Directing

Davis Guggenheim

born 1963 · Directing

63.4avg grm
22titles
#230best rank
1honors
2best title · #230 on site242001 · as Director · series69.8

Honors

1
2007Academy Award — Best Documentary Feature Film

Bio

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.

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.

Filmography

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2020s2 titlesDDeaf President Now!2025 · as Director60.0SStill: A Michael J. Fox Movie2023 · as Self - Interviewer65.8
2010s4 titlesIInside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates2019 · as Director · series64.2FFrom the Sky Down2011 · as Director58.0DThe Defenders2010 · as Director · series63.4WWaiting for Superman2010 · as Director56.7
2000s11 titlesWThe World in Front2009 · as Director · series63.9MMelrose Place2009 · as Director · series63.6IIt Might Get Loud2008 · as Director59.1UThe Unit2006 · as Director · series62.9AAn Inconvenient Truth2006 · as Director56.3WWanted2005 · as Director · series64.1NNumb3rs2005 · as Director · series61.0DDeadwood2004 · as Director · series69.1SThe Shield2002 · as Director · series69.22242001 · as Director · series69.8AAlias2001 · as Director · series62.8
1990s5 titlesCC-16: FBI1997 · as Director · series64.2EER1994 · as Director · series65.3PParty of Five1994 · as Director · series65.2NNYPD Blue1993 · as Director · series65.3SSisters1991 · as Director · series64.3

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Davis Guggenheim

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born1963
known forDirecting
titles on site22
best title rank#230 · 24 (2001)
avg GRM63.4
honors1 · Academy Award — Best Documentary Feature Film, 2007
Honors
  • 2007Academy Award — Best Documentary Feature Film
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.

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