Davis Guggenheim
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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Films (78)
Soul Patrol
2026 · Executive Producer
A Statement
2026 · Executive Producer
Love Apptually
2026 · Executive Producer
Désintox plastique
2026 · Executive Producer
The Tale of Silyan
2025 · Executive Producer
Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna
2025 · Executive Producer
Uvalde Mom
2025 · Executive Producer
Chasseuse de maîtresse
2025 · Executive Producer
Deaf President Now : un mouvement étudiant
2025 · Director, Producer
Rita
2024 · Executive Producer
Avec toi pour toujours - De l'immortalité virtuelle
2024 · Executive Producer
We Can Be Heroes
2024 · Executive Producer
Girls State : le programme
2024 · Executive Producer
Subject
2023 · Self
Under G-d
2023 · Executive Producer
STILL - La Vie de Michael J. Fox
2023 · Director, Producer
Mija
2022 · Executive Producer
Accepted
2022 · Executive Producer
Bitterbrush
2022 · Executive Producer
Aftershock
2022 · Executive Producer
Le chant du cygne
2021 · Executive Producer
Mistress Dispeller
2021 · Executive Producer
Procession : L'espoir au bout du chemin
2021 · Executive Producer
At the Ready
2021 · Executive Producer
Summer of Soul (…ou quand la révolution n'a pas pu être télévisée)
2021 · Executive Producer
All These Sons
2021 · Executive Producer
Homeroom
2021 · Executive Producer
An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film)
2020 · Director
When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film)
2020 · Director
The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film)
2020 · Director
Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film)
2020 · Director
Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film
2020 · Director
Container
2020 · Executive Producer
Time
2020 · Executive Producer
Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020
2020 · Co-Director
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
2020 · Executive Producer
Boys State : le programme
2020 · Executive Producer
A Thousand Cuts
2020 · Executive Producer
Where's My Roy Cohn?
2019 · Executive Producer
Paulette
2019 · Executive Producer
Wolf's Mouth
2019 · Executive Producer
Darlin
2019 · Executive Producer
To Be Queen
2019 · Executive Producer
El Vacío
2019 · Executive Producer
Walk Run Cha-Cha
2019 · Executive Producer
Sweetheart Dancers
2019 · Executive Producer
Bisbee '17
2018 · Executive Producer
The Price of Free
2018 · Producer
Une Suite qui dérange : Le temps de l'action
2017 · Executive Producer
Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film
2016 · Director
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
2016 · Executive Producer
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
2015 · Executive Producer
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015
2015 · Executive Producer
Il m'a appelée Malala
2015 · Director, Producer
Spent: Looking for Change
2014 · Executive Producer
Teach
2013 · Director, Writer
The Dream Is Now
2013 · Director, Writer
Widow Detective
2012 · Director
The Road We've Traveled
2012 · Director
Obama 2012 Convention Film
2012 · Director
U2: From the Sky Down
2011 · Director, Producer
Esperando a Superman
2010 · Director, Writer, Camera Operator
A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film
2008 · Director
Carissa
2008 · Executive Producer
It Might Get Loud
2008 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Tower
2008 · Director, Executive Producer
Gracie
2007 · Director, Writer, Producer
The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth'
2006 · Producer
Une vérité qui dérange
2006 · Director, Screenplay, Camera Operator, Executive Producer, Director of Photography
Training Day
2001 · Executive Producer
The First Year
2001 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer
Teach
2001 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer
Fausses Rumeurs
2000 · Director
The Art of Norton Simon
1999 · Director
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
1992 · Pitcher, Music Supervisor, Co-Producer
Breaking and Entering
1992 · Director
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991 · Associate Producer
sex, lies, and videotape
1989 · Production Coordinator
Séries (27)
A Killer Story
2026 · Executive Producer
Le Poltergeist d’Enfield
2023 · Executive Producer
Navajo Police: Class 57
2023 · Executive Producer
Pour ma soeur : L'affaire Jennifer Pandos
2023 · Executive Producer
Working : Passer sa vie à la gagner
2023 · Executive Producer
Il était une fois à Londongrad
2022 · Executive Producer
Dans le cerveau de Bill Gates
2019 · Director, Executive Producer, Creator
The Defenders
2010 · Director, Executive Producer
Melrose Place : Nouvelle génération
2009 · Director, Producer, Executive Producer
3 lbs
2006 · Director, Executive Producer
The Unit : Commando d'élite
2006 · Director
Wanted
2005 · Director
Numb3rs
2005 · Director
Deadwood
2004 · Director, Producer
imagine…
2003 · Director
Push, Nevada
2002 · Director
El Escudo
2002 · Director
24
2001 · Director
Alias
2001 · Director
C-16: FBI
1997 · Director
The Visitor
1997 · Director
Relativity
1996 · Director
Charlie Grace
1995 · Director
ER
1994 · Director
Party of Five
1994 · Director
NYPD Blue
1993 · Director
Sisters
1991 · Director