Name	Tina Fey
Caption	Tina Fey at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International promoting Megamind.
Birth name	Elizabeth Stamatina Fey
Birth date	May 18, 1970
Birth place	Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania,United States
Occupation	Actress, comedian, writer, producer
Years active	1994–present
Spouse	Jeff Richmond (2001–present; 1 child)

Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey (; born May 18, 1970) is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. She has received seven Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four Writers Guild of America Awards. She was singled out as the performer who had the greatest impact on culture and entertainment in 2008 by the Associated Press, which gave her its AP Entertainer of the Year award.

Early life

Fey was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, a township just outside of Philadelphia. She is the daughter of Zenovia "Jeanne" (née Xenakes) – a brokerage employee of Greek descent – and Donald Fey, a university grant proposal-writer of German and Scottish descent. She has a brother, who is eight years older, named Peter.

Fey was exposed to comedy early. She recalls:

She also grew up watching Second City Television (SCTV) and cites Catherine O'Hara as a role model.

Fey attended Cardington Elementary School and Beverly Hills Middle School in Upper Darby. By middle school, she knew she was interested in comedy, even doing an independent-study project on the subject in eighth grade. She also anonymously wrote the newspaper's satirical column, The Acorn. Following her graduation in 1988, Fey enrolled at the University of Virginia, where she studied playwriting and acting. She graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama.

Career

Early career

After graduating, Fey originally had plans to do graduate work in drama at DePaul University in Chicago, but "I just got this feeling like it wasn't going to work out ... [that] they were going to take my money and then cut me from the program." She moved to Chicago anyway, knowing about the improvisational comedy troupe, The Second City. She took night classes at Second City, and had a day job working at the front desk of a YMCA facility in Evanston to pay for her classes. Once her Second City training began, she immersed herself in the "cult of improvisation", where she performed alongside Scott Adsit, Kevin Dorff, Rachel Dratch, Jenna Jolovitz, and Jim Zulevic. Improvisation became an important influence on her initial understanding of what it means to be an actress, as she noted in an interview for The Believer in November 2003: She also performed at the ImprovOlympic theater.

Saturday Night Live (1997–2006)

While performing shows with the Second City in 1997, Fey submitted several scripts to NBC's variety show Saturday Night Live (SNL), at the request of its head writer Adam McKay, a former performer at Second City. for SNL following a meeting with SNL creator Lorne Michaels, and moved to New York. Fey told The New Yorker, "I’d had my eye on the show forever, the way other kids have their eye on Derek Jeter." She co-wrote the "Sully and Denise" sketches with Rachel Dratch, and after watching herself, decided to diet and lost 30 pounds. She told The New York Times, "I was a completely normal weight. But I was here in New York City, I had money and I couldn't buy any clothes. After I lost weight, there was interest in putting me on camera." In 1999, McKay stepped down as head writer, which led Michaels to approach Fey for the position.

In 2000, Fey began performing in sketches, Fey said she did not ask to audition, but that Michaels approached her. Michaels explained that there was "chemistry" between Fey and Fallon. Her role in Weekend Update was well received by critics. Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly wrote: "...Fey delivers such blow darts – poison filled jokes written in long, precisely parsed sentences unprecedented in Update history – with such a bright, sunny countenance makes her all the more devilishly delightful." Dennis Miller, a former cast member of SNL and anchor of Weekend Update, was pleased with Fey as one of the anchors for the segment: "...Fey might be the best Weekend Update anchor who ever did it. She writes the funniest jokes". Robert Bianco of USA Today, however, commented that he was "not enamored" with the pairing.

In 2001, Fey and the writing staff won a Writers Guild of America Award for SNL's 25th anniversary special.

The pairing of Fey and Fallon ended in May 2004 when Fallon last appeared as a cast member. He was replaced by Amy Poehler. It was the first time that two women co-anchored Weekend Update. Fey revealed that she "hired" Poehler as her co-host for the segment. The reception to the teaming of Fey and Poehler was positive, with Rachel Sklar of the Chicago Tribune noting that the pairing "has been a hilarious, pitch-perfect success as they play off each other with quick one-liners and deadpan delivery".

30 Rock (2006–present)

in October 2007.]]

In 2002, Fey suggested a pilot episode for a situation comedy about a cable news network to NBC, who rejected it. The pilot was reworked to revolve around an SNL style series, and was accepted by NBC. She signed a contract with NBC in May 2003, which allowed her to remain in her SNL head writer position at least through the 2004–2005 television season. As part of the contract, Fey was to develop a primetime project to be produced by Broadway Video and NBC Universal. She began developing the pilot project under the working title Untitled Tina Fey Project. The pilot, directed by Adam Bernstein, centered on the head writer of a variety show and how she managed her relationships with the show's volatile star and its executive producer. In October 2006, the pilot aired on NBC as 30 Rock. Although the episode received generally favorable reviews, it finished third in its timeslot.

The network renewed the series for a second season, which began in October 2007. The show's third season premiered on October 30, 2008. The premiere episode set records for the highest ratings of the series. In January 2009, NBC renewed 30 Rock for the 2009–2010 season.

In 2007, Fey received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. The show itself won the 2007 Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. In 2008, she won the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Emmy awards all in the category for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. The following year, Fey again won the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award in the same categories, and was nominated for an Emmy Award. In early 2010, Fey received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Lead Actress. 30 Rock was renewed for the 2010–2011 season in March 2010.

Sarah Palin

In September and October 2008 Fey made a guest appearance on SNL to perform a series of parodies of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. On the 34th season premiere episode, aired September 13, 2008, Fey imitated Palin in a sketch, alongside Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton. Their repartee included Clinton needling Palin about her "Tina Fey glasses". The sketch quickly became NBC.com's most-watched viral video ever, with 5.7 million views by the following Wednesday. Fey reprised this role on the October 4 show, and on the October 18 show where she was joined by the real Sarah Palin. The October 18 show had the best ratings of any SNL show since 1994. The following year Fey won an Emmy in the category of Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her impersonation of Palin. Fey returned to SNL in April 2010, and reprised her impression of Palin in one sketch titled "Sarah Palin Network".

