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Davis Guggenheim

Directing

  • Born
  • November 3, 1963
  • 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.

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The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them poster
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
1992
Subject poster
Subject
2023

On the crew 104

24 poster
24
2001
NYPD Blue poster
NYPD Blue
1993
ER poster
ER
1994
The Shield poster
The Shield
2002
Numb3rs poster
Numb3rs
2005
Party of Five poster
Party of Five
1994
Deadwood poster
Deadwood
2004
The Unit poster
The Unit
2006
Alias poster
Alias
2001
Swan Song poster
Swan Song
2021
Training Day poster
Training Day
2001
imagine… poster
imagine…
2003
sex, lies, and videotape poster
sex, lies, and videotape
1989
The Defenders poster
The Defenders
2010
The Visitor poster
The Visitor
1997
Melrose Place poster
Melrose Place
2009
A Statement poster
A Statement
2026
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie poster
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
2023
Wanted poster
Wanted
2005
Charlie Grace poster
Charlie Grace
1995
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead poster
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991
A Killer Story poster
A Killer Story
2026
The Enfield Poltergeist poster
The Enfield Poltergeist
2023
Love Apptually poster
Love Apptually
2026
Gossip poster
Gossip
2000
Relativity poster
Relativity
1996
An Inconvenient Truth poster
An Inconvenient Truth
2006
Push, Nevada poster
Push, Nevada
2002
The Plastic Detox poster
The Plastic Detox
2026
Boys State poster
Boys State
2020
Soul Patrol poster
Soul Patrol
2026
Girls State poster
Girls State
2024
Rita poster
Rita
2024
Deaf President Now! poster
Deaf President Now!
2025
3 lbs poster
3 lbs
2006
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) poster
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates poster
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
2019
C-16: FBI poster
C-16: FBI
1997
Gracie poster
Gracie
2007
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power poster
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017
Bitterbrush poster
Bitterbrush
2022
Mistress Dispeller poster
Mistress Dispeller
2025
Working: What We Do All Day poster
Working: What We Do All Day
2023
Burden of Proof poster
Burden of Proof
2023
It Might Get Loud poster
It Might Get Loud
2008
Waiting for "Superman" poster
Waiting for "Superman"
2010
The Tale of Silyan poster
The Tale of Silyan
2025
Sweetheart Dancers poster
Sweetheart Dancers
2019
Mistress Dispeller
2021
Time poster
Time
2020
Where's My Roy Cohn? poster
Where's My Roy Cohn?
2019
At the Ready poster
At the Ready
2021
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them poster
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
1992
He Named Me Malala poster
He Named Me Malala
2015
Aftershock poster
Aftershock
2022
Navajo Police: Class 57 poster
Navajo Police: Class 57
2023
Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna poster
Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna
2025
The Price of Free poster
The Price of Free
2018
Procession poster
Procession
2021
Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 poster
Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020
2020
Once Upon a Time in Londongrad poster
Once Upon a Time in Londongrad
2022
Eternal You poster
Eternal You
2024
Container
2020
Mija poster
Mija
2022
Under G-d poster
Under G-d
2023
Wolf's Mouth poster
Wolf's Mouth
2019
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris poster
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
2016
Paulette
2019
The Tower
2008
Homeroom poster
Homeroom
2021
A Thousand Cuts poster
A Thousand Cuts
2020
Teach poster
Teach
2013
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets poster
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
2020
Darlin poster
Darlin
2019
Bisbee '17 poster
Bisbee '17
2018
U2: From the Sky Down poster
U2: From the Sky Down
2011
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015 poster
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015
2015
The First Year poster
The First Year
2001
Breaking and Entering
1992
Sisters poster
Sisters
1991
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015 poster
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
2015
To Be Queen poster
To Be Queen
2019
All These Sons poster
All These Sons
2021
The Road We've Traveled poster
The Road We've Traveled
2012
Accepted poster
Accepted
2022
The Art of Norton Simon
1999
Walk Run Cha-Cha poster
Walk Run Cha-Cha
2019
We Can Be Heroes poster
We Can Be Heroes
2024
Uvalde Mom poster
Uvalde Mom
2025
Spent: Looking for Change poster
Spent: Looking for Change
2014
Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film)
2020
A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film
2008
Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film
2016
Obama 2012 Convention Film
2012
When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film)
2020
The Dream Is Now
2013
Widow Detective
2012
The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth'
2006
Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film
2020
An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film)
2020
Carissa
2008
The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film)
2020
Teach
2001
El Vacío
2019