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An Inconvenient Truth is an American Academy Award-winning documentary film about global warming, presented by former United States Vice President Al Gore and directed by Davis Guggenheim.A companion book authored by Gore reached #1 on the paperback nonfiction New York Times bestseller on July 2, 2006.

The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opened in New York and Los Angeles on May 24, 2006. Earning $49 million at the box office worldwide, An Inconvenient Truth is the fourth-highest-grossing documentary film to date in the United States, after Fahrenheit 9/11, March of the Penguins and Sicko. The film's distributor, Paramount Classics, is donating 5% of the box office receipts and Gore is donating all of his proceeds from the film to the Alliance for Climate Protection (of which Gore is both founder and chairman).The film was released on DVD by Paramount Home Entertainment on November 21, 2006. An Inconvenient Truth was generally well received by film critics, scientists, and politicians. The film has been the subject of a British High Court case regarding its proposed showing in schools. Global warming skeptics have criticized the film, calling it "exaggerated and erroneous".

The film has received a number of various awards worldwide including the 2006 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

Al Gore shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."

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