Alex Gibney
Born: 1953-10-23 in New York City, New York, USA
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2025
- Orwell: 2+2=5 ... (Producer)
- Bodyguard of Lies ... (Producer)
- Mr. Scorsese ... (Thanks)
- The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster ... (Executive Producer)
- The Dark Money Game as Narrator (voice)
2024
- The Bibi Files ... (Producer)
- In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon ... (Producer)
- Walk with Me ... (Executive Producer)
- Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos as Self
- God Save Texas ... (Executive Producer)
- In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon ... (Director)
- Between Goodbyes ... (Executive Producer)
2023
- Money Shot: The Pornhub Story ... (Thanks)
- Painkiller ... (Executive Producer)
- Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker ... (Producer)
- The Ruling Class ... (Executive Producer)
2022
- How to Change Your Mind ... (Executive Producer)
- Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo ... (Producer)
2021
- The First Wave ... (Executive Producer)
- Citizen Ashe ... (Executive Producer)
- Totally Under Control as Narrator (voice)
- 137 Shots ... (Executive Producer)
- The Forever Prisoner ... (Director)
- Tiger ... (Executive Producer)
- The Crime of the Century ... (Producer)
- The Line ... (Executive Producer)
2020
- Crazy, Not Insane ... (Director)
- Kingdom of Silence ... (Executive Producer)
- Laurel Canyon ... (Executive Producer)
- Agents of Chaos as Narrator
- The Innocence Files ... (Executive Producer)
- How to Fix a Drug Scandal ... (Executive Producer)
2019
- Citizen K as Narrator (voice)
- The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley as Self - Narrator / Interviewer
- The Family ... (Executive Producer)
- Why We Hate ... (Executive Producer)
- Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America ... (Executive Producer)
- Los Últimos Frikis ... (Executive Producer)
2018
- Dirty Money as Self
- The China Hustle ... (Executive Producer)
- Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind ... (Producer)
- Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes ... (Executive Producer)
- The Looming Tower ... (Executive Producer)
- The Clinton Affair ... (Executive Producer)
- Salt Fat Acid Heat ... (Executive Producer)
- Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI ... (Director)
- Enhanced ... (Executive Producer)
2017
- City of Ghosts ... (Executive Producer)
- Water & Power: A California Heist ... (Executive Producer)
- Elián ... (Executive Producer)
- American Jihad ... (Executive Producer)
- Accidental Anarchist ... (Executive Producer)
- Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge ... (Executive Producer)
- Zero Days VR ... (Executive Producer)
- No Stone Unturned ... (Director)
- Parched ... (Executive Producer)
- The Last Shot ... (Executive Producer)
2016
- Billions ... (Director)
- Zero Days ... (Director)
- The 4%: Film's Gender Problem ... (Executive Producer)
- Spring Broke ... (Executive Producer)
- The New Yorker Presents as Narrator
- The Killing Season ... (Executive Producer)
- Cooked ... (Director)
- Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley ... (Executive Producer)
- Every Move You Make ... (Consulting Producer)
2015
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- Sunshine Superman ... (Executive Producer)
- What Happened, Miss Simone? ... (Thanks)
- Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief as Narrator (voice)
- Janis: Little Girl Blue ... (Producer)
- Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine as Narrator (voice)
- Sinatra: All or Nothing at All ... (Director)
- What's Motivating Hayes ... (Executive Producer)
2014
- Ceasefire Massacre ... (Director)
- Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown ... (Writer)
- Fields of Fear ... (Director)
- Finding Fela ... (Producer)
- Death Row Stories ... (Executive Producer)
- 30 for 30: Soccer Stories ... (Producer)
- Edge of Eighteen ... (Executive Producer)
2013
- We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks as Narrator (voice)
- The Armstrong Lie as Self - Narrator
- History of the Eagles ... (Producer)
2012
- Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas ... (Director)
- Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God ... (Screenplay)
- The Last Gladiators ... (Director)
- 30 for 30 Shorts ... (Director)
- Dear Governor Cuomo ... (Director)
- Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream ... (Director)
- Venus and Serena ... (Executive Producer)
- Speaking with Light ... (Director)
2011
- Catching Hell as Self
- 30 for 30 - ESPN Films ... (Director)
- Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place ... (Writer)
- Biba! One Island, 879 Votes ... (Executive Producer)
2010
- Freakonomics ... (Writer)
- Casino Jack and the United States of Money ... (Director)
- Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer as Self - Narrator (voice)
- My Trip to Al-Qaeda ... (Producer)
2009
- Dirty Business ... (Producer)
- Money-Driven Medicine ... (Producer)
2008
- Taxi to the Dark Side as Narrator (voice)
- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson ... (Director)
2007
- Love Comes Lately ... (Executive Producer)
- No End in Sight ... (Executive Producer)
- Mr. Untouchable ... (Producer)
2006
- Herbie Hancock: Possibilities ... (Producer)
- Time Piece ... (Director)
- Who Killed the Electric Car? ... (Consulting Producer)
- The Human Behavior Experiments ... (Director)
- The House Is Burning ... (Producer)
2005
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room ... (Director)
- Behind Those Eyes ... (Writer)
- 3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas ... (Director)
2004
- Lightning in a Bottle ... (Producer)
2003
- Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- The Soul of a Man ... (Producer)
- The Blues ... (Producer)
2002
- The Trials of Henry Kissinger ... (Writer)
2001
- Brooklyn Babylon ... (Executive Producer)
- Uppdrag granskning ... (Writer)
- Jimi Hendrix and The Blues ... (Director)
2000
- The Huntress ... (Executive Producer)
- Soldiers in the Army of God ... (Producer)
- The Kennedy Center Presents: Speak Truth to Power ... (Producer)
1999
- Independent Lens ... (Director)
- The Sexual Century: The Look of Love ... (Producer)
1998
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies ... (Producer)
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy ... (Writer)
1997
- The View as Self
- Storyville ... (Director)
- The Fifties ... (Executive Producer)
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
1992
- The Pacific Century ... (Writer)
- Inside Japan, Inc. ... (Director)
1988
- Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America ... (Director)
- Manufacturing Miracles ... (Director)
1983
- The Golden Seal ... (Associate Editor)
1980
- The Ruling Classroom ... (Director)
- Flipper ... (Director)