Alex Gibney
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Gibney at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party
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| Born |
Philip Alexander Gibney October 23, 1953 New York City, New York, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Yale University UCLA Film School |
| Occupation | Film director, producer |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Relatives | Frank Gibney (father) |
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), , 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.
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.
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