Alex Gibney

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 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.

Production

2025

2025

2025

2025

2024

2024

Between Goodbyes

Executive Producer

2024

2024

2024

2024

God Save Texas

Executive Producer

2023

Painkiller

Executive Producer

2023

The Ruling Class

Executive Producer

2023

2023

2022

2022

How to Change Your Mind

Executive Producer

2021

137 Shots

Executive Producer

2021

Citizen Ashe

Executive Producer

2021

2021

The First Wave

Executive Producer

2021

The Line

Executive Producer

2021

2021

2021

Tiger

Executive Producer

2020

Kingdom of Silence

Executive Producer

2020

2020

Laurel Canyon

Executive Producer

2020

The Innocence Files

Executive Producer

2020

How to Fix a Drug Scandal

Executive Producer

2020

2019

Citizen K

Producer

2019

2019

Why We Hate

Executive Producer

2019

The Family

Executive Producer

2019

2018

2018

The Clinton Affair

Executive Producer

2018

Salt Fat Acid Heat

Executive Producer

2018

The China Hustle

Executive Producer

2018

The Looming Tower

Executive Producer

2018

Dirty Money

Executive Producer

2018

Dirty Money

Producer

2018

2017

2017

2017

The Last Shot

Executive Producer

2017

Accidental Anarchist

Executive Producer

2017

City of Ghosts

Executive Producer

2017

2016

The Killing Season

Executive Producer

2016

Zero Days

Producer

2016

Cooked

Executive Producer

2016

The New Yorker Presents

Executive Producer

2016

Every Move You Make

Consulting Producer

2015

2015

2015

Sunshine Superman

Executive Producer

2015

2015

2014

Finding Fela

Producer

2014

2014

2014

2014

Death Row Stories

Executive Producer

2013

2013

2013

2012

2012

2012

Venus and Serena

Executive Producer

2011

Catching Hell

Executive Producer

2011

2010

2010

Freakonomics

Producer

2010

2010

2009

2009

2008

2008

2007

2007

No End in Sight

Executive Producer

2006

2006

Who Killed the Electric Car?

Consulting Producer

2006

2006

2005

2005

2004

2003

The Blues

Producer

2002

2001

2001

Brooklyn Babylon

Executive Producer

2001

1999

1998

1992

The Pacific Century

Executive Producer

Directing

2025

2024

2024

2024

2023

2021

2021

2021

2020

2020

2020

2019

Citizen K

Director

2019

2018

2018

Dirty Money

Director

2017

2017

2016

Zero Days

Director

2016

Cooked

Director

2016

2016

Billions

Director

2015

2015

2015

2014

2014

Finding Fela

Director

2014

2014

2014

2013

2013

2012

2012

2012

2011

2011

2011

2010

2010

Freakonomics

Director

2010

2010

2008

2008

2006

2005

2005

2001

2001

1999

1998

1997

Storyville

Director

Writing

Acting

Creator

Crew

Editing

1983

The Golden Seal

Associate Editor

Infos

Full Name
Alex Gibney
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
10/23/1953
Website
https://www.jigsawprods.com/team/
Also Known As

Philip Alexander Gibney

亚历克斯·吉布尼