Directing
Davis Guggenheim
EN, MK, ES cinema · 78 credits
Born
3 November 1963 (age 63)
Birthplace
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Also known as Philip 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.
Known for
Filmography
Soul Patrol
Executive Producer
A Statement
Executive Producer
Love Apptually
Executive Producer
The Plastic Detox
Executive Producer
Mistress Dispeller
Executive Producer
Deaf President Now!
Director, Producer
Uvalde Mom
Executive Producer
The Tale of Silyan
Executive Producer
Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna
Executive Producer
Girls State
Executive Producer
Rita
Executive Producer
Eternal You
Executive Producer
We Can Be Heroes
Executive Producer
Subject
as Self
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Director, Producer
Under G-d
Executive Producer
Accepted
Executive Producer
Bitterbrush
Executive Producer
Aftershock
Executive Producer
Mija
Executive Producer
All These Sons
Executive Producer
Procession
Executive Producer
At the Ready
Executive Producer
Mistress Dispeller
2021
Mistress Dispeller
Executive Producer
Swan Song
Executive Producer
Homeroom
Executive Producer
Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film
2020
Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film
Director
A Thousand Cuts
Executive Producer
Container
2020
Container
Executive Producer
Time
Executive Producer
Boys State
Executive Producer
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Executive Producer
Sweetheart Dancers
Executive Producer
Darlin
Executive Producer
To Be Queen
Executive Producer
Wolf's Mouth
Executive Producer
Paulette
2019
Paulette
Executive Producer
El Vacío
2019
El Vacío
Executive Producer
Walk Run Cha-Cha
Executive Producer
Where's My Roy Cohn?
Executive Producer
The Price of Free
Producer
Bisbee '17
Executive Producer
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Executive Producer
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
Executive Producer
He Named Me Malala
Director, Producer
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
Executive Producer
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015
Executive Producer
Spent: Looking for Change
Executive Producer
The Dream Is Now
2013
The Dream Is Now
Director, Writer
Teach
Director, Writer
U2: From the Sky Down
Director, Producer
Waiting for "Superman"
Director, Writer, Camera Operator
It Might Get Loud
Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Tower
2008
The Tower
Director, Executive Producer
Carissa
2008
Carissa
Executive Producer
Gracie
Director, Writer, Producer
An Inconvenient Truth
Director, Screenplay, Camera Operator, Executive Producer, Director of Photography
The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth'
2006
The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth'
Producer
The First Year
Director, Director of Photography, Producer
Training Day
Executive Producer
Teach
2001
Teach
Director, Director of Photography, Producer
Gossip
Director
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
as Pitcher, Music Supervisor, Co-Producer
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Associate Producer
sex, lies, and videotape
Production Coordinator