Alex Gibney

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1953-10-23 (71 years old)

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As Philip Alexander Gibney, 亚历克斯·吉布尼 , Алекс Ґібні, Алекс Гибни

Alex Gibney

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.

Known For

Director

Knife

as Director

Musk

as Director

Two Wolves

as Director

2021
2021
2021
2020
Crazy, Not Insane

as Director

2020
2020
Agents of Chaos

as Director

2019
Citizen K

as Director

2018
Dirty Money

as Director

2018
The Looming Tower

as Director

2017
No Stone Unturned

as Director

2016
Zero Days

as Director

2016
Cooked

as Director

2016
Billions

as Director

2016
2014
Finding Fela

as Director

2014
Ceasefire Massacre

as Director

2014
Fields of Fear

as Director

2013
The Armstrong Lie

as Director

2012
2012
2012
2012
30 for 30 Shorts

as Director

2011
Catching Hell

as Director

2011
Magic Trip

as Director

2011
2010
Freakonomics

as Director

2010
2008
2006
Time Piece

as Director

2005
Behind Those Eyes

as Director

2001
Uppdrag granskning

as Director

1999
Independent Lens

as Director

1997
Storyville

as Director

1997
The Fifties

as Director

1992
1988
1980
1980
Flipper

as Director

Producer

Untitled Saeid Mollaei TV Project

as Executive Producer

Return to Timbuktu

as Producer

Knife

as Producer

Orwell

as Producer

Musk

as Producer

Two Wolves

as Producer

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

2023
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story

as Executive Producer

2023
Painkiller

as Executive Producer

2023
The Ruling Class

as Executive Producer

2022
How to Change Your Mind

as Executive Producer

2021
The First Wave

as Executive Producer

2021
137 Shots

as Executive Producer

2021
2021
2021
Citizen Ashe

as Executive Producer

2021
Tiger

as Executive Producer

2021
2021
The Line

as Executive Producer

2020
Crazy, Not Insane

as Producer

2020
Kingdom of Silence

as Executive Producer

2020
Laurel Canyon

as Executive Producer

2020
The Innocence Files

as Executive Producer

2020
Agents of Chaos

as Producer

2020
How to Fix a Drug Scandal

as Executive Producer

2019
Citizen K

as Producer

2019
Los Últimos Frikis

as Executive Producer

2019
Why We Hate

as Executive Producer

2019
2019
The Family

as Executive Producer

2018
The China Hustle

as Executive Producer

2018
The Looming Tower

as Executive Producer

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
Enhanced

as Executive Producer

2017
Elián

as Executive Producer

2017
Accidental Anarchist

as Executive Producer

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
2017
The Last Shot

as Executive Producer

2017
Parched

as Executive Producer

2016
Zero Days

as Producer

2016
Every Move You Make

as Consulting Producer

2016
Spring Broke

as Executive Producer

2016
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem

as Executive Producer

2016
The New Yorker Presents

as Executive Producer

2016
The Killing Season

as Executive Producer

2016
Cooked

as Executive Producer

2015
2015
What's Motivating Hayes

as Executive Producer

2015
Sunshine Superman

as Executive Producer

2015
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All

as Executive Producer

2014
Finding Fela

as Producer

2014
2014
Ceasefire Massacre

as Producer

2014
Death Row Stories

as Executive Producer

2014
Edge of Eighteen

as Executive Producer

2013
The Armstrong Lie

as Producer

2013
2012
Venus and Serena

as Executive Producer

2012
2011
Magic Trip

as Producer

2011
Biba! One Island, 879 Votes

as Executive Producer

2011
Catching Hell

as Executive Producer

2010
2010
Freakonomics

as Producer

2009
Dirty Business

as Producer

2009
2008
2007
Mr. Untouchable

as Producer

2007
Love Comes Lately

as Executive Producer

2007
No End in Sight

as Executive Producer

2006
2006
Who Killed the Electric Car?

as Consulting Producer

2005
Behind Those Eyes

as Producer

2004
2003
The Soul of a Man

as Producer

2003
The Blues

as Producer

2001
Brooklyn Babylon

as Executive Producer

2001
Uppdrag granskning

as Producer

2000
The Huntress

as Executive Producer

1999
Independent Lens

as Producer

1997
The Fifties

as Executive Producer

1992
The Pacific Century

as Executive Producer

1988
1980

Writer

2021
2020
2020
Agents of Chaos

as Writer

2019
Citizen K

as Screenplay

2019
Why We Hate

as Writer

2018
2017
2016
Zero Days

as Writer

2013
2011
Catching Hell

as Writer

2011
Magic Trip

as Writer

2010
Freakonomics

as Writer

2010
Freakonomics

as Screenplay

2008
2005
2001
1999
1997
The Fifties

as Writer

1992
1980
Flipper

as Writer

Actor

2021
Totally Under Control

as Narrator (voice)

2020
Agents of Chaos

as Narrator

2019
Citizen K

as Narrator (voice)

2019
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

as Self - Narrator / Interviewer

2018
Dirty Money

as Self

2016
2015
2013
The Armstrong Lie

as Self- Narrator

2011
2010
2008
Taxi to the Dark Side

as Narrator (voice)

1997
The View

as Self

1996

Creator

2020
2020
Agents of Chaos

as Creator

2018
2016
Cooked

as Creator

1997
The Fifties

as Creator

1992

Editor

1983
The Golden Seal

as Associate Editor

1980

Sound

Camera

2003
The Soul of a Man

as Camera Operator