Davis Guggenheim
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- November 3, 1963 (age 63)
- Birthplace
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Deaf President Now!
Movie · Director
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Movie · Director
Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film
Movie · Director
An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film)
Movie · Director
When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film)
Movie · Director
The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film)
Movie · Director
Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film)
Movie · Director
Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020
Movie · Co-Director
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
TV · Director · 3 eps
Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film
Movie · Director
He Named Me Malala
Movie · Director
The Dream Is Now
Movie · Director
Teach
Movie · Director
Obama 2012 Convention Film
Movie · Director
Widow Detective
Movie · Director
The Road We've Traveled
Movie · Director
U2: From the Sky Down
Movie · Director
Waiting for "Superman"
Movie · Director
The Defenders
TV · Director · 1 ep
Melrose Place
TV · Director · 1 ep
It Might Get Loud
Movie · Director
A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film
Movie · Director
The Tower
Movie · Director
Gracie
Movie · Director
An Inconvenient Truth
Movie · Director
3 lbs
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Unit
TV · Director · 1 ep
Numb3rs
TV · Director · 2 eps
Wanted
TV · Director · 2 eps
Deadwood
TV · Director · 4 eps
imagine…
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Shield
TV · Director · 1 ep
Push, Nevada
TV · Director · 1 ep
The First Year
Movie · Director
Teach
Movie · Director
24
TV · Director · 2 eps
Alias
TV · Director · 1 ep
Gossip
Movie · Director
The Art of Norton Simon
Movie · Director
The Visitor
TV · Director · 1 ep
C-16: FBI
TV · Director · 1 ep
Relativity
TV · Director · 1 ep
Charlie Grace
TV · Director · 1 ep
Party of Five
TV · Director · 1 ep
ER
TV · Director · 1 ep
NYPD Blue
TV · Director · 3 eps
Breaking and Entering
Movie · Director
Sisters
TV · Director · 2 eps