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My Take
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.
Overview
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".
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1. Profile
- 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
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film director / television director / film producer / screenwriter / cinematographer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Brown University
Awards & achievements
- 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.