Alex Gibney
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 23, 1953 (age 73)
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Philip Alexander Gibney (/ˈɡɪbni/; born October 23, 1953; New York City) is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, Esquire magazine said Gibney "is becoming the most important documentarian of our time." Gibney's works as director include The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (winner of three Emmys in 2015), We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (the winner of three 2013 primetime Emmy awards), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (nominated in 2005 for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature); Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (short-listed in 2011 for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature), Casino Jack and the United States of Money, and Taxi to the Dark Side (winner of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature), focusing on a taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed at Bagram Air Force Base in 2002. In 2019, he released his documentary Citizen K, about Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian billionaire exile Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Known For
Billions
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Zero Days
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
Taxi to the Dark Side
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Painkiller
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Photos
Filmography
Two Wolves
Movie · Director
Untitled Luigi Mangione Documentary
Movie · Director
Musk
Movie · Director
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
Movie · Director
The Dark Money Game
TV · Director · 2 eps
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
Movie · Director
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
TV · Director · 2 eps
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos
TV · Director · 2 eps
Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker
TV · Director · 2 eps
The Forever Prisoner
Movie · Director
Totally Under Control
Movie · Director
The Crime of the Century
TV · Director · 2 eps
Crazy, Not Insane
Movie · Director
The Innocence Files
TV · Director · 1 ep
Agents of Chaos
TV · Director · 2 eps
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Movie · Director
Citizen K
Movie · Director
The Looming Tower
TV · Director · 1 ep
Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI
TV · Director · 1 ep
Dirty Money
TV · Director · 1 ep
No Stone Unturned
Movie · Director
Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
TV · Director · 2 eps
Zero Days
Movie · Director
Cooked
TV · Director · 1 ep
Billions
TV · Director · 1 ep
The New Yorker Presents
TV · Director · 1 ep
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Movie · Director
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Movie · Director
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All
TV · Director · 2 eps
Finding Fela
Movie · Director
Ceasefire Massacre
Movie · Director
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
Movie · Director
Fields of Fear
Movie · Director
30 for 30: Soccer Stories
TV · Director · 1 ep
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Movie · Director
The Armstrong Lie
Movie · Director
The Last Gladiators
Movie · Director
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Movie · Director
Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream
Movie · Director
Speaking with Light
Movie · Director
Dear Governor Cuomo
Movie · Director
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
Movie · Director
30 for 30 Shorts
TV · Director · 1 ep
Catching Hell
Movie · Director
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
Movie · Director
30 for 30 - ESPN Films
TV · Director · 1 ep
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
Movie · Director
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Movie · Director
Freakonomics
Movie · Director
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
Movie · Director
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Movie · Director
Taxi to the Dark Side
Movie · Director
The Human Behavior Experiments
Movie · Director
Time Piece
Movie · Director
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Movie · Director
Behind Those Eyes
Movie · Director
3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas
Movie · Director
Jimi Hendrix and The Blues
Movie · Director
Uppdrag granskning
TV · Director · 1 ep
Independent Lens
TV · Director · 2 eps
The Sexual Century: The Look of Love
TV · Director · 6 eps
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy
Movie · Director
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
TV · Director · 1 ep
Storyville
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Fifties
TV · Director · 7 eps
Inside Japan, Inc.
Movie · Director
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
Movie · Director
Manufacturing Miracles
Movie · Director
The Ruling Classroom
Movie · Director
Flipper
Movie · Director