Unless there's something I've missed, Al Gore was not presented with the Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth. As with Best Picture, the nominee for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar is the producer of the film, and in this case that was Davis Guggenheim.
It's true that Gore played a crucial role in the film; the campaign and the slide show that were the subject of the film were his. He wrote and starred in it. But it wasn't his film.
Had Gore won the Oscar, he would have been the second person to win a Nobel Prize and an Oscar, after George Bernard Shaw. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 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".
As it was, the honour of being the second person to win those two awards went to Bob Dylan, who won Best Original Song in 2001 for the song Things Have Changed (featured in the box office flop Wonder Boys) and in 2016 was the surprise choice for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel citation spoke of his "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
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