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Poll: Favorite Top Box Office Grossing Female Director?

A poll by urbanemovies.
As of 05 January 2020, these female and transgender female movie directors have worldwide cumulative box office totals between $80 million and $2.5 billion. Their box office totals places just about every one of them among Box Office Mojo's Top 500 Domestic Grossing Directors in movie ticket sales in the USA and Canada.

Which of these select trail-blazing top box office grossing female directors is your personal favorite?

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    Lana Wachowski

    Lana Wachowski's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: The Matrix Reloaded $281.6m

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    Lilly Wachowski

    Lilly Wachowski's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: The Matrix Reloaded $281.6m

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    Nancy Meyers

    Nancy Meyers's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: What Women Want $182.8m

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    Betty Thomas

    Betty Thomas's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 $219.6m

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    Nora Ephron

    Nora Ephron's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Sleepless in Seattle $126.7m

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    Patty Jenkins

    Patty Jenkins's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Wonder Woman $412.6m

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    Vicky Jenson

    Vicky Jenson's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Shrek $267.7m

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    Penny Marshall

    Penny Marshall's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Big $115.0m

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    Jennifer Lee

    Jennifer Lee's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Frozen 2 Running Totals

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    Amy Heckerling

    Amy Heckerling's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Look Who's Talking $140.1m

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    Anne Fletcher

    Anne Fletcher's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: The Proposal $164.0m

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    Brenda Chapman

    Brenda Chapman's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Brave $237.3m

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    Jennifer Yuh Nelson

    Jennifer Yuh Nelson's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Kung Fu Panda 2 $165.2m

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    Catherine Hardwicke

    Catherine Hardwicke's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Twilight $192.8m

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    Penelope Spheeris

    Penelope Spheeris's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Wayne's World $121.7m

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    Kathryn Bigelow

    Kathryn Bigelow's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Zero Dark Thirty $95.7m

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    Mimi Leder

    Mimi Leder's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Deep Impact $140.5m

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    Elizabeth Banks

    Elizabeth Banks's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Pitch Perfect 2 $184.3m

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    Sam Taylor-Johnson

    Sam Taylor-Johnson's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Fifty Shades of Grey $166.2m

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    Barbra Streisand

    Barbra Streisand's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: The Prince of Tides $74.8m

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    Ava DuVernay

    Ava DuVernay's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: A Wrinkle in Time $100.5m

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    Martha Coolidge

    Martha Coolidge's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Out to Sea $29.0m

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    Angelina Jolie

    Angelina Jolie's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Unbroken $115.6m

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    Niki Caro

    Niki Caro's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: McFarland, USA $44.5m

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    Beeban Kidron

    Beeban Kidron's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Bridget Jones 2 $40.2m

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    Sharon Maguire

    Sharon Maguire's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Bridget Jones's Diary $71.5m

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    Anna Boden

    Anna Boden's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Captain Marvel $426.8m

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    added 15 March 2019

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    Phyllida Lloyd

    Phyllida Lloyd's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Mamma Mia! $144.1m

    Box Office Mojo Totals $174.2m

    added 15 March 2019

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    Jodie Foster

    Jodie Foster's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Money Monster $41.0m

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    Sofia Coppola

    Sofia Coppola's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Lost in Translation $44.6m

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    Mira Nair

    Mira Nair's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Vanity Fair $16.1m

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    Mary Lambert

    Mary Lambert's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Pet Sematary $57.5m

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    Gina Prince-Bythewood

    Gina Prince-Bythewood's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: The Secret Life of Bees $37.8m

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    Trish Sie

    Trish Sie's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Pitch Perfect 3 $104.9m

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    added 17 August 2019

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    Greta Gerwig

    Greta Gerwig's Movie Directorial Resume

    Top Box Office Film: Little Women (2019) Running Totals

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    added 05 January 2020


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