Academy Award winning documentary film director and producer Alex Gibney has been named the 2021 winner of The Nellie Bly Award for Investigative Reporting by The Museum of Political Corruption. We welcome President and Founder of The Museum of Political Corruption Bruce Roter to tell us more.
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Academy Award-winning documentary director and producer Alex Gibney is adding another honor to his long list. The Museum of Political Corruption in Albany named Gibney the 2021 recipient of The Nellie Bly Award for Investigative Reporting.
Gibney’s many films include “Taxi to the Dark Side,” “Going Clear,” “Totally Under Control,” and the new release The Crime of the Century,” about the opioid epidemic, which just debuted on HBO. Gibney has also directed for television.
Congratulations on this latest honor. Do you consider yourself a muckraker?
I don t know. I try not to consider myself. But yeah, I suppose I m a muckraker, an investigator, I like to think of myself more as a private detective.
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