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.
Acting
Movie
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
as Narrator (voice)
2015
TV
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
Movie
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
as Self - Narrator / Interviewer
2019
Movie
Taxi to the Dark Side
as Narrator (voice)
2008
Movie
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
as Narrator (voice)
2015
TV
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2003
TV
Dirty Money
as Self
2018
Movie
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
as Narrator (voice)
2013
Movie
The Armstrong Lie
as Self - Narrator
2013
TV
The View
as Self
1997
TV
The Oscars
as Self
1953
Movie
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2012
Movie
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2010
TV
Agents of Chaos
as Narrator
2020
TV
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos
as Self
2024
Movie
Citizen K
as Narrator (voice)
2019
Movie
Catching Hell
as Self
2011
Movie
Totally Under Control
as Narrator (voice)
2021
TV
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
TV
The New Yorker Presents
as Narrator
2016
TV
The Dark Money Game
as Narrator (voice)
2025
Crew
TV
Billions
Director
2016
Movie
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Director
2015
Movie
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Thanks
2015
Movie
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
Thanks
2023
Movie
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Director
2019
Movie
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Director
2005
Movie
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
Producer
2018
Movie
Taxi to the Dark Side
Director
2008
Movie
Zero Days
Director
2016
Movie
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Director
2015
TV
Painkiller
Executive Producer
2023
Movie
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Consulting Producer
2006