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Top Grossing Story Creator at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 2,001-2,100)BETA
See also: Top Domestic Art Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Directors - Top Domestic Assistant Editors - Top Domestic Associate Producers - Top Domestic Casting Directors - Top Domestic Cinematographers - Top Domestic Co-Producers - Top Domestic Composers - Top Domestic Costume Designers - Top Domestic Costume Supervisors - Top Domestic Dialogue Editors - Top Domestic Directors - Top Domestic Editors - Top Domestic Executive Producers - Top Domestic Make-up and Hair Designers - Top Domestic Music Editors - Top Domestic Music Supervisors - Top Domestic Producers - Top Domestic Production Designers - Top Domestic Re-recording Mixers - Top Domestic Screenwriters - Top Domestic Second Unit Directors - Top Domestic Set Decorators - Top Domestic Set Designers - Top Domestic Sound Designers - Top Domestic Sound Editors - Top Domestic Sound Effects Editors - Top Domestic Sound Mixers - Top Domestic Stunt Coordinators - Top Domestic Supervising Sound Editors - Top Domestic Unit Production Managers - Top Domestic Visual Effects Supervisors - Top International Story Creators - Top Worldwide Story Creators
This list shows the highest grossing Story Creators based on the domestic 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 | Domestic Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,001 | Charles Lederer | $14,942,422 | 1 | $14,942,422 |
| 2,002 | James Baldwin | $14,915,773 | 1 | $14,915,773 |
| 2,003 | David Lagercrantz | $14,828,555 | 1 | $14,828,555 |
| 2,004 | Larry Doyle | $14,800,725 | 1 | $14,800,725 |
| 2,005 | Willy Russell | $14,688,000 | 1 | $14,688,000 |
| 2,006 | Lee Strobel | $14,678,714 | 2 | $7,339,357 |
| 2,007 | Emma Donoghue | $14,677,674 | 2 | $7,338,837 |
| 2,008 | Christopher Reeve | $14,522,355 | 1 | $14,522,355 |
| 2,009 | Scott Shepherd | $14,448,589 | 1 | $14,448,589 |
| 2,010 | Laura Terruso | $14,444,999 | 1 | $14,444,999 |
| 2,011 | Warren Murphy | $14,393,902 | 1 | $14,393,902 |
| 2,012 | Richard Sapir | $14,393,902 | 1 | $14,393,902 |
| 2,013 | David Guterson | $14,378,353 | 2 | $7,189,177 |
| 2,014 | Akira Kurosawa | $14,322,237 | 3 | $4,774,079 |
| 2,015 | Gavin O’Connor | $14,313,803 | 2 | $7,156,902 |
| 2,016 | Cliff Dorfman | $14,313,803 | 2 | $7,156,902 |
| 2,017 | Anna Todd | $14,309,315 | 3 | $4,769,772 |
| 2,018 | Irving Berlin | $14,300,000 | 1 | $14,300,000 |
| 2,019 | Jim Jacobs | $14,297,083 | 1 | $14,297,083 |
| 2,020 | Warren Casey | $14,297,083 | 1 | $14,297,083 |
| 2,021 | Al Plastino | $14,296,438 | 1 | $14,296,438 |
| 2,022 | Otto Binder | $14,296,438 | 1 | $14,296,438 |
| 2,023 | John A. Russo | $14,237,880 | 1 | $14,237,880 |
| 2,024 | Nicholas Dante | $14,202,899 | 1 | $14,202,899 |
| 2,025 | James Kirkwood Jr. | $14,202,899 | 1 | $14,202,899 |
| 2,026 | Darren Shan | $14,046,595 | 1 | $14,046,595 |
| 2,027 | Karyn Bosnak | $14,011,084 | 1 | $14,011,084 |
| 2,028 | Roddy Doyle | $13,955,001 | 1 | $13,955,001 |
| 2,029 | David Nicholls | $13,843,771 | 1 | $13,843,771 |
| 2,030 | John Nichols | $13,825,794 | 1 | $13,825,794 |
| 2,031 | Ben Ames Williams | $13,800,000 | 1 | $13,800,000 |
| 2,032 | Roger L. Simon | $13,759,252 | 2 | $6,879,626 |
| 2,033 | Tadamichi Kuribayashi | $13,756,082 | 1 | $13,756,082 |
| 2,034 | Iris Yamashita | $13,756,082 | 1 | $13,756,082 |
| 2,035 | Tsuyuko Yoshida | $13,756,082 | 1 | $13,756,082 |
| 2,036 | Banjo Paterson | $13,687,027 | 1 | $13,687,027 |
| 2,037 | Craig Bartlett | $13,684,949 | 1 | $13,684,949 |
| 2,038 | Michael Kalesniko | $13,651,946 | 1 | $13,651,946 |
