Alex Gibney is an American documentary film director and producer.
His works as director include Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) (nominated for an Academy Award), The Human Behavior Experiments (2006), Jimi Hendrix and the Blues, and Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed at Bagram Air Force Base in 2002 (winner of the Academy Award for Documentary Feature).
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Alex Gibney is an American documentary film director and producer.
His works as director include Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) (nominated for an Academy Award), The Human Behavior Experiments (2006), Jimi Hendrix and the Blues, and Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed at Bagram Air Force Base in 2002 (winner of the Academy Award for Documentary Feature).
After attending Pomfret School, Gibney earned his bachelor's degree from Yale University, where he was a member of the literary society St. Anthony Hall, and later attended the UCLA Film School. He is the son of Frank Gibney and the stepson of the late Rev. William Sloane Coffin.
He served as executive producer of the documentary No End in Sight (2007). His latest film, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008), is documentary based on Hunter S. Thompson and his "Gonzo" style of journalism. Under executive producer Martin Scorsese,...
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