This year's Spring Festival film performance is quite outstanding, and the total box office of 7 domestic films easily exceeded 10 billion yuan.
Among them, "Hello, Li Huanying", which has a box office of more than 5 billion yuan, makes Jia Ling expected to surpass "Wonder Woman" director Patti Jenkins and become the highest-grossing female director in the world.
Detective Chinatown 3, which broke through 4.4 billion yuan at the box office, also made Chen Sicheng the first film director in China to break 10 billion yuan at the box office.
Such amazing box office data has also caused widespread reports in the domestic media, but some netizens do not think so, thinking that such a simple calculation of box office data is purely a gimmick.
For example, the film "My Hometown and Me", which director Chen Sicheng co-created, earned 2.829 billion yuan at the box office last year.
But Chen Sicheng is only one of the directors, and it is a bit of an exaggeration to add box office data from this film co-created by multiple directors to him.
Objectively speaking, Directors Jia Ling and Chen Sicheng have created the history of Chinese cinema, but what level will their achievements be at in the global perspective?
After reading the following report card of the ten highest-grossing directors in the world, I think everyone has the answer in mind
10、
Ron Howard
Gross worldwide box office: $4.298 billion
Highest-grossing film The Da Vinci Code ($767.8 million)
If you don't look at the film information, many people may not think that "Christmas Monster", "Apollo 13", "Beautiful Mind" these movies are all directed by the same director.
Ron Howard is the most submissive director in Hollywood's industrial system, with little personal touch in his films and a mastery of the way commercial films are shot.
Ron Howard can make a blockbuster like "The Da Vinci Code" or a failed work like "Ranger Solo", everything depends on the script, he just works hard to make the movie.
His work is easy to understand and skilled, and he is able to wrap mainstream values and ideologies in the most entertaining narrative techniques.
9、
Robert Zemeckis
Gross box office worldwide: $4.328 billion
Highest-grossing film: Forrest Gump ($679.8 million)
Robert Zemeckis has many great works, and his "Back to the Future" trilogy is an insurmountable peak.
Although a single timeline is used as a theoretical basis for the treatment of the time problem, its rationality is debatable, and it has been complained about in "Reunion 4", but this will not affect the status of these three works in the hearts of the majority of fans.
In addition, his films such as "The Rest of the Desert Island", "Time-Space Contact", "Walking in the Clouds", "Forced Landing Flight" and "Forrest Gump" are also classic works that are both literary and entertaining.
Robert is a very stubborn director, and although fans would love to see Back to the Future 4, he has repeatedly claimed that the trilogy is perfect enough that there will be no sequels.
8、
Tim Burton
Gross box office worldwide: $4.407 billion
Highest-grossing film: Alice in Wonderland ($1.025 billion)
Tim Burton's name is always associated with Johnny Depp, and the two have worked together 9 times.
"Edward Scissorhands" made Johnny Depp popular and Tim Burton.
"Guillotine Valley", "Todd the Barber", "Ed Wood", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Alice in Wonderland" series are also classics of the duo's collaboration.
Tim Burton's work is always weird, and he likes to incorporate his bad tastes into the movie.
Back in 1989, Warner launched the Batman series, and Tim Burton was the creator of the series. He collaborated with Michael Keaton on the first two episodes of the Goethe style, which were closer to the comics than Nolan's trilogy.
7、
Christopher Nolan
Gross box office worldwide: $4.705 billion
Highest-grossing film: The Dark Knight Rises ($1.084 billion)
Nolan is one of the few directors in Hollywood who can still hold control of his films in the highly industrialized filmmaking environment of Hollywood, and he has a unique creative way of telling stories in each of his films.
We mainland audiences will have a special love for his "Interstellar", "Inception" and "Dunkirk".
And his "Batman" trilogy is a peak of DC superhero movies, and it is also a work that DC movies can still compare with Marvel movies.
However, last year's "Creed" was difficult to satisfy the audience under the expectations of all people, and the global box office failed to achieve the expected results, which is a rare failure of Nolan in recent years.
6、
David Yates
Gross box office worldwide: $5.983 billion
Highest-grossing film: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 ($1.341 billion)
David Yates didn't have much to come up with before taking over Harry Potter, only the documentary "Sex Trade" and the movie "The Girl in the Cafe" are worth mentioning.
After directing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in 2007, he began to gain Warner's trust due to the film's good box office success, and he was responsible for the subsequent sequels.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows were both directed by David Yates, who also single-handedly ran the future Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them series.
But after leaving the series, he rarely had good works, and 2016's "Tarzan Returns: Jungle in Danger" also ended in a box office failure.