In December 2009, Entertainment Weekly put her impersonation on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, writing, "Fey's freakishly spot-on SNL impersonation of the wannabe VP (and her ability to strike a balance between comedy and cruelty) made for truly transcendent television."

Other work

In 2000, Fey partnered with fellow SNL cast member Rachel Dratch in the Off Broadway two-woman show Dratch & Fey at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City. The production was well received by critics. Tim Townsend of The Wall Street Journal in review of Dratch & Fey, wrote that the fun part of watching them perform was "seeing how comfortable they are with each other". She appeared as a guest judge on the November 25, 2007 episode of the Food Network program Iron Chef America. Fey has appeared in Disney's campaign "Year of a Million Dreams" as Tinker Bell, along with Mikhail Baryshnikov as Peter Pan and Gisele Bündchen as Wendy Darling. She has also done commercials for American Express credit card.

On February 23, 2008, Fey hosted the first episode of SNL after the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. For this appearance, she was nominated for an Emmy in the category of Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. Fey hosted SNL for a second time on April 10, 2010, and for her appearance she received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.

Feature films

In 2002, Fey appeared in the surreal comedy Martin & Orloff. She made her debut as writer and co-star of the 2004 teen comedy Mean Girls. Characters and behaviors in the movie are based on Fey's high school life at Upper Darby High School and on the non-fiction book Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman. The cast includes other past cast members of SNL including Tim Meadows, Ana Gasteyer, and Amy Poehler. The film received favorable reviews, and was a box office success, grossing $129 million worldwide.

at the premiere of Baby Mama in New York.]]

In a 2004 interview, Fey expressed that she would like to write and direct movies in which she has small parts. In 2007, she was cast in the animated comedy film Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters as the teens' mother, a giant burrito.

Fey and former SNL castmate Amy Poehler starred in the 2008 comedy Baby Mama. The movie was written and directed by Michael McCullers. The plot concerns Kate (Fey), a business woman, who wants a child but, discovering she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant, decides to find a surrogate: Angie (Poehler), a white-trash schemer. Baby Mama received mixed reviews, but many critics enjoyed Fey's performance. Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote: "Fey is a delight to watch throughout. Able to convey Kate's intentions and feelings through the simple looks and inflections, she never melodramatizes her situation; nor does her efficient, perfectionist side become overbearing." The movie grossed over $64 million at the box office.

Fey's projects after 2008 include her lending her voice to the character Lisa in the English language version of the Japanese animated film Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (titled Ponyo for its U.S. release). In 2009, she appeared in The Invention of Lying, alongside Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe, and Christopher Guest. Her next film role was in Shawn Levy's 2010 comedy Date Night, a feature that focuses on a married couple, played by Fey and Steve Carell, who go on a date; however, the night goes awry for the two. Also in the same year, she voiced Roxanne Ritchie, a television reporter, in the DreamWorks animated film Megamind (2010).

In July 2010 it was announced that Fey will star in an upcoming comedy entitled Mommy & Me alongside Meryl Streep, who will play her mother. The film will be directed by Stanley Tucci.

In the media

Fey was ranked in the Hot 100 List at number 80 on Maxim magazine in 2002. and one of People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People in 2007, 2008, and 2009. In 2007, she was included in People's 100 Most Beautiful issue. Also in 2007, Fey placed seventh on the Hot 100 List on AfterEllen.com. She repeated the appearance the following year, however, being voted as number one on the list.

In 2001, Entertainment Weekly named Fey as one of their Entertainers of the Year for her work on Weekend Update. She again was named one of the magazine's Entertainers of the Year in 2007, and placed number two in 2008. In 2009, Fey was named as Entertainment Weekly's fifth individual in their 15 Entertainers of the 2000s list. The newspaper editors and broadcast producers of the Associated Press voted Fey the AP Entertainer of the Year as the performer who had the greatest impact on culture and entertainment in 2008, citing her impression of Sarah Palin on SNL. She has appeared on Forbes' annual Celebrity 100 list of the 100 most powerful celebrities in 2008, 2009, and 2010, at No. 99, No. 86, and No. 90 respectively.

In 2007, the New York Post included Fey in New York's 50 Most Powerful Women, ranking her at number 33. Fey was among the Time 100, a list of the 100 most influential people in the world, in 2007 and 2009, as selected annually by Time magazine. Fey's featured article for the 2009 list was written by 30 Rock co-star, Alec Baldwin.

Personal life

in April 2010]]

Fey is married to Jeff Richmond, composer on 30 Rock. They met at Chicago's Second City and dated for seven years before marrying in a Greek Orthodox ceremony on June 3, 2001. They have a daughter—Alice Zenobia Richmond—who was born on September 10, 2005, during Fey's tenure at SNL. Fey returned to the show on October 22, saying "I had to get back to work. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement." In April 2009, Fey and Richmond purchased a $3.4 million apartment in the Upper West Side in New York City.

Fey has a scar a few inches long on the left side of her chin and cheek. Responding to questions about its origin, Fey was quoted in the November 25, 2001, New York Times article as saying: "It's a childhood injury that was kind of grim. And it kind of bums my parents out for me to talk about it". She has said she was reluctant to discuss the incident in part because "It's impossible to talk about it without somehow seemingly exploiting it." Fey favors the right (non-scar) side of her face when acting as her character Liz Lemon. At the 64th Golden Globe Awards, Fey wore a blue puzzle piece to raise awareness for the organization. In April 2008, she participated in Night of Too Many Stars, a comedy show benefit for autism education.

