Richest movie directors in Hollywood – The Hollywood film industry is a multi-billion dollar industry. This year alone, over twenty films have earned more than $100 million in domestic sales, with Jurassic World taking the cake with a cool $652 million. And many are predicting that J.J. Abrams’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens is destined to become the highest grossing film of all-time, surpassing the $2.8 billion benchmark set by James Cameron’s Avator.
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The person most responsible for the success or failure of a film is the director. They are the ones who are in charge. They overlook just about every aspect of the film—from casting to design to the artistic direction—and so ultimately they are the ones who can make or break a film. Over the years there have been many great film directors, but not all of them can lay claim to being one of the ten richest.
With 14 Academy Awards and billions of dollars in box office sales between them, most of the names on this list should come as no surprise. But financial success and critical success don’t always go hand in hand. Despite consistently raking in huge numbers, some of the highest paid directors regularly produce cinematic duds.
Here’s the list of the ten richest directors in Hollywood.
10. Christopher Nolan – $135 million
With a net worth estimated to be somewhere in the $135 million range, Christopher Nolan comes in at number ten on this list. While he’s perhaps most famous for his Batman movies, he’s also written and directed standalone hits such as Inception and Interstellar, both of which brought in a considerable amount of money worldwide: $825 and $675 million, respectively.
Unlike many famous directors, Christopher Nolan plays an active role not only in the production of his films, but also the creation of the stories, as he writes with his brother/writing partner Jonathan Nolan. And on top of being a director, he helped to write and produce the financially successful, yet critically polarizing, Man of Steel.
Before hitting it big with the critically acclaimed Memento, Nolan wrote and directed his first film, Following, a neo-noir thriller, on a scarce $6,000 budget (for comparison, Interstellar cost $165 million to make).
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