Davis Guggenheim
Philip Davis Guggenheim is an American screenwriter, director, and producer.
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| 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) |
Active in television and film's directions and productions since the 90s, from 2006 Guggenheim has specialized in making documentaries, ranking the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time with three works: 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.
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.