Alex Gibney
male
Born on October 23, 1953 (72 years old)
From 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.
Cast Credits
- 2025
- 2024
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2016
- 2015
- 2013
- 2011
- 2010
- 2008
- 2003
- 1997
- 1996
Crew Credits
- 2021
The First Wave
as
Executive Producer
2021
137 Shots
as
Executive Producer
2021
The Forever Prisoner
as
Director
2021
The Forever Prisoner
as
Producer
2021
Totally Under Control
as
Writer
2021
Totally Under Control
as
Producer
2021
Totally Under Control
as
Director
2021
Citizen Ashe
as
Executive Producer
2021
Tiger
as
Executive Producer
2021
The Crime of the Century
as
Producer
2021
The Crime of the Century
as
Director
2021
The Line
as
Executive Producer
2021
The Crime of the Century
as
Writer
2021
The Crime of the Century
as
Creator
2021
- 2016
Zero Days
as
Director
2016
Zero Days
as
Writer
2016
Zero Days
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Producer
2016
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Every Move You Make
as
Consulting Producer
2016
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Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley
as
Executive Producer
2016
Spring Broke
as
Executive Producer
2016
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
as
Executive Producer
2016
Cooked
as
Director
2016
Billions
as
Director
2016
The New Yorker Presents
as
Executive Producer
2016
The Killing Season
as
Executive Producer
2016
Cooked
as
Executive Producer
2016
The New Yorker Presents
as
Director
2016
The New Yorker Presents
as
Writer
2016
Cooked
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Creator
2016
The New Yorker Presents
as
Creator
2016
- 2015
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
as
Producer
2015
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
as
Director
2015
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
as
Director
2015
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
as
Writer
2015
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
as
Producer
2015
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
as
Writer
2015
Janis: Little Girl Blue
as
Producer
2015
What Happened, Miss Simone?
as
Thanks
2015
What's Motivating Hayes
as
Executive Producer
2015
Sunshine Superman
as
Executive Producer
2015
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All
as
Director
2015
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All
as
Executive Producer
2015
- 2014
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
as
Writer
2014
Finding Fela
as
Producer
2014
Finding Fela
as
Director
2014
Ceasefire Massacre
as
Director
2014
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
as
Director
2014
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Fields of Fear
as
Director
2014
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
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Executive Producer
2014
Ceasefire Massacre
as
Producer
2014
Death Row Stories
as
Executive Producer
2014
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Edge of Eighteen
as
Executive Producer
2014
30 for 30: Soccer Stories
as
Producer
2014
30 for 30: Soccer Stories
as
Director
2014
- 2013
- 2012
The Last Gladiators
as
Director
2012
Venus and Serena
as
Executive Producer
2012
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
as
Screenplay
2012
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
as
Director
2012
Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream
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Director
2012
Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream
as
Writer
2012
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
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Producer
2012
The Last Gladiators
as
Producer
2012
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Speaking with Light
as
Director
2012
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Dear Governor Cuomo
as
Director
2012
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
as
Director
2012
30 for 30 Shorts
as
Director
2012
- 2011
Catching Hell
as
Director
2011
Catching Hell
as
Writer
2011
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
as
Writer
2011
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
as
Director
2011
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
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Producer
2011
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Biba! One Island, 879 Votes
as
Executive Producer
2011
Catching Hell
as
Executive Producer
2011
30 for 30 - ESPN Films
as
Director
2011
- 2010
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
as
Director
2010
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
as
Writer
2010
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
as
Director
2010
Freakonomics
as
Writer
2010
Freakonomics
as
Director
2010
Freakonomics
as
Screenplay
2010
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
as
Producer
2010
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
as
Director
2010
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
as
Producer
2010
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
as
Producer
2010
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
as
Writer
2010
Freakonomics
as
Producer
2010
- 2009
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
as
Director
2005
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
as
Screenplay
2005
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Behind Those Eyes
as
Writer
2005
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Behind Those Eyes
as
Director
2005
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Behind Those Eyes
