Davis Guggenheim
Directing · Born Nov 3, 1963 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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
Training Day
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24
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sex, lies, and videotape
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Deadwood
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An Inconvenient Truth
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ER
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The Shield
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Alias
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Swan Song
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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
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Numb3rs
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Gossip
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STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
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The Unit
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It Might Get Loud
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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
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NYPD Blue
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He Named Me Malala
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Waiting for "Superman"
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