5、
James cameron
Gross box office worldwide: $6.235 billion
Highest-grossing film: Avatar ($2.789 billion)
Kashin is definitely Hollywood's most legendary director, and his Titanic has been a world movie box office record for 12 years, until it was broken by his Avatar in 2009.
If it weren't for the fact that he hadn't released a new work for 12 years from 2009 to the present, the throne of the world's highest-grossing director would not have been surrendered.
Looking back at the list of Ka Shen's works, it can be seen that there are not many of his works, but almost every one of them is a god work.
"Terminator" and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" are still science fiction masterpieces in the minds of fans, and without "Alien 2", the IP of "Alien" is difficult to get to the present.
True Lies remains Arnold Schwarzenegger's most romantic action film.
4、
Michael Bay
Gross box office worldwide: $6.443 billion
Highest-grossing film: Transformers: The Black Moon ($1.123 billion)
Michael Bay, nicknamed "Exploding Bay", has the same obsessive preference for big scenes created by Kashin, but his control of the film's rhythm and attention to detail are significantly inferior to Kashin's.
Not being able to tell a story is one of Michael Bay's major flaws, and his work is always full of holes and maddening plot wounds.
Just like the "Transformers" series created by him, although the first trilogy has achieved the ideal box office, the reputation and box office of the next two sequels have plummeted, resulting in this IP is still half dead.
In recent years, he has fallen to the situation of only making small-cost online movies, and the 2019 Netflix movie "Ghost Shadow Attack: Countering Violence with Violence" is also a small fight.
3、
Peter Jackson
Gross worldwide box office: $6.573 billion
Highest-grossing film: Lord of the Rings: The King is Invincible ($1.12 billion)
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit series produced Peter Jackson, but his talent was by no means limited to that.
As early as 1992, his "Corpses PlayIng Across the Line" made Pigo realize for the first time that plasma horror movies can be so joyful.
2005's "King Kong" was a sincere remake, and it also achieved good box office results in the mainland at that time.
Leaving the first-line blockbusters, Peter Jackson's literary films and documentaries are also well filmed.
2009's "Lovely Bones" tells a magical crime story in prose-style narrative;
2018's "They're No Longer Getting Old" recreates the long-standing World War I in the form of a documentary, and both works can see his profound skill.
2、
The Russo brothers
Gross box office worldwide: $6.828 billion
Highest-grossing film: Avengers: Endgame ($2.795 billion)
The two brothers, Anthony Lusu and Joe Lusu, are the golden combination of Disney, and before entering Marvel, they single-handedly created the two IPs of the TV series "Waste Wood Alliance" and "Happiness Terminal".
Since Captain America 2, they have gained the trust of Kevin Feige and successfully created Agent Carter and Captain America 3.
Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4: Endgame are epic masterpieces in the MCU, and the Russo brothers have done both of them brilliantly.
After experiencing the re-screening of "plus material", "Reunion 4" finally surpassed "Avatar" to become the world box office champion with a slight advantage of 6 million US dollars.
1、
Steven Spielberg
Gross box office worldwide: $10.541 billion
Highest-grossing film: Jurassic Park ($1.038 billion)
Pigo refers to James Cameron as "Ka Shen" and Steven Spielberg as "Si Shen", both of whom are definitely the Tarzan Dipper of hollywood movies.
The most legendary story of Szshin is that he won 10 Academy Awards in 1994 with two very different styles of "Jurassic Park" and "Schindler's List".
In terms of the box office performance of a single film, Si Shen is not as anti-heavenly as Ka Shen, and in terms of the artistry of the movie, Si Shen definitely has more artistic cells than Ka Shen.
In recent years, Si Shen has been much more prolific than Ka Shen, and the quality of his works is extremely stable, which is the reason why he can become the world's highest-grossing director, more than 3.7 billion US dollars beyond the second place, which is currently a ceiling for the global film box office.
In addition to the 10 directors mentioned above, there are many directors that fans like that have not made the list, but this does not mean that they are not outstanding.
For example, Pigo likes David Finch, Quentin Tarantino and Ang Lee, in Pigo's eyes, they are all big directors at the same level as Christopher Nolan.
Hollywood's highly industrialized creative environment has created these film talents, who are a tiny minority who have succeeded in the fierce competition for survival.
Although some of them have obvious styles and some are relatively restrained, their common feature is that they have long adapted to the industrialized creative environment and have a serious and serious work attitude.
Our mainland film market still has good prospects for development in the future, but there are obvious gaps in the quality of our films in Hollywood, Europe, Japan and South Korea.
The rich experience of film creation in those developed countries is worth learning.
In the future, I hope to see the names of our Chinese directors in the list of the top ten highest-grossing directors in the world.
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