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Top 100 Highest-Grossing Directors at the Box Office

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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A hand-ranked Top 100 for this topic, ordered from the most obvious names near #1 to the hidden gems near #100.

This list was researched and ranked by hand for Centumth. Entries near #1 are the names almost everyone thinks of first. Entries near #100 are true, a little obscure, and still fair if you think sideways. Sources below are the starting point — the final order can include small editorial calls so the daily puzzle stays balanced.

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The full Top 100

  1. #1Steven Spielberg
  2. #2James Cameron
  3. #3The Russo Brothers
  4. #4Peter Jackson
  5. #5Michael Bay
  6. #6Christopher Nolan
  7. #7David Yates
  8. #8J.J. Abrams
  9. #9Tim Burton
  10. #10Ridley Scott
  11. #11Jon Favreau
  12. #12Pierre Coffin
  13. #13Robert Zemeckis
  14. #14Ron Howard
  15. #15Chris Columbus
  16. #16Colin Trevorrow
  17. #17Jon Watts
  18. #18Joss Whedon
  19. #19Sam Raimi
  20. #20Roland Emmerich
  21. #21Kyle Balda
  22. #22Gore Verbinski
  23. #23George Lucas
  24. #24Brad Bird
  25. #25Todd Phillips
  26. #26Clint Eastwood
  27. #27James Gunn
  28. #28James Wan
  29. #29Bryan Singer
  30. #30Francis Lawrence
  31. #31Shawn Levy
  32. #32Bill Condon
  33. #33Guy Ritchie
  34. #34M. Night Shyamalan
  35. #35Justin Lin
  36. #36Zack Snyder
  37. #37Carlos Saldanha
  38. #38Denis Villeneuve
  39. #39F. Gary Gray
  40. #40Chris Renaud
  41. #41Alfonso Cuarón
  42. #42Ang Lee
  43. #43Taika Waititi
  44. #44Ryan Coogler
  45. #45Pete Docter
  46. #46Andrew Stanton
  47. #47Lee Unkrich
  48. #48Chris Buck
  49. #49Jennifer Lee
  50. #50Peyton Reed
  51. #51Matt Reeves
  52. #52Greta Gerwig
  53. #53Brett Ratner
  54. #54Richard Donner
  55. #55Tony Scott
  56. #56John Lasseter
  57. #57Martin Scorsese
  58. #58Barry Sonnenfeld
  59. #59Marc Forster
  60. #60Jake Kasdan
  61. #61Byron Howard
  62. #62Rich Moore
  63. #63David Fincher
  64. #64Kenneth Branagh
  65. #65Paul Greengrass
  66. #66Rian Johnson
  67. #67Rob Marshall
  68. #68Louis Leterrier
  69. #69Chad Stahelski
  70. #70David Leitch
  71. #71Tom Hooper
  72. #72James Mangold
  73. #73John McTiernan
  74. #74Jay Roach
  75. #75Peter Berg
  76. #76Joe Johnston
  77. #77Jon M. Chu
  78. #78Rob Minkoff
  79. #79Ivan Reitman
  80. #80Conrad Vernon
  81. #81Mike Mitchell
  82. #82Brad Peyton
  83. #83Ruben Fleischer
  84. #84Tim Story
  85. #85Andy Muschietti
  86. #86Adam McKay
  87. #87Quentin Tarantino
  88. #88Frant Gwo
  89. #89Tsui Hark
  90. #90Neill Blomkamp
  91. #91Jon Turteltaub
  92. #92John Woo
  93. #93Luc Besson
  94. #94Stephen Sommers
  95. #95Nancy Meyers
  96. #96Edward Zwick
  97. #97Wolfgang Petersen
  98. #98Steven Soderbergh
  99. #99Kelsey Mann
  100. #100Paul Feig

The full ranked list is included on this page. Use Reveal full 100 list to read it, or play the game above.