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Oakland Athleticsbaseball team's 2. Billy Beane's attempts to assemble a competitive team. In the film, Beane (Brad Pitt) and assistant GM Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), faced with the franchise's limited budget for players, build a team of undervalued talent by taking a sophisticated sabermetric approach towards scouting and analyzing players. Columbia Pictures bought the rights to Lewis's book in 2. Moneyball premiered at the 2. Toronto International Film Festival[5] and was released on September 2. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor for Pitt and Best Supporting Actor for Hill.

Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane is upset by his team's loss to the New York Yankees in the 2. With the impending departure of star players Johnny Damon, Jason Giambi, and Jason Isringhausen to free agency, Beane needs to assemble a competitive team for 2. Oakland's limited payroll. During a visit to the Cleveland Indians, Beane meets Peter Brand, a young Yale economics graduate with radical ideas about how to assess players' value. Beane tests Brand's theory by asking whether he would have drafted him (out of high school), Beane having been a Major League player before becoming general manager.

Though scouts considered Beane a phenomenal prospect, his career in the Major Leagues was disappointing. Brand admits that he would not have drafted him until the ninth round and surmised that Beane would probably have accepted a college scholarship instead.

Impressed, Beane hires Brand to be the Athletics assistant general manager. Oakland scouts are first dismissive and then hostile towards Brand's non- traditional sabermetric approach to scouting players. Grady Fuson aggressively confronts Beane, and is fired. Grady then takes to the radio airwaves to question the team's future. Rather than relying on the scouts' experience and intuition, Brand selects players based almost exclusively on their on- base percentage (OBP).

Beane signs the ones Brand suggests, such as unorthodox submarine pitcher. Chad Bradford, past- his- prime outfielder David Justice, and an injured catcher, Scott Hatteberg. Beane also faces opposition from Art Howe, the Athletics' manager, who does not agree with the new philosophy. Howe disregards Beane's and Brand's strategy and plays a lineup he prefers. Early in the season, the Athletics fare poorly, leading critics to dismiss the new method as a failure. Beane convinces the owner to stay the course. He trades away the lone traditional first baseman, Carlos Peña, to force Howe to use Hatteberg at that position, threatening to make similar deals if Howe won't cooperate.

The A's win 1. 9 consecutive games, tying for the longest winning streak in American League history. Beane's young daughter implores him to go to a game against the Kansas City Royals, where Oakland is already leading 1. Like many baseball players, Beane is superstitious and avoids games in progress, but upon hearing how well the game is going on the radio, he decides to go. Beane arrives in the fourth inning, only to watch the team falter and eventually allow the Royals to even the score at 1. Finally, the A's do win, on a walk- off home run by Hatteberg.

After celebrating that, however, the A's again lose in the postseason, this time to the Minnesota Twins. Beane is disappointed, believing nothing short of a championship should be considered a success. He is contacted by the owner of the Boston Red Sox, who realizes that the sabermetric model is the future of baseball.

Beane declines an opportunity to be GM of the Red Sox, despite the $1. He returns to Oakland, while an epilogue reveals that two years later, the Red Sox won the 2. World Series, using the model pioneered by the Athletics. Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics. Jonah Hill as Peter Brand (based on Paul De. Podesta), Beane's assistant general manager.

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Art Howe, the manager of the Oakland Athletics. Chris Pratt as Scott Hatteberg, A's first baseman. Casey Bond as Chad Bradford, A's submarinerelief pitcher. Stephen Bishop as David Justice, A's outfielder.

Royce Clayton as Miguel Tejada, A's shortstop. David Hutchison as John Mabry, A's utility player. Nick Porrazzo as Jeremy Giambi, A's outfielder. Robin Wright as Sharon, Beane's ex- wife and mother of Casey. Kerris Dorsey as Casey Beane. Ken Medlock as Grady Fuson, head scout of the Oakland Athletics.

Nick Searcy as Matt Keough. Jack Mc. Gee as John Poloni, scout for the Oakland Athletics. Brent Jennings as Ron Washington, coach of the Oakland Athletics.

Cast notes. Peter Brand is a composite character partly based on former A's assistant to the general manager Paul De. Podesta, who did not want his name used in the film.[6][7]Robert Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, makes an uncredited cameo appearance as former A's owner Stephen Schott.[8]Spike Jonze has a small uncredited role as Alán, Sharon's spouse. Musician Joe Satriani appears as himself, performing "The Star- Spangled Banner" on electric guitar. Arliss Howard briefly appears as John W. Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox. Stand- up comedian Demetri Martin was originally intended to play Paul De.

Podesta. After some rewriting, the character of Peter Brand was invented to replace De. Podesta, and Jonah Hill was cast. Oakland A's players David Justice and Scott Hatteberg were signed to play themselves in the film, but ultimately were portrayed by Stephen Bishop and Chris Pratt, respectively.[9]Stephen Bishop, who plays David Justice, is a former professional baseball player.

Bishop and Justice were both members of the Atlanta Braves organization in 1. Royce Clayton, who plays Miguel Tejada, is also a former professional baseball player. Production[edit]Stan Chervin developed the initial drafts of the screenplay after Columbia Pictures bought rights to Lewis's book in 2. It was filmed in Los Angeles, California.[1. Once Brad Pitt committed to the project in 2. Watch Battlefield America Torent Free. Chervin dropped out. Steve Zaillian was signed to write a second screenplay, and David Frankel was signed to direct.[1.

Steven Soderbergh was subsequently signed to replace Frankel.[1. Demetri Martin was cast to portray the role of Paul De. Podesta, Beane's top assistant. Former Athletics Scott Hatteberg and David Justice were slated to play themselves in the movie.[1. When asked how the film would dramatize and make entertaining a book about statistics, Soderbergh said: I think we have a way in, making it visual and making it funny. I want it to be really funny and entertaining, and I want you to not realize how much information is being thrown at you because you're having fun. We've found a couple of ideas on how to bust the form a bit, in order for all that information to reach you in a way that's a little oblique.[1.

On June 1. 9, 2. 00. Sony put the picture on hold.[1. Soderbergh's plan for the film called for elements considered non- traditional for a sports movie, such as interviews with real- life players. Soderbergh was dismissed and ultimately replaced by Bennett Miller.[1. Aaron Sorkin wrote a third version of the screenplay.[1. Miller hired Ken Medlock, a former minor league baseball player and actor who plays scout Grady Fuson, as a technical advisor.

Medlock invited professional scout Artie Harris to lend Medlock credibility. Harris, himself a self- styled "old- fashioned scout", subsequently auditioned for and obtained a role in the film as a scout who typically disregards sabermetrics.[1. Baseball figures, including scout Phil Pote and baseball coaches and managers George Vranau and Barry Moss, were cast in supporting roles. With Martin no longer involved, Jonah Hill was cast to play De. Podesta. However, feeling the character was becoming fictional, De.