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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.

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

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