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Moneyball
Oakland As general manager Billy Beane Brad Pitt challenges the system and defies conventional wisdom when his is forced to rebuild his smallmarket team on a limited budget. Despite opposition from the old guard, the media, fans and their own field manager Philip Seymour Hoffman, Beane with the help of a young, numbercrunching, Yaleeducated economist Jonah Hill develops a roster of misfitsand along the way, forever changes the way the game is played.
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Moneyball is a 2011 American biographical sports drama film. It was directed by Bennett Miller with a script by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin from a story by Stan Chervin. The film is based on the 2003 nonfiction book, Moneyball The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis. The book is an account of the Oakland Athletics baseball teams 2002 season and their general manager Billy Beanes attempts to assemble a competitive team with half or even a third as much money as his rivals. In the film, Beane and his deputy Peter Brand scout the major leagues for undervalued talent by taking a sophisticated sabermetric approach to scouting and analyzing players, triggering skepticism and resentment within the baseball community.
Moneyball premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and was released on September 23, 2011, to box office success and critical acclaim, particularly for its acting and screenplay. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor for Pitt and Best Supporting Actor for Hill.