Davis Guggenheim
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1963-11-03 (61 years old)
Place of Birth
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Davis Guggenheim
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
Acting
(2023)
Subject
as Self
(1992)
Crew
(2025)
Mistress Dispeller
Executive Producer
(2025)
Deaf President Now!
Director, Producer
(2025)
Uvalde Mom
Executive Producer
(2024)
Girls State
Executive Producer
(2024)
Rita
Executive Producer
(2024)
Eternal You
Executive Producer
(2024)
We Can Be Heroes
Executive Producer
(2023)
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Director, Producer
(2023)
Under G-d
Executive Producer
(2022)
Accepted
Executive Producer
(2022)
Bitterbrush
Executive Producer
(2022)
Aftershock
Executive Producer
(2022)
Mija
Executive Producer
(2021)
All These Sons
Executive Producer
(2021)
Procession
Executive Producer
(2021)
At the Ready
Executive Producer
(2021)
Swan Song
Executive Producer
(2021)
Mistress Dispeller
Executive Producer
(2021)
Homeroom
Executive Producer
(2021)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Executive Producer
(2020)
(2020)
(2020)
(2020)
(2020)
Container
Executive Producer
(2020)
A Thousand Cuts
Executive Producer
(2020)
(2020)
(2020)
Time
Executive Producer
(2020)
Boys State
Executive Producer
(2020)
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Executive Producer
(2019)
To Be Queen
Executive Producer
(2019)
Paulette
Executive Producer
(2019)
Darlin
Executive Producer
(2019)
Sweetheart Dancers
Executive Producer
(2019)
Wolf's Mouth
Executive Producer
(2019)
El Vacío
Executive Producer
(2019)
Walk Run Cha-Cha
Executive Producer
(2019)
Where's My Roy Cohn?
Executive Producer
(2018)
The Price of Free
Producer
(2018)
Bisbee '17
Executive Producer
(2017)
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Executive Producer
(2016)
Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film
Director
(2015)
He Named Me Malala
Director, Producer
(2015)
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
Executive Producer
(2015)
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
Executive Producer
(2015)
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015
Executive Producer
(2014)
Spent: Looking for Change
Executive Producer
(2013)
The Dream Is Now
Director, Writer
(2013)
Teach
Writer, Director
(2012)
Obama 2012 Convention Film
Director
(2012)
Widow Detective
Director
(2012)
The Road We've Traveled
Director
(2011)
U2: From the Sky Down
Director, Producer
(2010)
Waiting for "Superman"
Director, Writer, Camera Operator
(2008)
It Might Get Loud
Director, Screenplay, Producer
(2008)
(2008)
The Tower
Director, Executive Producer
(2008)
Carissa
Executive Producer
(2007)
Gracie
Director, Writer, Producer
(2006)
An Inconvenient Truth
Screenplay, Director, Camera Operator, Executive Producer, Director of Photography
(2006)
(2001)
The First Year
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
(2001)
Training Day
Executive Producer
(2001)
Teach
Director, Director of Photography, Producer
(2000)
Gossip
Director
(1999)
The Art of Norton Simon
Director
(1992)
Breaking and Entering
Director
(1992)
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
Music Supervisor, Co-Producer
(1991)
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Associate Producer
(1989)
sex, lies, and videotape
Production Coordinator