Davis Guggenheim
Highest Rated: 100% Aftershock (2022)
Lowest Rated: 28% Gossip (2000)
Birthday: Nov 3, 1963
Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim first gained attention for the eye-opening global warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth" (2006), and for directing the biopic, "A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film," shown during the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Touted by critics as the next Ken Burns with a style slightly reminiscent of another controversial documentarian, Michael Moore, Guggenheim made searing documentaries that simultaneously shed light on complicated national issues while keeping the stories of his subjects real and deeply personal. He raised consciousness about the plight of less-privileged children trying to get into better schools in the widely acclaimed documentary, "Waiting for 'Superman'" (2010). With his impressive storytelling skills, and a combination of clever animation and innovative filmmaking techniques, Guggenheim elevated "Waiting for 'Superman'" from just a factual tell-all into a touching yet tragic tale of bright kids whose educational fates depended on a school lottery system - a feat accomplished by an undeniably passionate and influential filmmaker.
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Davis Guggenheim
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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90% | No Score Yet | Eternal You | Executive Producer | - | 2024 |
95% |
|
Girls State | Executive Producer | - | 2024 |
99% |
|
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie |
Director, Producer |
- | 2023 |
100% |
|
Aftershock | Executive Producer | - | 2022 |
95% |
|
Accepted | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
89% | No Score Yet | Bitterbrush | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
98% |
|
Procession | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
90% | No Score Yet | At the Ready | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
85% | No Score Yet | Homeroom | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
99% |
|
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Executive Producer | $2.3M | 2021 |
89% | No Score Yet | All These Sons | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
98% |
|
Time | Executive Producer | - | 2020 |
93% |
|
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets | Executive Producer | - | 2020 |
95% |
|
Boys State | Executive Producer | - | 2020 |
80% |
|
Kailash |
Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 2018 |
93% |
|
Bisbee '17 | Executive Producer | $114.6K | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sweetheart Dancers | Executive Producer | - | 2018 |
80% |
|
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power | Executive Producer | $3.5M | 2017 |
73% |
|
He Named Me Malala | Director | $2.6M | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Spent: Looking for Change | Executive Producer | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dream Is Now |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
|
From the Sky Down |
Director, Producer |
- | 2011 |
89% |
|
Waiting for Superman |
Director, Writer |
$6.4M | 2010 |
79% |
|
It Might Get Loud |
Director, Producer |
$1.6M | 2008 |
62% |
|
Gracie |
Director, Producer |
$3.0M | 2007 |
93% |
|
An Inconvenient Truth |
Director, Executive Producer, Cinematographer |
$23.8M | 2006 |
74% |
|
Training Day | Executive Producer | $76.3M | 2001 |
28% |
|
Gossip | Director | $5.1M | 2000 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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92% | 65% | The Enfield Poltergeist | Executive Producer | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Navajo Police | Executive Producer | 2023 |
86% | 50% | Burden of Proof | Executive Producer | 2023 |
44% | 69% | Working: What We Do All Day | Executive Producer | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Call With Carson Daly | Guest | 2015 |
74% | 73% | The Defenders |
Executive Producer, Director |
2010-2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Talk | Guest | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Colbert Report | Guest | 2010 |
60% | 30% | Melrose Place | Director | 2009 |
21% | No Score Yet | 3 Lbs. |
Executive Producer, Director |
2006 2008 |
85% | 75% | The Unit | Director | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 93% | Numb3ers | Director | 2005 |
92% | 95% | Deadwood | Director | 2004 |
50% | No Score Yet | Push, Nevada | Director | 2002 |
86% | 88% | Alias | Director | 2002 |
87% | 87% | 24 | Director | 2002 |
83% | 93% | NYPD Blue | Director | 1995-1996 |