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Alex Gibney

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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.

Born

New York City, New York, USA on 23rd October 1953

All Credits

The Daily Show Image
The Daily Show
Self
Real Time with Bill Maher Image
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
The View Image
The View
Self
Dirty Money Image
Dirty Money
Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Image
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos Image
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos
Self
Agents of Chaos Image
Agents of Chaos
Narrator
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley Image
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Self - Narrator / Interviewer
The New Yorker Presents Image
The New Yorker Presents
Narrator
Citizen K Image
Citizen K
Narrator (voice)
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine Image
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Narrator (voice)
The Dark Money Game Image
The Dark Money Game
Narrator (voice)
The Armstrong Lie Image
The Armstrong Lie
Self - Narrator
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief Image
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Narrator (voice)
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer Image
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Self - Narrator (voice)
Taxi to the Dark Side Image
Taxi to the Dark Side
Narrator (voice)
Totally Under Control Image
Totally Under Control
Narrator (voice)
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks Image
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Narrator (voice)
Catching Hell Image
Catching Hell
Self