Fey is also a supporter of Mercy Corps, a global relief and development organization, in their campaign to end world hunger. Fey narrated a video for Mercy Corps's Action Center in New York City, describing hunger as a symptom of many wider world problems. She also supports the Love Our Children USA organization, which fights violence against children, who named her among their Mothers Who Make a Difference in 2009. She is the 2009 national spokesperson for the Light The Night Walk, which benefits the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

In June 2010, it was announced she would receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011.

Detailed works

{| class="wikitable sortable" |+ As a writer |- ! style="width:10%;"| Year/s ! style="width:20%;"| Title ! style="width:5%;"| Medium ! style="width:65%;"| Notes |- | 1997–2006 | Saturday Night Live | TV | Head writer 1999–2006 |- | 2004 | Mean Girls | Film | Screenplay adapted from Queen Bees and Wannabes |- | 2006–present | 30 Rock | TV | Episodes written:Season 1: (8/21) "Pilot", "The Aftermath", "Tracy Does Conan", "The Head and the Hair"^‡, "Black Tie"^‡, "Up All Night", "The C Word", "Hiatus"Season 2: (4/15) "SeinfeldVision", "Somebody to Love"^‡, "MILF Island"^‡, "Cooter"Season 3: (5) "Do-Over", "Christmas Special"^‡, "St. Valentine's Day"^‡, "The Bubble", "The Natural Order"^‡Season 4: (4) "Season 4", "Secret Santa, "Lee Marvin vs. Derek Jeter"^‡, "I Do Do"‡denotes episode co-written. |}

{| class="wikitable sortable" |+ As an actress |- ! style="width:10%;"| Year/s ! style="width:20%;"| Title ! style="width:5%;"| Medium ! style="width:15%;"| Role/s ! style="width:50%;"| Notes |- | 1998–2006, 2008, 2010 | Saturday Night Live | TV | Multiple | Includes being a cast member from 1998 to 2006, host of Weekend Update (2000–2006), guest in 2008 and 2010, and made five appearances impersonating Sarah Palin. |- | 1999 | Upright Citizens Brigade | TV | Kerri Downey | One episode |- | 2002 | Martin & Orloff | Film | Southern Woman | |- | 2004 | Mean Girls | Film | Ms. Norbury | |- | 2006 | Artie Lange's Beer League | Film | Gym Secretary | |- | 2006 | Man of the Year | Film | Herself | Saturday Night Lives Weekend Update with Fey and Amy Poehler was featured in the movie |- | 2006–present | 30 Rock | TV | Liz Lemon | Main role | |- | 2008 | Baby Mama | Film | Kate Holbrook | |- | 2009 | Ponyo | Film | Lisa | Voice (English version) |- | 2009 | | Film | Shelley | |- | 2009 | SpongeBob's Truth or Square | TV | Herself | |- | 2010 | Date Night | Film | Claire Foster | |- | 2010 | Megamind | Film | Roxanne Ritchi | Voice |}

Awards and nominations

The following awards are categorized under the year they were announced (and not necessarily the year covered by the award ceremony).

{| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Award ! Category ! Work ! Result |- | 2001 | Emmy Award | Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program | Saturday Night Live | Nominated |- | 2001 | WGA Award | Comedy/Variety series | Saturday Night Live | Nominated |- | 2001 | WGA Award | Comedy/Variety special | Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special | Won |- | 2002 | Emmy Award | Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program | Saturday Night Live | Won |- | 2002 | WGA Award | Comedy/Variety series | Saturday Night Live | Nominated |- | 2003 | Emmy Award | Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program | Saturday Night Live | Nominated |- | 2003 | WGA Award | Comedy/Variety Series | Saturday Night Live | Nominated |- | 2003 | WGA Award | Comedy/Variety Special | Saturday Night Live: NBC 75th Anniversary Special | Nominated |- | 2004 | Teen Choice Award | Choice TV Actress: Comedy | Saturday Night Live | Nominated |- | 2005 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Funny Female Star | | Nominated |- | 2005 | Teen Choice Award | Choice Comedian | | Nominated |- | 2005 | WGA Award | Best Adapted Screenplay | Mean Girls | Nominated |- | 2007 | Emmy Award | Comedy Series | 30 Rock | Won |- | 2007 | Emmy Award | Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | 30 Rock | Nominated |- | 2007 | Emmy Award | Writing for a Comedy Series | "Tracy Does Conan" for 30 Rock | Nominated |- | 2007 | WGA Award | Comedy Series | 30 Rock | Nominated |- | 2007 | WGA Award | New Series | 30 Rock | Nominated |- | 2007 | WGA Award | Comedy/Variety Special | Saturday Night Live | Won |- | 2008 | Emmy Award | Comedy Series | 30 Rock | Won |- | 2008 | Emmy Award | Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | 30 Rock | Won |- | 2008 | Emmy Award | Writing for a Comedy Series | "Cooter" for 30 Rock | Won |- | 2008 | Emmy Award | Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program | Saturday Night Live | Nominated |- | 2008 | Golden Globe Award | Actress in a Television Series — Musical or Comedy | 30 Rock | Won |- | 2008 | Golden Globe Award | Best Television Series — Musical or Comedy | 30 Rock | Nominated |- | 2008 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Female Actor in a Comedy Series | 30 Rock | Won |- | 2008 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Ensemble in a Comedy Series | 30 Rock | Nominated |- | 2008 | WGA Award | Comedy Series | 30 Rock | Won |- | 2009 | Golden Globe Award | Actress in a Television Series — Musical or Comedy | 30 Rock | Won |- | 2009 | Golden Globe Award | Best Television Series — Musical or Comedy | 30 Rock | Won |- | 2009 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Female Actor in a Comedy Series | 30 Rock | Won |- | 2009 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Ensemble in a Comedy Series | 30 Rock | Won |- | 2009 | WGA Award | Comedy Series | 30 Rock | Won |- | 2009 | WGA Award | Episodic Comedy | "Cooter" for 30 Rock | Nominated |- | 2009 | Emmy Award | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | Portrayal of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live | Won |- | 2009 | Emmy Award | Comedy Series | 30 Rock | Won |- | 2009 | Emmy Award | Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | 30 Rock | Nominated |- | 2010 | Golden Globe Award | Actress in a Television Series — Musical or Comedy | 30 Rock | Nominated |- | 2010 | Golden Globe Award | Best Television Series — Musical or Comedy | 30 Rock | Nominated |- | 2010 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Female Actor in a Comedy Series | 30 Rock | Won |- | 2010 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Ensemble in a Comedy Series | 30 Rock | Nominated |- | 2010 | Emmy Award | Comedy Series | 30 Rock | Nominated |- | 2010 | Emmy Award | Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | 30 Rock | Nominated |- | 2010 | Emmy Award | Writing for a Comedy Series | "Lee Marvin vs. Derek Jeter" for 30 Rock | Nominated |- | 2010 | Emmy Award | Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program | Saturday Night Live | Nominated |- | 2010 | Teen Choice Award | Choice Movie Actress: Comedy | Date Night | Won |- | 2010 | Mark Twain Prize for American Humor | American Humor | | Won |}