| 2,039 | Zara Hayes | $13,631,124 | 1 | $13,631,124 |
| 2,040 | Shane Atkinson | $13,631,124 | 1 | $13,631,124 |
| 2,041 | Angela Sommer-Bodenburg | $13,555,988 | 1 | $13,555,988 |
| 2,042 | Jan Struther | $13,500,000 | 1 | $13,500,000 |
| 2,043 | John Wagner | $13,414,714 | 1 | $13,414,714 |
| 2,044 | Carlos Ezquerra | $13,414,714 | 1 | $13,414,714 |
| 2,045 | Fran Striker | $13,400,000 | 1 | $13,400,000 |
| 2,046 | Ingrid Bisu | $13,391,791 | 2 | $6,695,896 |
| 2,047 | Joyce Maynard | $13,371,528 | 1 | $13,371,528 |
| 2,048 | Andrew Jacobson | $13,349,927 | 1 | $13,349,927 |
| 2,049 | Adam Jay Epstein | $13,349,927 | 1 | $13,349,927 |
| 2,050 | Cole Porter | $13,337,299 | 1 | $13,337,299 |
| 2,051 | Talbot Jennings | $13,333,333 | 1 | $13,333,333 |
| 2,052 | A. Scott Berg | $13,259,023 | 2 | $6,629,512 |
| 2,053 | Michael Stewart | $13,129,412 | 1 | $13,129,412 |
| 2,054 | Blake T. Evans | $13,090,630 | 1 | $13,090,630 |
| 2,055 | Shauna Cross | $13,077,184 | 1 | $13,077,184 |
| 2,056 | Frank McCourt | $13,038,660 | 1 | $13,038,660 |
| 2,057 | Joie Lee | $13,024,170 | 1 | $13,024,170 |
| 2,058 | Eiichiro Oda | $12,958,932 | 3 | $4,319,644 |
| 2,059 | Aaron Latham | $12,918,858 | 1 | $12,918,858 |
| 2,060 | Cherry Chevapravatdumrong | $12,897,789 | 1 | $12,897,789 |
| 2,061 | Teresa Hsiao | $12,897,789 | 1 | $12,897,789 |
| 2,062 | Laurens van der Post | $12,890,752 | 1 | $12,890,752 |
| 2,063 | Leo Tolstoy | $12,863,394 | 3 | $4,287,798 |
| 2,064 | Scott McPherson | $12,803,305 | 1 | $12,803,305 |
| 2,065 | Sally Benson | $12,800,000 | 1 | $12,800,000 |
| 2,066 | Lucy Alibar | $12,795,746 | 1 | $12,795,746 |
| 2,067 | Gustavo Hernández | $12,739,737 | 2 | $6,369,869 |
| 2,068 | Alexandra Bracken | $12,695,691 | 1 | $12,695,691 |
| 2,069 | Paulette Jiles | $12,668,325 | 1 | $12,668,325 |
| 2,070 | Mark Helprin | $12,600,231 | 1 | $12,600,231 |
| 2,071 | Brian Wilson | $12,551,031 | 1 | $12,551,031 |
| 2,072 | M.L. Stedman | $12,545,979 | 1 | $12,545,979 |
| 2,073 | Franz Werfel | $12,500,000 | 1 | $12,500,000 |
| 2,074 | Susan Minot | $12,406,646 | 1 | $12,406,646 |
| 2,075 | Joshua Davis | $12,321,643 | 3 | $4,107,214 |
| 2,076 | Barry B. Longyear | $12,303,411 | 1 | $12,303,411 |
| 2,077 | Philip Van Doren Stern | $12,241,691 | 1 | $12,241,691 |
| 2,078 | Lauren Oliver | $12,241,072 | 1 | $12,241,072 |
| 2,079 | Thomas Hardy | $12,236,500 | 1 | $12,236,500 |
| 2,080 | Hector Tobar | $12,227,722 | 1 | $12,227,722 |
| 2,081 | Jose Rivera | $12,227,722 | 1 | $12,227,722 |
| 2,082 | Michael Allin | $12,214,338 | 1 | $12,214,338 |
| 2,083 | Ming Doyle | $12,180,032 | 1 | $12,180,032 |
| 2,084 | Ollie Masters | $12,180,032 | 2 | $6,090,016 |
| 2,085 | Mark Crowdy | $12,178,602 | 1 | $12,178,602 |
| 2,086 | Max Apple | $12,076,989 | 1 | $12,076,989 |
| 2,087 | Bari Wood | $12,017,369 | 1 | $12,017,369 |
| 2,088 | Georges Arnaud | $12,000,000 | 1 | $12,000,000 |
| 2,089 | Anita Loos | $12,000,000 | 1 | $12,000,000 |
| 2,090 | Stanley Hough | $12,000,000 | 1 | $12,000,000 |
| 2,091 | Joseph Fields | $12,000,000 | 1 | $12,000,000 |
| 2,092 | Jason Lethcoe | $11,989,328 | 1 | $11,989,328 |
| 2,093 | Sarfraz Manzoor | $11,901,145 | 1 | $11,901,145 |
| 2,094 | Robert Buckner | $11,800,000 | 1 | $11,800,000 |
| 2,095 | Paul Brickhill | $11,744,471 | 1 | $11,744,471 |
| 2,096 | Pat Conroy | $11,721,041 | 1 | $11,721,041 |
| 2,097 | A.S. Byatt | $11,677,552 | 2 | $5,838,776 |
| 2,098 | Kristen Roupenian | $11,502,150 | 2 | $5,751,075 |
| 2,099 | Lothar-Gunther Buchheim | $11,487,676 | 1 | $11,487,676 |
| 2,100 | Charles G. Booth | $11,444,204 | 1 | $11,444,204 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.