Davis Guggenheim
Birthdate
November 3, 1963 (61 years old)
Place of Birth
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Known For
Directing
Details
Birthdate
November 3, 1963 (61 years old)
Place of Birth
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Known For
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.
Davis Guggenheim's LGBTQ+ Titles
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Executive Producer
Acting (2)
2023
Subject as Self
1992
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them as Pitcher
Directing (47)
2023
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
• Director
2020
An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film)
• Director
2020
When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film)
• Director
2020
The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film)
• Director
2020
Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film)
• Director
2020
Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film
• Director
2020
Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020
• Co-Director
2019
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates (3 episodes)
• Director (3 episodes)
2016
Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film
• Director
2015
He Named Me Malala
• Director
2013
Teach
• Director
2013
The Dream Is Now
• Director
2012
Widow Detective
• Director
2012
The Road We've Traveled
• Director
2012
Obama 2012 Convention Film
• Director
2011
U2: From the Sky Down
• Director
2010
Waiting for "Superman"
• Director
2010
The Defenders (1 episode)
• Director (1 episode)
2009
Melrose Place (1 episode)
• Director (1 episode)
2008
A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film
• Director
2008
It Might Get Loud
• Director
2008
The Tower
• Director
2007
Gracie
• Director
2006
3 LBS (1 episode)
• Director (1 episode)
2006
An Inconvenient Truth
• Director
2006
The Unit (1 episode)
• Director (1 episode)
2005
Wanted (2 episodes)
• Director (2 episodes)
2005
Numb3rs (1 episode)
• Director (1 episode)
2004
Deadwood (4 episodes)
• Director (4 episodes)
2003
imagine… (1 episode)
• Director (1 episode)
2002
Push, Nevada (1 episode)
• Director (1 episode)
2002
The Shield (1 episode)
• Director (1 episode)
2001
24 (2 episodes)
• Director (2 episodes)
2001
Alias (1 episode)
• Director (1 episode)
2001
The First Year
• Director
2001
Teach
• Director
2000
Gossip
• Director
1999
The Art of Norton Simon
• Director
1997
C-16: FBI (1 episode)
• Director (1 episode)
1997
The Visitor (1 episode)
• Director (1 episode)
1996
Relativity (1 episode)
• Director (1 episode)
1995
Charlie Grace (1 episode)
• Director (1 episode)
1994
ER (1 episode)
• Director (1 episode)
1994
Party of Five (1 episode)
• Director (1 episode)
1993
NYPD Blue (3 episodes)
• Director (3 episodes)
1992
Breaking and Entering
• Director
1991
Sisters (2 episodes)
• Director (2 episodes)
Production (63)
2024
Mistress Dispeller
• Executive Producer
2024
Rita
• Executive Producer
2024
Eternal You
• Executive Producer
2024
We Can Be Heroes
• Executive Producer
2024
Girls State
• Executive Producer
2023
The Enfield Poltergeist (4 episodes)
• Executive Producer (4 episodes)
2023
Navajo Police: Class 57 (3 episodes)
• Executive Producer (3 episodes)
2023
Burden of Proof (4 episodes)
• Executive Producer (4 episodes)
2023
Working: What We Do All Day (4 episodes)
• Executive Producer (4 episodes)
2023
Under G-d
• Executive Producer
2023
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
• Producer
2022
Mija
• Executive Producer
2022
Accepted
• Executive Producer
2022
Bitterbrush
• Executive Producer
2022
Once Upon a Time in Londongrad (6 episodes)
• Executive Producer (6 episodes)
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
Container
• Executive Producer
2020
Time
• Executive Producer
• Executive Producer
2020
Boys State
• Executive Producer
2020
A Thousand Cuts
• Executive Producer
2019
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates (3 episodes)
• Executive Producer (3 episodes)
2019
Where's My Roy Cohn?
• Executive Producer
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
2015
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
• Producer
2014
Spent: Looking for Change
• Executive Producer
2011
U2: From the Sky Down
• Producer
2010
The Defenders (18 episodes)
• Executive Producer (18 episodes)
2009
Melrose Place
• Executive Producer (1 episode)
• Producer (18 episodes)
2008
Carissa
• Executive Producer
2008
It Might Get Loud
• Producer
2008
The Tower
• Executive Producer
2007
Gracie
• Producer
2006
The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth'
• Producer
2006
3 LBS (1 episode)
• Executive Producer (1 episode)
2006
An Inconvenient Truth
• Executive Producer
2004
Deadwood (36 episodes)
• Producer (36 episodes)
2001
Training Day
• Executive Producer
2001
The First Year
• Producer
2001
Teach
• Producer
1992
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
• Co-Producer
1991
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
• Associate Producer
1989
sex, lies, and videotape
• Production Coordinator
Creator (1)
2019
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
• Creator
Writing (6)
2013
Teach
• Writer
2013
The Dream Is Now
• Writer
2010
Waiting for "Superman"
• Writer
2008
It Might Get Loud
• Screenplay
2007
Gracie
• Writer
2006
An Inconvenient Truth
• Screenplay
Sound (1)
1992
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
• Music Supervisor
Camera (5)
2010
Waiting for "Superman"
• Camera Operator
2006
An Inconvenient Truth
• Camera Operator
• Director of Photography
2001
The First Year
• Director of Photography
2001
Teach
• Director of Photography