Alex Gibney
Producer, Director, Writer, Actor
23 October 1953 (72 years)
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.
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.
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| 2025 | The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | Octopus! · as Executive Producer |
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| 2024 | God Save Texas · as Executive Producer |
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| 2023 | Painkiller · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | The Ruling Class · as Executive Producer |
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| 2023 | Money Shot: The Pornhub Story · as Executive Producer |
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| 2022 | How to Change Your Mind · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | 137 Shots · as Executive Producer |
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| 2021 | Citizen Ashe · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | The First Wave · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | The Line · as Executive Producer |
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| 2021 | Tiger · as Executive Producer |
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| 2020 | Kingdom of Silence · as Executive Producer |
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| 2020 | Laurel Canyon · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | The Innocence Files · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | How to Fix a Drug Scandal · as Executive Producer |
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| 2019 | Los Últimos Frikis · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Why We Hate · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | The Family (2019) · as Executive Producer |
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| 2018 | Divide and Conquer · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Enemies: The President, Justice & The FBI · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | The Clinton Affair · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Salt Fat Acid Heat · as Executive Producer |
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| 2018 | Enhanced · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | The Looming Tower · as Executive Producer |
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| 2017 | Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | The China Hustle · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
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| 2017 | Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | The Last Shot · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Accidental Anarchist · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | City of Ghosts · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Elián · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Parched · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | American Jihad · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Water & Power: A California Heist · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | The Killing Season (2016) · as Executive Producer |
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| 2016 | Spring Broke · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Cooked · as Executive Producer |
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| 2015 | Sinatra: All or Nothing at All · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | The New Yorker Presents · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Sunshine Superman · as Executive Producer |
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| 2014 | Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown · as Executive Producer |
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| 2014 | Death Row Stories · as Executive Producer |
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| 2012 | Venus and Serena · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
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| 2011 | Catching Hell · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Client 9On Plex |
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| 2007 | Love Comes Lately · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | No End in Sight · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 2007 | Taxi to the Dark SideOn Plex |
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| 2006 | Who Killed the Electric Car? · as Consulting Producer |
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| 2001 | Brooklyn Babylon · as Executive Producer |
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| 2000 | The Huntress · as Executive Producer |
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| 1997 | The Fifties · as Executive Producer |
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| 2010 | Client 9On Plex |
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| 2008 | Gonzo · as Screenplay |
| 2007 | Taxi to the Dark SideOn Plex |
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| 2005 | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room · as Screenplay |
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| 2025 | The Dark Money Game · as Narrator (voice) |
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| 2020 | Totally Under Control · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | Agents of Chaos · as Narrator |
| 2019 | Citizen K · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | Parched · as Narrator |
| 2015 | Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief · as Narrator (voice)On Plex |
| 2015 | The New Yorker Presents · as Narrator |
| 2013 | We Steal Secrets · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2012 | Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream · as Narrator |
| 2007 | Taxi to the Dark Side · as Narrator (voice)On Plex |
| 2018 | The Looming Tower · as Story |
| 1983 | The Golden Seal · as Associate Editor |
| 1972 | Bill Moyers Journal · as Producer For Money-Driven Medicine |