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Davis Guggenheim

Born 1963-11-03

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

Training Day 2001 · 7.8 Deadwood 2004 · 8.6 An Inconvenient Truth 2006 · 7.4 Boys State 2020 · 7.8 Time 2020 · 7.4 Gossip 2000 · 5.9 Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie 2023 · 8.1 It Might Get Loud 2008 · 7.6 An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power 2017 · 6.6 Waiting for Superman 2010 · 7.4 He Named Me Malala 2015 · 7.0 The Plastic Detox 2026 · 6.4 Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets 2020 · 7.2 The Enfield Poltergeist 2023 · 6.6 Where's My Roy Cohn? 2019 · 7.0 Girls State 2024 · 6.6 A Thousand Cuts 2020 · 7.6 Bisbee '17 2018 · 6.8 Deaf President Now! 2025 · 8.0 Aftershock 2022 · 6.8 Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna 2025 · 6.8 Eternal You 2024 · 6.4 The Price of Free 2018 · 7.6 Bitterbrush 2022 · 7.1 At the Ready 2021 · 4.0 All These Sons 2021 · 7.5 Black Woodstock 2021 · 8.8 U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015 2015