Director
Davis Guggenheim
62 years · St. Louis, Missouri, USA · 15 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 15
Deaf President Now!
2025 · Director, Producer
Subject
2023 · Self
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
2023 · Director, Producer
On Apple TV
The Price of Free
2018 · Producer
On Kanopy
He Named Me Malala
2015 · Director, Producer
Teach
2013 · Writer, Director
The Road We've Traveled
2012 · Director
U2: From the Sky Down
2011 · Director, Producer
Waiting for "Superman"
2010 · Director, Writer
It Might Get Loud
2008 · Director, Screenplay
Gracie
2007 · Director, Writer
On YouTube Free
An Inconvenient Truth
2006 · Director, Screenplay
The First Year
2001 · Director, Producer
On Kanopy
Gossip
2000 · Director
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
1992 · Pitcher