Alex Gibney

Known For: Directing
Born: October 23, 1953
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Alex Gibney

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 o…

Filmography

Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie

2026 · Director, Producer

Connect with Jacob Soboroff

2026 · Executive Producer

Speechless

2026 · Executive Producer

Mr. Scorsese

2025 · Thanks

Orwell: 2+2=5

2025 · Producer

Bodyguard of Lies

2025 · Producer

The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster

2025 · Executive Producer

The Dark Money Game

2025 · Narrator (voice), Director, Producer, Writer, Creator

The Bibi Files

2024 · Producer

Walk with Me

2024 · Executive Producer

Between Goodbyes

2024 · Executive Producer

Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos

2024 · Self, Producer, Director

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon

2024 · Producer, Director

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon

2024 · Director, Producer

God Save Texas

2024 · Executive Producer

Painkiller

2023 · Executive Producer

The Ruling Class

2023 · Executive Producer

Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker

2023 · Producer, Director, Writer

Money Shot: The Pornhub Story

2023 · Thanks, Executive Producer

Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo

2022 · Producer

How to Change Your Mind

2022 · Executive Producer, Writer

137 Shots

2021 · Executive Producer

The Forever Prisoner

2021 · Director, Producer

Citizen Ashe

2021 · Executive Producer

The First Wave

2021 · Executive Producer

The Line

2021 · Executive Producer

The Crime of the Century

2021 · Director, Producer, Writer, Creator

Totally Under Control

2021 · Narrator (voice), Producer, Director, Writer

Tiger

2021 · Executive Producer

Kingdom of Silence

2020 · Executive Producer

Agents of Chaos

2020 · Narrator, Director, Producer, Writer, Creator

Laurel Canyon

2020 · Executive Producer

The Innocence Files

2020 · Executive Producer, Director, Creator

How to Fix a Drug Scandal

2020 · Executive Producer

Crazy, Not Insane

2020 · Director, Producer, Writer

Citizen K

2019 · Narrator (voice), Director, Producer, Writer

Los Últimos Frikis

2019 · Executive Producer

Why We Hate

2019 · Executive Producer, Writer

Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America

2019 · Executive Producer, Creator

The Family

2019 · Executive Producer

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

2019 · Self - Narrator / Interviewer, Director, Producer, Writer

Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes

2018 · Executive Producer

Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI

2018 · Director, Executive Producer

The Clinton Affair

2018 · Executive Producer

Salt Fat Acid Heat

2018 · Executive Producer

Enhanced

2018 · Executive Producer

The China Hustle

2018 · Executive Producer

The Looming Tower

2018 · Executive Producer, Director, Story, Creator

Dirty Money

2018 · Self, Executive Producer, Director

Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

2018 · Producer

Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge

2017 · Director, Executive Producer

No Stone Unturned

2017 · Director, Writer, Producer

The Last Shot

2017 · Executive Producer

Accidental Anarchist

2017 · Executive Producer

City of Ghosts

2017 · Executive Producer

Elián

2017 · Executive Producer

American Jihad

2017 · Executive Producer

Parched

2017 · Executive Producer

Water & Power: A California Heist

2017 · Executive Producer

Zero Days VR

2017 · Executive Producer

The Killing Season

2016 · Executive Producer

Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley

Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley

2016 · Executive Producer

Zero Days

2016 · Director, Writer, Producer

Spring Broke

2016 · Executive Producer

The 4%: Film's Gender Problem

2016 · Executive Producer

Cooked

2016 · Director, Executive Producer, Creator

The New Yorker Presents

2016 · Narrator, Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Creator

Billions

2016 · Director

Every Move You Make

Every Move You Make

2016 · Consulting Producer

Janis: Little Girl Blue

2015 · Producer

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

2015 · Narrator (voice), Director, Producer, Writer

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

2015 · Self

Sunshine Superman

2015 · Executive Producer

Sinatra: All or Nothing at All

2015 · Director, Executive Producer

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

2015 · Narrator (voice), Director, Producer, Writer

What Happened, Miss Simone?

