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Alex Gibney
Highest Rated: 100% Catching Hell (2011)
Lowest Rated: 30% Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (2006)
Birthday: Oct 23, 1953
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Following in the mainstream success of documentary feature films like "Fahrenheit 9/11" (2004), director Alex Gibney's scathing look at corporate greed gone wild, "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" (2005), scored a political bulls-eye during a year filled with more than its usual government tumult. Although not a feel-good money-maker like its fellow Academy Award nominated documentary "March of the Penguins" (2005), "Enron" did something else. It repositioned a big microscope over the somewhat forgotten Enron scandal, provoking a renewed outcry against corporate fat-cat greed and a demand that someone be held responsible for the largest public bankruptcy in American history. Its success led to a long string of muckraking documentaries for the politically-minded director and journalist, who went on to win an Academy Award for "Taxi to the Dark Side" (2007) and an Emmy for "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief" (2015).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80% | 88% | The Forever Prisoner |
Director, Producer |
- | 2021 |
| 97% | 85% | Citizen Ashe | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
| 97% | 82% | The First Wave | Executive Producer | $60.5K | 2021 |
| 94% | 76% | Crazy, Not Insane |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 2020 |
| 99% | 82% | Totally Under Control |
Narrator, Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 2020 |
| 95% | 72% | Citizen K |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$119.5K | 2019 |
| 78% | 75% | The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 2019 |
| 94% | 90% | Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind | Producer | - | 2018 |
| 79% | 76% | The China Hustle | Executive Producer | $46.5K | 2017 |
| 80% | 89% | No Stone Unturned |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 2017 |
| 98% | 82% | City of Ghosts | Executive Producer | $124.5K | 2017 |
| 100% | 69% | Elián | Executive Producer | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 79% | Water & Power: A California Heist | Executive Producer | - | 2017 |
| 100% | 55% | American Jihad | Executive Producer | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Accidental Anarchist | Executive Producer | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | Spring Broke | Executive Producer | - | 2016 |
| 91% | 75% | Zero Days |
Director, Writer, Producer |
$104.9K | 2016 |
| 94% | 77% | Janis: Little Girl Blue | Producer | $404.9K | 2015 |
| 95% | 90% | Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief |
Narrator, Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 2015 |
| 75% | 57% | Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine |
Narrator, Director, Writer, Producer |
$494.5K | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's Motivating Hayes | Executive Producer | - | 2015 |
| 92% | 67% | Sunshine Superman | Executive Producer | $87.9K | 2014 |
| 60% | 68% | Finding Fela |
Director, Producer |
- | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown |
Director, Executive Producer |
- | 2014 |
| 100% | 86% | Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown | Director | - | 2014 |
| 82% | 76% | The Armstrong Lie |
Narrator, Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$381.7K | 2013 |
| 91% | 75% | We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks |
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
$158.9K | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | History of the Eagles | Producer | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | History of the Eagles: Part One | Producer | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 92% | History of the Eagles: Part Two | Producer | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 81% | Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream |
Narrator, Director, Writer |
- | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dear Governor Cuomo | Director | - | 2012 |
| 98% | 90% | Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God |
Narrator, Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 2012 |
| 77% | 69% | Venus and Serena | Executive Producer | $51.0K | 2012 |
| 100% | 89% | Catching Hell |
Director, Writer, Executive Producer |
- | 2011 |
| 90% | 81% | The Last Gladiators | Director | - | 2011 |
| 72% | 62% | Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place |
Director, Writer, Producer |
$153.9K | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | My Trip to Al-Qaeda |
Director, Producer |
- | 2010 |
| 90% | 83% | Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer |
Narrator, Director, Writer, Producer |
$187.5K | 2010 |
| 66% | 51% | Freakonomics |
Director, Writer |
$100.7K | 2010 |
| 81% | 80% | Casino Jack and the United States of Money |
Director, Screenwriter |
$174.9K | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Money-Driven Medicine | Producer | - | 2009 |
| 85% | 82% | Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson |
Director, Writer |
$1.3M | 2008 |
| 70% | 50% | Love Comes Lately | Executive Producer | $77.5K | 2007 |
| 100% | 90% | Taxi to the Dark Side |
Narrator, Director, Writer, Producer |
$274.7K | 2007 |
| 73% | 55% | Mr. Untouchable | Producer | $103.6K | 2007 |
| 96% | 94% | No End in Sight | Executive Producer | $1.4M | 2007 |
| 30% | 59% | Herbie Hancock: Possibilities | Producer | $1.8K | 2006 |
| 97% | 87% | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room |
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
$4.1M | 2005 |
| 87% | 89% | Lightning in a Bottle | Producer | $201.6K | 2004 |
| 95% | 78% | The Trials of Henry Kissinger |
Writer, Producer |
$515.7K | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Huntress | Executive Producer | - | 2000 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 95% | No Score Yet | In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon | Director | 2024 |
| 100% | No Score Yet | God Save Texas | Executive Producer | 2024 |
| 50% | 59% | Painkiller | Executive Producer | 2023 |
| 95% | 100% | Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker |
Producer, Director, Writer |
2023 |
| No Score Yet | 79% | The Line | Executive Producer | 2021 |
| 95% | 86% | The Crime of the Century | Director | 2021 |
| 74% | 84% | Tiger | Executive Producer | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tooning Out the News | Guest | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | 10% | The View | Guest | 2020 |
| 81% | 69% | Agents of Chaos | Director | 2020 |
| 100% | 86% | Laurel Canyon | Executive Producer | 2020 |
| 100% | 90% | The Innocence Files | Executive Producer | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter | Guest | 2020 |
| 100% | No Score Yet | AMC Visionaries: Rap Yearbook |
Executive Producer, Producer |
2019 |
| 100% | No Score Yet | Why We Hate | Executive Producer | 2019 |
| 80% | 56% | The Family | Executive Producer | 2019 |
| 75% | 100% | The Clinton Affair | Executive Producer | 2018 |
| 88% | 67% | The Looming Tower | Executive Producer | 2018 |
| 100% | 90% | Dirty Money | Director | 2018 |
| 45% | No Score Yet | Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge |
Executive Producer, Director |
2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Shot | Executive Producer | 2017 |
| 71% | 88% | The Killing Season | Executive Producer | 2016 |
| 86% | 89% | The New Yorker Presents | Executive Producer | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | Cooked | Executive Producer | 2016 |
| 94% | No Score Yet | Sinatra: All or Nothing at All |
Executive Producer, Director |
2015 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Colbert Report | Guest | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Real Time With Bill Maher | Guest | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Need to Know | Guest | 2010 |