
Director
Davis Guggenheim
Born 1963 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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

24
Director · 2001

Deadwood
Director · 2004

The Shield
Director · 2002

ER
Director · 1994

An Inconvenient Truth
Director · 2006

Alias
Director · 2001

Numb3rs
Director · 2005

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Director · 2023

The Unit
Director · 2006

It Might Get Loud
Director · 2008

NYPD Blue
Director · 1993

Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
Director · 2019

Waiting for "Superman"
Director · 2010

Party of Five
Director · 1994

He Named Me Malala
Director · 2015

Gossip
Director · 2000

Gracie
Director · 2007

Deaf President Now!
Director · 2025


