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Top Grossing Directors

Lifetime career box office across every directed film. ← Back to leaderboards

Career totals sum lifetime worldwide gross of every film credited to a director (TMDB job = "Director"). Co-directed films count fully toward each director's total. The list excludes directors with fewer than 3 tracked films.

  1. 1

    Steven Spielberg

    35 films directed

    $10.67B
  2. 2

    James Cameron

    10 films directed

    $10.3B
  3. 3

    Joe Russo

    7 films directed

    $6.86B
  4. 4

    Anthony Russo

    7 films directed

    $6.86B
  5. 5

    Christopher Nolan

    14 films directed

    $6.58B
  6. 6

    Peter Jackson

    14 films directed

    $6.56B
  7. 7

    Michael Bay

    14 films directed

    $6.5B
  8. 8

    David Yates

    8 films directed

    $6.4B
  9. 9

    Ridley Scott

    28 films directed

    $4.98B
  10. 10

    Tim Burton

    20 films directed

    $4.93B
  11. 11

    J.J. Abrams

    6 films directed

    $4.66B
  12. 12

    Ron Howard

    26 films directed

    $4.4B
  13. 13

    Sam Raimi

    16 films directed

    $4.37B
  14. 14

    Jon Favreau

    9 films directed

    $4.36B
  15. 15

    Robert Zemeckis

    20 films directed

    $4.34B
  16. 16

    James Wan

    11 films directed

    $4.19B
  17. 17

    Roland Emmerich

    14 films directed

    $4.15B
  18. 18

    Chris Renaud

    6 films directed

    $4.14B
  19. 19

    Shawn Levy

    13 films directed

    $4.11B
  20. 20

    Chris Columbus

    14 films directed

    $4.09B
  21. 21

    Byron Howard

    5 films directed

    $4.06B
  22. 22

    Jon Watts

    5 films directed

    $3.94B
  23. 23

    Francis Lawrence

    9 films directed

    $3.76B
  24. 24

    Gore Verbinski

    11 films directed

    $3.76B
  25. 25

    Bryan Singer

    10 films directed

    $3.73B
  26. 26

    Pierre Coffin

    4 films directed

    $3.71B
  27. 27

    Chris Buck

    5 films directed

    $3.58B
  28. 28

    Clint Eastwood

    40 films directed

    $3.55B
  29. 29

    Brad Bird

    6 films directed

    $3.43B
  30. 30

    Todd Phillips

    11 films directed

    $3.4B
  31. 31

    Zack Snyder

    9 films directed

    $3.37B
  32. 32

    George Lucas

    6 films directed

    $3.34B
  33. 33

    James Gunn

    8 films directed

    $3.31B
  34. 34

    M. Night Shyamalan

    14 films directed

    $3.24B
  35. 35

    Sam Mendes

    9 films directed

    $3.17B
  36. 36

    Kyle Balda

    3 films directed

    $3.13B
  37. 37

    Bill Condon

    11 films directed

    $3.06B
  38. 38

    Justin Lin

    9 films directed

    $3.03B
  39. 39

    Joss Whedon

    4 films directed

    $2.97B
  40. 40

    Christopher McQuarrie

    6 films directed

    $2.91B
  41. 41

    Tom McGrath

    6 films directed

    $2.89B
  42. 42

    Carlos Saldanha

    7 films directed

    $2.86B
  43. 43

    Joseph Kosinski

    5 films directed

    $2.84B
  44. 44

    Andrew Stanton

    4 films directed

    $2.78B
  45. 45

    Ryan Coogler

    5 films directed

    $2.77B
  46. 46

    Jon M. Chu

    11 films directed

    $2.71B
  47. 47

    Rob Marshall

    7 films directed

    $2.7B
  48. 48

    Mike Mitchell

    8 films directed

    $2.69B
  49. 49

    Colin Trevorrow

    4 films directed

    $2.68B
  50. 50

    Guy Ritchie

    15 films directed

    $2.64B
  51. 51

    Andrew Adamson

    5 films directed

    $2.62B
  52. 52

    James Mangold

    12 films directed

    $2.58B
  53. 53

    Dean DeBlois

    5 films directed

    $2.57B
  54. 54

    Gareth Edwards

    5 films directed

    $2.56B
  55. 55

    Conrad Vernon

    6 films directed

    $2.53B
  56. 56

    Tsui Hark

    22 films directed

    $2.5B
  57. 57

    Chen Kaige

    10 films directed

    $2.45B
  58. 58

    Zhang Yimou

    18 films directed

    $2.45B
  59. 59

    Eric Darnell

    6 films directed

    $2.44B
  60. 60

    Barry Sonnenfeld

    11 films directed

    $2.43B
  61. 61

    Dante Lam Chiu-Yin

    12 films directed

    $2.4B
  62. 62

    Jake Kasdan

    9 films directed

    $2.39B
  63. 63

    Martin Scorsese

    27 films directed

    $2.39B
  64. 64

    Steven Soderbergh

    29 films directed

    $2.37B
  65. 65

    Jon Turteltaub

    11 films directed

    $2.35B
  66. 66

    Pete Docter

    4 films directed

    $2.29B
  67. 67

    John Lasseter

    7 films directed

    $2.28B
  68. 68

    F. Gary Gray

    10 films directed

    $2.25B
  69. 69

    Aaron Horvath

    3 films directed

    $2.24B
  70. 70

    Brett Ratner

    13 films directed

    $2.21B
  71. 71

    Lana Wachowski

    8 films directed

    $2.2B
  72. 72

    Tony Scott

    16 films directed

    $2.19B
  73. 73

    Matt Reeves

    6 films directed

    $2.17B
  74. 74

    Peyton Reed

    7 films directed

    $2.16B
  75. 75

    David Fincher

    12 films directed

    $2.14B
  76. 76

    David Leitch

    6 films directed

    $2.12B
  77. 77

    Ron Clements

    7 films directed

    $2.08B
  78. 78

    John Musker

    7 films directed

    $2.08B
  79. 79

    Martin Campbell

    13 films directed

    $2.06B
  80. 80

    Lilly Wachowski

    7 films directed

    $2.04B
  81. 81

    Louis Leterrier

    8 films directed

    $2.03B
  82. 82

    Rich Moore

    3 films directed

    $2.03B
  83. 83

    Quentin Tarantino

    13 films directed

    $1.99B
  84. 84

    Kenneth Branagh

    15 films directed

    $1.98B
  85. 85

    Richard Donner

    16 films directed

    $1.98B
  86. 86

    Raja Gosnell

    10 films directed

    $1.97B
  87. 87

    Chen Sicheng

    6 films directed

    $1.94B
  88. 88

    Ruben Fleischer

    7 films directed

    $1.88B
  89. 89

    Rob Minkoff

    8 films directed

    $1.86B
  90. 90

    Greta Gerwig

    3 films directed

    $1.86B
  91. 91

    Peter Farrelly

    14 films directed

    $1.85B
  92. 92

    Ivan Reitman

    14 films directed

    $1.85B
  93. 93

    Jay Roach

    11 films directed

    $1.85B
  94. 94

    Christopher Miller

    5 films directed

    $1.82B
  95. 95

    Phil Lord

    5 films directed

    $1.82B
  96. 96

    Wolfgang Petersen

    10 films directed

    $1.82B
  97. 97

    Mike Newell

    13 films directed

    $1.81B
  98. 98

    Denis Villeneuve

    8 films directed

    $1.81B
  99. 99

    Chris Sanders

    5 films directed

    $1.8B
  100. 100

    Marc Webb

    6 films directed

    $1.79B