10 Highest Grossing Directors Of All Time

4. Robert Zemeckis

Robert Zemeckis arrives at the 2013 Palm Springs International Film Festival at Palm Springs Convention Center on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 in Palm Springs, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Images)
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Rating: Total Gross: $4.062 billion

Most Successful Movie: Forrest Gump ($677 million)

Another eighties maestro who's managed to keep working into the modern day, Zemeckis continues to turn out interesting movies. A mid-naughties obsession with motion-capture was pretty creepy, but after Flight he's back on track.

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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.