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Alex Gibney
New York City, New York, USA
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…
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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.
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2026
Musk
Movie Director
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2026
A Statement
Movie Executive Producer
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2026
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
Movie Director
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2026
Edward Said: Between Worlds
Movie Executive Producer
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2026
Connect with Jacob Soboroff
TV show Executive Producer
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2026
Speechless
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Mr. Scorsese
TV show Thanks
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2025
Orwell: 2+2=5
Movie Producer
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2025
Bodyguard of Lies
Movie Producer
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2025
The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster
TV show Executive Producer
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2025
The Dark Money Game
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2024
The Bibi Files
Movie Producer
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2024
Walk with Me
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Between Goodbyes
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos
TV show Self
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2024
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
Movie Producer
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2024
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
TV show Director
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2024
God Save Texas
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2023
Painkiller
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2023
The Ruling Class
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2023
Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker
TV show Producer
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2023
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
Movie Thanks
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2022
Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo
TV show Producer
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2022
How to Change Your Mind
TV show Executive Producer
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2021
137 Shots
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
Citizen Ashe
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
The Forever Prisoner
Movie Director
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2021
The First Wave
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
The Line
TV show Executive Producer
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2021
The Crime of the Century
TV show Producer
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2021
Totally Under Control
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2021
Tiger
TV show Executive Producer
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2020
Kingdom of Silence
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
Agents of Chaos
TV show Narrator
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2020
Laurel Canyon
TV show Executive Producer
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2020
The Innocence Files
TV show Executive Producer
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2020
How to Fix a Drug Scandal
TV show Executive Producer
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2020
Crazy, Not Insane
Movie Director
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2019
Citizen K
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2019
Los Últimos Frikis
Movie Executive Producer
