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Davis Guggenheim

Known for: Directing

Biography: 1963-11-03 (61 years old)

Biography

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.

Filmography

all 97

Movies 70

Producer 55

Director 38

TV Shows 27

self 3

Executive Producer

Davis Guggenheim

Biography

Filmography

all 97

Movies 70

Producer 55

Director 38

TV Shows 27

self 3

Mistress Dispeller (2024)

Rita (2024)

Eternal You (2024)

We Can Be Heroes (2024)

Girls State (2024)

The Enfield Poltergeist (2023)

Navajo Police: Class 57 (2023)

Burden of Proof (2023)

Working: What We Do All Day (2023)

Subject (2023)

Under G-d (2023)

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023)

Mija (2022)

Accepted (2022)

Bitterbrush (2022)

Once Upon a Time in Londongrad (2022)

Aftershock (2022)

Swan Song (2021)

Mistress Dispeller (2021)

Procession (2021)

At the Ready (2021)

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)

All These Sons (2021)

Homeroom (2021)

Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film) (2020)

When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film) (2020)

The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film) (2020)

An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film) (2020)

Container (2020)

Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film (2020)

Time (2020)

Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 (2020)

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020)

Boys State (2020)

A Thousand Cuts (2020)

Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019)

Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates (2019)

Paulette (2019)

Wolf's Mouth (2019)

El Vacío (2019)

To Be Queen (2019)

Darlin (2019)

Walk Run Cha-Cha (2019)

Sweetheart Dancers (2019)

Bisbee '17 (2018)

The Price of Free (2018)

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)

Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film (2016)

U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris (2015)

U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015 (2015)

U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015 (2015)

He Named Me Malala (2015)

Spent: Looking for Change (2014)

Teach (2013)

The Dream Is Now (2013)

Widow Detective (2012)

The Road We've Traveled (2012)

Obama 2012 Convention Film (2012)

U2: From the Sky Down (2011)

Waiting for "Superman" (2010)

The Defenders (2010)

Melrose Place (2009)

Carissa (2008)

A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film (2008)

It Might Get Loud (2008)

The Tower (2008)

Gracie (2007)

The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth' (2006)

3 LBS (2006)

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

DocTalk (2006)

Known For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1963-11-03 (61 years old)

Birth Place

St. Louis, United States

Spouse

Elisabeth Shue

Children

Stella Street Guggenheim

Father

Charles Guggenheim

Citizenships

United States

Also Known As

Philip Davis Guggenheim

Awards

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film