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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 7,901-8,000)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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,901 | Dror Zahavi | $600,209 | 1 | $600,209 |
| 7,902 | Andreas Koefoed | $600,108 | 2 | $300,054 |
| 7,903 | Da Su | $600,000 | 1 | $600,000 |
| 7,904 | Süleyman Mert Özdemir | $599,802 | 3 | $199,934 |
| 7,905 | David Charbonier | $599,769 | 2 | $299,885 |
| 7,906 | Justin Powell | $599,769 | 2 | $299,885 |
| 7,907 | Alain Resnais | $599,722 | 8 | $74,965 |
| 7,908 | Stephen Streker | $599,705 | 1 | $599,705 |
| 7,909 | Yan Qiao (乔岩) | $599,227 | 1 | $599,227 |
| 7,910 | Peng-hua Peng | $599,101 | 1 | $599,101 |
| 7,911 | Ant Timpson | $598,004 | 3 | $199,335 |
| 7,912 | Alejandro Marín | $597,959 | 1 | $597,959 |
| 7,913 | Teemu Nikki | $596,449 | 4 | $149,112 |
| 7,914 | Richard Raymond | $596,335 | 1 | $596,335 |
| 7,915 | Javier Macipe | $596,194 | 1 | $596,194 |
| 7,916 | Rajkumar Santoshi | $596,118 | 3 | $198,706 |
| 7,917 | Gereon Wetzel | $595,934 | 2 | $297,967 |
| 7,918 | Raúl de la Fuente | $595,656 | 2 | $297,828 |
| 7,919 | John Swetnam | $595,195 | 2 | $297,598 |
| 7,920 | Margherita Buy | $595,144 | 1 | $595,144 |
| 7,921 | Steve Taylor | $595,018 | 1 | $595,018 |
| 7,922 | Tomás Dianiska | $594,918 | 1 | $594,918 |
| 7,923 | Femi Oyeniran | $594,633 | 2 | $297,317 |
| 7,924 | Daniel Kokotajlo | $593,781 | 2 | $296,891 |
| 7,925 | Julien Hallard | $592,954 | 1 | $592,954 |
| 7,926 | Jian Lu | $592,886 | 2 | $296,443 |
| 7,927 | Giuseppe Piccioni | $592,066 | 3 | $197,355 |
| 7,928 | Kim Mordaunt | $591,749 | 2 | $295,875 |
| 7,929 | Jan Matthys | $591,680 | 1 | $591,680 |
| 7,930 | Clint Dyer | $591,199 | 1 | $591,199 |
| 7,931 | Choi Jaehoon | $591,155 | 1 | $591,155 |
| 7,932 | Halil Öztürk | $590,222 | 1 | $590,222 |
| 7,933 | Ibrahim Turali | $590,222 | 1 | $590,222 |
| 7,934 | Ran Jing | $590,000 | 1 | $590,000 |
| 7,935 | Jun Yang (杨峻) | $590,000 | 1 | $590,000 |
| 7,936 | Navaniat Singh | $589,910 | 7 | $84,273 |
| 7,937 | Hakan Gurtop | $589,221 | 6 | $98,204 |
| 7,938 | Lee Sun-myung | $588,674 | 1 | $588,674 |
| 7,939 | Jacques Ouaniche | $588,109 | 1 | $588,109 |
| 7,940 | Matty Hannon | $588,106 | 1 | $588,106 |
| 7,941 | Kuo Li (李阔) | $588,097 | 1 | $588,097 |
| 7,942 | Dandan Dan (单丹丹) | $588,097 | 1 | $588,097 |
| 7,943 | Robert Abel | $587,818 | 1 | $587,818 |
| 7,944 | Philippe Duchene | $587,565 | 2 | $293,783 |
| 7,945 | Liang Qiao | $587,077 | 2 | $293,539 |
| 7,946 | Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury | $586,211 | 1 | $586,211 |
| 7,947 | Joaquim Leitão | $585,926 | 2 | $292,963 |
| 7,948 | Philippe Faucon | $585,827 | 4 | $146,457 |
