Davis Guggenheim

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.

Crew

An Inconvenient Truth

(Director)

An Inconvenient Truth

(Screenplay)

It Might Get Loud

(Director)

It Might Get Loud

(Screenplay)

All These Sons

(Executive Producer)

Gracie

(Director)

Waiting for "Superman"

(Director)

Waiting for "Superman"

(Writer)

Gossip

(Director)

Accepted

(Executive Producer)

U2: From the Sky Down

(Director)

The Dream Is Now

(Director)

Procession

(Executive Producer)

Bitterbrush

(Executive Producer)

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

(Associate Producer)

The First Year

(Director)

U2: From the Sky Down

(Producer)

He Named Me Malala

(Director)

Girls State

(Executive Producer)

Training Day

(Executive Producer)

U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris

(Executive Producer)

Breaking and Entering

(Director)

The Art of Norton Simon

(Director)

Teach

(Director)

A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film

(Director)

The Tower

(Director)

Obama 2012 Convention Film

(Director)

Widow Detective

(Director)

Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film

(Director)

Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film

(Director)

An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film)

(Director)

When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film)

(Director)

The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film)

(Director)

Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film)

(Director)

The Dream Is Now

(Writer)

Gracie

(Writer)

Teach

(Director of Photography)

The First Year

(Director of Photography)

Waiting for "Superman"

(Camera Operator)

An Inconvenient Truth

(Camera Operator)

The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them

(Music Supervisor)

sex, lies, and videotape

(Production Coordinator)

Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020

(Co-Director)

The First Year

(Producer)

Teach

(Producer)

Gracie

(Producer)

The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth'

(Producer)

Carissa

(Executive Producer)

It Might Get Loud

(Producer)

The Tower

(Executive Producer)

Spent: Looking for Change

(Executive Producer)

He Named Me Malala

(Producer)

Sweetheart Dancers

(Executive Producer)

Darlin

(Executive Producer)

To Be Queen

(Executive Producer)

Wolf's Mouth

(Executive Producer)

Paulette

(Executive Producer)

A Thousand Cuts

(Executive Producer)

Container

(Executive Producer)

At the Ready

(Executive Producer)

Mistress Dispeller

(Executive Producer)

Rita

(Executive Producer)

Eternal You

(Executive Producer)

Mistress Dispeller

(Executive Producer)

Swan Song

(Executive Producer)

Aftershock

(Executive Producer)

We Can Be Heroes

(Executive Producer)

El Vacío

(Executive Producer)

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

(Director)

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

(Producer)

An Inconvenient Truth

(Executive Producer)

Under G-d

(Executive Producer)

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

(Executive Producer)

Mija

(Executive Producer)

An Inconvenient Truth

(Director of Photography)

U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015

(Executive Producer)

U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015

(Executive Producer)

The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them

(Co-Producer)

The Price of Free

(Producer)

Teach

(Director)

Teach

(Writer)

Bisbee '17

(Executive Producer)

Walk Run Cha-Cha

(Executive Producer)

Time

(Executive Producer)

Where's My Roy Cohn?

(Executive Producer)

The Road We've Traveled

(Director)

Boys State

(Executive Producer)

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

(Executive Producer)

Homeroom

(Executive Producer)

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

(Executive Producer)

Deaf President Now!

(Director)

Deaf President Now!

(Producer)

Uvalde Mom

(Executive Producer)

Sisters

(Director)

3 LBS

(Director)

Numb3rs

(Director)

imagine…

(Director)

24

(Director)

Alias

(Director)

Wanted

(Director)

Party of Five

(Director)

The Shield

(Director)

Deadwood

(Producer)

Deadwood

(Director)

Relativity

(Director)

The Unit

(Director)

The Visitor

(Director)

ER

(Director)

Push, Nevada

(Director)

Melrose Place

(Director)

Melrose Place

(Producer)

Charlie Grace

(Director)

C-16: FBI

(Director)

The Defenders

(Director)

The Defenders

(Executive Producer)

Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates

(Director)

NYPD Blue

(Director)

Working: What We Do All Day

(Executive Producer)

Burden of Proof

(Executive Producer)

The Enfield Poltergeist

(Executive Producer)

Navajo Police: Class 57

(Executive Producer)

3 LBS

(Executive Producer)

Melrose Place

(Executive Producer)

Once Upon a Time in Londongrad

(Executive Producer)

Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates

(Executive Producer)

Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates

(Creator)