Alex Gibney

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Alex Gibney is an Oscar-, Emmy- and duPont-Columbia-award winning American film director and producer.

His works as director include Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) (nominated for an Academy Award), The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002), 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).

He served as executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary No End in Sight (2007). His latest film, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson, is documentary based on Hunter S. Thompson and his "Gonzo" style of journalism. Under executive producer Martin Scorsese, Gibney was series producer for the PBS television series The Blues (2003) producing individual episodes directed by Wim Wenders and Charles Burnett, and writer and producer of the series The Pacific Century (1992) which won the News & Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Historical Program. Several films he directed and/or produced have been screened at the Cannes, Sundance, and Tribeca Film Festivals.

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 was a stepson of the late Rev. William Sloane Coffin.

Gibney is President of Jigsaw Productions, a production company which produces independent films, music documentaries, and TV mini-series. This year he won the Yale Film Studies' Program Award for his contributions to film culture.

He also writes for the Huffington Post blog.^[1]