<p>An Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and director, Alex Gibney tackles hot topics with artistic flair. His works include <i>Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room</i>, which was nominated for an Academy Award, and <i>Taxi to the Dark Side</i>, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2007. The film focused on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed at Bagram Air Force Base in 2002. His newer films include <i>Casino Jack and the United States of Money</i>, which chronicles the life of disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and <i>Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer</i>. He was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for <i>Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson</i>. In 2013, Gibney was honored with the International Documentary Association (IDA) Career Achievement Award.</p>
<p>Gibney has also worked as a journalist on such television programs as <i>The Trials of Henry Kissinger, Speak Truth to Power, The Fifties</i>, and <i>The Pacific Century</i>, a ten-hour documentary series honored with an Emmy and the duPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. His work has also appeared on the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series <i>ESPN's Sports Century</i>, and the Emmy Award-winning series <i>Frontline</i>.</p>
<p>A master documentarian, Gibney puts a human face on the most compelling current events of our time.</p>
Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker
<ul><li><b>The Importance of Asking Why: Understanding the Enron Story</b></li><li>The demise of Enron Corporation is more than a colossal corporate scandal—it is a human drama with the emotional power of a Greek tragedy tinged with the blackest humor imaginable. The documentary film, <i>Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room</i>, connects Enron's leadership and corporate culture with the accounting and legal firms that enabled the energy giant to perpetrate a $70 billion-dollar fraud on the American public. </li></ul>