2015 · Thanks

What's Motivating Hayes

2015 · Executive Producer

Edge of Eighteen

Edge of Eighteen

2014 · Executive Producer

Fields of Fear

2014 · Director

Finding Fela

2014 · Producer, Director

Ceasefire Massacre

2014 · Director, Producer

Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown

2014 · Writer, Director, Executive Producer

30 for 30: Soccer Stories

2014 · Producer, Director

Death Row Stories

2014 · Executive Producer

The Armstrong Lie

2013 · Self - Narrator, Director, Writer, Producer

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

2013 · Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer

History of the Eagles

2013 · Producer

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

2012 · Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Producer, Writer

Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream

2012 · Director, Writer

The Last Gladiators

2012 · Director, Producer

Venus and Serena

2012 · Executive Producer

Speaking with Light

Speaking with Light

2012 · Director

Dear Governor Cuomo

Dear Governor Cuomo

2012 · Director

Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas

2012 · Director

30 for 30 Shorts

2012 · Director

Catching Hell

2011 · Self, Writer, Director, Executive Producer

Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place

2011 · Writer, Director, Producer

30 for 30 - ESPN Films

2011 · Director

Biba! One Island, 879 Votes

Biba! One Island, 879 Votes

2011 · Executive Producer

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

2010 · Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer

Freakonomics

2010 · Director, Writer, Screenplay, Producer

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

2010 · Director, Writer, Producer

My Trip to Al-Qaeda

2010 · Producer, Director

Dirty Business

2009 · Producer

Money-Driven Medicine

2009 · Producer

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

2008 · Director, Screenplay, Producer

Taxi to the Dark Side

2008 · Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer

Mr. Untouchable

2007 · Producer

Love Comes Lately

2007 · Executive Producer

No End in Sight

2007 · Executive Producer

Time Piece

2006 · Director

The House Is Burning

2006 · Producer

Who Killed the Electric Car?

2006 · Consulting Producer

The Human Behavior Experiments

2006 · Director, Producer, Writer

Herbie Hancock: Possibilities

2006 · Producer

3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas

2005 · Director, Producer

Behind Those Eyes

Behind Those Eyes

2005 · Writer, Director, Producer

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

2005 · Screenplay, Director, Producer

Lightning in a Bottle

2004 · Producer

The Blues

2003 · Producer

The Soul of a Man

2003 · Producer, Camera Operator

Real Time with Bill Maher

2003 · Self

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

2002 · Writer, Producer

Jimi Hendrix and The Blues

Jimi Hendrix and The Blues

2001 · Director, Producer

Brooklyn Babylon

2001 · Executive Producer

Uppdrag granskning

2001 · Writer, Director, Producer

The Kennedy Center Presents: Speak Truth to Power

The Kennedy Center Presents: Speak Truth to Power

2000 · Producer

Soldiers in the Army of God

2000 · Producer

The Huntress

2000 · Executive Producer

The Sexual Century: The Look of Love

The Sexual Century: The Look of Love

1999 · Producer, Director, Writer, Creator

Independent Lens

1999 · Director, Writer, Producer

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy

1998 · Writer, Director, Producer

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

1998 · Producer, Writer, Director

The Fifties

1997 · Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Creator

Storyville

1997 · Director

The View

1997 · Self

The Daily Show

1996 · Self

Inside Japan, Inc.

Inside Japan, Inc.

1992 · Director

The Pacific Century

The Pacific Century

1992 · Writer, Executive Producer, Creator

Manufacturing Miracles

Manufacturing Miracles

1988 · Director, Producer

Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America

Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America

1988 · Director, Writer, Producer

The Golden Seal

1983 · Associate Editor

The Ruling Classroom

The Ruling Classroom

1980 · Director, Producer, Editor, Sound

Flipper

1980 · Director, Writer

The Oscars

1953 · Self

Two Wolves

— · Producer, Director

The Sound of Philadelphia

The Sound of Philadelphia

— · Producer

Musk

— · Director, Producer

The Hands That Held the Knives

The Hands That Held the Knives

— · Producer

Untitled Barbra Streisand Documentary

Untitled Barbra Streisand Documentary

— · Producer

Kids Don't Know What's Best

Kids Don't Know What's Best

— · Producer

Return to Timbuktu

Return to Timbuktu

— · Producer

Untitled Luigi Mangione Documentary

Untitled Luigi Mangione Documentary

— · Director, Executive Producer

The Statement

— · Executive Producer

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