---
name: "Al Gore"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/al-gore"
fi1m_id: "al-gore"
imdb_id: "nm0330722"
tmdb_id: 19013
wikidata_id: "Q19673"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "31 March 1948"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-02T23:42:37.647979+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Al Gore

## Identity

Al Gore

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/al-gore
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** al-gore
- **IMDb ID:** nm0330722
- **TMDB ID:** 19013
- **Wikidata ID:** Q19673
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19673, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0330722/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19013

Writer. Born 31 March 1948 in Washington, D.C., USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 31 March 1948, Washington, D.C., USA
- **Active:** 1999–2017
- **Also known as:** Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr., Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 2 writing
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 81 (1), 2000s 78 (1), 2010s 58 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19673, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0330722/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19013

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power*](https://film.one/film/an-inconvenient-sequel-truth-to-power.md) (58)

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## Fi1m on Al Gore

> Al Gore's cinema is a lecture: a man, a clicker and a screen, trusting an audience to sit still for graphs if someone makes them intelligible. In 2006 the trust was rewarded. When the films turn from the slides to the man, it runs out.

Al Gore stands beside a graph and waits. The line climbs, the hall goes quiet, and he explains it in the voice of a teacher who wants to know whether the back row has followed. That is his method in both films that carry his name as writer: a presentation on climate change built from graphs, photographs and animations, with stories from his own life, which he has given for years and which, by his own account, he updates almost daily. He does not perform it. He delivers it, with a schoolmasterly formality and the occasional joke, and trusts us to keep up.

He had a long career in public office before any of this, and the presentation existed before the films; the films are what he did next. Davis Guggenheim filmed the lecture in 2006 as *An Inconvenient Truth*, and the surprise is how little it needs. Gore explains, illustrates and gives the information time to trouble us, and it does. We were frightened by his account of accelerating warming, because the low-key delivery made us attend to the lines rather than to him. He then set up the Climate Reality Project to train other people to give the same talk, and in 2017 Jon Shenk and Bonni Cohen followed him round the world for *An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power*.

The trouble, both times, is the man. Guggenheim keeps stopping the lecture to explain the lecturer, with passages of personal history that tell us about a sincerity we could already see. Shenk and Cohen go further and make him the subject, with the lecture moved to the background. Shenk, who also shoots it, stands Gore beside a channel of meltwater in Greenland the width of a road and holds the shot until the roar does the talking, and the Paris section, cut by Don Bernier and Colin Nusbaum as calls and corridors, is the one stretch in either film where Gore is doing something rather than explaining it. But the film cannot pass a ballroom without cutting to the audience on its feet, Jeff Beal puts strings under every speech, and by the hour mark it has settled into a loop of disaster then applause. Gore wrote both films. He did not write himself out of either.

The first film closes on his line: "We have everything that we need to reduce carbon emissions, everything but political will. But in America, the will to act is a renewable resource." It is the best thing he has written for the screen, and the sequel's weakness is that it plainly believes the will in question is his. If you watch one, watch the 2006 film, and watch it for the slides. The man is interesting. The graph is the point.

## Biography

Albert Arnold 'Al' Gore Jr. is an American politician, author and environmental activist who has contributed to several films and television programmes. He served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

Gore wrote and appeared as himself in the documentary *An Inconvenient Truth* (2006), directed by Davis Guggenheim. He has also voiced himself in episodes of the animated series *Futurama* (from 1999) and its film *Futurama: Bender's Big Score* (2007), and appeared as himself in *30 Rock* (2006–2009).

In 2007 Gore shared the Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for efforts to build greater knowledge about climate change.

