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Top Grossing Screenwriter at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 301-400)BETA
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This list shows the highest grossing Screenwriters 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 301 | Ivan Raimi | $950,782,983 | 3 | $316,927,661 |
| 302 | Aaron Sorkin | $941,972,207 | 11 | $85,633,837 |
| 303 | Bill Condon | $939,954,538 | 10 | $93,995,454 |
| 304 | Leigh Whannell | $931,271,978 | 12 | $77,605,998 |
| 305 | Peter Baynham | $929,136,084 | 8 | $116,142,011 |
| 306 | Joe Cornish | $927,608,566 | 5 | $185,521,713 |
| 307 | Zhang Yimou | $927,462,236 | 4 | $231,865,559 |
| 308 | Drew Goddard | $926,773,409 | 5 | $185,354,682 |
| 309 | Steve Koren | $923,794,565 | 5 | $184,758,913 |
| 310 | Stephen Sinclair | $921,711,177 | 1 | $921,711,177 |
| 311 | Jenny Bicks | $921,642,291 | 2 | $460,821,146 |
| 312 | John Collee | $913,849,906 | 9 | $101,538,878 |
| 313 | Christopher D. Ford | $913,576,315 | 6 | $152,262,719 |
| 314 | Josh Klausner | $908,513,706 | 2 | $454,256,853 |
| 315 | Jim Cash | $907,890,645 | 7 | $129,698,664 |
| 316 | Taika Waititi | $906,466,446 | 6 | $151,077,741 |
| 317 | Shay Hatten | $905,778,158 | 8 | $113,222,270 |
| 318 | Seth Grahame-Smith | $904,492,244 | 6 | $150,748,707 |
| 319 | Travis Beacham | $904,269,285 | 2 | $452,134,643 |
| 320 | Carlton Cuse | $902,719,065 | 2 | $451,359,533 |
| 321 | Mike Myers | $899,662,479 | 5 | $179,932,496 |
| 322 | Doug Miro | $899,429,918 | 4 | $224,857,480 |
| 323 | Carlo Bernard | $899,429,918 | 4 | $224,857,480 |
| 324 | Wu Jing | $897,201,905 | 2 | $448,600,953 |
| 325 | Michael France | $887,698,203 | 4 | $221,924,551 |
| 326 | Yang Yu | $887,572,965 | 2 | $443,786,483 |
| 327 | Mike Berg | $886,686,817 | 1 | $886,686,817 |
| 328 | Richard Maibaum | $885,566,665 | 8 | $110,695,833 |
| 329 | Ken Nolan | $883,092,877 | 4 | $220,773,219 |
| 330 | Stuart Beattie | $882,802,609 | 8 | $110,350,326 |
| 331 | Michael G. Wilson | $882,794,971 | 5 | $176,558,994 |
| 332 | Allan Loeb | $881,983,549 | 12 | $73,498,629 |
| 333 | Jon Watts | $881,378,368 | 4 | $220,344,592 |
| 334 | Mark Protosevich | $877,109,430 | 4 | $219,277,358 |
| 335 | Phil Hay | $877,002,130 | 8 | $109,625,266 |
| 336 | Dan Scanlon | $876,813,411 | 2 | $438,406,706 |
| 337 | Marc Lawrence | $876,172,412 | 10 | $87,617,241 |
| 338 | Christopher Landon | $875,156,074 | 14 | $62,511,148 |
| 339 | Zack Snyder | $874,700,375 | 7 | $124,957,196 |
| 340 | Simon Farnaby | $868,096,389 | 6 | $144,682,732 |
| 341 | Makoto Shinkai | $866,365,981 | 3 | $288,788,660 |
| 342 | Ron J. Friedman | $865,400,162 | 5 | $173,080,032 |
| 343 | Steve Bencich | $865,400,162 | 6 | $144,233,360 |
| 344 | Dong Qun | $863,810,088 | 2 | $431,905,044 |
| 345 | Ashley Edward Miller | $863,210,255 | 4 | $215,802,564 |
| 346 | Zack Stentz | $862,975,381 | 4 | $215,743,845 |
| 347 | Yu Chen (陈宇) | $861,797,239 | 3 | $287,265,746 |
| 348 | Seth MacFarlane | $860,009,327 | 3 | $286,669,776 |