References

Further reading

Baldwin, Kristen. "'Update' With Destiny." Entertainment Weekly. May 2, 2002. Accessed July 14, 2009.

Smith, Kyle. "Leap of Fey." People Magazine. May 3, 2004. Accessed July 14, 2009.

Schwartz, Missy. "The Smartest Girl in The Class." Entertainment Weekly. May 7, 2004. Accessed July 14, 2009.

Ryder, Caroline. "A Conversation with Tina Fey." Women's Health Magazine. March 2007. Accessed July 14, 2009.

Rys, Richard. "Exit Interview: Tina Fey." Philadelphia Magazine. April 3, 2008. Accessed July 15, 2009.

Baldwin, Kristen. "Tina Fey: One Hot 'Mama'." Entertainment Weekly. April 9, 2008. Accessed July 14, 2009.

Jacobs, A.J. "Tina Fey, Make Us Laugh." Esquire Magazine. May 1, 2008. Accessed July 15, 2009.

Carnwath, Ally. "Queen of the jokers." The Guardian. May 4, 2008. Accessed July 14, 2009.

Goodwin, Christopher. "And funny with it." The Guardian. May 11, 2008. Accessed July 14, 2009.

Moran, Caitlin. "Tina Fey and Sarah Silverman: the new queens of comedy." The Times October 3, 2008. Accessed July 14, 2009.

Carter, Bill. "It’s Easy to Find Tina Fey on TV, but Not Her Show." The New York Times. October 13, 2008. Accessed July 14, 2009.

Brown, Laura. "Tina Fey Rocks." Harper's Bazaar. November 2009. Accessed October 7, 2009.

Pringle, Gill. "Tina Fey — From spoofer to movie stardom." The Independent. March 19, 2010. Accessed March 19, 2010.

Walker-Mitchell, Donna. "Witty woman." The Sydney Morning Herald. March 28, 2010. Accessed March 28, 2010.

External links

Interview on Fresh Air, aired November 3, 2008

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Caption	Pitt at 2008 premiere of Burn After Reading
Alt	A Caucasian with light brown hair, blue eyes and a short brown beard, in front of a turquoise background. He is wearing a white shirt and white hat.
Birth name	William Bradley Pitt
Occupation	Actor, producer
Birth date	December 18, 1963
Birth place	Shawnee, Oklahoma, United States
Years active	1987–present
Spouse	Jennifer Aniston (2000–2005, divorced)
Partner	Angelina Jolie (2005–present)
Children	3 sons, 3 daughters
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Missouri

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt

Pitt began his acting career with television guest appearances, including a role on the CBS prime-time soap opera Dallas in 1987. He later gained recognition as the cowboy hitchhiker who seduces Geena Davis's character in the 1991 road movie Thelma & Louise. Pitt's first leading roles in big-budget productions came with A River Runs Through It (1992) and (1994). He was cast opposite Anthony Hopkins in the 1994 drama Legends of the Fall, which earned him his first Golden Globe nomination. In 1995 he gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys, the latter securing him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination. Four years later, in 1999, Pitt starred in the cult hit Fight Club. He then starred in the major international hit as Rusty Ryan in Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). His greatest commercial successes have been Troy (2004) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Pitt received his second Academy Award nomination for his title role performance in the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Following a high-profile relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Pitt was married to actress Jennifer Aniston for five years. Pitt currently lives with actress Angelina Jolie in a relationship that has generated wide publicity. He and Jolie have six children—Maddox, Zahara, Pax, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne. Since beginning his relationship with Jolie, he has become increasingly involved in social issues both in the United States and internationally. Pitt owns a production company named Plan B Entertainment, whose productions include the 2007 Academy Award winning Best Picture, The Departed.

Early life

The son of Jane Etta (née Hillhouse), a high school counselor, and William Alvin Pitt, a truck company owner, Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma. he grew up in Springfield, Missouri, where the family moved soon after his birth. He was raised as a conservative Southern Baptist. As a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, he acted in several fraternity shows. As graduation approached, Pitt saw his friends getting jobs but did not feel ready to settle down himself. He loved films—"a portal into different worlds for me"—and, since films were not made in Missouri, he decided he would go to where they were made. and dressing up as an El Pollo Loco chicken to pay for acting lessons.

Pitt's onscreen career began in 1987, with uncredited parts in the films No Way Out, No Man's Land and Less Than Zero. He appeared in four episodes of the CBS primetime soap opera Dallas between December 1987 and February 1988 as Randy, the boyfriend of Charlie Wade (played by Shalane McCall). Speaking of his scenes with McCall, Pitt later said "It was kind of wild, because I'd never even met her before."

