Philip Davis Guggenheim born November 3 1963 is an Academy Awardwinning American documentary and live action film director and producer His credits as a producer and director include Training Day The Shield Alias 24 NYPD Blue ER Deadwood and Party of Five and the documentaries An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for Superman Since 2006 Guggenheim is the only filmmaker to release three different films that were ranked within the top 100 highestgrossing documentaries of all time An Inconvenient Truth It Might Get Loud and Waiting for Superman Guggenheims 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 DocumentaryNonfiction Program