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Revisiting Davis Guggenheim and His Career Evolution
Early in his career, Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim declared he would never make documentaries. He tells us about the bad experience in Hollywood that made him have a change of heart, and talks about his newest film, He Named Me Malala, which profiles activist Malala Yousafzai and her family.
By Kim Masters • • 29m ListenWe revisit our conversation with filmmaker Davis Guggenheim. He was a TV guy -- working on shows like NYPD Blue and Deadwood -- with hopes of making feature films. It looked like he was going to get chance with Training Day until he was abruptly fired. Guggenheim tells us how getting unceremoniously canned from the Denzel Washington thriller set him on a course to directing movies with a message -- from the Oscar-winning doc An Inconvenient Truth, to his most recent film, He Named Me Malala, about the Nobel Prize-winning activist Malala Yousafzai. Plus, an all new Hollywood News Banter.
Photo: Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, director of He Named Me Malala
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Matt Belloni, executive editor of the Hollywood Reporter joins Kim Masters to discuss top entertainment news stories of the week.
Read the story8 minDavis Guggenheim's Career Evolution
Davis Guggenheim won an Oscar in 2007 for the Al Gore climate-change documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. The following year, he directed a short biographical film about then-senator Barack Obama that aired during the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
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