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Davis Guggenheim

Film Director / Television Director / Film Producer / Screenwriter / Cinematographer / Television Producer / Writer | * 11/03/1963 (61) | St. Louis, Missouri (United States of America (USA))
Philip Davis Guggenheim is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. Active in television and film's directions and productions since the 1990s, from 2006 Guggenheim has specialized in making documentaries, ranking the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all Time with three works: An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, and Waiting for "Superman". Guggenheim's cinematographic projects received several 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. His credits include ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Drama | Crime

Known for these Movies & Shows

A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education and the aftermath, including her speech to the United ...

He Named Me Malala

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2015 | 3.4/5 | 1h 27min
Documentary
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On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears. ...

Training Day

R

2001 | 3.7/5 | 2h 2min
Action, Crime, Drama
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A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide. ...

An Inconvenient Truth

PG

2006 | 3.5/5 | 1h 40min
Documentary
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Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim. ...

Waiting for "Superman"

PG

2010 | 3.5/5 | 1h 51min
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Awards & Nominations for Davis Guggenheim

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
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Movies with Davis Guggenheim as Actor(1)

as himself2023 Subject

Movies with Davis Guggenheim as Crew(45)

Production/Executive Producer2024 Eternal You
Production/Executive Producer2024 Girls State
Production/Executive Producer2024 We Can Be Heroes
Production/Executive Producer2023 Under G-d
Directing/Director2023 STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Production/Producer2023 STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Production/Executive Producer2022 Accepted
Production/Executive Producer2022 Bitterbrush
Production/Executive Producer2022 Mija
Production/Executive Producer2022 Aftershock
Production/Executive Producer2021 Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Production/Executive Producer2021 All These Sons
Production/Executive Producer2021 Homeroom
Production/Executive Producer2021 Procession
Production/Executive Producer2020 Time
Production/Executive Producer2020 A Thousand Cuts
Production/Executive Producer2020 Boys State
Production/Executive Producer2020 Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Production/Executive Producer2019 Walk Run Cha-Cha
Production/Executive Producer2019 El Vacío
Production/Executive Producer2019 Where's My Roy Cohn?
Production/Executive Producer2018 Bisbee '17
Production/Producer2018 The Price of Free
Production/Executive Producer2017 An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Directing/Director2015 He Named Me Malala
Production/Executive Producer2015 U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
Production/Executive Producer2014 Spent: Looking for Change
Directing/Director2013 Teach
Writing/Writer2013 Teach
Directing/Director2013 The Dream Is Now
Directing/Director2011 U2 - From the Sky Down
Production/Producer2011 U2 - From the Sky Down
Directing/Director2010 Waiting for "Superman"
Writing/Writer2010 Waiting for "Superman"
Directing/Director2008 It Might Get Loud
Writing/Screenplay2008 It Might Get Loud
Directing/Director2007 Gracie
Camera/Director of Photography2006 An Inconvenient Truth
Directing/Director2006 An Inconvenient Truth
Production/Executive Producer2006 An Inconvenient Truth
Writing/Screenplay2006 An Inconvenient Truth
Production/Executive Producer2001 Training Day
Directing/Director2001 The First Year
Directing/Director2000 Gossip
Production/Associate Producer1991 Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

TV Shows/Series with Davis Guggenheim as Crew(28)

Production/Executive Producer2023 The Enfield Poltergeist
Production/Executive Producer2023 Navajo Police: Class 57
Production/Executive Producer2023 Working: What We Do All Day
Production/Executive Producer2022 Once Upon a Time in Londongrad
Directing/Director2019 Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
Production/Executive Producer2019 Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
Directing/Director2010 The Defenders
Production/Executive Producer2010 The Defenders
Production/Producer2009 Melrose Place
Directing/Director2009 Melrose Place
Directing/Director2006 The Unit
Directing/Director2006 3 LBS
Directing/Director2005 Wanted
Directing/Director2005 Numb3rs
Directing/Director2004 Deadwood
Production/Producer2004 Deadwood
Directing/Director2003 imagine…
Directing/Director2002 Push, Nevada
Directing/Director2002 The Shield
Directing/Director2001 24
Directing/Director2001 Alias
Directing/Director1997 C-16: FBI
Directing/Director1997 The Visitor
Directing/Director1996 Relativity
Directing/Director1994 ER
Directing/Director1994 Party of Five
Directing/Director1993 NYPD Blue
Directing/Director1991 Sisters

Full Name: Davis Guggenheim
Born: Sunday, 11/03 1963 (November) in St. Louis, Missouri (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 61 years + 132 days)
Zodiac sign: Scorpio (Chinese zodiac sign: Rabbit)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Brown University, Sidwell Friends School, Potomac School
Spouses (current/former): Elisabeth Shue
Children: Stella Street Guggenheim
Davis Guggenheim frequently works together with these people:
Jonathan Silberberg (16x, Crew)
Nicole Stott (15x, Crew)
Laurene Powell-Jobs (14x, Crew)
Shannon Dill (9x, Crew)
Lydia Woodward (7x, Crew)
Joshua Altman (6x, Crew)
Joe Sachs (6x, Crew)
Lance Gentile (6x, Crew)
Jennifer Tiexiera (5x, Crew)
Jay Cassidy (5x, Crew)
Jenny Raskin (5x, Crew)
Rahdi Taylor (5x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:10230, Added: 05/06/2018, Last updated: 03/08/2025