Moneyball

Extracted Attributes

• Type

  Film

• Genre

  Biographical Sports Drama

• Director

  Bennett Miller

• Starring

  Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Chris Pratt

• Release Year

  2011

• Based on Book

  Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

• Screenwriters

  Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin

• Subject Matter

  Oakland Athletics 2002 season, Billy Beane's sabermetric approach

• Production Budget

  $50 million

• Worldwide Box Office

  $110.2 million

• Book Publication Year

  2003

• US & Canada Box Office

  $75.6 million

• Academy Award Nominations

  6 (including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor for Pitt, Best Supporting Actor for Hill)

Timeline

• Michael Lewis's book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" is published. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2003

• Columbia Pictures buys the rights to Michael Lewis's book. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2004

• Steven Soderbergh's planned version of the film is put in turnaround due to creative differences with Sony over a last-minute script rewrite. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2009-07

• Filming begins at various stadiums, including Dodger Stadium and Oakland Coliseum, with Bennett Miller directing and Aaron Sorkin hired for rewrites. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2010-07

• The film premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2011

• The film is released to the public. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2011-09-23

• The film receives six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor for Brad Pitt, and Best Supporting Actor for Jonah Hill. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2011

Moneyball (film)

Moneyball is a 2011 American biographical sports drama film directed by Bennett Miller and adapted by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. It stars Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright and Chris Pratt. The film is based on the 2003 book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis, an account of the Oakland Athletics baseball team's 2002 season and their general manager Billy Beane's attempts to assemble a competitive team with half (or even a third) as much money as his rivals. Moneyball follows 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. Columbia Pictures bought the rights to Lewis's book in 2004, hiring Chervin to write the screenplay. David Frankel was initially set to direct with Zaillian now writing the screenplay, but was soon replaced by Steven Soderbergh, who planned to make the film in a semi-documentary style featuring interviews from real athletes, and having the real players and coaches on the team portray themselves. But before its July 2009 filming start, the film was put in turnaround due to creative differences between Soderbergh and Sony over a last-minute script rewrite. Soderbergh exited, and Miller was hired to direct, with Pitt becoming a producer and Sorkin hired for rewrites. Filming began in July 2010 at various stadiums such as Dodger Stadium and Oakland Coliseum. The film 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 received numerous accolades, including six Academy Awards nominations including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor for Pitt and Best Supporting Actor for Hill.

Web Search Results

• Moneyball (film) - Wikipedia

  Moneyball is a 2011 American biographical sports drama film directed by Bennett Miller and adapted by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. It stars Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright and Chris Pratt. The film is based on the 2003 book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis, an account of the Oakland Athletics baseball team's 2002 season and their general manager Billy Beane's attempts to assemble a competitive team with half (or even a third) as much [...] money as his rivals. Moneyball follows Beane and his deputy Peter Brand scout the major leagues for undervalued talent by taking a sophisticated sabermetric approach to scouting "Scout (sport)") and analyzing players, triggering skepticism and resentment within the baseball community. [...] Moneyball grossed $75.6 million in the United States and Canada and $34.6 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $110.2 million, against a production budget of $50 million. The film grossed $19.5 million from 2,993 theaters in its opening weekend, finishing second at the box office behind the 3D re-release of The Lion King. In its second weekend it grossed $12 million (a drop of only 38.3%), again finishing second. ### Critical response

• Amazon.com: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

  "Moneyball" is the story of three obsessive-compulsives -- Bill James, Billy Beane, and Paul DePodesta -- who re-imagined baseball from a game of stars and heroics into one of numbers and discipline. [...] Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge―insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money. Read more) [...] Moneyball does is show how the Oakland A's, and a few emulators, dismissed all this lore and culture in favor of multiple regressions and other advanced statistical tools. It's a fascinating book that could have been a dry one--full of detailed statistics and equations--except that Lewis cleverly balances the mathematical perspective with the same character studies that have graced sports biographies for years.

• Michael Lewis | The Official Website

  Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge—insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money. [...] Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge—insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money. ##### Endorsements and Reviews [...] “Moneyball is the best business book Lewis has written. It may be the best business book anyone;has written.” - Mark Gerson, Weekly Standard “By playing Boswell to Beane's Samuel Johnson, Lewis has given us one of the most enjoyable baseball books in years.” - Lawrence S. Ritter, New York Times Book Review “Ebullient, invigorating.... Provides plenty of action, both numerical and athletic, on the field and in the draft-day war room.” - Lev Grossman, Time

• Moneyball (2011) Movie Trailer - HD - Brad Pitt - YouTube

  # Moneyball (2011) Movie Trailer - HD - Brad Pitt ## Rotten Tomatoes Trailers 16000000 subscribers 16181 likes ### Description 4492578 views Posted: 16 Jun 2011 The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players. Director: Bennett Miller Writers: Steven Zaillian (screenplay), Aaron Sorkin (screenplay) Stars: Brad Pitt, Robin Wright and Jonah Hill Via: [...] there are rich teams and there are poor teams then there's 50 feet of crap and then there's us that's a dollar man what welcome to Oakland I need more money we're not New York fine players are the money that we do have I like Perez not an ugly girlfriend ugly girlfriend means no confidence you guys are talking the same old nonsense like we're looking for Fabio we got to think differently who's Fabio your goal shouldn't be to buy players your goal should be to buy wins in order to buy wins you [...] 1048 comments ### Transcript:

• Watch Moneyball | Netflix

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