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Davis Guggenheim

Born Nov 3, 1963 · 62 years104 titles 78 movies · 26 TV
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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.

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Philip Davis Guggenheim

Born

Nov 3, 1963

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

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Acting credits

48

Directing

6

Writing

71

Other crew

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Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

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