10 Highest Grossing Directors Of All Time

9. James Cameron

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Rating: Total Gross: $7.138 billion

Most Successful Movie: Avatar ($2,788 billion)

Making movies that pass a billion dollars is an obsession of James Cameron to the point where he'll go decades without releasing one, just so he can perfect the technology required to bring his vision to life. Whether the end product is overall worth it or not, there's no denying his eye for spectacle.

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Film Editor (2014-2016). Loves The Usual Suspects. Hates Transformers 2. Everything else lies somewhere in the middle. Once met the Chuckle Brothers.