Alex Gibney
95 movies · 48 TV shows
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Oct 23, 1953 (age 72)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Philip Alexander Gibney · 亚历克斯·吉布尼
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
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★ 7.8 Billions
2016 · TV
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★ 7.6 Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015 · Film
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★ 7.2 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005 · Film
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★ 7.4 Zero Days
2016 · Film
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★ 6.9 Taxi to the Dark Side
2008 · Film
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★ 6.6 Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
2015 · Film
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★ 7.4 The Looming Tower
2018 · TV
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★ 6.5 We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
2013 · Film
Alex Gibney: movies and TV shows
Acting (9)
- 2025
- 2021 Totally Under Control
as Narrator (voice)
- 2020
- 2019 Citizen K
as Narrator (voice)
- 2016
- 2015 Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
as Narrator (voice)
- 2008 Taxi to the Dark Side
as Narrator (voice)
Behind the camera (152)
- Upcoming Two Wolves
Producer, Director
- Upcoming The Sound of Philadelphia
Producer
- Upcoming The Hands That Held the Knives
Producer
- Upcoming
- Upcoming Mohabat
Producer
- Upcoming Return to Timbuktu
Producer
- Upcoming Untitled Luigi Mangione Documentary
Director, Executive Producer
- Upcoming Untitled Penny Lane Documentary
Executive Producer
- Upcoming
- 2026 Musk
Director, Producer, Writer
- 2026 A Statement
Executive Producer
- 2026 Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
Director, Producer
- 2026 Edward Said: Between Worlds
Executive Producer
- 2026
- 2026 Speechless
Executive Producer
- 2025
- 2025 Orwell: 2+2=5
Producer
- 2025 Bodyguard of Lies
Producer
- 2025
- 2025
- 2024 The Bibi Files
Producer
- 2024 Walk with Me
Executive Producer
- 2024 Between Goodbyes
Executive Producer
- 2024
- 2024 In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
Director, Producer
- 2024
- 2024
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023 Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
Thanks, Executive Producer
- 2022
- 2022
- 2021 137 Shots
Executive Producer
- 2021 The Forever Prisoner
Director, Producer
- 2021 Citizen Ashe
Executive Producer
- 2021 The First Wave
Executive Producer
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021 Totally Under Control
Director, Producer, Writer
- 2021
- 2020 Kingdom of Silence
Executive Producer
- 2020
- 2020
- 2020
- 2020
- 2020 Crazy, Not Insane
Director, Producer, Writer
- 2019 Citizen K
Director, Producer, Writer
- 2019 Los Últimos Frikis
Executive Producer
- 2019
- 2019
- 2019
- 2019 The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Director, Producer, Writer
- 2018 Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
Executive Producer
- 2018
- 2018
- 2018
- 2018
- 2018 The China Hustle
Executive Producer
- 2018
- 2018
- 2018 Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
Producer
- 2017
- 2017 No Stone Unturned
Director, Writer, Producer
- 2017
- 2017 Accidental Anarchist
Executive Producer
- 2017 City of Ghosts
Executive Producer
- 2017 Elián
Executive Producer
- 2017 American Jihad
Executive Producer
- 2017
- 2017 Water & Power: A California Heist
Executive Producer
- 2017 Zero Days VR
Executive Producer
- 2016
- 2016 Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley
Executive Producer
- 2016 Zero Days
Director, Writer, Producer
- 2016 Spring Broke
Executive Producer
- 2016 The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
Executive Producer
- 2016
- 2016
- 2016
- 2016 Every Move You Make
Consulting Producer
- 2015 Janis: Little Girl Blue
Producer
- 2015 Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Director, Producer, Writer
- 2015 Sunshine Superman
Executive Producer
- 2015
- 2015 Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Director, Producer, Writer
- 2015 What Happened, Miss Simone?
Thanks
- 2015 What's Motivating Hayes
Executive Producer
- 2014
- 2014 Fields of Fear
Director
- 2014 Finding Fela
Director, Producer
- 2014 Ceasefire Massacre
Director, Producer
- 2014 Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
Writer, Director, Executive Producer
- 2014
- 2014
- 2013 The Armstrong Lie
Director, Writer, Producer
- 2013 We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Director, Writer, Producer
- 2013
- 2012 Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Director, Producer, Writer
- 2012 Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream
Director, Writer
- 2012 The Last Gladiators
Director, Producer
- 2012 Venus and Serena
Executive Producer
- 2012 Speaking with Light
Director
- 2012 Dear Governor Cuomo
Director
- 2012
- 2012
- 2011 Catching Hell
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
- 2011 Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
Director, Writer, Producer
- 2011
- 2011 Biba! One Island, 879 Votes
Executive Producer
- 2010 Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Director, Writer, Producer
- 2010 Freakonomics
Director, Writer, Screenplay, Producer
- 2010 Casino Jack and the United States of Money
Director, Writer, Producer
- 2010 My Trip to Al-Qaeda
Director, Producer
- 2009 Dirty Business
Producer
- 2009 Money-Driven Medicine
Producer
- 2008 Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 2008 Taxi to the Dark Side
Director, Writer, Producer
- 2007 Mr. Untouchable
Producer
- 2007 Love Comes Lately
Executive Producer
- 2007 No End in Sight
Executive Producer
- 2006 Time Piece
Director
- 2006 The House Is Burning
Producer
- 2006 Who Killed the Electric Car?
Consulting Producer
- 2006 The Human Behavior Experiments
Director, Producer, Writer
- 2006 Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
Producer
- 2005 3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas
Director, Producer
- 2005 Behind Those Eyes
Writer, Director, Producer
- 2005 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 2004 Lightning in a Bottle
Producer
- 2003
- 2003 The Soul of a Man
Producer, Camera Operator
- 2002 The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Writer, Producer
- 2001 Jimi Hendrix and The Blues
Director, Producer
- 2001 Brooklyn Babylon
Executive Producer
- 2001
- 2000
- 2000 Soldiers in the Army of God
Producer
- 2000 The Huntress
Executive Producer
- 1999
- 1999
- 1998 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy
Writer, Director, Producer
- 1998
- 1997
- 1997
- 1992 Inside Japan, Inc.
Director
- 1992
- 1988 Manufacturing Miracles
Director, Producer
- 1988 Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
Director, Producer, Writer
- 1983 The Golden Seal
Associate Editor
- 1980 The Ruling Classroom
Director, Producer, Editor, Sound
- 1980 Flipper
Director, Writer
Talk shows and appearances (5)
- 2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
1 episode
- 2003 Real Time with Bill Maher
1 episode
- 1997 The View
1 episode
- 1996 The Daily Show
2 episodes
- 1953 The Oscars
1 episode