Davis Guggenheim

Personal Info

Known ForDirecting
Born1963-11-03
BirthplaceSt. Louis, Missouri, USA

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

Acting (2)

Production & Directing (99)

2026
A StatementExecutive Producer
2026
Love ApptuallyExecutive Producer
2026
The Plastic DetoxExecutive Producer
6.9
2026
Soul PatrolExecutive Producer
2025
The Tale of SilyanExecutive Producer
7.1
2025
Uvalde MomExecutive Producer
2025
Mistress DispellerExecutive Producer
7.1
8.1
8.1
2024
RitaExecutive Producer
6.0
2024
Eternal YouExecutive Producer
6.7
2024
We Can Be HeroesExecutive Producer
2.0
2024
Girls StateExecutive Producer
7.3
2023
Under G-dExecutive Producer
7.3
2022
MijaExecutive Producer
5.7
2022
AcceptedExecutive Producer
6.7
2022
BitterbrushExecutive Producer
6.0
2022
AftershockExecutive Producer
7.3
2021
Swan SongExecutive Producer
7.1
2021
Mistress DispellerExecutive Producer
2021
ProcessionExecutive Producer
6.6
2021
At the ReadyExecutive Producer
4.0
2021
All These SonsExecutive Producer
2021
HomeroomExecutive Producer
2020
ContainerExecutive Producer
2020
TimeExecutive Producer
6.7
2020
Bloody Nose, Empty PocketsExecutive Producer
6.6
2020
Boys StateExecutive Producer
7.1
2020
A Thousand CutsExecutive Producer
6.7
2019
Where's My Roy Cohn?Executive Producer
5.6
2019
PauletteExecutive Producer
2019
Wolf's MouthExecutive Producer
2019
To Be QueenExecutive Producer
2019
DarlinExecutive Producer
2019
El VacíoExecutive Producer
2019
Walk Run Cha-ChaExecutive Producer
5.5
2019
Sweetheart DancersExecutive Producer
9.0
2018
Bisbee '17Executive Producer
6.9
2018
7.3
2015
6.7
2015
6.7
2014
Spent: Looking for ChangeExecutive Producer
2013
TeachWriter
7.0
2013
TeachDirector
7.0
2013
2012
7.5
7.5
6.9
2010
Waiting for "Superman"Camera Operator
6.9
2008
CarissaExecutive Producer
2008
7.2
2008
7.2
2008
7.2
2008
The TowerDirector
2008
The TowerExecutive Producer
2007
GracieDirector
6.2
2007
GracieWriter
6.2
2007
GracieProducer
6.2
2006
6.9
6.9
2006
An Inconvenient TruthCamera Operator
6.9
2006
An Inconvenient TruthExecutive Producer
6.9
2006
An Inconvenient TruthDirector of Photography
6.9
2001
Training DayExecutive Producer
7.5
2001
7.7
2001
7.7
2001
The First YearDirector of Photography
7.7
2001
TeachDirector
7.0
2001
TeachDirector of Photography
7.0
2001
TeachProducer
7.0
2000
GossipDirector
5.8
9.0
6.2
1989
sex, lies, and videotapeProduction Coordinator
7.0