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MoneyballBest Picture?
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MoneyBall
 February 5, 2012
Brad Pitt uses his star power to get onbase but never gets the slugger todrive this movie home. Brad andGoogle Boy Jonah Hill shape a teamfrom statistics and uncover the valuein raising every player to perform tohis average level. Yay, what a thriller
of a story! Let’s all hit for average,team! That’s why we go to the ball
park, to watch players rack upconsistent on-base percentages!
 
 Moneyball 
 
is a “stats & bats”
movie aboutvalue for money, as in how much is asuperstar worth? This movie was producedand starred Brad Pitt, a certified superstar of Hollywood who tells a story about howskewed the paychecks of the top ballplayers rank againsttheir statistics which help a team win games. For thosewho do not follow baseball, you have to be on base toscore. Thus, the revelation of 
 Moneyball 
is that playerswho get on base a lot do not always cost as much as thesluggers who hit the home runs.Just like Hollywood stars that get paid a lot to drag bumsinto
seats, they don’t always deliver the value
(was that
 
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the appeal for you, Brad?).
 Moneyball 
is a case in point,never reaching the top box office rank when it openedand does not rank high in the list of Brad Pittblockbusters. However, now that we are in Oscarmonth, the artistic merit of the movie has drawnnominations for the star producer as well as for thescript, sound mixing and film editing, supporting actorand screenplay.Here are the Oscar nominations for
 Moneyball 
:
Adapted screenplay
 "Moneyball" Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and AaronSorkin. Story by Stan Chervin
Achievement in sound mixing
 "Moneyball" Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarcoand Ed Novick 
Best motion picture of the year 
"Moneyball" Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz andBrad Pitt, Producers
Achievement in film editing
"Moneyball" Christopher Tellefsen
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
 Jonah Hill in "Moneyball"
 
Performance by an actor in a leading role
 Brad Pitt in "Moneyball"
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