Brad Pitt has had roles.
Brad Pitt . His greatest commercial successes have been Troy ( 2004 ) , Mr. & Mrs. Smith ( 2005 ) , and World War Z ( 2013 ) . Pitt received his second and third Academy Award nominations for his leading performances in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ( 2008 ) and Moneyball ( 2011 ) . He produced The Departed ( 2006 ) and 12 Years a Slave ( 2013 ) , both of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture , and also The Tree of Life , Moneyball , and The Big Short ( 2015 ) , all of which garnered Best Picture nominations . Moneyball (film) . 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 .