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Alex Gibney
Producer, Director, Writer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn October 23, 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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Alex Gibney Filmography
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| 2025 | |
| 2025 | The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | Octopus! (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | The Dark Money Game (TV Series) |
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| 2024 | Wise Guy David Chase and The Sopranos (TV Series) |
| 2024 | In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon (TV Series) |
| 2024 | God Save Texas (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
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| 2023 | Painkiller (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | The Ruling Class (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker (TV Series) |
| 2023 | Money Shot: The Pornhub Story · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Unveiled: Surviving La Luz Del Mundo (TV Series) |
| 2022 | How to Change Your Mind (TV Series) · 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 (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | The Crime of the Century (TV Series) |
| 2021 | Tiger (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
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| 2020 | Kingdom of Silence · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Agents of Chaos (TV Series) |
| 2020 | Laurel Canyon (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | The Innocence Files (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | How to Fix a Drug Scandal (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | Los Últimos Frikis · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Why We Hate (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | The Family (2019) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
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| 2018 | Divide and Conquer · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Enemies: The President, Justice & The FBI (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | The Clinton Affair (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Salt Fat Acid Heat (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | |
| 2018 | The Looming Tower (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Dirty Money (2018) (TV Series) |
| 2017 | Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | The China Hustle · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | The Last Shot (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Accidental Anarchist · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | City of Ghosts · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Elián · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Parched (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | American Jihad · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Water & Power: A California Heist · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | The Killing Season (2016) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | |
| 2016 | Spring Broke · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Cooked (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | |
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| 2015 | |
| 2015 | Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | The New Yorker Presents (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Sunshine Superman · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | |
| 2014 | |
| 2014 | Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | 30 for 30: Soccer Stories (TV Series) |
| 2014 | Death Row Stories (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | |
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| 2013 | History of the Eagles (TV Series) |
| 2012 | |
| 2012 | Venus and Serena · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | |
| 2011 | |
| 2011 | Catching Hell · as Executive Producer |
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| 2007 | |
| 2007 | Love Comes Lately · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | No End in Sight · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | Who Killed the Electric Car? · as Consulting Producer |
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| 2003 | The Blues (TV Series) |
| 2003 | |
| 2002 | |
| 2001 | Brooklyn Babylon · as Executive Producer |
| 2001 | Uppdrag granskning (TV Series) |
| 2000 | |
| 2000 | |
| 2000 | The Huntress (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1999 | Independent Lens (TV Series) |
| 1998 | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (TV Series) |
| 1997 | The Fifties (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1988 |
| 2024 | Wise Guy David Chase and The Sopranos (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2024 | The Weekend with Alicia Menendez, Symone Sanders-Townsend, and Michael Steele (2024) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2020 | Crazy, Not Insane · as Self - Filmmaker |
| 2020 | Velshi (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2019 | The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley · as Self - Narrator / Interviewer |
| 2018 | Dirty Money (2018) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2016 | |
| 2015 | Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2015 | The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2015 | Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | 30 for 30: Soccer Stories (TV Series) · as Self - Narrator |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2013 | The Armstrong Lie · as Self - Narrator |
| 2013 | 2013 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards · as Self - Winner & Nominee |
| 2013 | New Day (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2012 | Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God · as Self - Narrator |
| 2012 | CBS Mornings (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | 50 Documentaries to See Before You Die (TV Series) · as Self - 'taxi To The Dark Side' Director |
| 2011 | Catching Hell · as Self |
| 2010 | Client 9 · as Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | Overheard (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2008 | The 80th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2007 | Morning Joe (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2006 | Doc Talk (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2006 | 2006 Independent Spirit Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2004 | George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | At the Movies (2004) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | Tavis Smiley (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | Real Time with Bill Maher (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | This Week (2003) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | Democracy Now! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1999 | Kulturjournal (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1997 | The View (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | The Daily Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1991 | Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1981 | Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1979 | CBS Sunday Morning With Jane Pauley (TV Series) · as Self - Documentary Filmmaker |
| 1952 | Today (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2025 | The Dark Money Game (TV Series) |
| 2023 | Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker (TV Series) |
| 2022 | How to Change Your Mind (TV Series) |
| 2021 | The Crime of the Century (TV Series) |
| 2020 | |
| 2020 | |
| 2020 | Agents of Chaos (TV Series) |
| 2019 | Citizen K · as Screenplay |
| 2019 | Why We Hate (TV Series) |
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| 2017 | |
| 2016 | |
| 2015 | |
| 2015 | |
| 2015 | The New Yorker Presents (TV Series) |
| 2014 | |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | |
| 2012 | Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God · as Screenplay |
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| 2011 | |
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| 2008 | Gonzo · as Screenplay |
| 2007 | |
| 2006 | |
| 2005 | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room · as Screenplay |
| 2002 | |
| 2001 | Uppdrag granskning (TV Series) |
| 1999 | Independent Lens (TV Series) |
| 1998 | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (TV Series) |
| 1997 | The Fifties (TV Series) |
| 1988 |
| 2025 | The Dark Money Game (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | Totally Under Control · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | Agents of Chaos (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2019 | Citizen K · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | Parched (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2015 | Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | The New Yorker Presents (TV Series) · 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) |
| 2018 | The Looming Tower (TV Series) · as Story |
| 1983 | The Golden Seal · as Associate Editor |
| 1972 | Bill Moyers Journal (TV Series) · as Producer For Money-Driven Medicine |