Known For
Directing
Known Credits
21
Gender
Male
Birthday
October 23, 1953 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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.
| 2025 | Mr. Scorsese...Thanks | |
| 2023 | Money Shot: The Pornhub Story...Thanks | |
| 2015 | What Happened, Miss Simone?...Thanks |
| 2025 | The Dark Money Game...Creator | |
| 2021 | The Crime of the Century...Creator | |
| 2020 | Agents of Chaos...Creator | |
| 2020 | The Innocence Files...Creator | |
| 2019 | Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America...Creator | |
| 2018 | The Looming Tower...Creator | |
| 2016 | Cooked...Creator | |
| 2016 | The New Yorker Presents...Creator | |
| 1999 | The Sexual Century: The Look of Love...Creator | |
| 1997 | The Fifties...Creator | |
| 1992 | The Pacific Century...Creator |
| 2003 | The Soul of a Man...Camera Operator |
| 1983 | The Golden Seal...Associate Editor | |
| 1980 | The Ruling Classroom...Editor |
| 1980 | The Ruling Classroom...Sound |
| 2025 | The Dark Money Gameas Narrator (voice) | |
| 2024 | Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranosas Self | |
| 2021 | Totally Under Controlas Narrator (voice) | |
| 2020 | Agents of Chaosas Narrator | |
| 2019 | Citizen Kas Narrator (voice) | |
| 2019 | The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valleyas Self - Narrator / Interviewer | |
| 2018 | Dirty Moneyas Self | |
| 2016 | The New Yorker Presentsas Narrator | |
| 2015 | Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machineas Narrator (voice) | |
| 2015 | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporteras Self | |
| 2015 | Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Beliefas Narrator (voice) | |
| 2013 | The Armstrong Lieas Self - Narrator | |
| 2013 | We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaksas Narrator (voice) | |
| 2012 | Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of Godas Self - Narrator (voice) | |
| 2011 | Catching Hellas Self | |
| 2010 | Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzeras Self - Narrator (voice) | |
| 2008 | Taxi to the Dark Sideas Narrator (voice) | |
| 2003 | Real Time with Bill Maheras Self | |
| 1997 | The Viewas Self | |
| 1996 | The Daily Showas Self | |
| 1953 | The Oscarsas Self |