Davis Guggenheim
Born: 1963-11-03 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Known For: 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
2026
- The Plastic Detox ... (Executive Producer)
- Soul Patrol ... (Executive Producer)
- Love Apptually ... (Executive Producer)
2025
- Deaf President Now! ... (Director)
- Mistress Dispeller ... (Executive Producer)
- Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna ... (Executive Producer)
- The Tale of Silyan ... (Executive Producer)
- Uvalde Mom ... (Executive Producer)
2024
- Girls State ... (Executive Producer)
- Rita ... (Executive Producer)
- Eternal You ... (Executive Producer)
- We Can Be Heroes ... (Executive Producer)
2023
- STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie ... (Director)
- The Enfield Poltergeist ... (Executive Producer)
- Burden of Proof ... (Executive Producer)
- Working: What We Do All Day ... (Executive Producer)
- Navajo Police: Class 57 ... (Executive Producer)
- Subject as Self
- Under G-d ... (Executive Producer)
2022
- Aftershock ... (Executive Producer)
- Once Upon a Time in Londongrad ... (Executive Producer)
- Accepted ... (Executive Producer)
- Mija ... (Executive Producer)
- Bitterbrush ... (Executive Producer)
2021
- Swan Song ... (Executive Producer)
- Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) ... (Executive Producer)
- Procession ... (Executive Producer)
- Homeroom ... (Executive Producer)
- All These Sons ... (Executive Producer)
- Mistress Dispeller ... (Executive Producer)
- At the Ready ... (Executive Producer)
2020
- Time ... (Executive Producer)
- Boys State ... (Executive Producer)
- Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 ... (Co-Director)
- A Thousand Cuts ... (Executive Producer)
- Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets ... (Executive Producer)
- Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film) ... (Director)
- An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film) ... (Director)
- Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film ... (Director)
- Container ... (Executive Producer)
- When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film) ... (Director)
- The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film) ... (Director)
2019
- Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates ... (Director)
- Where's My Roy Cohn? ... (Executive Producer)
- Sweetheart Dancers ... (Executive Producer)
- Walk Run Cha-Cha ... (Executive Producer)
- El Vacío ... (Executive Producer)
- Paulette ... (Executive Producer)
- To Be Queen ... (Executive Producer)
- Wolf's Mouth ... (Executive Producer)
- Darlin ... (Executive Producer)
2018
- Bisbee '17 ... (Executive Producer)
- The Price of Free ... (Producer)
2017
- An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power ... (Executive Producer)
2016
- U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris ... (Executive Producer)
- Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film ... (Director)
2015
- He Named Me Malala ... (Director)
- U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015 ... (Executive Producer)
- U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015 ... (Executive Producer)
2014
- Spent: Looking for Change ... (Executive Producer)
2013
- Teach ... (Writer)
- The Dream Is Now ... (Director)
2012
- The Road We've Traveled ... (Director)
- Widow Detective ... (Director)
- Obama 2012 Convention Film ... (Director)
2011
- U2: From the Sky Down ... (Director)
2010
- The Defenders ... (Director)
- Waiting for "Superman" ... (Director)
2009
- Melrose Place ... (Director)
2008
- It Might Get Loud ... (Director)
- The Tower ... (Executive Producer)
- A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film ... (Director)
- Carissa ... (Executive Producer)
2007
- Gracie ... (Director)
2006
- The Unit ... (Director)
- 3 lbs ... (Director)
- An Inconvenient Truth ... (Director)
- The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth' ... (Producer)
2005
- Numb3rs ... (Director)
- Wanted 2005 ... (Director)
2004
- Deadwood ... (Director)
2003
- imagine… ... (Director)
2002
- The Shield ... (Director)
- Push, Nevada ... (Director)
2001
- 24 ... (Director)
- Training Day ... (Executive Producer)
- Alias ... (Director)
- The First Year ... (Director)
- Teach ... (Director)
2000
- Gossip ... (Director)
1999
- The Art of Norton Simon ... (Director)
1997
- The Visitor ... (Director)
- C-16: FBI ... (Director)
1996
- Relativity ... (Director)
1995
- Charlie Grace ... (Director)
1994
- ER ... (Director)
- Party of Five ... (Director)
1993
- NYPD Blue ... (Director)
1992
- The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them as Pitcher
- Breaking and Entering ... (Director)
1991
- Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead ... (Associate Producer)
- Sisters ... (Director)
1989
- sex, lies, and videotape ... (Production Coordinator)