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An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim that captures Al Gore's illustrated lecture on global warming. The film presents scientific data on climate change, including ice-core records, glacier retreat photographs, and atmospheric CO2 measurements, alongside anecdotes from Gore's life that shaped his environmental concern.
An Inconvenient Truth grossed over $24 million in the United States, making it the eleventh-highest-grossing documentary in the country from 1982 to its release date. It earned nearly $26 million in foreign markets, with France the top international territory at $5 million.
An Inconvenient Truth won two Academy Awards at the 79th ceremony: Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song for Melissa Etheridge's "I Need to Wake Up." It was the first documentary to win two Oscars and the first to win in the original song category.
Producer Laurie David saw Al Gore give a ten-minute version of his slideshow at a town hall meeting on the 27th of May, 2004, following the premiere of The Day After Tomorrow. She assembled a team including producer Lawrence Bender and former eBay president Jeffrey Skoll, and brought in director Davis Guggenheim. The film was shot across multiple US locations and in China, edited from January, and ready to screen by May, a timeline Guggenheim described as "seriously tight."
All 19 climate scientists contacted by the Associated Press who had seen the film or read the companion book said Gore accurately conveyed the science. Experts from Duke University, NASA, Ohio State University, the National Snow and Ice Data Center, and the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment all affirmed the film's scientific foundation, though some noted specific points that needed updating or qualification, particularly around the connection between hurricanes and global warming.
A 2007 survey by the Nielsen Company and Oxford University across 47 countries found that 66 percent of viewers said the film changed their mind about global warming and 74 percent said they changed some of their habits after watching it. Gore founded The Climate Reality Project in 2006, which trained 1,000 activists to deliver his presentation and eventually grew to 3,500 presenters worldwide. Germany distributed 6,000 DVDs to schools and Spain sent 30,000 copies to Spanish schools in October 2007.