Moneyball stars Brad Pitt as Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane. It chronicles the early infusion of analytics and data into mainstream baseball. Pitt’s Beane went against baseball’s traditionalists in the early 2000s, but his practices have become the mainstream thinking two decades later. Moneyball was nominated for an Academy Award (as was Pitt) and co-stars Jonah Hill and Phillip Seymour Hoffman.