Known For
Directing
Born
Oct 23, 1953
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
155 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Musk
Director
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
Director
Connect with Jacob Soboroff
Executive Producer
Speechless
Executive Producer
Mr. Scorsese
Thanks
Orwell: 2+2=5
Producer
Bodyguard of Lies
Producer
The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster
Executive Producer
The Dark Money Game
Narrator (voice)
The Bibi Files
Producer
Walk with Me
Executive Producer
Between Goodbyes
Executive Producer
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos
Self
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
Producer
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
Director
God Save Texas
Executive Producer
Painkiller
Executive Producer
The Ruling Class
Executive Producer
Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker
Producer
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
Thanks
Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo
Producer
How to Change Your Mind
Executive Producer
137 Shots
Executive Producer
Citizen Ashe
Executive Producer
The Forever Prisoner
Director
The First Wave
Executive Producer
The Line
Executive Producer
The Crime of the Century
Director
Totally Under Control
Narrator (voice)
Tiger
Executive Producer
Kingdom of Silence
Executive Producer
Agents of Chaos
Narrator
Laurel Canyon
Executive Producer
The Innocence Files
Executive Producer
How to Fix a Drug Scandal
Executive Producer
Crazy, Not Insane
Director
Citizen K
Narrator (voice)
Los Últimos Frikis
Executive Producer
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
Executive Producer
Why We Hate
Executive Producer
The Family
Executive Producer
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Self - Narrator / Interviewer
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
Executive Producer
The Clinton Affair
Executive Producer
Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI
Director
Salt Fat Acid Heat
Executive Producer
Enhanced
Executive Producer
The China Hustle
Executive Producer
The Looming Tower
Executive Producer
Dirty Money
Self