Alex Gibney

Alex Gibney

CountryUnited States United States
GenderMale
BirthdayOct 23, 1953
BiographyPhilip Alexander Gibney (born October 23, 1953) is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, Esquire magazine described Gibney as "becoming the most important documentarian of our time."

Gibney's works as director include The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019), Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (winner of three Emmys in 2015), We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks (2013), Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (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 (2007) (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.

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God Save Texas
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God Save Texas

as Executive Producer
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
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as Executive Producer
Painkiller
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Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
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Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge

as Executive Producer
The Clinton Affair
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as Executive Producer
The Crime of the Century
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The Crime of the Century

as Executive Producer
The Family
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The Family

as Executive Producer
The Huntress
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The Huntress

as Executive Producer
The Line
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The Line

as Executive Producer
The Looming Tower
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The Looming Tower

as Creator

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