FILM DIRECTOR

Davis Guggenheim

1963 - Today

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Philip Davis Guggenheim 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Davis Guggenheim is the 1,750th most popular film director (down from 1,749th in 2024), the 13,711th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,581st in 2019) and the 508th most popular American Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Davis Guggenheim ranks 1,750 out of 2,041. Before him are V. Shantaram, Mark Romanek, Stephen Norrington, Krzysztof Krauze, Joe Carnahan, and Christian Carion. After him are Lynne Ramsay, Simon Wells, Daphne Guinness, Lino Brocka, Oriol Paulo, and Vitaly Mansky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Davis Guggenheim ranks 716. Before him are Dany Verlinden, Martín Fiz, Zemfira Meftahatdinova, Mamoru Samuragochi, Hugo Conte, and Christian Carion. After him are Igor Ashurbeyli, Mario Been, Steve Clarke, Alberto Nisman, Vladimir Turchinsky, and Jun'ichi Kanemaru.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Davis Guggenheim ranks 13,715 out of 20,380. Before him are Ray LaHood (1945), Marguerite Chapman (1918), Jonathan Lethem (1964), Jake Johnson (1978), Gary Valentine (1961), and Tom Watson (1949). After him are Kelli Giddish (1980), Mitch Albom (1958), Chris Bosh (1984), Jeff Gordon (1971), Daniel Handler (1970), and Pete Lovely (1926).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Davis Guggenheim ranks 508. Before him are Stacy Peralta (1957), Bill Plympton (1946), Oscar Micheaux (1884), John Carl Buechler (1952), Mark Romanek (1959), and Joe Carnahan (1969). After him are Jack Smith (1932), Jack Hannah (1913), Harmony Korine (1973), Jonathan Levine (1976), Rob Minkoff (1962), and Alex Kurtzman (1973).

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