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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.

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Directing

1992

[ ] Breaking and Entering (Director)

1999

[ ] The Art of Norton Simon (Director)

2000

[ ] Gossip (Director)

2001

[ ] The First Year (Director)
[ ] Teach (Director)

2006

[ ] An Inconvenient Truth (Director)

2007

[ ] Gracie (Director)

2008

[ ] It Might Get Loud (Director)
[ ] A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film (Director)
[ ] The Tower (Director)

2010

[ ] Waiting for "Superman" (Director)

2011

[ ] U2: From the Sky Down (Director)

2012

[ ] Obama 2012 Convention Film (Director)
[ ] Widow Detective (Director)
[ ] The Road We've Traveled (Director)

2013

[ ] The Dream Is Now (Director)
[ ] Teach (Director)

2015

[ ] He Named Me Malala (Director)

2016

[ ] Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film (Director)

2020

[ ] An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film) (Director)
[ ] Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 (Co-Director)
[ ] Never Just A Job: 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)

2023

[ ] STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie (Director)

2025

[ ] Deaf President Now! (Director)

Writing

2006

[ ] An Inconvenient Truth (Screenplay)

2007

[ ] Gracie (Writer)

2008

[ ] It Might Get Loud (Screenplay)

2010

[ ] Waiting for "Superman" (Writer)

2013

[ ] The Dream Is Now (Writer)
[ ] Teach (Writer)

Production

1989

[ 6/10 ] sex, lies, and videotape (Production Coordinator)

1991

[ ] Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (Associate Producer)

1992

[ ] The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them (Co-Producer)

2001

[ 7/10 ] Training Day (Executive Producer)
[ ] Teach (Producer)
[ ] The First Year (Producer)

2006

[ ] The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth' (Producer)
[ ] An Inconvenient Truth (Executive Producer)

2007

[ ] Gracie (Producer)

2008

[ ] Carissa (Executive Producer)
[ ] The Tower (Executive Producer)
[ ] It Might Get Loud (Producer)

2011

[ ] U2: From the Sky Down (Producer)

2014

[ ] Spent: Looking for Change (Executive Producer)

2015

[ ] He Named Me Malala (Producer)
[ ] U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015 (Executive Producer)
[ ] U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015 (Executive Producer)

2016

[ ] U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris (Executive Producer)

2017

[ ] An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (Executive Producer)

2018

[ ] The Price of Free (Producer)
[ ] Bisbee '17 (Executive Producer)

2019

[ ] To Be Queen (Executive Producer)
[ ] Paulette (Executive Producer)
[ ] Darlin (Executive Producer)
[ ] Sweetheart Dancers (Executive Producer)
[ ] Wolf's Mouth (Executive Producer)
[ ] El Vacío (Executive Producer)
[ ] Walk Run Cha-Cha (Executive Producer)
[ ] Where's My Roy Cohn? (Executive Producer)

2020

[ ] Container (Executive Producer)
[ ] A Thousand Cuts (Executive Producer)
[ ] Time (Executive Producer)
[ ] Boys State (Executive Producer)
[ ] Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Executive Producer)

2021

[ ] All These Sons (Executive Producer)
[ ] Procession (Executive Producer)
[ ] At the Ready (Executive Producer)
[ 6/10 ] Swan Song (Executive Producer)
[ ] Mistress Dispeller (Executive Producer)
[ ] Homeroom (Executive Producer)
[ ] Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Executive Producer)

2022

[ ] Accepted (Executive Producer)
[ ] Bitterbrush (Executive Producer)
[ ] Aftershock (Executive Producer)
[ ] Mija (Executive Producer)

2023

[ ] STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie (Producer)
[ ] Under G-d (Executive Producer)

2024

[ ] Girls State (Executive Producer)
[ ] Rita (Executive Producer)
[ ] Eternal You (Executive Producer)
[ ] We Can Be Heroes (Executive Producer)

2025

[ ] Mistress Dispeller (Executive Producer)
[ ] Deaf President Now! (Producer)
[ ] Uvalde Mom (Executive Producer)
[ ] The Tale of Silyan (Executive Producer)
[ ] Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna (Executive Producer)

2026

[ ] Soul Patrol (Executive Producer)

????

[ ] The Statement (Executive Producer)

Sound

1992

[ ] The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them (Music Supervisor)

Camera

2001

[ ] Teach (Director of Photography)
[ ] The First Year (Director of Photography)

2006

[ ] An Inconvenient Truth (Camera Operator)
[ ] An Inconvenient Truth (Director of Photography)

2010

[ ] Waiting for "Superman" (Camera Operator)

Actor

1992

[ ] The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them (Pitcher)

2023

[ ] Subject (Self)