- Dedicated his Oscar win for Best Documentary for Un taxi pour l'enfer (2007) to Dilawar, the 22-year-old Afghan taxi driver on whom the documentary is based.
- Father Frank Gibney was a journalist and scholar.
- Attended film school at University of California, Los Angeles.
- The International Documentary Association presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.
- Graduated from Yale with a degree in Japanese Studies.
- Dropped out of UCLA to become an editor at the Samuel Goldywn Co. where he cut trailers, re-edited films and eventually becoming an editor.
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