Alex Gibney
Directing
Born October 23, 1953 · New York City, New York, USA
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.
Directed (46)
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
2026
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
2024
The Forever Prisoner
2021
Totally Under Control
2021
Crazy, Not Insane
2020
Citizen K
2019
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
2019
No Stone Unturned
2017
Zero Days
2016
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
2015
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015
Fields of Fear
2014
Finding Fela
2014
Ceasefire Massacre
2014
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
2014
The Armstrong Lie
2013
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
2013
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream
2012
The Last Gladiators
2012
Speaking with Light
2012
Dear Governor Cuomo
2012
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012
Catching Hell
2011
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
2011
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
2010
Freakonomics
2010
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
2010
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
2010
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
2008
Taxi to the Dark Side
2008
Time Piece
2006
The Human Behavior Experiments
2006
3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas
2005
Behind Those Eyes
2005
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005
Jimi Hendrix and The Blues
2001
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy
1998
Inside Japan, Inc.
1992
Manufacturing Miracles
1988
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
1988
The Ruling Classroom
1980
Flipper
1980
Two Wolves
Musk
Untitled Luigi Mangione Documentary
Acting (11)
Totally Under Control
2021
Citizen K
2019
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
2019
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
2015
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015
The Armstrong Lie
2013
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
2013
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
Catching Hell
2011
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
2010
Taxi to the Dark Side
2008