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Davis Guggenheim
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.
As director
Deaf President Now!
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film)
Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film
When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film)
The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film)
Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film)
Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film
He Named Me Malala
The Dream Is Now
Teach
Obama 2012 Convention Film
Widow Detective
The Road We've Traveled
U2: From the Sky Down
Waiting for "Superman"
It Might Get Loud
A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film
The Tower
Gracie
An Inconvenient Truth
The First Year
Teach
Gossip
The Art of Norton Simon
Breaking and Entering
