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 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. 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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Davis Guggenheim has received more than 3,698,829 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Davis Guggenheim is the 1,748th most popular film director (down from 1,487th in 2019), the 13,576th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,275th in 2019) and the 513th most popular American Film Director.

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  • 17

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  • 1.92

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  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Davis Guggenheim ranks 1,748 out of 2,041. Before him are John Sayles, Lorenzo Vigas, James Frawley, Tom DiCillo, Athina Rachel Tsangari, and Gary Winick. After him are James DeMonaco, Aditya Chopra, John Carl Buechler, Miguel Gomes, Richard Kelly, and Amy Heckerling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Davis Guggenheim ranks 684. Before him are José Zalazar, Péter Fülöp Kocsis, Pauline Lafont, Naser Khader, Tracy Nelson, and Brian Kemp. After him are Michiru Yamane, Isabella Lövin, Meenakshi Seshadri, Martin Rueda, Paulinho McLaren, and Luca Fusi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Davis Guggenheim ranks 13,576 out of 20,380. Before him are Brian Kemp (1963), Jamie Lynn Spears (1991), Gail Patrick (1911), Midori (1968), Phil Murphy (1957), and Al D'Amato (1937). After him are Max Thieriot (1988), Diane Schuur (1953), David Brian (1914), Keb' Mo' (1951), Matthew Daddario (1987), and Zion Suzuki (2002).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Davis Guggenheim ranks 513. Before him are Lucien Hubbard (1888), David Nutter (1960), John Sayles (1950), James Frawley (1936), Tom DiCillo (1953), and Gary Winick (1961). After him are James DeMonaco (1969), John Carl Buechler (1952), Richard Kelly (1975), Amy Heckerling (1954), Chris Sanders (1962), and Scott Frank (1960).

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Filmography

24
Director
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
7.8 / 10
An Inconvenient Truth
Director
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.
May 24o 20066.969 / 10
ER
Director
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
7.8 / 10