DAVIS GUGGENHEIM

Davis Guggenheim
Davis Guggenheim
Gender: Male
Known for: Directing
Birthday: November 3, 1963
Place of Birth: 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.

Notable work

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Filmography

Production

2026·
The Plastic Detox
Executive Producer
2026·
Love Apptually
Executive Producer
TBA·
The Statement
Executive Producer
2026·
Soul Patrol
Executive Producer
2025·
Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna
Executive Producer
2025·
The Tale of Silyan
Executive Producer
2025·
Uvalde Mom
Executive Producer
2025·
Deaf President Now!
Producer, Director
2025·
Mistress Dispeller
Executive Producer
2024·
We Can Be Heroes
Executive Producer
2024·
Eternal You
Executive Producer
2024·
Rita
Executive Producer
2024·
Girls State
Executive Producer
2023·
Navajo Police: Class 57
Executive Producer
2023·
The Enfield Poltergeist
Executive Producer
2023·
Burden of Proof
Executive Producer
2023·
Working: What We Do All Day
Executive Producer
2023·
Under G-d
Executive Producer
2023·
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Producer, Director
2022·
Once Upon a Time in Londongrad
Executive Producer
2022·
Mija
Executive Producer
2022·
Aftershock
Executive Producer
2022·
Bitterbrush
Executive Producer
2022·
Accepted
Executive Producer
2021·
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Executive Producer
2021·
Homeroom
Executive Producer
2021·
Mistress Dispeller
Executive Producer
2021·
Swan Song
Executive Producer
2021·
At the Ready
Executive Producer
2021·
Procession
Executive Producer
2021·
All These Sons
Executive Producer
2020·
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Executive Producer
2020·
Boys State
Executive Producer
2020·
Time
Executive Producer
2020·
Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film)
Director
2020·
The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film)
Director
2020·
A Thousand Cuts
Executive Producer
2020·
Container
Executive Producer
2020·
When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film)
Director
2020·
Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film
Director
2020·
Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020
Co-Director
2020·
An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film)
Director
2019·
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
Creator, Executive Producer, Director
2019·
Where's My Roy Cohn?
Executive Producer
2019·
Walk Run Cha-Cha
Executive Producer
2019·
El Vacío
Executive Producer
2019·
Wolf's Mouth
Executive Producer
2019·
Sweetheart Dancers
Executive Producer
2019·
Darlin
Executive Producer
2019·
Paulette
Executive Producer
2019·
To Be Queen
Executive Producer
2018·
Bisbee '17
Executive Producer
2018·
The Price of Free
Producer
2017·
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Executive Producer
2016·
Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film
Director
2016·
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
Executive Producer
2015·
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015
Executive Producer
2015·
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
Executive Producer
2015·
He Named Me Malala
Producer, Director
2014·
Spent: Looking for Change
Executive Producer
2013·
Teach
Director, Writer
2013·
The Dream Is Now
Writer, Director
2012·
The Road We've Traveled
Director
2012·
Widow Detective
Director
2012·
Obama 2012 Convention Film
Director
2011·
U2: From the Sky Down
Producer, Director
2010·
The Defenders
Executive Producer, Director
2010·
Waiting for "Superman"
Camera Operator, Writer, Director
2009·
Melrose Place
Executive Producer, Director, Producer
2008·
It Might Get Loud
Producer, Screenplay, Director
2008·
The Tower
Executive Producer, Director
2008·
Carissa
Executive Producer
2008·
A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film
Director
2007·
Gracie
Producer, Writer, Director
2006·
3 lbs
Executive Producer, Director
2006·
The Unit
Director
2006·
An Inconvenient Truth
Director of Photography, Executive Producer, Camera Operator, Director, Screenplay
2006·
The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth'
Producer
2005·
Wanted 2005
Director
2005·
Numb3rs
Director
2004·
Deadwood
Producer, Director
2003·
imagine…
Director
2002·
Push, Nevada
Director
2002·
The Shield
Director
2001·
Alias
Director
2001·
24
Director
2001·
The First Year
Director of Photography, Producer, Director
2001·
Teach
Producer, Director of Photography, Director
2001·
Training Day
Executive Producer
2000·
Gossip
Director
1999·
The Art of Norton Simon
Director
1997·
C-16: FBI
Director
1997·
The Visitor
Director
1996·
Relativity
Director
1995·
Charlie Grace
Director
1994·
ER
Director
1994·
Party of Five
Director
1993·
NYPD Blue
Director
1992·
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
Co-Producer, Music Supervisor
1992·
Breaking and Entering
Director
1991·
Sisters
Director
1991·
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Associate Producer
1989·
sex, lies, and videotape
Production Coordinator