Person
Davis Guggenheim
Directing · Born 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.
Known for
24
Director
ER
Director
Numb3rs
Director
The Shield
Director
NYPD Blue
Director
The Unit
Director
Deadwood
Producer
Party of Five
Director
The Defenders
Director
imagine…
Director
Filmography
- 2026Love ApptuallyExecutive Producer
- 2026The Plastic DetoxExecutive Producer
- 2026Soul PatrolExecutive Producer
- 2025The Tale of SilyanExecutive Producer
- 2025Last Take: Rust and the Story of HalynaExecutive Producer
- 2025Uvalde MomExecutive Producer
- 2025Mistress DispellerExecutive Producer
- 2025Deaf President Now!Director
- 2024RitaExecutive Producer
- 2024Eternal YouExecutive Producer
- 2024We Can Be HeroesExecutive Producer
- 2024Girls StateExecutive Producer
- 2023The Enfield PoltergeistExecutive Producer
- 2023Navajo Police: Class 57Executive Producer
- 2023Burden of ProofExecutive Producer
- 2023Working: What We Do All DayExecutive Producer
- 2023SubjectSelf
- 2023Under G-dExecutive Producer
- 2023STILL: A Michael J. Fox MovieDirector
- 2022MijaExecutive Producer
- 2022AcceptedExecutive Producer
- 2022BitterbrushExecutive Producer
- 2022Once Upon a Time in LondongradExecutive Producer
- 2022AftershockExecutive Producer
- 2021Swan SongExecutive Producer
- 2021Mistress DispellerExecutive Producer
- 2021ProcessionExecutive Producer
- 2021At the ReadyExecutive Producer
- 2021Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)Executive Producer
- 2021All These SonsExecutive Producer
- 2021HomeroomExecutive Producer
- 2020An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film)Director
- 2020When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film)Director
- 2020The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film)Director
- 2020Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film)Director
- 2020Never Just A Job: Biden Convention FilmDirector
- 2020ContainerExecutive Producer
- 2020TimeExecutive Producer
- 2020Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020Co-Director
- 2020Bloody Nose, Empty PocketsExecutive Producer
- 2020Boys StateExecutive Producer
- 2020A Thousand CutsExecutive Producer
- 2019Where's My Roy Cohn?Executive Producer
- 2019Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill GatesDirector
- 2019PauletteExecutive Producer
- 2019Wolf's MouthExecutive Producer
- 2019DarlinExecutive Producer
- 2019To Be QueenExecutive Producer
- 2019El VacíoExecutive Producer
- 2019Walk Run Cha-ChaExecutive Producer
- 2019Sweetheart DancersExecutive Producer
- 2018Bisbee '17Executive Producer
- 2018The Price of FreeProducer
- 2017An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to PowerExecutive Producer
- 2016Barack Obama DNC 2016 FilmDirector
- 2016U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in ParisExecutive Producer
- 2015U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015Executive Producer
- 2015U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015Executive Producer
- 2015He Named Me MalalaDirector
- 2014Spent: Looking for ChangeExecutive Producer
- 2013TeachDirector
- 2013The Dream Is NowDirector
- 2012Widow DetectiveDirector
- 2012The Road We've TraveledDirector
- 2012Obama 2012 Convention FilmDirector
- 2011U2: From the Sky DownDirector
- 2010Waiting for "Superman"Director
- 2010The DefendersDirector
- 2009Melrose PlaceDirector
- 2008A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio FilmDirector
- 2008CarissaExecutive Producer
- 2008It Might Get LoudDirector
- 2008The TowerDirector
- 2007GracieDirector
- 2006The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth'Producer
- 20063 lbsDirector
- 2006An Inconvenient TruthDirector
- 2006The UnitDirector
- 2005WantedDirector
- 2005Numb3rsDirector
- 2004DeadwoodProducer
- 2003imagine…Director
- 2002Push, NevadaDirector
- 2002The ShieldDirector
- 200124Director
- 2001Training DayExecutive Producer
- 2001AliasDirector
- 2001The First YearDirector
- 2001TeachDirector
- 2000GossipDirector
- 1999The Art of Norton SimonDirector
- 1997C-16: FBIDirector
- 1997The VisitorDirector
- 1996RelativityDirector
- 1995Charlie GraceDirector
- 1994ERDirector
- 1994Party of FiveDirector
- 1993NYPD BlueDirector
- 1992The Opposite Sex and How to Live with ThemPitcher
- 1992Breaking and EnteringDirector
- 1991Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's DeadAssociate Producer
- 1991SistersDirector
- 1989sex, lies, and videotapeProduction Coordinator
- —The StatementExecutive Producer
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