Alex Gibney
DirectingPhilip 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
The Armstrong Lie
Self - Narrator
Citizen K
Narrator (voice)
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Narrator (voice)
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Narrator (voice)
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Self - Narrator / Interviewer
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Narrator (voice)
Taxi to the Dark Side
Narrator (voice)
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Self - Narrator (voice)
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Self - Narrator (voice)
Totally Under Control
Narrator (voice)
Filmography — Acting
The Armstrong Lie
Self - Narrator
Citizen K
Narrator (voice)
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Narrator (voice)
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Narrator (voice)
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Self - Narrator / Interviewer
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Narrator (voice)
Taxi to the Dark Side
Narrator (voice)
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Self - Narrator (voice)
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Self - Narrator (voice)
Totally Under Control
Narrator (voice)
Catching Hell
Self
Filmography — Crew
Crazy, Not Insane
Director
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Screenplay
Orwell: 2+2=5
Producer
Zero Days
Director
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
Producer
No Stone Unturned
Director
The Armstrong Lie
Director
Citizen K
Director
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Director
The Bibi Files
Producer
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Director
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Director
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Director
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
Director
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
Producer
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Director
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
Director
Taxi to the Dark Side
Director
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Producer
The Soul of a Man
Producer
Two Wolves
Producer
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Director
The House Is Burning
Producer
Freakonomics
Director
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Director
Lightning in a Bottle
Producer
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
Producer
Totally Under Control
Producer
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Writer
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
Writer
Catching Hell
Writer
The Last Gladiators
Director
Bodyguard of Lies
Producer
Mr. Untouchable
Producer
Musk
Director
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
Producer
Soldiers in the Army of God
Producer
The Forever Prisoner
Director
The Sound of Philadelphia
Producer
Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream
Director
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
Director
The Human Behavior Experiments
Director
The Hands That Held the Knives
Producer
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
Writer
Dirty Business
Producer
Behind Those Eyes
Writer
Fields of Fear
Director
The Ruling Classroom
Director
Untitled Barbra Streisand Documentary
Producer
Time Piece
Director
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
Director
Untitled Luigi Mangione Documentary
Director
Finding Fela
Producer
Speaking with Light
Director
Return to Timbuktu
Producer
Flipper
Director
Ceasefire Massacre
Director
Kids Don't Know What's Best
Producer
3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas
Director
Money-Driven Medicine
Producer
Jimi Hendrix and The Blues
Director
Manufacturing Miracles
Director
Inside Japan, Inc.
Director
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy
Writer
Dear Governor Cuomo
Director
The Kennedy Center Presents: Speak Truth to Power
Producer