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Davis Guggenheim
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Davis Guggenheim (1964-) is an Academy Award-winning American film director and producer.
He was an executive producer on the movie Training Day and has directed a feature film called Gossip, both for Warner Bros.. His television directing credits include recently completed episodes of The Shield, Alias, and 24 as well as such critically acclaimed programs as NYPD Blue, ER, and Party of Five and the documentaries The First Year and Teach. He also served as a producer and director of the 2004 HBO dramatic series Deadwood. Davis is a member of the Board of Directors of Creative Commons.
He directed and produced the 2006 feature length documentary film An Inconvenient Truth, based upon a slide show about global warming given by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. The film received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in February 2007.
Davis is currently in post-production on the film Gracie, which is inspired by the teenage years of his wife, Elisabeth Shue.
Guggenheim is the son of Academy-award winning Jewish filmmaker Charles Guggenheim and Marion Guggenheim, a Protestant. Guggenheim was raised a Protestant. He has one sister, Grace, and one brother, Jonathan. While at Brown University, Guggenheim was a member of the all-male a cappella group, The Brown Derbies.
He is married to actress Elisabeth Shue and they have a son, Miles William (b. November 11, 1997), and two daughters, Stella Street (b. March 19, 2001) and Agnes Charles (b. June 18, 2006).
He is not related to the Guggenheim family of magnates and philanthropists.