Alex Gibney

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Alex Gibney at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival

Philip Alexander "Alex" Gibney (born October 23, 1953 in New York City ) is an American director , screenwriter and film producer . He became known for his documentaries such as Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Taxi to Hell . For the latter won Gibney 2008 together with Eva Orner the Oscar for best documentary .

Life

Gibney is the son of journalist and writer Frank Gibney .

Alex Gibney studied Japanese literature at Yale University and later at the UCLA Graduate School of Film and Television.

In 1980 he made his first film The Ruling Classroom , for which he wrote the script, directed and acted as producer. He later wrote screenplays for various television productions such as the documentary series The Pacific Century , which won the 1992 Emmy Award for Best Historical Program .

In 2002 he wrote the screenplay for Eugene Jarecki's documentary Accused: Henry Kissinger with Christopher Hitchens . The following year, Gibney produced the Wim Wenders contribution to the documentary film series The Blues .

Gibney then began work on his next film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room , which is based on the 2003 book of the same name by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind and in which Gibney deals with the Enron scandal. The film won the Independent Spirit Awards in 2006 for best documentary and was nominated for an Oscar in 2006.

In Taxi zum Hölle 2007 Gibney reported on the murder of the Afghan taxi driver Dilawar, who was tortured to death by US soldiers in 2002 at Bagram Air Base . The film received the award for best documentary at the 2008 Academy Awards .

In Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God , Gibney tackled the issue of sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church .

In 2013, We Steal Secrets: The WikiLeaks Story, a film about the history of the platform WikiLeaks and its spokesman Julian Assange, and The Armstrong Lie, a film about Lance Armstrong and doping.

2014 created with Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown about the soul singer James Brown and Finding Fela! two documentaries about famous musicians about the Nigerian saxophonist and singer Fela Kuti . This was followed by the documentaries Scientology: A Faith Prison About Scientology and Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine about Steve Jobs , the co-founder and CEO of Apple .

For Scientology: A Prison of Faith Gibney was awarded an Emmy in three categories (Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming, Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming, Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special) at the 2015 Primetime Emmy Awards.

In 2016, Gibney received an invitation to compete at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival for his documentary Zero Days , which is based on the Stuxnet computer worm .

Filmography (selection)

Director

Awards (selection)

Writers Guild of America Award

Web links

Commons : Alex Gibney  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Power of Authority: A Dark Tale at nytimes.com, accessed April 12, 2013
  2. ↑ a b Alex Gibney- Biography at yahoo.com, accessed April 12, 2013
  3. ↑ Alex Gibney at emmys.com, accessed August 15, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Gibney, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gibney, Philip Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City