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Alex Gibney      

Award-Winning Documentary Director, Known for "Taxi to the Dark Side" & "The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley"

Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, known for his gripping, deeply insightful documentaries, is one of the most accomplished non-fiction filmmakers working today. His 2008 film, "Tax to the Dark Side," received an Oscar for Best Feature-Length Documentary, a Best Director nomination from the Director’s Guild of America, as well as a Writer’s Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay. Alex received another Academy Award nomination in 2006 for "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," which also won the Independent Spirit Award and the WGA Award, and he served as an Executive Producer on the Academy Award-nominated "No End in Sight" in 2007.

Other films include "Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson," "We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks," "Client 9: The Rise & Fall of Eliot Spitzer" and "Park Avenue: Money, Power and The American Dream," which aired on PBS. "Catching Hell," produced for ESPN, was nominated for a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Sports Documentary. "Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God" was shortlisted for a 2013 Academy Award and won three Primetime 2013 Emmy Awards.

Alex’s film, "The Armstrong Lie" had its North American debut at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival. He is also producing a four-hour documentary about Frank Sinatra for HBO.

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TCA: National Geographic Channel Orders Mars Event Series, Alex Gibney Documentary
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Alex Gibney has directed his share of controversial documentaries. But only when he took on Wikileaks did he get his very own abusive hashtag.
Alex Gibney on WikiLeaks, Assange and Manning - CBS News Video
CBS News video: Alex Gibney on WikiLeaks, Assange and Manning - Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney talks to CBSNews.com about his latest ...
"We Steal Secrets": Alex Gibney and the war on WikiLeaks - CBS ...
Filmmaker discusses his new documentary on Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, and the government's crackdown on whistleblowers.
Is Alex Gibney's WikiLeaks film “state agitprop”? - Salon.com
Respected left-wing journalist Chris Hedges joins the backlash against "We Steal Secrets." What's really going on?
Filmmaker Alex Gibney on Lance Armstrong | Movies News | Rolling ...
Late last year, documentarian Alex Gibney We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks was in an unusual position. Three years earlier he'd filmed Lance A.

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