Moneyball

Win Your Oscar Pool With Moviefone's Awards Night Pool Picker: Best Picture

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rosen | Posted 02.24.2012

It's Oscar week here at Moviefone and than can mean only one thing: Awards Night Pool Picker! Here's your chance to let Huffington Post executive ente...

Watch Montage Of Best Picture Nominees (VIDEO)

Posted 02.21.2012

To paraphrase the old baseball adage, you can't tell a Best Picture contender without a video mashup. Thank goodness, then, for Moviefone's Best Pictu...

Oscars Made Easy: 'Moneyball'

Posted 02.20.2012

"Moneyball" Nominated For: Best Picture, Best Actor (Brad Pitt), Best Supporting Actor (Jonah Hill), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Be...

Michael Lewis' Coach' To Be Made Into Movie

Posted 02.17.2012

In case you haven't gotten your fill of impassioned sports movies based on books, Disney has just announced plans to adapt another story from "Moneyba...

Best Actor: Clooney or Pitt?

John Farr | Posted 05.05.2013
John Farr

One thing this past year confirmed was that these handsome, movie-idol personalities can really act. Too often Pitt and Clooney have been constrained by their leading man status to playing cool protagonists who save the day and get the girl. And they appear to be playing themselves.

On Moneyball, and Why Sports Fans Don't Always Like Sports Movies

Joe DePaolo | Posted 03.31.2012
Joe DePaolo

Our enjoyment of a film depends on our ability to suspend disbelief. Sports movies based on true stories are at a severe disadvantage in this regard. Many of us are acutely aware of every last detail of a sports film. Sports fans are conditioned that way. It's in our DNA.

The Oscar Bounce: What's An Oscar Nomination Worth At The Box Office?

The Huffington Post | Gary Susman | Posted 03.26.2012

The much vaunted Oscar bounce ain't what it used to be. Within the last decade, a movie nominated for Best Picture could expect to see its grosses ...

Brad Pitt On Steven Soderbergh's 'Moneyball': 'Nobody Wanted To Buy Disgraced Goods'

Posted 01.25.2012

It turns out that not even a man as charming, handsome and talented as Brad Pitt can sell a perceived lemon. Back in 2009, when Sony unceremoniously d...

Best Supporting Actor: It's Old-Timer's Day at the Oscar Nominations

The Huffington Post | Gary Susman | Posted 01.24.2012

To be cited for Best Supporting Actor among this morning's Oscar nominations, it helped to have not just a SAG card, but also an AARP card. The averag...

Super Tuesday: Predicting This Year's Oscar Nominations

Jon Chattman | Posted 03.18.2012
Jon Chattman

Here's my stab at predicting most of the categories for the 84th Annual Academy Awards.

Why Steven Soderbergh's 'Moneyball' Didn't Work Out

Posted 03.17.2012

Last week, resident movie blogger curmudgeon Jeffrey Wells lamented the fact that the "Moneyball" DVD/Blu-ray extras didn't mention Steven Soderbergh ...

'Moneyball' Unscripted: Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill Round the Bases

Posted 01.13.2012

Following the self-proclaimed "worst" Unscripted ever with 'Drive' cohorts Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn, is this edition with Brad Pitt and J...

Eric Larnick

'Moneyball' Heads For Home

HuffingtonPost.com | Eric Larnick | Posted 03.11.2012

Moviefone's Pick of the Week "Moneyball" What's It About? Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the real-life General Manager for the Oakland A'...

What the New York Film Critic Circle Awards Mean for the Oscars

Posted 01.09.2012

The New York Film Critics Circle handed out some awards on Tuesday. Well, not "handed out," per se, (they'll do that at a ceremony next year), but the...

Do Handsome Actors Get Snubbed By the Oscars?

Posted 01.05.2012

At the 1967 Academy Awards, Mike Nichols's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' was nominated for 13 Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Elizabeth...