Davis Guggenheim

Directing

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.

Filmography Movies

Acting

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Subject

6.5(0.0K)

In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? SUBJECT reveals the unintended consequences – good, bad, and complicated – of having your life shared on screen. Featuring the protagonists of acclaimed documentaries The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Square, as well as the filmmakers of Minding the Gap, Cameraperson, An Inconvenient Truth, and more.

The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them

5.7(0.0K)

David seriously fancies smart, rich Carrie as soon as he first offends her in a Boston bar. They run into each other again and though she still finds him appalling, David manages to change her mind.

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The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them

Pitcher

Production

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An Inconvenient Truth

7.0(1.0K)

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

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An Inconvenient Truth

Director

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An Inconvenient Truth

7.0(1.0K)

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

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An Inconvenient Truth

Screenplay

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It Might Get Loud

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A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: the Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White.

It Might Get Loud

7.2(0.2K)

A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: the Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White.

All These Sons

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On Chicago's South and West sides, the scourge of guns and gangs is destroying countless lives. Taking matters into their own hands, two men dedicate their lives educating, empowering and healing young Black men at high risk for being victims—or perpetrators—of deadly gun-violence.

Gracie

6.2(0.1K)

A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

Waiting for "Superman"

6.9(0.1K)

Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.

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Waiting for "Superman"

Director

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Waiting for "Superman"

6.9(0.1K)

Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.

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Waiting for "Superman"

Writer

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Gossip

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For a class project, three college students decide to invent an unfounded rumor about the most popular girl on campus. But as the rumor spreads, it begins to spiral out of control.

Accepted

6.7(0.0K)

The ambitious students of the TM Landry Prep School enjoyed a remarkable 100% acceptance rate into the county’s most elite colleges until an explosive NY Times article exposed the controversial teaching methods of its dynamic founder.

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Accepted

Executive Producer