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The following is a non-definitive list of the film directors with the highest career film grosses as of 2 October 2024. The list is not adjusted for inflation. The list is not adjusted for inflation. Worldwide
Jamie Babbit; Héctor Babenco; Lloyd Bacon; Clarence G. Badger; John Badham; Bae Yong-Kyun; Cindy Baer; Prince Bagdasarian; King Baggot; Nadeem Baig; Prano Bailey-Bond
Films directed by Steven Spielberg have been the highest-grossing film of the year on six occasions, and on three occasions have been the highest-grossing film of all time. Steven Spielberg is the most represented director on the chart, with six films to his credit, occupying the top spot in 1975, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1989 and 1993.
Francis Ford Coppola is the only director to be nominated for each film of a trilogy, The Godfather trilogy, winning for the second film. John Ford (1940–1941), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949–1950), and Alejandro González Iñárritu (2014–2015) are the only directors to have won the award in two consecutive years.
The "Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time" is a list published every ten years by Sight and Sound according to worldwide opinion polls they conduct. They published the critics' list, based on 1,639 participating critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics, and the directors' list, based on 480 directors and filmmakers.
The list is limited to films that are potentially among the top one hundred box-office losses, adjusted for inflation (approximately upper-bound losses of $100 million or higher as of 2023). † Background shading indicates films playing in the week commencing 6 December 2024 in theaters around the world .
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Henry King was the first recipient of this award for The Song of Bernadette (1943) Billy Wilder won twice for The Lost Weekend (1945) and Sunset Boulevard (1950) Elia Kazan won four times for Gentleman's Agreement (1947), On the Waterfront (1954), Baby Doll (1956), and America America (1963) John Huston won twice for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and Prizzi's Honor (1985) Cecil B ...