Alex Gibney (8)

Philip Alexander "Alex" Gibney (born October 23, 1953) is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, Esquire magazine said Gibney "is becoming the most important documentarian of our time".

His works as director include 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 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 an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed at Bagram Air Force Base in 2002.

Life and career
Gibney was born in New York City, New York, the son of Harriet (Harvey) and journalist Frank Gibney. His stepfather was the Rev. William Sloane Coffin. After attending Pomfret School, Gibney earned his bachelor's degree from Yale University and later attended the UCLA Film School.

Gibney developed an anti-authority view from the journalism career of his father: "They say to succeed you're supposed to suck up and kick down. Well, he was the classic guy who sucked down and kicked up, which is never a good career path! He was at Time, then fired. At Newsweek, fired. At Life, fired." His stepfather was equally an influence on him. "There was something about my father, my mother, and then my stepfather, I think they all ruddered against authority in their own peculiar ways. And that probably rubbed off on me, too."

He served as executive producer of the documentary No End in Sight (2007). His film Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) is a documentary based on Hunter Thompson's life and his "Gonzo" style of journalism. Under executive producer Martin Scorsese, Gibney was series producer for the PBS television series The Blues (2003) (producing individual episodes directed by Wim Wenders and Charles Burnett) and writer-producer of The Pacific Century (1992) (which won the News & Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Historical Program). Several films he directed and/or produced have been screened at the Cannes, Sundance, Toronto and Tribeca Film Festivals.

In an interview with Robert K. Elder for The Film That Changed My Life, Gibney credits much influence on his filming style to The Exterminating Angel:

[The Exterminating Angel is] dark, but it's also wickedly funny and mysterious in ways that can’t be reduced to a simple, analytical explanation. I always thought that's what's great about movies sometimes—the best movies have to be experienced; they can’t just be written about.

In an interview with David Poland for MIFF, Gibney gives statement to disagree with Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivist Movement:

Objectivity is dead. There's no such thing as objectivity. When you're making a film, a film can't be objective.

Gibney's Taxi to the Dark Side premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival where it won Best Documentary. The film probes the homicide of an innocent taxi driver named Dilawar at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan.

Gibney is president of Jigsaw Productions, which produces independent films, music documentaries, and TV mini-series. He has been honored by the Yale Film Studies program for his contributions to film culture. In 2010, Utne Reader listed Gibney as one of "25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World."

His 2013 film We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, is a comprehensive look at WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning. The Wikileaks organization itself has objected to the way Gibney portrayed it, and has posted a line-by-line rebuttal to the entire film.

Gibney's most recent projects include work on The Armstrong Lie (about Lance Armstrong), Catching Hell (a contribution to ESPN's '30 for 30' series which looks at "The Inning" in Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series) and Going Clear, a documentary about Scientology.

Gibney writes for the The Atlantic, and has written for Huffington Post and other publications. wiki

Director (38 credits)
2018 Untitled Roger Ailes Documentary (Documentary) (filming)
2017 Billions (TV Series) (1 episode)
2016 Cooked (TV Mini-Series documentary) (1 episode)
2016 Zero Days (Documentary)
2015 Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (TV Mini-Series documentary) (2 episodes)
2015 Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (Documentary)
2015 Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (Documentary)
2014 Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (Documentary)
2014 30 for 30 Shorts (TV Series documentary short) (1 episode)
2014 30 for 30: Soccer Stories (TV Series) (1 episode)
2014 Finding Fela! (Documentary)
2013 The Armstrong Lie (Documentary)
2013 We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (Documentary)
2005-2012 Independent Lens (TV Series documentary) (2 episodes)
2012 Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream (Documentary)
2012 Dear Governor Cuomo (Documentary) (collaborating director)
2012 Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (Documentary)
2012 Speaking with Light (Documentary short)
2011 The Last Gladiators (Documentary)
2011 Catching Hell (Documentary)
2011 Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (Documentary)
2010 Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (Documentary)
2010 Freakonomics (Documentary)
2010 My Trip to Al-Qaeda (Documentary)
2010 Casino Jack and the United States of Money (Documentary)
2008 Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (Documentary)
2007 Taxi to the Dark Side (Documentary)
2006 The Human Behavior Experiments (TV Movie documentary)
2006 Time Piece (Documentary) (segment "Empire of the Pushcarts")
2005 Behind Those Eyes (Documentary)
2005 3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas (Video)
2005 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Documentary)
1999 The Sexual Century: Sexual Explorers (TV Movie)
1999 The Sexual Century: The Sexual Revolution (TV Movie)
1998 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy (TV Special documentary)
1997 Los años 50 (TV Mini-Series documentary)
1988 Manufacturing Miracles (Short)
1980 The Ruling Classroom
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Enlaces completados:
Freakonomics: The Movie (VV. DD., 2010)
Casino Jack and the United States of Money (Alex Gibney, 2010)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney, 2005)
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (Alex Gibney, 2010)
Magic Trip (Alex Gibney & Alison Ellwood, 2011)
Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney, 2007)
My Trip to Al-Qaeda (Alex Gibney, 2010)
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (Alex Gibney, 2008)

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