About Davis Guggenheim
Philip Davis Guggenheim (born November 3, 1963) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. Active in television and film's directions and productions since the 1990s, 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 several 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. Guggenheim joined the HBO Western drama Deadwood as a producer and director for the first season in 2004. He is the first cousin of actress Patty Guggenheim. The series was created by David Milch and focused on a growing town in the American West. An Inconvenient Truth won the Academy Award in 2007 for Best Documentary Feature.
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