Billy Beane, the manager of Oakland A’s, once put together a baseball team on a shoestring budget using a controversial computer algorithm to pick the very best players. The true story was picked up by Sony Pictures and given a stellar casting. It now promises to be a hit with US audiences when it hits cinemas on 23rd September 2011.
Based on the book “Moneyball” by Michael Lewis, the film charts the use of baseball stats to pick up a cheaper championship team than all the rivals, resulting in a heart-warming tale of a team which is on-the-odds but against the prevailing opinion of traditional scouts and managers. Sabermetrics are now widely used in all the very top baseball teams in the USA.
Brad pitt in moneyball
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Cast
Brad Pitt as Billy Beane
Jonah Hill as Peter Brand
Robin Wright as Sharon
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Art Howe
Chris Pratt as Scott Hatteberg
Kathryn Morris as Tara Beane
Tammy Blanchard as Elizabeth Hatteberg
Glenn Morshower as Hopkins
Sergio Garcia as Jorge Posada
Kerris Dorsey as Casey Beane
Stephen Bishop as David Justice
Crew
Director: Bennett Miller
Producers: Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, Scott Rudin, Bennett Miller
In This Story: Brad Pitt
William Bradley Pitt is an American actor and film producer. He has received multiple awards, including two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award for his acting, in addition to another Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award as producer under his production company, Plan B Entertainment.
Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise (1991). His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with the drama films A River Runs Through It (1992) and Legends of the Fall (1994), and the horror film Interview with the Vampire (1994). He gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven (1995) and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys (1995), the latter earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination.
Pitt starred in Fight Club (1999) and the heist film Ocean’s Eleven (2001), as well as its sequels, Ocean’s Twelve (2004) and Ocean’s Thirteen (2007). His greatest commercial successes have been Ocean’s Eleven (2001), Troy (2004), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), World War Z (2013), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), for which he won a second Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Pitt’s other Academy Award nominated performances were in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011). He produced The Departed (2006) and 12 Years a Slave (2013), both of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and also The Tree of Life (2011), Moneyball (2011), and The Big Short (2015), all of which were nominated for Best Picture.
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