10 The Most Successful Movie Directors

10 The Most Successful Movie Directors. Almost all the movie Director want to work on a quality movie, popular, memorable, and can bring a lot of money. But it turns out there's not much that can make a movie director who is very good quality and can be a review in the world of world cinema, few Directors who really have a "sense of the film". No wonder if many quality films produced by a single producer.

The producer can be considered a success if the film could become a quality film, exploded in the market and bring in a lot of money (especially if the film could enter nominate or won Oscar). only a few could make a qualified film.

Here a list of 10 most successful movie director that is judged on the quality of the films produced, the popularity of movies produced, as well as the amount of money income of the film is rendered:

1. Steven Spielberg
   Filmography: Munich, War of the Worlds, The Terminal, Catch Me If You Can, Minority Report, A.I., Saving Private Ryan, Amistad, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Hook, Always, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire of the Sun, The Color Purple, ET, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws
   Total Domestic Box Office: $3.445 Billion
   Each Film Average: $164.1 Million



2. Robert Zemeckis
   Filmography: Beowulf, The Polar Express, Cast Away, What Lies Beneath, Contact, Forrest Gump, Death Becomes Her, Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Romancing the Stone, Used Cars
   Total Domestic Box Office: $1.799 Billion
   Per Film Average: $150 Million




3. George Lucas
   Filmography: American Graffiti, Star Wars, Star Wars Episode I, Star Wars Episode II, Star Wars Episode III
   Total Domestic Box Office: $1.698 Billion
   Per Film Average: $340 Million
   
   
   
   




4. Ron Howard
   Filmography: The Da Vinci Code, Cinderella Man, The Missing, A Beautiful Mind, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, EDtv, Ransom, Apollo 13, The Paper, Far and Away, Backdraft, Parenthood, Willow, Gung Ho, Cocoon, Splash, Night Shift
   Total Domestic Box Office: $1.606 Billion
   Per Film Average: $100.3 Million




5. Chris Columbus
   Filmography: Rent, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Bicentennial Man, Stepmom, Nine Months, Mrs. Doubtfire, Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Only The Lonely, Heartbreak Hotel, Adventures in Babysitting
   Total Domestic Box Office: $1.567 Billion
   Per Film Average: $130.6 Million




6. Gore Verbinski
   Filmography: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, The Weather Man, The Ring, The Mexican, Mouse Hunt
   Total Domestic Box Office: $1.308 Billion
   Per Film Average: $187 Million




7. Peter Jackson
   Filmography: King Kong, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Frighteners
   Total Domestic Box Office: $1.268 Billion
   Per Film Average: $253.6 Million




8. Tim Burton
   Filmography: Sweeney Todd, Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, Planet of the Apes, Sleepy Hollow, Mars Attacks!, Ed Wood, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Beetlejuice, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
   Total Domestic Box Office: $1.267 Billion
   Per Film Average: $97.4 Million




9. Sam Raimi
   Filmography: Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, The Gift, For Love of the Game, A Simple Plan, The Quick and the Dead, Army of Darkness, Darkman
   Total Domestic Box Office: $1.247 Billion
   Per Film Average: $138.5 Million




10. James Cameron
    Filmography: Titanic, True Lies, Terminator 2, The Abyss, Aliens, Terminator
    Total Domestic Box Office: $1.147 Billion
    Per Film Average: $163.8 Million