Brad Pitt

Career eras

1. 2022–2026

   Action leads and producing

   Pitt continued to take action leads and produced F1, in which he plays a veteran driver brought back to the grid. Apple Original Films

   Key work

   • Heart of the Beast 2026 · James Belmont

     Paramount Pictures

   • F1 2025 · Sonny Hayes and producer

     Apple Original Films

   • Bullet Train 2022 · Ladybug

     Sony Pictures

2. 2015–2020

   Plan B and an acting Oscar

   Pitt won his first acting Oscar for playing stuntman Cliff Booth in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. Academy Awards 2020

   Key work

   • Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood 2019 · Cliff Booth

     Festival de Cannes

   • Ad Astra 2019 · Roy McBride and producer

     20th Century Studios

   • The Big Short 2015 · Producer

     Academy career and awards notes

3. 2008–2014

   Leading roles and a producing Oscar

   Pitt earned lead acting Oscar nominations for Benjamin Button and Moneyball, then shared a Best Picture win as a producer of 12 Years a Slave. Academy career and awards notes

   Key work

   • 12 Years a Slave 2013 · Producer

     Academy Awards 2014

   • Moneyball 2011 · Billy Beane and producer

     Academy Awards 2012

   • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008 · Benjamin Button

     Academy career and awards notes

4. 2001–2007

   Ocean’s and a Western

   Pitt played Rusty Ryan alongside George Clooney across Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s trilogy. The same period took him to the Venice Film Festival, where he won best actor for Jesse James. Festival de Cannes press notes

   Key work

   • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007 · Jesse James

     Venice Film Festival archive

   • Ocean’s Eleven 2001 · Rusty Ryan

     AFI Catalog

5. 1995–2000

   Fincher and a first Oscar nomination

   David Fincher directed Pitt in Se7en and Fight Club. In the same period, Pitt received his first Oscar nomination for Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys. Festival de Cannes press notes

   Key work

   • Fight Club 1999 · Tyler Durden

     AFI Silver

   • Twelve Monkeys 1995 · Jeffrey Goines

     AFI Catalog

   • Se7en 1995 · David Mills

     AFI Silver

6. 1986–1994

   From television to a film breakthrough

   After moving to Hollywood in 1986, Pitt worked in television before breaking through as J.D. in Thelma & Louise. Robert Redford then cast him as Paul Maclean in A River Runs Through It. Oklahoma Historical Society

   Key work

   • A River Runs Through It 1992 · Paul Maclean

     AFI Catalog

   • Thelma & Louise 1991 · J.D.

     AFI Catalog