In the same year, the Yugoslavian–U.S. co-production The Dark Side of the Sun (1988) gave Pitt his first leading film role, as a young American taken by his family to the Adriatic to find a remedy for a skin condition. However, the film was shelved on the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence, and was released only in 1997.

Pitt was cast as Billy Canton, a drug addict who takes advantage of a young runaway (played by Juliette Lewis) in the 1990 NBC television movie Too Young to Die?, the story of an abused teenager sentenced to death for a murder. Ken Tucker, television reviewer for Entertainment Weekly wrote: "Pitt is a magnificent slimeball as her hoody boyfriend; looking and sounding like a malevolent John Cougar Mellencamp, he's really scary."

After years of supporting roles in movies and frequent television guest appearances, broader public recognition came for Pitt with his supporting role in the 1991 road film Thelma & Louise. He played J.D., a small-time criminal who befriends Thelma (Geena Davis). His love scene with Davis has been cited as the moment that defined Pitt as a sex symbol.

After Thelma & Louise, Pitt starred in the 1991 film Johnny Suede, a low-budget picture about an aspiring rock star, and the 1992 film Cool World, Pitt took the role of Paul Maclean in the 1992 biographical film A River Runs Through It, directed by Robert Redford. His portrayal of the character has been described as a career-making performance, proving that Pitt could be more than a "cowboy-hatted hunk", although he admitted that he felt under pressure when making the film. Pitt added that he considered it one of his "weakest performances ... It's so weird that it ended up being the one that I got the most attention for." Pitt also garnered attention for a brief appearance in the cult hit True Romance as a stoner named Floyd, providing much needed comic relief to the action film. He capped the year by winning a ShoWest Award for Male Star of Tomorrow.

Critical success

1994 marked a significant turning point in Pitt's career. Starring as vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac in the feature film , based on Anne Rice's 1976 novel of the same name, he was part of an ensemble cast that included Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, and Antonio Banderas. his performance was poorly received. According to the Dallas Observer, "Brad Pitt ... is a large part of the problem [in the film]. When directors play up his cocky, hunkish, folksy side ... he's a joy to watch. But there's nothing about him that suggests inner torment or even self-awareness, which makes him a boring Louis."

in 1995 and 2000.]]

Following the release of Interview with the Vampire, Pitt starred in Legends of the Fall (1994), a film set during the first four decades of the twentieth century. Pitt portrayed Tristan Ludlow, son of Colonel William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins), and received his first Golden Globe Award nomination, in the Best Actor category. Aidan Quinn and Henry Thomas co-starred as Pitt's brothers. Although the film's reception was mixed, many film critics complimented Pitt's performance. Janet Maslin of The New York Times said, "Pitt's diffident mix of acting and attitude works to such heartthrob perfection it's a shame the film's superficiality gets in his way" while the Deseret News predicted that Legends of the Fall would solidify Pitt's reputation as a lead actor.

In 1995, Pitt starred alongside Morgan Freeman and Gwyneth Paltrow in the crime thriller Seven, playing a detective on the trail of a serial killer (played by Kevin Spacey). Pitt called the film a great movie and declared the part would expand his acting horizons, expressing a desire to move on from "this 'pretty boy' thing [...] and play someone with flaws". His performance was critically well-received, with Variety saying that it was screen acting at its best, further remarking on Pitt's ability to turn in a "determined, energetic, creditable job" as the detective. Seven earned $327 million at the international box office. He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film

The following year he had a role in the legal drama Sleepers (1996), based on the Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel of the same name. The film received mixed reviews. In the 1997 movie The Devil's Own Pitt starred, opposite Harrison Ford, as the Irish Republican Army terrorist Rory Devany, a role for which he was required to learn an Irish accent. Critical opinion was divided on his approximation of the accent; "Pitt finds the right tone of moral ambiguity, but at times his Irish brogue is too convincing – it's hard to understand what he's saying", wrote the San Francisco Chronicle while a contributor from The Charleston Gazette opined that it had favored Pitt's accent over the movie. The Devil's Own grossed $140 million worldwide, Pitt trained for months for the role, which demanded significant mountain climbing and trekking practice, including by rock climbing in California and the European Alps with his co-star David Thewlis. The film received mostly negative reviews, and was generally considered a disappointment.

Pitt then had the lead role in 1998's Meet Joe Black. He portrayed a personification of death inhabiting the body of a young man to learn what it is like to be human. The film received mixed reviews, and many were critical of Pitt's performance. According to Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, Pitt was unable to "to make an audience believe that he knows all the mysteries of death and eternity."

From 1999 to 2003

In 1999, Pitt portrayed Tyler Durden, an uncompromising and charismatic individual, in Fight Club, a film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name, directed by David Fincher. Pitt prepared for the part with lessons in boxing, taekwondo, and grappling. To look the part, Pitt consented to the removal of pieces of his front teeth which were restored when filming ended. While promoting Fight Club, Pitt said that the purpose of the film was not necessarily to take one's aggressions out on someone else but rather to "have an experience, take a punch more" and see how you come out on the other end. Fight Club premiered at the 1999 Venice International Film Festival and, despite divided critical opinion on the film as a whole, Pitt's performance was broadly praised. Paul Clinton of CNN noted the risky yet successful nature of the film while Variety remarked upon Pitt's ability to be "cool, charismatic and more dynamically physical, perhaps than [...] his breakthrough role in Thelma and Louise". In spite of a worse-than-expected box office performance, Fight Club became a cult classic after its DVD release in 2000.

, Matt Damon, Andy García, Julia Roberts, cast of Ocean's Eleven and director Steven Soderbergh in December 2001]]

Following Fight Club, Pitt was cast as an Irish Gypsy boxer with a barely intelligible accent in Guy Ritchie's 2000 gangster film Snatch. Several reviewers were critical of Snatch, however most praised Pitt. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said Pitt was "ideally cast as an Irishman whose accent is so thick even Brits can't understand him", going on to say that, before Snatch, Pitt had been "shackled by roles that called for brooding introspection, but recently he has found his calling in black comic outrageousness and flashy extroversion;" while Amy Taubin of The Village Voice claimed that "Pitt gets maximum comic mileage out of a one-joke role".

