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.
Academy Awards
Best Documentary Feature Film
Known For
Gossip
(2000)
Director
An Inconvenient Truth
(2006)
Director
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
(2023)
Director
Gracie
(2007)
Director
He Named Me Malala
(2015)
Director
It Might Get Loud
(2008)
Director
Full Filmography
Directing
Breaking and Entering
(1992)
Director
The Art of Norton Simon
(1999)
Director
Gossip
(2000)
Director
The First Year
(2001)
Director
Teach
(2001)
Director
An Inconvenient Truth
(2006)
Director
Gracie
(2007)
Director
It Might Get Loud
(2008)
Director
A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film
(2008)
Director
The Tower
(2008)
Director
Waiting for "Superman"
(2010)
Director
U2: From the Sky Down
(2011)
Director
The Road We've Traveled
(2012)
Director
Obama 2012 Convention Film
(2012)
Director
Widow Detective
(2012)
Director
The Dream Is Now
(2013)
Director
Teach
(2013)
Director
He Named Me Malala
(2015)
Director
Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film
(2016)
Director
Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film
(2020)
Director
An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film)
(2020)
Director
When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film)
(2020)
Director
The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film)
(2020)
Director
Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film)
(2020)
Director
Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020
(2020)
Co-Director
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
(2023)
Director
Acting
Production
sex, lies, and videotape
(1989)
Production Coordinator
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
(1991)
Associate Producer
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
(1992)
Co-Producer
Training Day
(2001)
Executive Producer
The First Year
(2001)
Producer
Teach
(2001)
Producer
An Inconvenient Truth
(2006)
Executive Producer
The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth'
(2006)
Producer
Gracie
(2007)
Producer
Carissa
(2008)
Executive Producer
It Might Get Loud
(2008)
Producer
The Tower
(2008)
Executive Producer
U2: From the Sky Down
(2011)
Producer
Spent: Looking for Change
(2014)
Executive Producer
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
(2015)
Executive Producer
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
(2015)
Executive Producer
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015
(2015)
Executive Producer
He Named Me Malala
(2015)
Producer
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
(2017)
Executive Producer
The Price of Free
(2018)
Producer
Bisbee '17
(2018)
Executive Producer
Walk Run Cha-Cha
(2019)
Executive Producer
Where's My Roy Cohn?
(2019)
Executive Producer
El Vacío
(2019)
Executive Producer
Sweetheart Dancers
(2019)
Executive Producer
Darlin
(2019)
Executive Producer
To Be Queen
(2019)
Executive Producer
Wolf's Mouth
(2019)
Executive Producer
Paulette
(2019)
Executive Producer
Time
(2020)
Executive Producer
Boys State
(2020)
Executive Producer
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
(2020)
Executive Producer
A Thousand Cuts
(2020)
Executive Producer
Container
(2020)
Executive Producer
Homeroom
(2021)
Executive Producer
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
(2021)
Executive Producer
All These Sons
(2021)
Executive Producer
Procession
(2021)
Executive Producer
At the Ready
(2021)
Executive Producer
Mistress Dispeller
(2021)
Executive Producer
Swan Song
(2021)
Executive Producer
Accepted
(2022)
Executive Producer
Bitterbrush
(2022)
Executive Producer
Aftershock
(2022)
Executive Producer
Mija
(2022)
Executive Producer
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
(2023)
Producer
Under G-d
(2023)
Executive Producer
Girls State
(2024)
Executive Producer
Eternal You
(2024)
Executive Producer
We Can Be Heroes
(2024)
Executive Producer
Sound
Camera
Teach
(2001)
Director of Photography
The First Year
(2001)
Director of Photography
An Inconvenient Truth
(2006)
Director of Photography and Camera Operator
Waiting for "Superman"
(2010)
Camera Operator
Writing