
Davis Guggenheim
Directing
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.
Born: November 3, 1963 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Filmography (55)

The Plastic Detox
2026

The Tale of Silyan
2025

Mistress Dispeller
2025

Deaf President Now!
2025

Rita
2024

Eternal You
2024

Girls State
2024

The Enfield Poltergeist
2023

Burden of Proof
2023

Working: What We Do All Day
2023

Under G-d
2023

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
2023

Aftershock
2022

Swan Song
2021

Procession
2021

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

Time
2020

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
2020

Boys State
2020

A Thousand Cuts
2020

Where's My Roy Cohn?
2019

Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
2019

Walk Run Cha-Cha
2019

Bisbee '17
2018

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017

U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
2016

He Named Me Malala
2015

U2: From the Sky Down
2011

Waiting for "Superman"
2010

The Defenders
2010

Melrose Place
2009

It Might Get Loud
2008

Gracie
2007

An Inconvenient Truth
2006

The Unit
2006

Wanted
2005

Numb3rs
2005

Deadwood
2004

imagine…
2003

Push, Nevada
2002

The Shield
2002

24
2001

Training Day
2001

Alias
2001

Gossip
2000

The Visitor
1997

Relativity
1996

Charlie Grace
1995

ER
1994

Party of Five
1994

NYPD Blue
1993

The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
1992

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991

Sisters
1991

sex, lies, and videotape
1989