The following year Pitt starred opposite Julia Roberts in the romantic comedy The Mexican, a film that garnered a broad range of reviews but enjoyed box office success. Salon.com enjoyed the film, though noting that neither Pitt nor Redford provided "much of an emotional connection for the audience". On November 22, 2001, Pitt made a guest appearance in the of the television series Friends, playing a man with a grudge against Rachel Green, played by Jennifer Aniston, to whom Pitt was married at the time. For this performance he was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. In December 2001, Pitt had the role of Rusty Ryan in the heist film Ocean's Eleven, a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack original. He joined an ensemble cast including George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy García, and Julia Roberts. Well-received by critics, Ocean's Eleven was successful at the box office, earning $450 million worldwide. and participating in his own staged abduction in another episode. In the same year, Pitt had a cameo role in George Clooney's directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. He took on his first voice-acting roles in 2003, lending his voice to the titular character of the DreamWorks animated film and playing Boomhauer's brother, Patch, in an episode of the animated television series King of the Hill.

After 2003

Pitt had two major film roles in 2004, starring as Achilles in Troy, and making a second appearance as Rusty Ryan, in the sequel Ocean's Twelve. He spent six months sword training before the filming of Troy, based on the Iliad. An on-set injury to his Achilles tendon delayed production on the picture for several weeks. With a total worldwide gross of $497 million, Troy remains Pitt's most commercially successful picture to date. The film earned $364 million outside the U.S. and $133 million domestically. Stephen Hunter of The Washington Times stated that Pitt excelled at such a demanding role. Ocean's Twelve earned $362 million worldwide, and Pitt and Clooney's dynamic was described (by CNN's Paul Clinton) as "the best male chemistry since Paul Newman and Robert Redford".

In 2005, Pitt starred in the Doug Liman-directed action comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith, in which a bored married couple discover that each is an assassin sent to kill the other. The feature received reasonable reviews but was generally lauded for the chemistry between Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who played his character's wife Jane Smith. The Star Tribune noted that "while the story feels haphazard, the movie gets by on gregarious charm, galloping energy and the stars' thermonuclear screen chemistry." Mr. & Mrs. Smith earned $478 million worldwide, making it one of the biggest hits of 2005.

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For his next feature film, Pitt starred opposite Cate Blanchett in Alejandro González Iñárritu's multi-narrative drama Babel (2006). Pitt's performance was critically well-received, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer believed that he was credible and gave the film visibility. Pitt later said he regarded taking the part as one of the best decisions of his career. The film was screened at a special presentation at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and was later featured at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. Babel received seven Academy and Golden Globe award nominations, wining the Best Drama Golden Globe, and earned Pitt a nomination for the Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe. While less lucrative than the first two films, this sequel earned $311 million at the international box office. Directed by Andrew Dominik and produced by Pitt's company Plan B, the film premiered at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, with Pitt playing a "scary and charismatic" role, according to Lewis Beale of Film Journal International, and earning Pitt the Volpi Cup award for Best Actor at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. Although Pitt attended the festival to promote the film, he left early after being attacked by a fan who pushed through his bodyguards. He eventually collected the award one year later at the 2008 festival.

Pitt's next appearance was in the 2008 black comedy Burn After Reading, his first collaboration with the Coen brothers. The film received a positive reception from critics, with The Guardian calling it "a tightly wound, slickly plotted spy comedy", noting that Pitt's performance was one of the funniest. with Pitt's "sensitive" performance making Benjamin Button a "timeless masterpiece," according to Michael Sragow of The Baltimore Sun. The performance earned Pitt his first Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, as well as a fourth Golden Globe and second Academy Award nomination, all in the category for Best Actor. The film itself received thirteen Academy Award nominations in total, and grossed $329 million at the box office worldwide. Pitt played Lieutenant Aldo Raine, an American resistance fighter battling Nazis in German-occupied France. The film was a box office hit, taking $311 million worldwide, The film received multiple awards and nominations, including eight Academy Award nominations and seven MTV Movie Award nominations, including Best Male Performance for Pitt. He voiced the superhero character Metro Man in the 2010 animated feature Megamind. Pitt is due to appear in Terrence Malick's drama The Tree of Life, co-starring Sean Penn, and has signed on to appear as a British explorer searching for a mysterious Amazonian civilization in the Lost City of Z, based on David Grann's eponymous book.

Other projects

Film and television work

Along with Jennifer Aniston and Brad Grey, CEO of Paramount Pictures, Pitt founded the film production company Plan B Entertainment in 2002, although Aniston and Grey withdrew in 2005. The company has produced several films, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starring Johnny Depp in 2005, as well as 2007's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and A Mighty Heart, starring Angelina Jolie. Plan B was also involved in producing The Departed, the winner of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Picture. Pitt was credited onscreen as a producer; however, only Graham King was ruled eligible for the Oscar win. Pitt has been reluctant to discuss the production company in interviews. Other commercial appearances came in television spots designed for Asian markets, advertising such products as the Acura Integra, in which he was featured opposite Russian model Tatiana Sorokko, as well as SoftBank and Edwin Jeans.

Humanitarian causes

Pitt supports the ONE Campaign, an organization aimed at combating AIDS and poverty in the developing world. He narrated the 2005 PBS public television series Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge, which discusses current global health issues and traveled to Pakistan in November 2005 with Angelina Jolie to see the impact of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. The following year Pitt and Jolie flew to Haiti, where they visited a school supported by Yéle Haïti, a charity founded by Haitian-born hip hop musician Wyclef Jean. In May 2007, Pitt and Jolie donated $1 million to three organizations in Chad and Sudan dedicated to those affected by the crisis in the Darfur region. Along with Clooney, Damon, Don Cheadle, and Jerry Weintraub, Pitt is one of the founders of "Not On Our Watch", an organization that tries to focus global attention and resources to stop and prevent genocides such as that in Darfur.

