Name
Davis Guggenheim
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1963-11-03 (63 years old)
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.
Known For
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On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detect...
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Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to ...
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What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? In this documentary...
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A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the...
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Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While ...
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A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized probl...
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A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular cult...
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During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Fest...
- 2023 Subject as Self
- 1992 The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them as Pitcher
