Davis Guggenheim
Philip Davis Guggenheim (born November 3, 1963) is an Academy Award-winning American film director and producer. His credits as a producer and ... More »
I Find No Fault in This Man
By mab91c | Posted 19 minutes ago | San Antonio, Texas Wow, you know, a lot of people have implied it, but the documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim is the first one to really put it out there in the news. Last night while talking to Piers Morgan, Mr. Guggenheim said the ... Read more »
The Obama campaign’s ad: Another hit for Davis Guggenheim?
Posted at 01:01 PM ET, 03/08/2012 The Obama campaign’s ad: Another hit for Davis Guggenheim? The Obama campaign is releasing what appears from the trailer (embedded below) to be a powerful "docu-ad" — I realize that's a bizarre term, but that's what it is — directed by Davis ... Read more »
The road less hopeful The World International affairs blog from the FT – FT.com
In 2008 Davis Guggenheim made a biographical video of Barack Obama based on hope – the young senator’s lack of experience was studiously avoided. This time round, in Guggenheim’s The Road We’ve Travelled, which, at 17 minutes, is almost twice as long as his first effort... Read more »
FEC Records: Obama Campaign Paid $345,000 for Guggenheim Film Biopic
Records filed by Obama for America with the Federal Election Commission indicate that the president’s re-election campaign shelled out at least $345,353 to commission “The Road We’ve Traveled,” a 17-minute campaign documentary by Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim, set for ... Read more »
Mitt Romney Mocks Obama Campaign Documentary, Director Davis Guggenheim
Calling the film, which has a trailer narrated by Tom Hanks, a "17-minute infomercial," Romney hit back at director Davis Guggenheim's claims that he couldn't find fault with the president. Guggenheim told Piers Morgan on Thursday that, "The negative for me was there were too many ... Read more »
Obama documentarian: Only ‘negative’ was ‘too many accomplishments’ to cover
Davis Guggenheim, the Oscar-winning director responsible for the upcoming Obama campaign video The Road We've Traveled, was interviewed by CNN’s Piers Morgan on Thursday. For those who feared that a dose of hard cold reality had washed over the left, damping its infatuation with Barack ... Read more »
Piers Morgan: Bill Roache said he's slept with many more than 100 women. He's the Bill Wyman of TV
He's the Bill Wyman of TV PUBLISHED: 17:00 EST, 17 March 2012 | UPDATED: 17:01 EST, 17 March 2012 A new 17-minute movie lauding the achievements of Barack Obama as President has been released by his election campaign this week – directed by Davis Guggenheim, the Oscar-winning genius ... Read more »
Obama’s Campaign Documentary: Gloom You Can Believe In
“What do we remember in November of 2008?” asks Tom Hanks in the opening narration of Davis Guggenheim’s new Barackumentary, a 17-minute paean to President Obama paid for and distributed by his reelection campaign. “Was it this?” Hanks continues as triumphant slo-mo footage of Obama’s ... Read more »
Obama’s Campaign Documentary: Gloom You Can Believe In
“What do we remember in November of 2008?” asks Tom Hanks in the opening narration of Davis Guggenheim’s new Barackumentary, a 17-minute paean to President Obama paid for and distributed by his reelection campaign. “Was it this?” Hanks continues as triumphant slo-mo footage of Obama’s ... Read more »
Obama Presidency in 17-Mintues, As Told by Tom Hanks
The 17-minute film, crafted by Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim, reprises with dramatic flourishes the highlights of Obama’s domestic and foreign policy agenda, particularly those with the greatest appeal to his liberal base. Narrator Tom Hanks sets the opening scene in ... Read more »
The re-introduction of Barack Obama
A 17-minute documentary — produced by Davis Guggenheim — detailing the president’s first term in office will be released today, a high-profile attempt to shape (or re-shape) the narrative of Obama’s first term in office. U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference with ... Read more »
Obama campaign seeks to make a splash with video, Biden speech
The centerpiece of the effort is a glossy, 17-minute documentary-style video called “The Road We’ve Traveled,” which the campaign commissioned from Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim. That production, which is scheduled to be released Thursday, will be buttressed by speeches ... Read more »
Obama Campaign Video Highlights First Term
Coming soon from the Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim: “The Road We’ve Traveled,” an action-packed film for the Obama campaign that puts a Hollywood shine on President Obama’s record. On Thursday morning, the movie’s two-minute trailer ran on “The Today Show” on ABC before ... Read more »
Obama Documentary: Davis Guggenheim Film Chronicles First Term In Office
Campaign manager Jim Messina says the documentary was directed by Davis Guggenheim, whose credits include the Academy Award-winning, "An Inconvenient Truth," about Al Gore's global-warming campaign. Messina says the documentary will, in his words, "put into perspective the enormous ... Read more »
Obama To Hire Academy Award Winning Filmmaker To Make Film About Himself
President Obama’s campaign has hired Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim to produce a short film chronicling the first three years of his administration, Julianna Goldman of Bloomberg reports. The campaign paid more than $160,000 for the film, which is less than 30 minutes long and ... Read more »
Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » ‘Waiting For Superman’ Timeline Shows How
So when filmmaker Davis Guggenheim unleashed his take on the American educational system in 2010, I’m sure he had absolutely no idea what he was in for and how his film “Waiting for ‘Superman’” would lead rather directly to thousands of people protesting in Wisconsin during early 2011... Read more »
Obama campaign releases documentary on first term
The documentary was directed by Davis Guggenheim, whose credits include the Academy Award-winning, "An Inconvenient Truth," about Al Gore's global-warming campaign. Republicans have dismissed the film, which cost at least $345,000 to make, as nothing more than a slick piece of propaganda ... Read more »
Mitt Romney is laying on the southern charm for voters in Mississippi and Alabama
... Santorum said at a campaign event in Topeka, Kan. “Governor Romney reinvents himself for whatever the political occasion calls for.” At a campaign event in Jackson, Miss., Romney ripped a new 17-minute film about President Obama directed by Oscar- winner Davis Guggenheim for the Obama campaign... Read more »
Mitt Romney is laying on the southern charm for voters in Mississippi and Alabama
... Santorum said at a campaign event in Topeka, Kan. “Governor Romney reinvents himself for whatever the political occasion calls for.” At a campaign event in Jackson, Miss., Romney ripped a new 17-minute film about President Obama directed by Oscar- winner Davis Guggenheim for the Obama campaign... Read more »
White House releases documentary of President Barack Obama's greatest achievements
Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said the documentary was directed by Davis Guggenheim, whose credits include the Oscar-winner An Inconvenient Truth, about Al Gore's global-warming campaign. Messina says the documentary will, in his words, 'put into perspective the enormous challenges ... Read more »
