Davis Guggenheim | |
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.jpg) Guggenheim in 2009 | |
| Born | Philip Davis Guggenheim November 3, 1963 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Education | Brown University |
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| Years active | 1991–present |
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| Children | 3 |
| Parent | Charles Guggenheim (father) |
Philip Davis Guggenheim is an American screenwriter, director, and producer.
Active in television and film's directions and productions since the 1990s, from 2006 Guggenheim has specialized in making documentaries,[1] ranking the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time with three works: An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, and Waiting for "Superman".[2][3]
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.
His credits include NYPD Blue, ER, 24, Alias, The Shield, Deadwood, and the documentaries It Might Get Loud, The Road We've Traveled, Waiting for "Superman", Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates.[4]
- ^ "Davis Guggenheim". Vogue Italia (in Italian). January 20, 2011. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
- ^ "Documentary Movies at the Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 8, 2011.
- ^ "IDA Conversation Series: Davis Guggenheim". International Documentary Association. August 16, 2017. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
- ^ Welch, Alex (May 11, 2023). "'He's Got Nothing to Hide': Davis Guggenheim on Revealing a New Side of Michael J. Fox (Exclusive)". A.frame. Retrieved November 13, 2023.