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filmmaker Alex Gibney
Alex Gibney (born October 23, 1953) is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, Esquire magazine said Gibney "is becoming the most important documentarian of our time".
His works as director include 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 an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed at Bagram Air Force Base in 2002.
In 2013 Alex Gibney released a film about Wikileaks, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks". Wikileaks asserts that the film is rife with factual errors and misrepresentations. The Wikileaks criticism of the film begins with the very title, as Wikileaks denies that it does, in fact, "steal secrets", and its criticism of the film continues with a long list of what it claims are falsehoods and misrepresentations made by the film.
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Newsweek
March 2, 2018
Created by Wright, Dan Futterman and Alex Gibney, the government-centered docudrama features a large cast that includes Jeff Daniels, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter Sarsgaard and Alec Baldwin, and it has attracted a fair amount of attention in New York and Washington, where airplanes hijacked byÃâà...
Variety
February 28, 2018
The show's core creative team is composed of “Looming Tower” author Lawrence Wright and executive producers Dan Futterman and Alex Gibney. The three collaborators come from different worlds: Futterman made his mark in scripted entertainment (“Capote”), Wright has written a great deal of seriousÃâà...
Vanity Fair
February 23, 2018
Instead Wright and his good buddy, documentarian Alex Gibney, set out to corral the 480-page book, which spans five decades and multiple continents, into a digestible, 10-part series that begins ahead of the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya and ends with September 11, 2001. It wouldÃâà...
Variety
February 23, 2018
Welcome to “Remote Controlled,” a podcast from Variety featuring the best and brightest in television, both in front of and behind the camera. In this week's episode, Variety's executive editor of TV Debra Birnbaum talks with Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright, and Dan Futterman, the executive producers ofÃâà...
C21Media
February 19, 2018
For the non-fiction community, HBO Documentary Film's annual Sundance party last month was the place to be. Major directors such as Alex Gibney, Lucy Walker and Ondi Timoner rubbed shoulders with up-and-comers and many of the established filmmakers who were to be launching non-fiction titles,Ãâà...
Deadline
February 15, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: HBO is developing Alex Gibney's cyberwarfare project Stuxnet (working title) as a miniseries with Downton Abbey producer Carnival Films. Related Ãâ÷ 'Zero Days' Helmer Alex Gibney On Stuxnet, The Piece Of Malware That Launched A New Era Of Cyber... I hear the Time Warner-backedÃâà...
Decider
February 9, 2018
From Icarus and Making a Murderer to Heroin(e) and Amanda Knox, Netflix's original documentaries have a reputation for being superb. Even when you keep in mind those lofty standards, Dirty Money is something special. Executive produced by Alex Gibney, the docu-series watches as six separateÃâà...
The Guardian
February 4, 2018
Alex Gibney was born in New York City in 1953 and educated at Yale and UCLA film school. He was 52 when he scored his first major success as a documentary film-maker with Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005). Three years later, he won a best documentary Oscar with Taxi to the Dark Side.
Vulture
February 2, 2018
Dirty Money is the most fun you can have while being pissed off. Overseen by veteran filmmaker Alex Gibney, who also directed the first episode, it's billed as a six-part Netflix documentary series. But it plays more like a miniature film festival, consisting of self-contained documentaries with different subjects,Ãâà...
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