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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.
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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.
Known For
The Daily Show
Real Time with Bill Maher
The Dark Money Game
Dirty Money
The New Yorker Presents
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos
Agents of Chaos
Production Credits
Billions
God Save Texas
Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge
The Crime of the Century
The Innocence Files
The Line
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
The Family
The Dark Money Game
Dirty Money
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All
Salt Fat Acid Heat
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker
The New Yorker Presents
Why We Hate
The Looming Tower
Cooked
History of the Eagles
Agents of Chaos
Mr. Scorsese
Tiger
How to Change Your Mind
Painkiller
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Storyville
Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI
Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo
How to Fix a Drug Scandal
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos
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