Alex Gibney
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.
Acting (10 movies)
The Armstrong Lie
2013
Citizen K
2019
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
2010
Taxi to the Dark Side
2008
Catching Hell
2011
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
2015
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
2013
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
2019
Totally Under Control
2021
Directing (42 movies)
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
2008
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005
Taxi to the Dark Side
2008
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
2010
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
2010
Freakonomics
2010
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
2010
Catching Hell
2011
The Last Gladiators
2012
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
2011
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream
2012
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
2013
The Armstrong Lie
2013
Finding Fela
2014
The Human Behavior Experiments
2006
Ceasefire Massacre
2014
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
2014
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
2015
Fields of Fear
2014
The Forever Prisoner
2021
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
1988
Zero Days
2016
The Ruling Classroom
1980
No Stone Unturned
2017
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
2024
Flipper
1980
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
2019
Citizen K
2019
Crazy, Not Insane
2020
Totally Under Control
2021
Behind Those Eyes
2005
3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas
2005
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy
1998
Manufacturing Miracles
1988
Speaking with Light
2012
Dear Governor Cuomo
2012
Time Piece
2006
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012
Jimi Hendrix and The Blues
2001
Inside Japan, Inc.
1992