Davis Guggenheim
77 movies · 26 TV shows
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Nov 3, 1963 (age 62)
- Place of birth
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Also known as
- Philip 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.
Known for
Davis Guggenheim: movies and TV shows
Acting (1)
- 1992 The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
as Pitcher
Behind the camera (104)
- Upcoming Soul Patrol
Executive Producer
- 2026 A Statement
Executive Producer
- 2026
- 2026 Love Apptually
Executive Producer
- 2026 The Plastic Detox
Executive Producer
- 2025 The Tale of Silyan
Executive Producer
- 2025 Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna
Executive Producer
- 2025 Uvalde Mom
Executive Producer
- 2025 Mistress Dispeller
Executive Producer
- 2025 Deaf President Now!
Director, Producer
- 2024 Rita
Executive Producer
- 2024 Eternal You
Executive Producer
- 2024 We Can Be Heroes
Executive Producer
- 2024 Girls State
Executive Producer
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023 Under G-d
Executive Producer
- 2023 STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Director, Producer
- 2022 Mija
Executive Producer
- 2022 Accepted
Executive Producer
- 2022 Bitterbrush
Executive Producer
- 2022
- 2022 Aftershock
Executive Producer
- 2021 Swan Song
Executive Producer
- 2021 Mistress Dispeller
Executive Producer
- 2021 Procession
Executive Producer
- 2021 At the Ready
Executive Producer
- 2021 Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Executive Producer
- 2021 All These Sons
Executive Producer
- 2021 Homeroom
Executive Producer
- 2020
- 2020
- 2020
- 2020
- 2020
- 2020 Container
Executive Producer
- 2020 Time
Executive Producer
- 2020
- 2020 Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Executive Producer
- 2020 Boys State
Executive Producer
- 2020 A Thousand Cuts
Executive Producer
- 2019 Where's My Roy Cohn?
Executive Producer
- 2019
- 2019 Paulette
Executive Producer
- 2019 Wolf's Mouth
Executive Producer
- 2019 Darlin
Executive Producer
- 2019 To Be Queen
Executive Producer
- 2019 El Vacío
Executive Producer
- 2019 Walk Run Cha-Cha
Executive Producer
- 2019 Sweetheart Dancers
Executive Producer
- 2018 Bisbee '17
Executive Producer
- 2018 The Price of Free
Producer
- 2017 An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Executive Producer
- 2016 Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film
Director
- 2016 U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
Executive Producer
- 2015 U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
Executive Producer
- 2015 U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015
Executive Producer
- 2015 He Named Me Malala
Director, Producer
- 2014 Spent: Looking for Change
Executive Producer
- 2013 Teach
Writer, Director
- 2013 The Dream Is Now
Director, Writer
- 2012 Widow Detective
Director
- 2012 The Road We've Traveled
Director
- 2012 Obama 2012 Convention Film
Director
- 2011 U2: From the Sky Down
Director, Producer
- 2010 Waiting for "Superman"
Director, Writer, Camera Operator
- 2010
- 2009
- 2008
- 2008 Carissa
Executive Producer
- 2008 It Might Get Loud
Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 2008 The Tower
Executive Producer, Director
- 2007 Gracie
Director, Writer, Producer
- 2006
- 2006
- 2006 An Inconvenient Truth
Director, Screenplay, Camera Operator, Executive Producer, Director of Photography
- 2006
- 2005
- 2005
- 2004
- 2003
- 2002
- 2002
- 2001
- 2001 Training Day
Executive Producer
- 2001
- 2001 The First Year
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
- 2001 Teach
Director, Director of Photography, Producer
- 2000 Gossip
Director
- 1999 The Art of Norton Simon
Director
- 1997
- 1997
- 1996
- 1995
- 1994
- 1994
- 1993
- 1992 The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
Music Supervisor, Co-Producer
- 1992 Breaking and Entering
Director
- 1991 Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Associate Producer
- 1991
- 1989 sex, lies, and videotape
Production Coordinator
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 2023