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Alex Gibney

Alex Gibney

Director · Born 1953-10-23 · New York City, New York, USA

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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.

Directed

  1. Billions (2016) — Director
  2. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015) — Director
  3. The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) — Director
  4. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) — Director
  5. Zero Days (2016) — Director
  6. Taxi to the Dark Side (2008) — Director
  7. Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015) — Director
  8. Dirty Money (2018) — Director
  9. The Looming Tower (2018) — Director
  10. We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013) — Director
  11. The Armstrong Lie (2013) — Director
  12. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) — Director
  13. Freakonomics (2010) — Director
  14. Crazy, Not Insane (2020) — Director
  15. Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012) — Director
  16. Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015) — Director
  17. The Crime of the Century (2021) — Director
  18. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010) — Director
  19. Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (2014) — Director
  20. Cooked (2016) — Director
  21. The Innocence Files (2020) — Director
  22. Agents of Chaos (2020) — Director
  23. Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos (2024) — Director
  24. Casino Jack and the United States of Money (2010) — Director
  25. Catching Hell (2011) — Director
  26. Citizen K (2019) — Director
  27. The Last Gladiators (2012) — Director
  28. Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011) — Director
  29. Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream (2012) — Director
  30. No Stone Unturned (2017) — Director
  31. Totally Under Control (2021) — Director
  32. Finding Fela (2014) — Director
  33. Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker (2023) — Director
  34. Independent Lens (1999) — Director
  35. My Trip to Al-Qaeda (2010) — Director
  36. The Human Behavior Experiments (2006) — Director
  37. The Forever Prisoner (2021) — Director
  38. In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon (2024) — Director
  39. Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge (2017) — Director
  40. AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (1998) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015) — Narrator (voice)
  2. The Daily Show (1996) — Self
  3. The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) — Self - Narrator / Interviewer
  4. Taxi to the Dark Side (2008) — Narrator (voice)
  5. Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015) — Narrator (voice)
  6. Real Time with Bill Maher (2003) — Self
  7. Dirty Money (2018) — Self
  8. We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013) — Narrator (voice)
  9. The Armstrong Lie (2013) — Self - Narrator
  10. The View (1997) — Self
  11. The Oscars (1953) — Self
  12. Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012) — Self - Narrator (voice)
  13. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010) — Self - Narrator (voice)
  14. Agents of Chaos (2020) — Narrator
  15. Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos (2024) — Self
  16. Citizen K (2019) — Narrator (voice)
  17. Catching Hell (2011) — Self
  18. Totally Under Control (2021) — Narrator (voice)
  19. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015) — Self
  20. The New Yorker Presents (2016) — Narrator
  21. The Dark Money Game (2025) — Narrator (voice)