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Davis Guggenheim

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Davis Guggenheim

Known For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

Nov 3, 1963 (62 years old)

Place of Birth

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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.

Known For

Subject

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Subject

The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them

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The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them

Acting
2023SubjectSelf
1992The Opposite Sex and How to Live with ThemPitcher
Production
2026Soul PatrolExecutive Producer
2026Love ApptuallyExecutive Producer
2026The Plastic DetoxExecutive Producer
2025Mistress DispellerExecutive Producer
2025Deaf President Now!Producer
2025Uvalde MomExecutive Producer
2025The Tale of SilyanExecutive Producer
2025Last Take: Rust and the Story of HalynaExecutive Producer
2024Girls StateExecutive Producer
2024RitaExecutive Producer
2024Eternal YouExecutive Producer
2024We Can Be HeroesExecutive Producer
2023STILL: A Michael J. Fox MovieProducer
2023Under G-dExecutive Producer
2023Working: What We Do All DayExecutive Producer
2023Burden of ProofExecutive Producer
2023The Enfield PoltergeistExecutive Producer
2023Navajo Police: Class 57Executive Producer
2022AcceptedExecutive Producer
2022BitterbrushExecutive Producer
2022AftershockExecutive Producer
2022MijaExecutive Producer
2022Once Upon a Time in LondongradExecutive Producer
2021All These SonsExecutive Producer
2021ProcessionExecutive Producer
2021At the ReadyExecutive Producer
2021Swan SongExecutive Producer
2021Mistress DispellerExecutive Producer
2021HomeroomExecutive Producer
2021Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)Executive Producer
2020ContainerExecutive Producer
2020A Thousand CutsExecutive Producer
2020TimeExecutive Producer
2020Boys StateExecutive Producer
2020Bloody Nose, Empty PocketsExecutive Producer
2019To Be QueenExecutive Producer
2019PauletteExecutive Producer
2019DarlinExecutive Producer
2019Sweetheart DancersExecutive Producer
2019Wolf's MouthExecutive Producer
2019El VacíoExecutive Producer
2019Walk Run Cha-ChaExecutive Producer
2019Where's My Roy Cohn?Executive Producer
2019Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill GatesExecutive Producer
2018The Price of FreeProducer
2018Bisbee '17Executive Producer
2017An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to PowerExecutive Producer
2016U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in ParisExecutive Producer
2015He Named Me MalalaProducer
2015U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015Executive Producer
2015U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015Executive Producer
2014Spent: Looking for ChangeExecutive Producer
2011U2: From the Sky DownProducer
2010The DefendersExecutive Producer
2009Melrose PlaceProducer
2009Melrose PlaceExecutive Producer
2008CarissaExecutive Producer
2008The TowerExecutive Producer
2008It Might Get LoudProducer
2007GracieProducer
2006The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth'Producer
2006An Inconvenient TruthExecutive Producer
20063 lbsExecutive Producer
2004DeadwoodProducer
2001Training DayExecutive Producer
2001TeachProducer
2001The First YearProducer
1992The Opposite Sex and How to Live with ThemCo-Producer
1991Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's DeadAssociate Producer
1989sex, lies, and videotapeProduction Coordinator
-The StatementExecutive Producer
Directing
2025Deaf President Now!Director
2023STILL: A Michael J. Fox MovieDirector
2020An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film)Director
2020Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020Co-Director
2020Never Just A Job: Biden Convention FilmDirector
2020When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film)Director
2020The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film)Director
2020Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film)Director
2019Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill GatesDirector
2016Barack Obama DNC 2016 FilmDirector
2015He Named Me MalalaDirector
2013The Dream Is NowDirector
2013TeachDirector
2012Obama 2012 Convention FilmDirector
2012Widow DetectiveDirector
2012The Road We've TraveledDirector
2011U2: From the Sky DownDirector
2010Waiting for "Superman"Director
2010The DefendersDirector
2009Melrose PlaceDirector
2008It Might Get LoudDirector
2008A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio FilmDirector
2008The TowerDirector
2007GracieDirector
2006An Inconvenient TruthDirector
20063 lbsDirector
2006The UnitDirector
2005Numb3rsDirector
2005WantedDirector
2004DeadwoodDirector
2003imagine…Director
2002The ShieldDirector
2002Push, NevadaDirector
2001The First YearDirector
2001TeachDirector
200124Director
2001AliasDirector
2000GossipDirector
1999The Art of Norton SimonDirector
1997The VisitorDirector
1997C-16: FBIDirector
1996RelativityDirector
1995Charlie GraceDirector
1994Party of FiveDirector
1994ERDirector
1993NYPD BlueDirector
1992Breaking and EnteringDirector
1991SistersDirector
Writing
2013The Dream Is NowWriter
2013TeachWriter
2010Waiting for "Superman"Writer
2008It Might Get LoudScreenplay
2007GracieWriter
2006An Inconvenient TruthScreenplay