| 7,949 | Félix Sabroso | $585,505 | 2 | $292,753 |
| 7,950 | Nacho Álvarez | $584,939 | 1 | $584,939 |
| 7,951 | Beom jin Jo | $584,584 | 1 | $584,584 |
| 7,952 | Doris Dörrie | $584,548 | 3 | $194,849 |
| 7,953 | Nicolás Silbert | $584,046 | 1 | $584,046 |
| 7,954 | Marco Danieli | $583,828 | 1 | $583,828 |
| 7,955 | Patrick Horvath | $583,724 | 2 | $291,862 |
| 7,956 | Shane Salerno | $583,633 | 1 | $583,633 |
| 7,957 | Soundarya Rajinkanth | $583,172 | 1 | $583,172 |
| 7,958 | Babak Jalali | $583,039 | 2 | $291,520 |
| 7,959 | Ivan Kursky | $582,909 | 1 | $582,909 |
| 7,960 | Denis Rovira van Boekholt | $582,475 | 1 | $582,475 |
| 7,961 | Artyom Lempert | $582,004 | 1 | $582,004 |
| 7,962 | Augusto Fornari | $581,678 | 1 | $581,678 |
| 7,963 | Dieter Berner | $581,179 | 2 | $290,590 |
| 7,964 | Damian Nenow | $580,897 | 1 | $580,897 |
| 7,965 | Margaret Betts | $580,346 | 1 | $580,346 |
| 7,966 | Jian Min Kang | $580,000 | 1 | $580,000 |
| 7,967 | Heather Lenz | $579,478 | 1 | $579,478 |
| 7,968 | Jac Hamman | $579,041 | 6 | $96,507 |
| 7,969 | Sarah Scrimgeour | $579,041 | 5 | $115,808 |
| 7,970 | Tinu Pappachan | $578,570 | 3 | $192,857 |
| 7,971 | Wang Jian | $578,152 | 1 | $578,152 |
| 7,972 | Jonathan Church | $576,989 | 1 | $576,989 |
| 7,973 | Victor Erice | $576,291 | 3 | $192,097 |
| 7,974 | Johnny Mack | $576,242 | 1 | $576,242 |
| 7,975 | Ali Ray | $576,152 | 7 | $82,307 |
| 7,976 | Max Adams | $575,822 | 1 | $575,822 |
| 7,977 | Gerardo Herrero | $575,624 | 3 | $191,875 |
| 7,978 | Nikolay Akelkin | $575,443 | 1 | $575,443 |
| 7,979 | Ross Patterson | $575,258 | 1 | $575,258 |
| 7,980 | Garrett Bradley | $574,426 | 2 | $287,213 |
| 7,981 | Jimmy Joseph Nako | $574,050 | 1 | $574,050 |
| 7,982 | Martin Butler | $574,050 | 2 | $287,025 |
| 7,983 | Emily Burns | $573,728 | 1 | $573,728 |
| 7,984 | Cosimo Gomez | $573,695 | 3 | $191,232 |
| 7,985 | Arseny Syuhin | $573,521 | 1 | $573,521 |
| 7,986 | Max Lewkowicz | $573,465 | 2 | $286,733 |
| 7,987 | Daniel Barber | $573,288 | 2 | $286,644 |
| 7,988 | John Fawcett | $572,781 | 1 | $572,781 |
| 7,989 | Cătălin Bugean | $572,446 | 2 | $286,223 |
| 7,990 | Keitarô Motonaga | $572,064 | 3 | $190,688 |
| 7,991 | Won-geun Song | $571,979 | 1 | $571,979 |
| 7,992 | Pablo Solarz | $571,977 | 1 | $571,977 |
| 7,993 | Galen Johnson | $571,909 | 1 | $571,909 |
| 7,994 | Evan Johnson | $571,909 | 1 | $571,909 |
| 7,995 | Radhika Rao | $571,399 | 3 | $190,466 |
| 7,996 | Vinay Sapru | $571,399 | 3 | $190,466 |
| 7,997 | Claus Drexel | $571,088 | 3 | $190,363 |
| 7,998 | Diane Kurys | $570,443 | 3 | $190,148 |
| 7,999 | Xiaobai Tang | $570,000 | 1 | $570,000 |
| 8,000 | Andy Suriano | $570,000 | 1 | $570,000 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.