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Davis Guggenheim

Davis Guggenheim

Directing1963St. 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.

Acting History

2025
2024
Girls State
Executive Producer
Eternal You
Executive Producer
2022
Accepted
Executive Producer
Aftershock
Executive Producer
Mija
Executive Producer
2020
Time
Executive Producer
Boys State
Executive Producer
2018
Bisbee '17
Executive Producer
2010
Waiting for "Superman"
Camera Operator
The Defenders
TVDirector1 eps
The Defenders
TVExecutive Producer18 eps
2009
Melrose Place
TVDirector
Melrose Place
TVProducer
Melrose Place
TVExecutive Producer
2008
The Tower
Director
The Tower
Executive Producer
2007
Gracie
Director
Gracie
Writer
Gracie
Producer
2006
An Inconvenient Truth
Camera Operator
An Inconvenient Truth
Executive Producer
An Inconvenient Truth
Director of Photography
The Unit
TVDirector1 eps
3 lbs
TVDirector
3 lbs
TVExecutive Producer
2005
Numb3rs
TVDirector
Wanted
TVDirector
2004
Deadwood
TVProducer36 eps
Deadwood
TVDirector4 eps
2003
imagine…
TVDirector1 eps
2002
24
TVDirector2 eps
The Shield
TVDirector
2001
The First Year
Director of Photography
Training Day
Executive Producer
Alias
TVDirector
2000
Gossip
Director
1997
The Visitor
TVDirector
1996
Relativity
TVDirector
1995
Charlie Grace
TVDirector
Sisters
TVDirector2 eps
NYPD Blue
TVDirector3 eps
1994
ER
TVDirector
Party of Five
TVDirector
1989
sex, lies, and videotape
Production Coordinator

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Personal Info

Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
11/3/1963(62 years old)
Place of Birth
St. Louis, Missouri, USA