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.
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Documentary Feature Film · 2007
- Academy Award — Best Documentary Feature Film · 2007 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
Deaf President Now!
The Shield
Deadwood
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
24
ER
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Training Day
Wanted
The Tale of Silyan
Girls State
Aftershock
The Price of Free
The Unit
Mistress Dispeller
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
The Defenders
It Might Get Loud
Sisters
Swan Song
Boys State
NYPD Blue
Working: What We Do All Day
Teach
An Inconvenient Truth
Numb3rs
Party of Five
Bisbee '17
Waiting for Superman
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Time
A Thousand Cuts
Alias
The Plastic Detox
Eternal You
Accepted
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
He Named Me Malala
Procession
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Navajo Police: Class 57
Subject
The Enfield Poltergeist
Gracie
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Burden of Proof
Bitterbrush
Melrose Place