 | $9,364 |
| 16,920 | Constantin Popescu | $9,363 | 1 | $9,363 |
| 16,921 | Jo-anne Brechin | $9,362 | 3 | $3,121 |
| 16,922 | Ralph Waldo | $9,343 | 1 | $9,343 |
| 16,923 | Mark Webber | $9,342 | 3 | $3,114 |
| 16,924 | Nick Parada | $9,329 | 1 | $9,329 |
| 16,925 | Minjur Gopi | $9,328 | 1 | $9,328 |
| 16,926 | Sang hoon II Choi | $9,326 | 3 | $3,109 |
| 16,927 | I Han Teng (鄧依涵) | $9,326 | 1 | $9,326 |
| 16,928 | Leigh Janiak | $9,318 | 4 | $2,330 |
| 16,929 | Paulo Carneiro | $9,311 | 2 | $4,656 |
| 16,930 | Joshua Goldin | $9,309 | 1 | $9,309 |
| 16,931 | Nikolai Volev | $9,308 | 1 | $9,308 |
| 16,932 | Laurent Nègre | $9,305 | 1 | $9,305 |
| 16,933 | Marguerite Duras | $9,303 | 1 | $9,303 |
| 16,934 | Spider One | $9,299 | 2 | $4,650 |
| 16,935 | Thyrone Tommy | $9,294 | 1 | $9,294 |
| 16,936 | Martin Vrbicky | $9,288 | 1 | $9,288 |
| 16,937 | Constance Meyers | $9,285 | 1 | $9,285 |
| 16,938 | Christoph Schaub | $9,285 | 1 | $9,285 |
| 16,939 | Skinner Myers | $9,280 | 1 | $9,280 |
| 16,940 | Michael McCormack | $9,260 | 1 | $9,260 |
| 16,941 | Vadim Jendreyko | $9,256 | 1 | $9,256 |
| 16,942 | Harry Michell | $9,255 | 2 | $4,628 |
| 16,943 | Candice Cain | $9,244 | 3 | $3,081 |
| 16,944 | Calixto Bieito | $9,241 | 1 | $9,241 |
| 16,945 | Felix Thompson | $9,241 | 1 | $9,241 |
| 16,946 | Sriwass | $9,240 | 1 | $9,240 |
| 16,947 | Robert Kirchhoff | $9,229 | 1 | $9,229 |
| 16,948 | Irem Temel | $9,226 | 1 | $9,226 |
| 16,949 | Paloma Zapata | $9,225 | 2 | $4,613 |
| 16,950 | James Han | $9,205 | 1 | $9,205 |
| 16,951 | Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk | $9,199 | 1 | $9,199 |
| 16,952 | Michelle Esrick | $9,197 | 1 | $9,197 |
| 16,953 | Josephine Mackerras | $9,195 | 1 | $9,195 |
| 16,954 | Ben Peyser | $9,195 | 1 | $9,195 |
| 16,955 | Scott Rutherford | $9,195 | 1 | $9,195 |
| 16,956 | Maruichirô Maruo | $9,194 | 1 | $9,194 |
| 16,957 | Matthew M. Ross | $9,188 | 1 | $9,188 |
| 16,958 | Franco Brusati | $9,183 | 1 | $9,183 |
| 16,959 | Sherwood Hu | $9,178 | 1 | $9,178 |
| 16,960 | Mark Cantu | $9,176 | 4 | $2,294 |
| 16,961 | Mumtaz Yildirimlar | $9,162 | 1 | $9,162 |
| 16,962 | Massimo Coglitore | $9,157 | 1 | $9,157 |
| 16,963 | Tom Beard | $9,150 | 3 | $3,050 |
| 16,964 | B. C. Noufal | $9,138 | 1 | $9,138 |
| 16,965 | Deqiang Liu | $9,135 | 1 | $9,135 |
| 16,966 | Nadezhda Vital'skaya | $9,134 | 1 | $9,134 |
| 16,967 | Michael Felker | $9,133 | 1 | $9,133 |
| 16,968 | Daniel Lee | $9,133 | 1 | $9,133 |
| 16,969 | Faleena Hopkins | $9,130 | 1 | $9,130 |
| 16,970 | Matthew Rosen | $9,129 | 1 | $9,129 |
| 16,971 | Tim McCann | $9,118 | 5 | $1,824 |
| 16,972 | Jeremy Cumpston | $9,112 | 1 | $9,112 |
| 16,973 | Baris Gordag | $9,104 | 1 | $9,104 |
| 16,974 | James Savoca | $9,102 | 1 | $9,102 |
| 16,975 | Jan Foukal | $9,093 | 1 | $9,093 |
| 16,976 | Akane Yamada | $9,093 | 1 | $9,093 |
| 16,977 | Alan Govenar | $9,079 | 7 | $1,297 |
| 16,978 | Joshua Bonnetta | $9,065 | 2 | $4,533 |
| 16,979 | Aaron Leong | $9,057 | 2 | $4,529 |
| 16,980 | Li Ruijin | $9,057 | 1 | $9,057 |
| 16,981 | Gotham Chopra | $9,050 | 1 | $9,050 |
| 16,982 | Roser Aguilar | $9,031 | 1 | $9,031 |
| 16,983 | Sergi Perez | $9,008 | 1 | $9,008 |
| 16,984 | Andrea Bagney | $9,007 | 1 | $9,007 |
| 16,985 | Sergey Osipyan | $9,003 | 1 | $9,003 |
| 16,986 | Yannis Kokkos | $9,002 | 1 | $9,002 |
| 16,987 | Robert Wuhl | $9,000 | 1 | $9,000 |
| 16,988 | Koushik Pegallapati | $8,991 | 1 | $8,991 |
| 16,989 | Liu Guanwei | $8,977 | 1 | $8,977 |
| 16,990 | Stian Andersen | $8,972 | 1 | $8,972 |
| 16,991 | Thomas Pickering | $8,971 | 1 | $8,971 |
| 16,992 | Fernando Salem | $8,957 | 1 | $8,957 |
| 16,993 | Helena Coan | $8,952 | 2 | $4,476 |
| 16,994 | Carmen Blanco | $8,949 | 1 | $8,949 |
| 16,995 | Yue Lei | $8,940 | 1 | $8,940 |
| 16,996 | Jose Antonio Nieves Conde | $8,940 | 1 | $8,940 |
| 16,997 | Yu Weng (翁羽) | $8,936 | 1 | $8,936 |
| 16,998 | Rudy Gnutti | $8,932 | 1 | $8,932 |
| 16,999 | Victor Laplace | $8,931 | 1 | $8,931 |
| 17,000 | Abu Aleeha | $8,931 | 3 | $2,977 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.