| 349 | Alec Sulkin | $860,009,327 | 3 | $286,669,776 |
| 350 | Aline Brosh McKenna | $859,088,782 | 9 | $95,454,309 |
| 351 | Tsui Hark | $857,961,418 | 9 | $95,329,046 |
| 352 | Rob Edwards | $856,914,843 | 6 | $142,819,141 |
| 353 | Kiel Murray | $852,123,013 | 4 | $213,030,753 |
| 354 | Jim Herzfeld | $851,348,741 | 3 | $283,782,914 |
| 355 | Craig Kyle | $850,482,778 | 2 | $425,241,389 |
| 356 | Charles Leavitt | $848,515,556 | 8 | $106,064,445 |
| 357 | Josh Cooley | $848,469,454 | 1 | $848,469,454 |
| 358 | Joe Carnahan | $848,054,704 | 12 | $70,671,225 |
| 359 | James V. Hart | $847,394,197 | 7 | $121,056,314 |
| 360 | Herschel Weingrod | $841,476,353 | 7 | $120,210,908 |
| 361 | Wang Yu | $840,855,520 | 2 | $420,427,760 |
| 362 | Sun Jibin | $839,098,445 | 1 | $839,098,445 |
| 363 | Liu Honglu | $839,098,445 | 1 | $839,098,445 |
| 364 | Jia Ling | $839,098,445 | 1 | $839,098,445 |
| 365 | Jack Epps, Jr. | $837,564,252 | 6 | $139,594,042 |
| 366 | Mark Andrews | $837,384,632 | 2 | $418,692,316 |
| 367 | Steven Conrad | $834,439,160 | 6 | $139,073,193 |
| 368 | Mark Fergus | $831,646,033 | 4 | $207,911,508 |
| 369 | Hawk Ostby | $831,646,033 | 4 | $207,911,508 |
| 370 | John Krasinski | $828,820,258 | 5 | $165,764,052 |
| 371 | Chris Miller | $827,464,262 | 2 | $413,732,131 |
| 372 | Tyler Perry | $826,198,002 | 25 | $33,047,920 |
| 373 | Tom J. Astle | $824,014,307 | 4 | $206,003,577 |
| 374 | Joshua Sternin | $819,231,130 | 4 | $204,807,783 |
| 375 | Jennifer Ventimilia | $819,231,130 | 4 | $204,807,783 |
| 376 | Ann Peacock | $818,067,471 | 6 | $136,344,579 |
| 377 | John Lee Hancock | $817,721,369 | 9 | $90,857,930 |
| 378 | Carl Gottlieb | $817,145,969 | 5 | $163,429,194 |
| 379 | Liu Yi | $815,740,836 | 1 | $815,740,836 |
| 380 | Jake Kasdan | $813,078,721 | 2 | $406,539,361 |
| 381 | Adam Cooper | $812,230,227 | 7 | $116,032,890 |
| 382 | Bill Collage | $812,230,227 | 7 | $116,032,890 |
| 383 | Michael Lesslie | $811,014,547 | 4 | $202,753,637 |
| 384 | Randi Mayem Singer | $809,697,146 | 4 | $202,424,287 |
| 385 | Boaz Yakin | $808,610,490 | 11 | $73,510,045 |
| 386 | Aron Warner | $807,330,936 | 1 | $807,330,936 |
| 387 | Robert Nelson Jacobs | $807,262,271 | 6 | $134,543,712 |
| 388 | Maya Forbes | $802,847,926 | 9 | $89,205,325 |
| 389 | Scot Armstrong | $800,949,464 | 4 | $200,237,366 |
| 390 | Don Payne | $799,580,165 | 3 | $266,526,722 |
| 391 | Tom Wheeler | $799,261,308 | 3 | $266,420,436 |
| 392 | Matt Manfredi | $797,925,452 | 7 | $113,989,350 |
| 393 | David Sheffield | $797,433,432 | 6 | $132,905,572 |
| 394 | Dan Harris | $797,429,822 | 2 | $398,714,911 |
| 395 | Matthew Aldrich | $796,205,429 | 3 | $265,401,810 |
| 396 | Adrian Molina | $796,135,836 | 1 | $796,135,836 |
| 397 | Chiyu Zhang | $794,839,821 | 2 | $397,419,911 |
| 398 | Warren Skaaren | $793,994,289 | 4 | $198,498,572 |
| 399 | Ol Parker | $791,188,235 | 6 | $131,864,706 |
| 400 | Alfonso Cuarón | $790,055,685 | 4 | $197,513,921 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.