Davis Guggenheim

Directing·Nov 3, 1963·St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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Philip Davis Guggenheim (born November 3, 1963) is an Academy Award-winning American documentary and live action film director and producer. His credits as a producer and director include Training Day, The Shield, Alias, 24, NYPD Blue, ER, Deadwood, and Party of Five and the documentaries An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for 'Superman'. Since 2006, Guggenheim is the only filmmaker to release three different films that were ranked within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, and Waiting for 'Superman'). Guggenheim's cinematographic projects received severals awards and nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film for An Inconvenient Truth, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Documentary Feature for He Named Me Malala and two nominations at the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program.

Film	Credit
Deaf President Now!2025 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Subject2023 · Self	Self
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie2023 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
AAn Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film)2020 · Director	Director
TThe Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film)2020 · Director	Director
WWhen You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film)2020 · Director	Director
JJoe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film)2020 · Director	Director
NNever Just A Job: Biden Convention Film2020 · Director	Director
The Price of Free2018 · Producer	Producer
BBarack Obama DNC 2016 Film2016 · Director	Director
He Named Me Malala2015 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Teach2013 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
TThe Dream Is Now2013 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
WWidow Detective2012 · Director	Director
The Road We've Traveled2012 · Director	Director
OObama 2012 Convention Film2012 · Director	Director
U2: From the Sky Down2011 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Waiting for "Superman"2010 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
AA Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film2008 · Director	Director
It Might Get Loud2008 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
TThe Tower2008 · Director	Director
Gracie2007 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
TThe Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth'2006 · Producer	Producer
An Inconvenient Truth2006 · Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography	Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
The First Year2001 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography	Director, Producer, Director of Photography
TTeach2001 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer	Director, Director of Photography, Producer
Gossip2000 · Director	Director
TThe Art of Norton Simon1999 · Director	Director
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them1992 · Pitcher	Pitcher
BBreaking and Entering1992 · Director	Director