Davis Guggenheim

AKA: Philip Davis Guggenheim
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1963-11-03

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.

Crew Roles

An Inconvenient Truth
Director
An Inconvenient Truth
Screenplay
It Might Get Loud
Director
It Might Get Loud
Screenplay
All These Sons
Executive Producer
Gracie
Director
Waiting for "Superman"
Director
Waiting for "Superman"
Writer
Gossip
Director
Accepted
Executive Producer
U2: From the Sky Down
Director
The Dream Is Now
Director
Procession
Executive Producer
Bitterbrush
Executive Producer
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Associate Producer
The First Year
Director
U2: From the Sky Down
Producer
He Named Me Malala
Director
Girls State
Executive Producer
Training Day
Executive Producer
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
Executive Producer
The Art of Norton Simon
Director
A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film
Director
Obama 2012 Convention Film
Director
Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film
Director
Breaking and Entering
Director
Teach
Director
Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film
Director
An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film)
Director
The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film)
Director
Teach
Director of Photography
sex, lies, and videotape
Production Coordinator
When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film)
Director
Teach
Producer
The Tower
Executive Producer
Paulette
Executive Producer
Gracie
Writer
Gracie
Producer
The Tower
Director
Widow Detective
Director
The Dream Is Now
Writer
A Thousand Cuts
Executive Producer
Eternal You
Executive Producer
Carissa
Executive Producer
The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth'
Producer
Spent: Looking for Change
Executive Producer
At the Ready
Executive Producer
Rita
Executive Producer
Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film)
Director
An Inconvenient Truth
Camera Operator
Mistress Dispeller
Executive Producer
Sweetheart Dancers
Executive Producer
The First Year
Producer
Mistress Dispeller
Executive Producer
The First Year
Director of Photography
Darlin
Executive Producer
Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020
Co-Director
He Named Me Malala
Producer
Swan Song
Executive Producer
Waiting for "Superman"
Camera Operator
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
Music Supervisor
To Be Queen
Executive Producer
Container
Executive Producer
It Might Get Loud
Producer
Wolf's Mouth
Executive Producer
Aftershock
Executive Producer
We Can Be Heroes
Executive Producer
El Vacío
Executive Producer
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Director
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Producer
An Inconvenient Truth
Executive Producer
Under G-d
Executive Producer
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Executive Producer
Mija
Executive Producer
An Inconvenient Truth
Director of Photography
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
Executive Producer
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015
Executive Producer
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
Co-Producer
The Price of Free
Producer
Teach
Writer
Teach
Director
Bisbee '17
Executive Producer
Walk Run Cha-Cha
Executive Producer
Time
Executive Producer
Where's My Roy Cohn?
Executive Producer
The Road We've Traveled
Director
Boys State
Executive Producer
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Executive Producer
Homeroom
Executive Producer
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Executive Producer
Deaf President Now!
Director
Deaf President Now!
Producer
Uvalde Mom
Executive Producer
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Producer
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Producer
Director
Director
Director
Executive Producer
Director
Director
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
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Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Creator
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