10 Highest Grossing Directors Of All Time

3. Chris Columbus

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Rating: Total Gross: $3.815 billion

Most Successful Movie: Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone ($975 million)

Best known for kicking off the Harry Potter franchise, Columbus has had a long running career, writing The Goonies and directing Home Alone.

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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.