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.

Directed

1. 24 (2001) — Director
2. An Inconvenient Truth (2006) — Director
3. Deadwood (2004) — Director
4. ER (1994) — Director
5. The Shield (2002) — Director
6. Alias (2001) — Director
7. Numb3rs (2005) — Director
8. Gossip (2000) — Director
9. STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023) — Director
10. The Unit (2006) — Director
11. It Might Get Loud (2008) — Director
12. NYPD Blue (1993) — Director
13. He Named Me Malala (2015) — Director
14. Waiting for "Superman" (2010) — Director
15. Party of Five (1994) — Director
16. Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates (2019) — Director
17. Gracie (2007) — Director
18. The Defenders (2010) — Director
19. Melrose Place (2009) — Director
20. U2: From the Sky Down (2011) — Director
21. Deaf President Now! (2025) — Director
22. Sisters (1991) — Director
23. The Visitor (1997) — Director
24. imagine… (2003) — Director
25. Push, Nevada (2002) — Director
26. Relativity (1996) — Director
27. C-16: FBI (1997) — Director
28. 3 lbs (2006) — Director
29. Wanted (2005) — Director
30. The First Year (2001) — Director
31. Breaking and Entering (1992) — Director
32. The Art of Norton Simon (1999) — Director
33. Teach (2001) — Director
34. Teach (2013) — Director
35. Charlie Grace (1995) — Director
36. The Dream Is Now (2013) — Director
37. A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film (2008) — Director
38. The Tower (2008) — Director
39. Obama 2012 Convention Film (2012) — Director
40. Widow Detective (2012) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them (1992) — Pitcher
2. Subject (2023) — Self