Philip Alexander 'Alex' Gibney is an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and producer, best known for works such as Taxi to the Dark Side (2007, Oscar winner), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005), Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015, three Emmys), Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012, three Emmys), We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013), Citizen K (2019), The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019), and Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker (2023). He is the president of Jigsaw Productions, his production company, in which Imagine Entertainment acquired an ownership stake on June 16, 2020. Gibney has contributed writing to The Atlantic and Huffington Post, and in 2015 received the inaugural Hitchens Prize. Current projects include documentaries on Elon Musk and Luigi Mangione. Born as the son of journalist Frank Gibney and Harriet Harvey, with stepfather William Sloane Coffin and one brother, Gibney developed an anti-authoritarian worldview influenced by his father's career. He earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and attended UCLA Film School and Pomfret School. Gibney has been married to Anne Gibney since August 14, 1982. He was a resident of Summit, New Jersey, and as of 2025 lives in New Harbor, Maine. Gibney has expressed anti-authoritarian views and stated that 'Objectivity is dead' in journalism. Controversies include WikiLeaks' criticism of his portrayal of Julian Assange in We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013), and in June 19, 2008, his company Jigsaw Productions sued THINKFilm for improper distribution of Taxi to the Dark Side, seeking over $1 million.