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Clay sits down with Academy Award winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, the mastermind behind HBO\u2019s upcoming Crime of the Century, a two part special taking on the opioid epidemic and the forces behind it, along with many other movies.\xa0 Does the profit motive drive people and corporations to slowly deceive themselves about what they are truly doing?\xa0 Is Congress on our side, or on that of those who would profit off our human needs?\xa0 And is the race to the top what\u2019s pushing aside our humanity and ability to get along?\n
\n\nGuest:\nAlex Gibney\nDirector Alex Gibney has been called \u201cthe most important documentarian of our time\u201d by Esquire Magazine (Esquire) and \u201cone of America\u2019s most successful and prolific documentary filmmakers\u201d by The New York Times (The NY Times T Magazine).\nKnown for his cinematic, gripping, and deeply insightful documentaries, the filmmaker has won the Academy Award\xae, multiple Emmy Awards, the Grammy Award, several Peabody Awards, the DuPont-Columbia, The Independent Spirit, The Writers Guild of America Awards, and more. Gibney was honored with the International Documentary Association\u2019s Career Achievement Award in 2013 and the first ever Christopher Hitchens Prize in 2015.\nGibney\u2019s upcoming project The Crime of the Century debuts on HBO in May 2021, and his other films include: Taxi to the Dark Side (2008 Oscar); Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Oscar nominated 2006); Triple Emmy Award winning and Peabody Award Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (HBO); Emmy winning The History of the Eagles (Showtime); 2015 Peabody Award and Grammy nominated Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown; The Armstrong Lie (2013), which was short-listed for the 2014 Academy Award and nominated for the 2014 BAFTA Award, along with his film We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks (2013); and Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010), which was nominated for three Emmys.\nGet more from Alex:\n\nTwitter |Jig Saw Films |HBO\u2019S Crime of The Century | And Many Other Films\u2026\n\nHost:\n\nClay Aiken has sold 6 million albums, authored a New York Times bestseller, and ran for Congress in North Carolina in 2014 almost unseating a popular Republican incumbent.\n
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