Alex Gibney ’71

Alex Gibney is the filmmaker, writer, director, and producer behind the 2006 Oscar Award-nominated documentary film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and the 2008 Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side.

Gibney's recent works include the 2019 Emmy nominated documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley and the 2020 Emmy nominated documentary Laurel Canyon.

Some of Gibney's other works include the theatrical documentary for the BBC and First Run Features The Trials of Henry Kissinger; the HBO documentary, Soldiers in the Army of God, about the radical fringe of the anti-abortion movement; Speak Truth to Power, a PBS special about human rights defenders starring Alec Baldwin, Sigourney Weaver, John Malkovich, and Kevin Kline; The Fifties, an 8-hour documentary mini-series based on the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam; and The Pacific Century, 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.

Gibney is a graduate of Yale University and attended UCLA’s Graduate School of Film and Television.