A 2011 American biographical sports drama directed by Bennett Miller about Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane and his data-driven approach to building a competitive baseball team.
Production
Columbia Pictures released Moneyball in September 2011. Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay based on Michael Lewis’s 2003 nonfiction book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. Brad Pitt played Beane, with Jonah Hill as the Yale economist Peter Brand.
Story
After the 2001 American League Division Series, the budget-constrained Athletics lose three star players to free agency. Beane teams up with the analyst Brand to assemble a roster using sabermetric statistics that traditional scouts dismiss, and the team enters a record-setting winning streak.
Reception
Moneyball received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Brad Pitt, and Best Supporting Actor for Jonah Hill. The film helped popularize analytics-driven thinking far beyond baseball and is widely taught in business and sports management courses.
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