Davis Guggenheim

Davis Guggenheim is a filmmaker I genuinely admire for choosing substance over spectacle. The Brown graduate from St. Louis won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary, but what impresses me is his willingness to take on subjects most directors avoid, from climate change to America's broken schools to the soul of rock guitar. Moving people with reality rather than fiction is far harder than it looks, and harder still to do it again and again. In an industry that rewards franchises and noise, he keeps betting on uncomfortable truths. I'll always root for storytellers who use the camera to ask serious questions.

Name (English)

Davis Guggenheim

Name (Japanese)

デイビス・グッゲンハイム

Reading

でいびす・ぐっげんはいむ

Born

November 3, 1963 (age 62)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rabbit

Origin

St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Occupation

film director / television director / film producer / screenwriter / cinematographer

University

Brown University

Awards & achievements

• 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.davisguggenheim.com
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%93%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%83%E3%82%B2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A0

Tags

• Missouri
• film director
• television director
• film producer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.