Pitt has a sustained interest in architecture and has narrated Design e2, a PBS television series focused on worldwide efforts to build environmentally friendly structures through sustainable architecture and design. He founded the Make It Right Foundation in 2006, organizing housing professionals in New Orleans to finance and construct 150 sustainable, affordable new houses in New Orleans's Ninth Ward following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. The project involves 13 architectural firms and the environmental organization Global Green USA, with several of the firms donating their services. Pitt and philanthropist Steve Bing have each committed $5 million in donations. The first six homes were completed in October 2008, and in September 2009 Pitt received an award in recognition of the project from the U.S. Green Building Council, a non-profit trade organization that promotes sustainability in how buildings are designed, built and operated. Pitt met with U.S. President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi in March 2009 to promote his concept of green housing as a national model and to discuss federal funding possibilities.

In September 2006, Pitt and Jolie established a charitable organization, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, to aid humanitarian causes around the world. The foundation made initial donations of $1 million each to Global Action for Children and Doctors Without Borders, According to federal filings, Pitt and Jolie invested $8.5 million into the foundation in 2006; it gave away $2.4 million in 2006 and $3.4 million in 2007. In June 2009 the Jolie-Pitt Foundation donated $1 million to a U.N. refugee agency to help Pakistanis displaced by fighting between troops and Taliban militants. In January 2010 the foundation donated $1 million to Doctors Without Borders for emergency medical assistance to help victims of the Haiti earthquake.

In the media

Pitt's sex appeal has been picked up by many sources including Empire, who named him one of the 25 sexiest stars in film history in 1995. Pitt appeared on Forbes's annual Celebrity 100 list of the 100 most powerful celebrities in 2006, 2007, and 2008, at No. 20, No. 5, and No. 10 respectively. In 2007 he was listed among the Time 100, a compilation of the 100 most influential people in the world, as selected annually by Time. Pitt was again included in the Time 100 in 2009, this time in the Builders and Titans list.

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Pitt visited the University of Missouri campus in October 2004 to encourage students to vote in the 2004 U.S. presidential election, in which he supported John Kerry. Later in October he publicly supported the principle of public funding for embryonic stem-cell research. "We have to make sure that we open up these avenues so that our best and our brightest can go find these cures that they believe they will find," he said. In support of this he endorsed Proposition 71, a California ballot initiative intended to provide federal government funding for stem-cell research.

Starting in 2005, Pitt's relationship with Angelina Jolie became one of the most reported celebrity stories worldwide. After confirming that Jolie was pregnant in early 2006, the unprecedented media hype surrounding the coupled reached what Reuters, in a story titled "The Brangelina fever," called "the point of insanity". Similarly intense media interest greeted the announcement two years later of Jolie's second pregnancy; for the two weeks Jolie spent in a seaside hospital in Nice, reporters and photographers camped outside on the promenade to report on the birth.

In September 2008 Pitt donated $100,000 to the campaign against California's 2008 ballot proposition Proposition 8, an initiative to overturn the state Supreme Court decision that had legalized same-sex marriage. Pitt stated his reasons for the stance: "Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8."

Personal life

In the late 1980s and the 1990s Pitt was involved in successive relationships with several of his co-stars, including Robin Givens (Head of the Class),

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Pitt met Friends actress Jennifer Aniston in 1998 and married her in a private wedding ceremony in Malibu on July 29, 2000. however, in January 2005, Pitt and Aniston announced that they had decided formally to separate after seven years together. Two months later Aniston filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.

During Pitt's divorce from Aniston, his involvement with Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie attracted vigorous media attention. While Pitt denied claims of adultery, he admitted that he "fell in love" with Jolie on the set and said that production on Mr. & Mrs. Smith would continue after his separation from Aniston.

In April 2005, one month after Aniston filed for divorce, a set of paparazzi photographs emerged showing Pitt, Jolie and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya; the pictures were construed in the press as evidence of a relationship between Pitt and Jolie. During the summer of 2005 the two were seen together with increasing frequency, and the entertainment media dubbed the couple "Brangelina". Pitt and Aniston's divorce was finalized by the Los Angeles Superior Court on October 2, 2005, legally ending their marriage. In an October 2006 interview with Esquire, Pitt said that he and Jolie would marry when everyone in America is legally able to marry. In February 2010, Pitt and Jolie sued the British tabloid News of the World over reports that the two were splitting up.

Despite media reports that Pitt and Aniston have an acrimonious relationship, in a February 2009 interview, Pitt said that he and Aniston "check in with each other", adding that they were both big parts of each others' lives.

In an October 2007 interview, Pitt revealed that he is no longer a Christian and does not believe in an afterlife. "There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible." In a July 2009 interview he said that he did not believe in God, and that he was "probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic."

Children

In July 2005, Pitt accompanied Jolie to Ethiopia, where she adopted her second child, a six-month-old girl named Zahara, It was confirmed, in December 2005, that Pitt was seeking to legally adopt Jolie's two children, Maddox and Zahara; on January 19, 2006, a California judge granted their request to change the children's surnames to "Jolie-Pitt".

Jolie gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, in Swakopmund, Namibia, on May 27, 2006. Pitt confirmed that their newly born daughter would have a Namibian passport. The couple sold the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images and the North American rights were purchased by People for over $4.1 million, while British magazine Hello! obtained the international rights for approximately $3.5 million. The proceeds from the sale, up to $10 million worldwide, were donated to an undisclosed charity by Pitt and Jolie. Madame Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of two-month-old Shiloh, making Shiloh the first infant to have a statue at Madame Tussauds.

