Davis Guggenheim
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.
Acting (2 movies)
Directing (26 movies)
An Inconvenient Truth
2006
It Might Get Loud
2008
Gracie
2007
Waiting for "Superman"
2010
Gossip
2000
U2: From the Sky Down
2011
The Dream Is Now
2013
The First Year
2001
He Named Me Malala
2015
The Art of Norton Simon
1999
A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film
2008
Obama 2012 Convention Film
2012
Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film
2016
Breaking and Entering
1992
Teach
2001
Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film
2020
An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film)
2020
The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film)
2020
When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film)
2020
The Tower
2008
Widow Detective
2012
Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film)
2020
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
2023
Teach
2013
The Road We've Traveled
2012
Deaf President Now!
2025
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Teach | 2001 | Producer |
| The First Year | 2001 | Producer |
| Training Day | 2001 | Executive Producer |
| An Inconvenient Truth | 2006 | Screenplay |
| An Inconvenient Truth | 2006 | Executive Producer |
| The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth' | 2006 | Producer |
| Gracie | 2007 | Writer |
| Gracie | 2007 | Producer |
| The Tower | 2008 | Executive Producer |
| It Might Get Loud | 2008 | Screenplay |
| It Might Get Loud | 2008 | Producer |
| Carissa | 2008 | Executive Producer |
| Waiting for "Superman" | 2010 | Writer |
| U2: From the Sky Down | 2011 | Producer |
| The Dream Is Now | 2013 | Writer |
| Teach | 2013 | Writer |
| Spent: Looking for Change | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| He Named Me Malala | 2015 | Producer |
| U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015 | 2015 | Executive Producer |
| U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015 | 2015 | Executive Producer |
| U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| The Price of Free | 2018 | Producer |
| Bisbee '17 | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Sweetheart Dancers | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| Walk Run Cha-Cha | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| Darlin | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| To Be Queen | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| El Vacío | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| Wolf's Mouth | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| Paulette | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| Where's My Roy Cohn? | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| A Thousand Cuts | 2020 | Executive Producer |
| Boys State | 2020 | Executive Producer |
| Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets | 2020 | Executive Producer |
| Time | 2020 | Executive Producer |
| Container | 2020 | Executive Producer |
| Homeroom | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| All These Sons | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| At the Ready | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| Procession | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| Mistress Dispeller | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| Swan Song | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| Aftershock | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| Bitterbrush | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| Accepted | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| Mija | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie | 2023 | Producer |
| Under G-d | 2023 | Executive Producer |
| Girls State | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| We Can Be Heroes | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| Eternal You | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| Rita | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| Deaf President Now! | 2025 | Producer |
| Mistress Dispeller | 2025 | Executive Producer |
| Uvalde Mom | 2025 | Executive Producer |
| Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna | 2025 | Executive Producer |
| The Tale of Silyan | 2025 | Executive Producer |