An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth is an Academy Award-winning documentary film about climate change, specifically global warming, directed by Davis Guggenheim and presented by former United States Vice President Al Gore.
An Inconvenient Truth is also the title of a companion book by Gore, which reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller lists of July 2[1] and August 13, 2006, and again during several months on the list.[2]
The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opened in New York and Los Angeles on May 24, 2006. It is the third-highest-grossing documentary in the United States to date.[3] Both Gore and Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, have pledged proceeds from the film to further educational campaigns about climate change. The film was released on DVD by Paramount Home Entertainment on November 21, 2006
Awards
- The film won the 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature and Best Original Song for Melissa Etheridge's "I Need to Wake Up". It is the first documentary to win a best original song Oscar.
- The film received special recognition from the Humanitas Prize, the first time the organization had handed out a Special Award in over 10 years.
- 2007 Stanley Kramer Award - The Producers Guild of America; recognizes “work that dramatically illustrates provocative social issues.”
- For his wide-reaching efforts to draw the world’s attention to the dangers of global warming including the Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore has been nominated with Canadian Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Al Gore's Team accepts Academy Award
This year, “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s film on the perils of global warming, scored two Oscar nominations Tuesday — for best documentary feature and best original song.
While president Al Gore is not technically a nominee — the film’s director, Davis Guggenheim, won the nod, as did singer Melissa Etheridge for the song “I Need to Wake Up” — Gore said he was “thrilled” that his movie was honored.
“The movie. has brought awareness of the climate crisis to people in the United States and all over the World,” Al Gore said in an e-mail statement. “I am so grateful to the entire team and pleased that the Academy has recognized their work. This film proves that movies really can make a difference.”
