Alex Gibney
Biography
Alex Gibney is an American documentary director and producer, described by Esquire in 2010 as becoming the most important documentarian of his time. Born in New York City, he studied at Yale University and the UCLA Film School. He worked as series producer, under Martin Scorsese, of the PBS series The Blues (2003), and wrote and produced The Pacific Century (1992), which won a News & Documentary Emmy. His Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room was nominated in the same category. He also directed Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015), We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013) and The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019), and is president of Jigsaw Productions.
72years old
Turns 73 on October 23in 19 days
- Born New York City
- Star sign: ScorpioFirst day of the sign, on the Libra cusp
- Also credited as Philip Alexander Gibney
Movie Career
- Films
- 10
- Career span
- 12 years2008 to 2020
Genres
- Documentary100%, 10 films
- Biography20%, 2 films
- Sport10%, 1 film
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Behind the camera
Gibney was series producer for The Blues, a PBS television series from 2003, working under executive producer Martin Scorsese. He also produced episodes that Wim Wenders and Charles Burnett directed.
Behind the award
The first Hitchens Prize, which honors the late writer Christopher Hitchens, went to Gibney in 2015. He had earlier worked with Hitchens on a documentary film version of Hitchens's book The Trial of Henry Kissinger.
Alex Gibney movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief2015 Documentaryas Narratorvoice
IMDb rating 8.043K votes
- The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley2019as Self - Narrator / Interviewer
IMDb rating 7.217K votes
- Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God2012as Himself - Narratorvoice
IMDb rating 8.04.3K votes
Worked with
Alex Gibney shares two films with Bill Clinton, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Ophelia HarutyunyanDirector, 1 film, 2020
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Suzanne HillingerDirector, 1 film, 2020
All films by Suzanne Hillinger
Awards
Four awards and honors from 2006 to 2015, three of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards | |||
| 2008 | Best Documentary Feature Film | Taxi to the Dark Side | Won |
| Emmy Awards | |||
| 2015 | Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program | Won | |
| Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming | Won | ||
| Other honors | |||
| 2006 | Writers Guild of America Award | Won | |
Online
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