Which 2011 biographical film about Billy Beane stars Brad Pitt?

The 2011 biographical film about Billy Beane starring Brad Pitt is Moneyball.

Directed by Bennett Miller, the film adapts Michael Lewis’s 2003 book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. Pitt plays Billy Beane, the real-life general manager of the Oakland Athletics, who tried to build a competitive baseball team despite having far less money than wealthier rivals.

The story centres on sabermetrics: using statistical analysis to identify undervalued players. Jonah Hill plays Peter Brand, a fictionalised analyst based partly on Paul DePodesta, while Philip Seymour Hoffman portrays Athletics manager Art Howe. The film compresses and dramatizes events, so it should not be treated as a complete documentary account of the 2002 season.

Moneyball premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011 and received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Pitt. A common mix-up is confusing it with The Big Short, another film adapted from a nonfiction book about people challenging conventional financial wisdom.