*Sources: imdb.com, metacritic.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1)

- *Futurama* (1999), Fi1m 81, as Al Gore (voice) — [page](https://film.one/tv/futurama.md)

### Wrote (2) — the average rests on these

- *An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power* (2017), Fi1m 58, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/an-inconvenient-sequel-truth-to-power.md)
- *An Inconvenient Truth* (2006), Fi1m 78, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/an-inconvenient-truth.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Bupkis* (2023), series, as Al Gore
- *An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power* (2017), Writer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/an-inconvenient-sequel-truth-to-power.md)
- *Futurama: Bender's Big Score* (2007), as Al Gore (voice)
- *A Terrifying Message from Al Gore* (2007), Actor
- *Live Earth Concert Wembley* (2007), Producer
- *30 Rock* (2006), series, as Al Gore — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/30-rock.md)
- *An Inconvenient Truth* (2006), Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/an-inconvenient-truth.md)
- *The Final Days* (2000), Actor
- *Futurama* (1999), series, as Al Gore (voice) — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/futurama.md)
- *Mystery Train* (1989), Thanks

## Gallery

- ![Al Gore](https://film.one/media/person/99392/gallery-c4cc2aa2f26f.jpg) Al Gore — Unknown photographerUnknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Al_Gore%2C_Vice_President_of_the_United_States%2C_official_portrait_1994.jpg/1280px-Al_Gore%2C_Vice_President_of_the_United_States%2C_official_portrait_1994.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman greets Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore during the AIM for Climate Summit in Washington, D.C. on Monday, May (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/99392/gallery-fccbbf44b643.jpg) Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman greets Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore during the AIM for Climate Summit in Washington, D.C. on Monday, May (2023) — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/20230508-OSEC-TEW-0315_%2852882694515%29.jpg/1280px-20230508-OSEC-TEW-0315_%2852882694515%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore have a discussion during the AIM for Climate Summit in Washington, D.C. on Monday, (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/99392/gallery-4b67926bd3b8.jpg) U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore have a discussion during the AIM for Climate Summit in Washington, D.C. on Monday, (2023) — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/20230508-OSEC-TEW-0322_%2852882694625%29.jpg/1280px-20230508-OSEC-TEW-0322_%2852882694625%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore have a discussion during the AIM for Climate Summit in Washington, D.C. on Monday, (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/99392/gallery-f888d0071875.jpg) U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore have a discussion during the AIM for Climate Summit in Washington, D.C. on Monday, (2023) — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/20230508-OSEC-TEW-0325_%2852881744532%29.jpg/1280px-20230508-OSEC-TEW-0325_%2852881744532%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Al Gore](https://film.one/media/person/99392/gallery-ea65a6794c5a.jpg) Al Gore — Image via TMDB
- ![U.S. Department of Agriculture, Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore have a d (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/99392/gallery-9524fab0626e.jpg) U.S. Department of Agriculture, Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore have a d (2023) — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/20230508-OSEC-TEW-0390_%2852882694365%29.jpg/1280px-20230508-OSEC-TEW-0390_%2852882694365%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore have a kick-off plenary discussion during the AIM for Climate Summit in Washington (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/99392/gallery-5ebfc92a6fca.jpg) U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore have a kick-off plenary discussion during the AIM for Climate Summit in Washington (2023) — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/20230508-OSEC-TEW-1280_%2852882477579%29.jpg/1280px-20230508-OSEC-TEW-1280_%2852882477579%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 14 won

- Presidential Medal of Freedom 2024: Presidential Medal of Freedom (won)
- Internet Hall of Fame 2012: Internet Hall of Fame (won)
- Giuseppe Motta Medal 2009: Giuseppe Motta Medal (won)
- Roger Revelle Prize 2009: Roger Revelle Prize (won)
- Dan David Prize 2008: Dan David Prize (won)
- honorary doctor of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań 2008: honorary doctor of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (won)
- Champions of the Earth 2007: Champions of the Earth (won)
- International Emmy Founders Award 2007: International Emmy Founders Award (won)
- John Muir Award 2007: John Muir Award (won)
- Nobel Peace Prize 2007: Nobel Peace Prize (won)
- Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation 2007: Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation (won)
- Umweltmedienpreis 2006: Umweltmedienpreis (won)
- Webby Lifetime Achievement Award 2005: Webby Lifetime Achievement Award (won)
- James Madison Award 1993: James Madison Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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