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Born November 3, 1963 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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.

Deaf President Now!
2025

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
2023
An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film)
2020
The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film)
2020
When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film)
2020
Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film)
2020
Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film
2020
Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film
2016

He Named Me Malala
2015

Teach
2013
The Dream Is Now
2013
Widow Detective
2012

The Road We've Traveled
2012
Obama 2012 Convention Film
2012

U2: From the Sky Down
2011

Waiting for "Superman"
2010
A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film
2008

It Might Get Loud
2008
The Tower
2008

Gracie
2007

An Inconvenient Truth
2006

The First Year
2001
Teach
2001

Gossip
2000
The Art of Norton Simon
1999
Breaking and Entering
1992