Davis Guggenheim

Sundance 2013: 'Fruitvale' wins Grand Jury Prize

2013-01-26 00:00:00

PARK CITY, Utah--"Fruitvale," a drama based on the real-life story of a young man shot to death at an Oakland BART station, took home the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday night. The movie also won the Audience Award for U.S....

Participant Media to create pro-social cable channel

2012-12-17 14:39:00

Participant Media, the film company behind "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Charlie Wilson's War," has acquired two cable channels and plans to combine them to form a new network featuring programming with social themes. The channel, which does not yet have...

2013 Grammy Award nominees

2012-12-06 17:03:00

Indie-rock trio Fun. and R&B/hip-hop star Frank Ocean scored big in Grammy Award nominations, scoring six nods apiece mostly in the top Grammy categories. The Recording Academy announced the nominations Wednesday during a show in Nashville. The 55th...

Governors Awards: Jeffrey Katzenberg's phone skills revealed

2012-12-02 07:31:00

They all talk about the phone calls — Will Smith, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks. What binds them is the relentless prodding they’ve all received from Hollywood’s most bullish fundraiser, Jeffrey Katzenberg. At the fourth-annual...

Trailer released for Obama campaign documentary [Video]

2012-03-08 05:44:00

In a campaign thus far dominated by 30-second ads and debate sound bites, President Obama's reelection effort is taking a more expansive approach is it begins making its case to voters in earnest. Obama 2012 on Thursday released a two-minute trailer...

Tribeca 2012: Michael Moore says hacking scandal could hit Fox News

2012-04-22 21:37:43

U2's growing pains in 'From the Sky Down'

2011-10-29 00:00:00

U2, the Irish pop band, is the subject of a fascinating new documentary, "From the Sky Down," premiering Saturday on Showtime. Like most modern rockumentaries, it was commissioned by the people it is about, and it will be included in some of the...

Around Town: The Stooges ride back to town

2011-11-24 16:36:36

Davis Guggenheim talks U2's 'Achtung Baby' documentary

2011-10-27 21:35:45

Saturday's Highlights: 'The Good Witch's Family' on Hallmark

2011-10-28 21:36:35

Jack White

2009-06-07 00:00:00

1. You have a lot going on: You started a label, Third Man Records; you�re in the upcoming It Might Get Loud, a guitar documentary with the Edge and Jimmy Page; and now you�re in the Dead Weather. Are you ever too busy? When art and music are happening,...

Oscar oversights include some Hollywood heavyweights

2011-01-26 00:00:00

In writer-director Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller "Inception," Leonardo DiCaprio portrays a dream-time cat burglar who smuggles ideas in and out of people's minds. But on Tuesday, many Oscar prognosticators felt that "Inception" itself had gotten...

"FROM THE SKY DOWN": Davis Guggenheim's film, with Adam Clayton , left, and Bono, examines the band's creative process and musical evolution.

2011-10-28 14:01:38

Oscar-winning documentarian Davis Guggenheim directed this film following the unlikely (and incredibly huge) career of the Irish rock band U2 . What makes this unusual is that it's the first time the Toronto International Film Festival has selected a documentary to open the fest. Will Bono and the

2011-07-26 12:24:05