I'm delighted to get this award.
"Alex Gibney" is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, Esquire (magazine)/Esquire magazine said Gibney "is becoming the most important documentarian of our time".
His works as director include We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks/We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (the winner of three primetime Emmy awards), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (nominated in 2005 for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature); Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (short-listed in 2011 for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature); Casino Jack and the United States of Money (film)/Casino Jack and the United States of Money; and Taxi to the Dark Side (winner of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature), focusing on an innocent Taxicab/taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed at Bagram Air Force Base in 2002.
More Alex Gibney on Wikipedia.But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.
I think myself and a lot of other documentary directors owe a debt to fiction filmmaking. The key was to follow the characters and let the narrative be your guide, without getting distracted by other things. By structuring 'Enron' like a heist film, it enables people to understand enough of the complexity without getting bogged down by it.
It's a very complicated story. It still is, even as the trial approaches. My job was to let everyone in on what was going on. With these types of stories, you can get lost in the details when there is a bigger tale to be told. I felt a film could really do that.
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