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*An Inconvenient Truth* is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim, who also served as the director of photography. The film was produced by Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns, and Jeff Skoll, with Al Gore credited as the screenwriter. It was distributed by Paramount Vantage and produced by Participant. The film features Michael Brook as a performer and composer.
The documentary has a runtime of 100 minutes, though some sources list it as 96 minutes. It was released on May 24, 2006, and carries a PG rating. The film received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film and the Academy Award for Best Original Song. It also won the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary. Additionally, it received nominations for the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Song and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media.
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Film · TMDB
7.0A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.
Cast
- Al Gore as Self
- Billy West as Various (voice)
- Ronald Reagan as Self (archive footage)
- George W. Bush as Self (archive footage)
- George H. W. Bush as Self (archive footage)
Themes
- politics
- self-destruction
- truth
- climate
- climate change
- greenhouse effect
- crisis
- earth
- global warming
- destruction of planet
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Ratings
IMDb
7.4/10
86,870 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
93%
Metacritic
75/100
- Year
- 2006
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Genres
- Documentary
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- Won 2 Oscars. 34 wins & 11 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Davis Guggenheim
- Written by
- Al Gore
- Produced by
- Laurie David Lawrence Bender Scott Z. Burns Lesley Chilcott
- Starring
- Al Gore
- Narrated by
- Al Gore
- Cinematography
- Bob Richman Davis Guggenheim
- Edited by
- Jay Cassidy Dan Swietlik
- Music by
- Michael Brook
- Production companies
- Participant Productions Lawrence Bender Productions
- Distributed by
- Paramount Classics
- Release dates
- January 24, 2006 ( 2006-01-24 ) ( Sundance ) May 24, 2006 ( 2006-05-24 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 97 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $1.5 million
- Box office
- $49.8 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Followed by
- An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
- Director
- Davis Guggenheim
- Screenwriter
- Al Gore
- Composer
- Michael Brook
- Producer
- Jeff Skoll
- Production company
- Participant
- Cinematographer
- Davis Guggenheim
- Duration
- 100
- FilmAffinity ID
- 771735
- Performer
- Michael Brook
- Official website
- www.takepart.com/an-inconvenient-truth/film
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- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
- title
- An Inconvenient Truth
- film editor
- Jay Cassidy
- distributed by
- Paramount Vantage
- Commons category
- An Inconvenient Truth
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Climate change
- film format
- 16 mm film
- review score
- 75/100
- capital cost
- 1000000
- recorded participant
- Al Gore
- publication date
- 2007-02-16
Sources (15)
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Encyclopedic overview
An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former vice president of the United States Al Gore's campaign to educate people about global warming. The film features a slide show that, by Gore's own estimate, he has presented over 1,000 times to audiences worldwide.
The idea to document Gore's efforts came from producer Laurie David, who saw his presentation at a town hall meeting on global warming, which coincided with the opening of The Day After Tomorrow. Laurie David was so inspired by his slide show that she, with producer Lawrence Bender, met with Guggenheim, and Co-Producer Lesley Chilcott, to adapt the presentation into a film. Premiering at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opening in New York City and Los Angeles on May 24, 2006, the film was a critical and commercial success, winning two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song. The film grossed $24 million in the US and $26 million in other countries' box offices, becoming the eleventh highest grossing documentary film to date in the United States.
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