Alex Gibney
Writer, producer, director
Alex Gibney has been called “the most important documentarian of our time” by Esquire Magazine and “one of America’s most successful and prolific documentary filmmakers” by The New York Times.
Gibney has won an Academy Award, multiple Emmy Awards, the Grammy Award, several Peabody Awards, the DuPont-Columbia, The Independent Spirit, The Writers Guild of America Awards, and others. Gibney was honored with the International Documentary Association’s Career Achievement Award in 2013 and the first ever Christopher Hitchens Prize in 2015.
Gibney has made many films, including Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Taxi to the Dark Side, and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. He has also made several shows, including Parched and Dirty Money. He executive produced The Looming Tower, a drama series based on Lawrence Wright’s bestseller The Looming Tower that premiered on Hulu in February 2018.
The Common Good hosted Mr. Gibney in November of 2010: Screening of Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer.
Twitter: @alexgibneyfilm
