Alex Gibney, the director-writer of the Oscar-nominated documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, was handed the Writers Guild award for documentary screenplay last night (i.e, Wednesday, 2.1). Gibney’s triumph happened two days after the start of the criminal trial in Houston of former Enron Corp. executives and Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skillingn. At issue is whether Lay and Skilling were the spinners and bad guys behind accounting scheme that crashed Enron, once the seventh-largest company in the country, in December 2001. Watch Gibney’s film and tell me your verdict
