As Director
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
2024
6.5
Alex Gibney
Acting
Birth Date
October 23, 1953
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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.
Complete Filmography
As Director
The Forever Prisoner
2021
7.9
As Actor, As Director, As Writer
Totally Under Control
2021
6.7
As Director, As Writer
Crazy, Not Insane
2020
7.3
As Director, As Writer
Citizen K
2019
6.5
As Actor, As Director, As Writer
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
2019
7.1
As Actor, As Director, As Writer
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015
7.6
As Director, As Writer
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
2014
6.9
As Director, As Writer
The Armstrong Lie
2013
6.9
As Actor, As Director, As Writer
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
2013
6.5
As Director, As Writer
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
7.3
As Actor, As Director, As Writer
Catching Hell
2011
6.9
As Actor, As Director, As Writer
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
2010
6.4
As Director, As Writer
Freakonomics
2010
6.1
As Director, As Writer
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
2010
7.1
As Director
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
2010
5.5
As Director, As Writer
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
2008
6.9
As Actor, As Director, As Writer
Taxi to the Dark Side
2008
7.0
As Director, As Writer
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005
7.2
As Writer
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002
6.9