On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted a three-year-old boy from Vietnam, Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt (originally Pax Thien Jolie). Since the orphanage did not allow unmarried couples to adopt, Jolie adopted Pax as a single parent, and Pitt later adopted him as his son in the United States.

Following months of media speculation, Jolie confirmed in an interview at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival that she was expecting twins. She gave birth at the Lenval hospital in Nice, France, on July 12, 2008. The twins were named Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline. The rights for the first images of Knox and Vivienne were jointly sold to People and Hello! for $14 million—the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken. The couple donated the proceeds to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.

Filmography

{| class="wikitable sortable" |+ Actor |- ! Year ! Film ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 1987 | No Way Out | Officer at party | |- | 1987 | No Man's Land | Waiter | |- | 1987 | Less Than Zero | Partygoer | |- | 1987 | Growing Pains | Jeff | TV series (two episodes: "" and "" [1989]) |- | 1987 | Dallas | Randy | TV series (four episodes) |- | 1988 | 21 Jump Street | Peter | TV series (one episode: "Best Years of Your Life") |- | 1987 | Happy Together | Brian | |- | 1987 | Cutting Class | Dwight Ingalls | |- | 1987 | Head of the Class | Chuck | TV series (one episode: "Partners") |- | 1987 | Freddy's Nightmares | Rick Austin | TV series (one episode: "Black Tickets") |- | 1990 | | Cameraman | TV movie |- | 1990 | Too Young to Die? | Billy Canton | TV movie |- | 1990 | Glory Days | Walker Lovejoy | TV series (six episodes) |- | 1991 | Across the Tracks | Joe Maloney | |- | 1991 | Thelma & Louise | J.D. | |- | 1991 | Johnny Suede | Johnny Suede | |- | 1992 | Contact | Cox | |- | 1992 | Cool World | Detective Frank Harris | |- | 1992 | | Paul Maclean | |- | 1993 | Kalifornia | Early Grayce | |- | 1993 | True Romance | Floyd | |- | 1994 | | Elliott Fowler | |- | 1994 | | Louis de Pointe du Lac | MTV Movie Award for Best Performance - MaleMTV Movie Award for Most Desirable MaleNominated–MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo shared with Tom CruiseNominated–Saturn Award for Best Actor |- | 1994 | Legends of the Fall | Tristan Ludlow | Nominated–Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |- | 1995 | Seven | David Mills | MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable MaleNominated–MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo shared with Morgan FreemanNominated–MTV Movie Award for Best Performance - Male |- | 1995 | 12 Monkeys | Jeffrey Goines | Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion PictureSaturn Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated–Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated–MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance |- | 1996 | Sleepers | Michael Sullivan | |- | 1997 | | Francis "Frankie" Austin McQuire/Rory Devaney | |- | 1997 | Seven Years in Tibet | Heinrich Harrer | |- | 1997 | | Rick | |- | 1998 | Meet Joe Black | Joe Black/Man in the Coffee Shop | |- | 1999 | Fight Club | Tyler Durden | |- | 1999 | Being John Malkovich | Himself | Cameo |- | 2000 | Snatch | Mickey O'Neil | Nominated–Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture |- | 2001 | | Jerry Welbach | |- | 2001 | Spy Game | Tom Bishop | |- | 2001 | | Rusty Ryan | Nominated–MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen TeamNominated–Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast |- | 2001 | Friends | Will Colbert | TV series (one episode: "The One with the Rumor")Nominated–Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series |- | 2002 | Full Frontal | Himself | |- | 2002 | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | Brad, Bachelor #1 | |- | 2003 | | Sinbad | Voice actor |- | 2003 | Abby Singer | Himself | Cameo |- | 2004 | Troy | Achilles | Teen Choice Award for Best Action ActorNominated–MTV Movie Award for Best Fight shared with Eric BanaNominated–MTV Movie Award for Best Performance - Male |- | 2004 | | Rusty Ryan | Nominated–Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast |- | 2005 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | John Smith | MTV Movie Award for Best Fight shared with Angelina JolieNominated–MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss shared with Angelina Jolie |- | 2006 | Babel | Richard | Gotham Award for Best Ensemble CastPalm Springs International Film Festival for Best CastSan Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best CastNominated–Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated–Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion PictureNominated–Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion PictureNominated–Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |- | 2007 | | Rusty Ryan | |- | 2007 | | Jesse James | Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup for Best Actor |- | 2008 | Burn After Reading | Chad Feldheimer | Nominated–BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting RoleNominated–Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best CastNominated–Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor |- | 2008 | | Benjamin Button | Nominated–Academy Award for Best ActorNominated–BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading RoleNominated–Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated–Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best CastNominated-Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated–Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture DramaNominated–Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best ActorNominated–Saturn Award for Best ActorNominated–Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion PictureNominated–Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role |- | 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | Lt. Aldo Raine | Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best CastPhoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best CastSan Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best CastScreen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion PictureNominated–Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best CastNominated–MTV Movie Award for Best Performance |- | 2010 | Megamind | Metro-Man | |- | 2011 | | Mr. O'Brien | completed |- | 2011 | Moneyball | Billy Beane | filming |}

{| class="wikitable sortable" |+ Producer |- ! Year ! Film ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 2006 | God Grew Tired of Us | Executive producer |- | 2006 | | Academy Award for Best PictureNominated–BAFTA Award for Best Film |- | 2006 | Running with Scissors | |- | 2007 | | Executive producer |- | 2007 | Year of the Dog | Executive producer |- | 2007 | | Co-producerNominated–Independent Spirit Award for Best Film |- | 2007 | | |- | 2008 | Pretty/Handsome | Executive producer (TV) |- | 2009 | | Executive producer |- | 2009 | | Executive producer |- | 2010 | Kick-Ass | |- | 2010 | Eat Pray Love | |- | 2011 | | |}

References

External links

Not On Our Watch – Founded by: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Jerry Weintraub

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