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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.
As director
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
The Forever Prisoner
Totally Under Control
Crazy, Not Insane
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Citizen K
No Stone Unturned
Zero Days
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Finding Fela
Ceasefire Massacre
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
Fields of Fear
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
The Armstrong Lie
The Last Gladiators
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream
Speaking with Light
Dear Governor Cuomo
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
Catching Hell
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Freakonomics
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
As actor
Totally Under Control
Citizen K
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
The Armstrong Lie
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Catching Hell
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Taxi to the Dark Side