as
Producer
2005
3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas
as
Director
2005
3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas
as
Producer
2005
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
as
Producer
2005
- 2003
- 2000
- 1988
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Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
as
Director
1988
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Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
as
Producer
1988
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Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
as
Writer
1988
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Manufacturing Miracles
as
Director
1988
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Manufacturing Miracles
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Producer
1988
- 1980
- 2024
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
as
Producer
2024
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
as
Director
2024
Between Goodbyes
as
Executive Producer
2024
The Bibi Files
as
Producer
2024
Walk with Me
as
Executive Producer
2024
God Save Texas
as
Executive Producer
2024
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
as
Director
2024
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
as
Producer
2024
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos
as
Producer
2024
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos
as
Director
2024
- 2023
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
as
Thanks
2023
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
as
Executive Producer
2023
Painkiller
as
Executive Producer
2023
Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker
as
Producer
2023
The Ruling Class
as
Executive Producer
2023
Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker
as
Director
2023
Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker
as
Writer
2023
- 2019
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
as
Director
2019
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
as
Producer
2019
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
as
Writer
2019
Citizen K
as
Director
2019
Citizen K
as
Producer
2019
Citizen K
as
Screenplay
2019
Los Últimos Frikis
as
Executive Producer
2019
Why We Hate
as
Executive Producer
2019
Why We Hate
as
Writer
2019
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
as
Executive Producer
2019
The Family
as
Executive Producer
2019
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
as
Creator
2019
- 2018
The China Hustle
as
Executive Producer
2018
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
as
Producer
2018
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
as
Executive Producer
2018
The Looming Tower
as
Executive Producer
2018
The Looming Tower
as
Director
2018
Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI
as
Director
2018
Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI
as
Executive Producer
2018
The Looming Tower
as
Story
2018
Dirty Money
as
Executive Producer
2018
Dirty Money
as
Producer
2018
The Clinton Affair
as
Executive Producer
2018
Salt Fat Acid Heat
as
Executive Producer
2018
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Enhanced
as
Executive Producer
2018
Dirty Money
as
Director
2018
The Looming Tower
as
Creator
2018
- 2017
Elián
as
Executive Producer
2017
Accidental Anarchist
as
Executive Producer
2017
No Stone Unturned
as
Director
2017
No Stone Unturned
as
Writer
2017
No Stone Unturned
as
Producer
2017
American Jihad
as
Executive Producer
2017
Water & Power: A California Heist
as
Executive Producer
2017
City of Ghosts
as
Executive Producer
2017
Zero Days VR
as
Executive Producer
2017
Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge
as
Executive Producer
2017
Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge
as
Director
2017
The Last Shot
as
Executive Producer
2017
Parched
as
Executive Producer
2017
- 2025
- 2020
Crazy, Not Insane
as
Director
2020
Crazy, Not Insane
as
Producer
2020
Kingdom of Silence
as
Executive Producer
2020
Crazy, Not Insane
as
Writer
2020
Laurel Canyon
as
Executive Producer
2020
The Innocence Files
as
Executive Producer
2020
The Innocence Files
as
Director
2020
Agents of Chaos
as
Director
2020
Agents of Chaos
as
Producer
2020
How to Fix a Drug Scandal
as
Executive Producer
2020
Agents of Chaos
as
Writer
2020
The Innocence Files
as
Creator
2020
Agents of Chaos
as
Creator
2020
- 2002
- 2004
- 2001
- 1998
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy
as
Writer
1998
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy
as
Director
1998
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy
as
Producer
1998
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
as
Producer
1998
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
as
Writer
1998
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
as
Director
1998
- 1992
- 1983
- 2022
- 1999
Independent Lens
as
Director
1999
Independent Lens
as
Writer
1999
Independent Lens
as
Producer
1999
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The Sexual Century: The Look of Love
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Producer
1999
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The Sexual Century: The Look of Love
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Director
1999
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The Sexual Century: The Look of Love
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Writer
1999
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The Sexual Century: The Look of Love
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Creator
1999
- 1997
