8.5
8.5
Bodyguard of Lies
2025
Producer
Alex Gibney
Directing
Born:October 23, 1953(age 72)
Birthplace:New York City, New York, USA
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (93 movies)
8.0
8.0
Kingdom of Silence
2020
Executive Producer
8.0
8.0
American Jihad
2017
Executive Producer
7.9
7.9
The Forever Prisoner
2021
Director
7.9
7.9
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
2018
Producer
7.8
7.8
No End in Sight
2007
Executive Producer
7.6
7.6
No Stone Unturned
2017
Director
7.6
7.6
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015
Director
7.5
7.5
The Human Behavior Experiments
2006
Producer
7.5
7.5
Orwell: 2+2=5
2025
Producer
7.3
7.3
Zero Days
2016
Director
7.3
7.3
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
Producer
7.3
7.3
Lightning in a Bottle
2004
Producer
7.3
7.3
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015
Producer
7.2
7.2
Water & Power: A California Heist
2017
Executive Producer
7.2
7.2
The China Hustle
2018
Executive Producer
7.2
7.2
Crazy, Not Insane
2020
Director
7.2
7.2
City of Ghosts
2017
Executive Producer
7.2
7.2
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005
Producer
7.1
7.1
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
2010
Writer
7.1
7.1
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
2019
Writer
7.0
7.0
The Bibi Files
2024
Producer
7.0
7.0
Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream
2012
Writer
7.0
7.0
Fields of Fear
2014
Director
7.0
7.0
Dirty Business
2009
Producer
6.9
6.9
Taxi to the Dark Side
2008
Director
6.9
6.9
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
2008
Screenplay
6.9
6.9
The Armstrong Lie
2013
Writer
6.9
6.9
Catching Hell
2011
Writer
6.9
6.9
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002
Writer
6.9
6.9
Accidental Anarchist
2017
Executive Producer
6.9
6.9
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
2011
Director
6.9
6.9
Finding Fela
2014
Director
6.9
6.9
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
2014
Executive Producer
6.8
6.8
Totally Under Control
2021
Producer
6.8
6.8
The Last Gladiators
2012
Director
6.7
6.7
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
2018
Executive Producer
6.7
6.7
Mr. Untouchable
2007
Producer
6.6
6.6
Citizen K
2019
Screenplay
6.6
6.6
The First Wave
2021
Executive Producer
6.6
6.6
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
2024
Director
6.6
6.6
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
2015
Director
6.5
6.5
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
2013
Director
6.5
6.5
Elián
2017
Executive Producer
6.5
6.5
Sunshine Superman
2015
Executive Producer
6.5
6.5
The Soul of a Man
2003
Producer
6.3
6.3
137 Shots
2021
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
The House Is Burning
2006
Producer
6.2
6.2
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
2010
Writer
6.1
6.1
Freakonomics
2010
Director
6.1
6.1
Venus and Serena
2012
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
Spring Broke
2016
Executive Producer
5.8
5.8
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
2023
Executive Producer
5.5
5.5
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
2010
Director
5.4
5.4
Soldiers in the Army of God
2000
Producer
5.4
5.4
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
2006
Producer
5.2
5.2
Love Comes Lately
2007
Executive Producer
5.0
5.0
Ceasefire Massacre
2014
Producer
4.5
4.5
Brooklyn Babylon
2001
Executive Producer
4.2
4.2
Citizen Ashe
2021
Executive Producer
3.3
3.3
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
2016
Executive Producer
The Kennedy Center Presents: Speak Truth to Power
2000
Producer
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy
1998
Producer
Manufacturing Miracles
1988
Producer
Speaking with Light
2012
Director
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012
Director
Jimi Hendrix and The Blues
2001
Producer
Inside Japan, Inc.
1992
Director
Untitled Luigi Mangione Documentary
TBA
Executive Producer
Kids Don't Know What's Best
TBA
Producer
Biba! One Island, 879 Votes
2011
Executive Producer
What's Motivating Hayes
2015
Executive Producer
3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas
2005
Producer
Dear Governor Cuomo
2012
Director
Los Últimos Frikis
2019
Executive Producer
Money-Driven Medicine
2009
Producer
Zero Days VR
2017
Executive Producer
The Huntress
2000
Executive Producer
Two Wolves
TBA
Director
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
1988
Writer
The Ruling Classroom
1980
Producer
Musk
TBA
Producer
Return to Timbuktu
TBA
Producer
The Sound of Philadelphia
TBA
Producer
Time Piece
2006
Director
The Hands That Held the Knives
TBA
Producer
Knife
TBA
Producer
Flipper
1980
Writer
Between Goodbyes
2024
Executive Producer
Walk with Me
2024
Executive Producer
Untitled Barbra Streisand Documentary
TBA
Producer
Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley
2016
Executive Producer
Behind Those Eyes
2005
Producer
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