Alex Gibney

A graduate of Yale University (B.A.), Alex Gibney also attended the UCLA Graduate School of Film and Television, he received his first Academy Award nomination for “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” which he wrote, produced and directed. The film received wide critical attention, received an Independent Spirit Award and the Writer's Guild Award.

Gibney directed TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE which made its world premiere at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won for Best Documentary. Gibney served as Executive Producer on Charles Ferguson’s documentary "No End In Sight," “Herbie Hancock: Possibilities,” “Lightning in a Bottle” “Who Killed the Electric Car.” His credits include the theatrical documentary for the BBC and First Run Features “The Trials of Henry Kissinger” (Writer/Producer); “Jimi Hendrix and the Blues” (Director/Producer); the HBO documentary, “Soldiers in the Army of God,” (Senior Producer), about the radical fringe of the anti-abortion movement; “Speak Truth to Power”(Producer), a PBS special about human rights defenders starring Alec Baldwin, Sigourney Weaver, John Malkovich and Kevin Kline; “Brooklyn Babylon,”(Executive Producer) a feature film directed by Marc Levin and featuring the Grammy Award-winning, hip-hop group ‘The Roots’; “The Huntress” (Executive Producer) , a TV movie written by Bruno Heller (HBO’s “Rome”) and, subsequently, a TV series for the USA Network; “Sexual Century,” (writer, director, series producer), a six-part documentary series for ITV and the CBC; “The Fifties” (writer/director/producer), an 8-hour documentary mini-series based on the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam; and “The Pacific Century” (writer/director/producer), a 10-hour documentary series that was honored with an Emmy, two Emmy nominations and the prestigious duPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism.