Davis Guggenheim

Known for directing · Born 3 November 1963 · 62 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA

106 credits

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

2001

Deadwood

2004

An Inconvenient Truth

2006

1994

The Shield

2002

Alias

2001

Numb3rs

2005

NYPD Blue

1993

Gossip

2000

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

2023

The Unit

2006

Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates

2019

Acting (2)

2023SubjectSelfFilm

1992The Opposite Sex and How to Live with ThemPitcherFilm

Directing (46)

2025Deaf President Now!Director, ProducerFilm

2023STILL: A Michael J. Fox MovieDirector, ProducerFilm

2020Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020Co-DirectorFilm

2020An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film)DirectorFilm

2020Never Just A Job: Biden Convention FilmDirectorFilm

2020When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film)DirectorFilm

2020The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film)DirectorFilm

2020Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film)DirectorFilm

2019Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill GatesDirector, Executive Producer, CreatorSeries

2016Barack Obama DNC 2016 FilmDirectorFilm

2015He Named Me MalalaDirector, ProducerFilm

2013The Dream Is NowDirector, WriterFilm

2012Obama 2012 Convention FilmDirectorFilm

2012Widow DetectiveDirectorFilm

2012The Road We've TraveledDirectorFilm

2011U2: From the Sky DownDirector, ProducerFilm

2010Waiting for "Superman"Director, Writer, Camera OperatorFilm

2010The DefendersDirector, Executive ProducerSeries

2009Melrose PlaceDirector, Producer, Executive ProducerSeries

2008It Might Get LoudDirector, Screenplay, ProducerFilm

2008A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio FilmDirectorFilm

2008The TowerDirector, Executive ProducerFilm

2007GracieDirector, Writer, ProducerFilm

2006The UnitDirectorSeries

20063 lbsDirector, Executive ProducerSeries

2005Numb3rsDirectorSeries

2005WantedDirectorSeries

2004DeadwoodDirector, ProducerSeries

2003imagine…DirectorSeries

2002The ShieldDirectorSeries

2002Push, NevadaDirectorSeries

200124DirectorSeries

2001AliasDirectorSeries

2001The First YearDirector, Producer, Director of PhotographyFilm

2001TeachDirector, Director of Photography, ProducerFilm

2000GossipDirectorFilm

1999The Art of Norton SimonDirectorFilm

1997The VisitorDirectorSeries

1997C-16: FBIDirectorSeries

1996RelativityDirectorSeries

1995Charlie GraceDirectorSeries

1994ERDirectorSeries

1994Party of FiveDirectorSeries

1993NYPD BlueDirectorSeries

1992Breaking and EnteringDirectorFilm

1991SistersDirectorSeries

Production (55)

2026The Plastic DetoxExecutive ProducerFilm

2026A Killer StoryExecutive ProducerSeries

2026Soul PatrolExecutive ProducerFilm

2026A StatementExecutive ProducerFilm

2026Love ApptuallyExecutive ProducerFilm

2025The Tale of SilyanExecutive ProducerFilm

2025Mistress DispellerExecutive ProducerFilm

2025Last Take: Rust and the Story of HalynaExecutive ProducerFilm

2025Uvalde MomExecutive ProducerFilm

2024Girls StateExecutive ProducerFilm

2024RitaExecutive ProducerFilm

2024Eternal YouExecutive ProducerFilm

2024We Can Be HeroesExecutive ProducerFilm

2023The Enfield PoltergeistExecutive ProducerSeries

2023Working: What We Do All DayExecutive ProducerSeries

2023Burden of ProofExecutive ProducerSeries

2023Under G-dExecutive ProducerFilm

2023Navajo Police: Class 57Executive ProducerSeries

2022AftershockExecutive ProducerFilm

2022AcceptedExecutive ProducerFilm

2022MijaExecutive ProducerFilm

2022Once Upon a Time in LondongradExecutive ProducerSeries

2022BitterbrushExecutive ProducerFilm

2021Swan SongExecutive ProducerFilm

2021Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)Executive ProducerFilm

2021ProcessionExecutive ProducerFilm

2021At the ReadyExecutive ProducerFilm

2021All These SonsExecutive ProducerFilm

2021Mistress DispellerExecutive ProducerFilm

2021HomeroomExecutive ProducerFilm

2020TimeExecutive ProducerFilm

2020Boys StateExecutive ProducerFilm

2020Bloody Nose, Empty PocketsExecutive ProducerFilm

2020A Thousand CutsExecutive ProducerFilm

2020ContainerExecutive ProducerFilm

2019Walk Run Cha-ChaExecutive ProducerFilm

2019Where's My Roy Cohn?Executive ProducerFilm

2019Sweetheart DancersExecutive ProducerFilm

2019To Be QueenExecutive ProducerFilm

2019PauletteExecutive ProducerFilm

2019DarlinExecutive ProducerFilm

2019Wolf's MouthExecutive ProducerFilm

2019El VacíoExecutive ProducerFilm

2018Bisbee '17Executive ProducerFilm

2018The Price of FreeProducerFilm

2017An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to PowerExecutive ProducerFilm

2016U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in ParisExecutive ProducerFilm

2015U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015Executive ProducerFilm

2015U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015Executive ProducerFilm

2014Spent: Looking for ChangeExecutive ProducerFilm

2008CarissaExecutive ProducerFilm

2006The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth'ProducerFilm

2001Training DayExecutive ProducerFilm

1991Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's DeadAssociate ProducerFilm

1989sex, lies, and videotapeProduction CoordinatorFilm

Sound (1)

1992The Opposite Sex and How to Live with ThemMusic Supervisor, Co-ProducerFilm

Writing (2)

2013TeachWriter, DirectorFilm

2006An Inconvenient TruthScreenplay, Director, Camera Operator, Executive Producer, Director of PhotographyFilm