Congratulations to Davis Guggenheim, director of An Inconvenient Truth, which won the best documentary Oscar tonight. Davis is not only a cool dude — he’s on the board of Creative Commons — but he’s also the nicest, most down-to-earth guy I’ve ever met from Hollywood. (By contrast, Al Gore, whom I ran into three times last year, struck me as somewhat cold and aloof, perhaps understandably given his position.) Davis and I spent a while together last spring during a Creative Commons function in which I also did a brief video interview with his wife, actress Elisabeth Shue.
I’m a bit embarrassed to say that when I finished my 5-minute video interview with him about his documentary Teach, he asked, “Want to ask me about the new documentary I just finished?,” referring to what turned out to be his Oscar-winning picture. I replied, “No, that’s OK.”
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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