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William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. A prolific figure of American cinema and one of the most influential celebrities, Pitt's films as a leading actor have grossed over $6.9Template:Nbspbillion worldwide, and his accolades include two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Pitt appeared on ForbesTemplate:' annual Celebrity 100 list from 2006 to 2008, and the Time 100 list in 2007.
Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the Ridley Scott road film Thelma & Louise (1991). Pitt emerged as a star taking on leading man roles in films such as the drama A River Runs Through It (1992), the western Legends of the Fall (1994), the horror film Interview with the Vampire (1994), the crime thriller Seven (1995), and the cult film Fight Club (1999). Pitt found greater commercial success starring in Steven Soderbergh's heist film Ocean's Eleven (2001), and reprised his role in its sequels. He cemented his leading man status starring in blockbusters such as the historical epic Troy (2004), the romantic crime film Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), the horror film World War Z (2013), and the action film Bullet Train (2022).
Pitt won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a stuntman in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). He was Oscar-nominated for his roles in the science fiction drama 12 Monkeys (1995), the fantasy romance The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and the sports drama Moneyball (2011). He also starred in acclaimed films such as Babel (2006), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), Burn After Reading (2008), Inglourious Basterds (2009), The Tree of Life (2011), and The Big Short (2015).
In 2001, Pitt co-founded the production company Plan B Entertainment.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As a producer, he won the Academy Award for Best Picture for 12 Years a Slave (2013) and was nominated for Moneyball (2011) and The Big Short (2015). Regarded as a sex symbol, Pitt was named People's Sexiest Man Alive in 1995 and 2000. Pitt's relationships have also been subject to widespread media attention, particularly his marriages to actresses Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie, the latter of whom he shares six children with.Template:Efn
Early lifeEdit
William Bradley Pitt was born on December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to William Alvin Pitt, the proprietor of a trucking company, and Jane Etta (née Hillhouse), a school counselor.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The family soon moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he lived together with his younger siblings, Douglas Pitt (born 1966) and Julie (née Pitt) Neal (born 1969).<ref name="slipping four">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Born into a conservative Christian household,<ref name="Blair2019">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Parents">Template:Cite news</ref> he was raised as Southern Baptist and later "oscillate[d] between agnosticism and atheism".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He later reconciled his belief in spirituality.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Pitt has described Springfield as "Mark Twain country, Jesse James country", having grown up with "a lot of hills, a lot of lakes".<ref name=tca>Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 2012</ref>
Pitt attended Kickapoo High School, where he was a member of the golf, swimming, and tennis teams.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He participated in the school's Key and Forensics clubs, in school debates, and in musicals.<ref name="fox film">Template:Cite news</ref> Following his graduation from high school, Pitt enrolled in the University of Missouri in 1982, majoring in journalism with a focus on advertising.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> As graduation approached, Pitt did not feel ready to settle down. He loved films—"a portal into different worlds for me"—and, since films were not made in Missouri, he decided to go to where they were made.<ref name="parade">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Two weeks short of completing the coursework for a degree, Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles, where he took acting lessons and worked odd jobs.<ref name="parade" /> He has named Gary Oldman, Sean Penn, and Mickey Rourke as his early acting heroes.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
CareerEdit
Early work (1987–1993)Edit
While struggling to establish himself in Los Angeles, Pitt took lessons from acting coach Roy London.<ref name="fox film" /><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> His acting career began in 1987, with uncredited parts in the films No Way Out (1987), No Man's Land (1987) and Less than Zero (1987).<ref name="fox film" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In May 1987, he made his television debut in a two-episode role on the NBC soap opera Another World.<ref> "Brad Pitt on Another World" Template:Webarchive , The Another World Home Page. Retrieved January 10, 2012. </ref> In November of the same year, Pitt had a guest appearance on the CBS sitcom Trial and Error<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the ABC sitcom Growing Pains.<ref name="bio channel">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He appeared in four episodes of the CBS primetime series Dallas between December 1987 and February 1988 as Randy, the boyfriend of Jenna Wade's daughter Charlotte (played by Shalane McCall).<ref name="Scotland">Template:Cite news</ref> Later in 1988, Pitt made a guest appearance on the Fox police drama 21 Jump Street.<ref name="persico">Template:Cite news</ref> In the same year, the Yugoslavian–U.S. co-production The Dark Side of the Sun (1988) was his first leading film role, starring as a young American taken by his family to the Adriatic to find a remedy for a skin condition. The film was shelved at the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence, and was not released until 1997.<ref name="fox film" /> Pitt made two motion picture appearances in 1989: the first in a supporting role in the comedy Happy Together; the second a featured role in the horror film Cutting Class, the first of Pitt's films to reach theaters.<ref name="bio channel" /> He made guest appearances on television series Head of the Class, Freddy's Nightmares, Thirtysomething, and (for a second time) Growing Pains.<ref name="Catalano1995">Template:Cite book</ref>
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 of 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."<ref name="too young">Template:Cite news</ref> The same year, Pitt co-starred in six episodes of the short-lived Fox drama Glory Days and took a supporting role in the HBO television film The Image.<ref name="pitt interesting" /> His next appearance came in the 1991 film Across the Tracks; Pitt portrayed Joe Maloney, a high school runner with a criminal brother, played by Rick Schroder.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The same year he featured in a Levi's jeans TV commercial based around the song "20th Century Boy" which played in the background.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
After years of supporting roles in film and frequent television guest appearances, Pitt attracted wider recognition in his supporting role in Ridley Scott's 1991 road film Thelma & Louise.<ref name="pitt interesting">Template:Cite news</ref> He played J.D., a small-time criminal who befriends Thelma (Geena Davis). His love scene with Davis has been cited as the event that defined Pitt as a sex symbol.<ref name="bio channel" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After Thelma & Louise, Pitt starred in the 1991 film Johnny Suede, a low-budget picture about an aspiring rock star,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and the 1992 live-action/animated fantasy film Cool World,<ref name="bio channel" /> although neither furthered his career, having poor reviews and box office performance.<ref name="earnings" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Pitt took on the role of Paul Maclean in the 1992 biographical film A River Runs Through It, directed by Robert Redford.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> His portrayal of the character was described by PeopleTemplate:'s Janet Mock as a career-making performance,<ref name="river runs">Template:Cite news</ref> proving that Pitt could be more than a "cowboy-hatted hunk."<ref name="giles">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He has admitted to feeling under pressure when making the film<ref name="slipping four" /> and thought it was one of his "weakest performances ... It's so weird that it ended up being the one that I got the most attention for."<ref name="slipping four" /> Pitt believed that he benefited from working with such a talented cast and crew. He compared working with Redford to playing tennis with a superior player, saying "when you play with somebody better than you, your game gets better."<ref name="river runs" /><ref name="giles" /> In 1993, Pitt reunited with Juliette Lewis for the road film Kalifornia. He played Early Grayce, a serial killer and the abusive husband of Lewis' character, in a performance described by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone as "outstanding, all boyish charm and then a snort that exudes pure menace."<ref name="kalifornia">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Pitt also garnered attention for a brief appearance in the cult hit True Romance as a stoner named Floyd, providing comic relief to the action film.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He capped the year by winning a ShoWest Award for Male Star of Tomorrow.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Breakthrough (1994–1998)Edit
In 1994, Pitt portrayed the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac in the horror film Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, based on Anne Rice's 1976 novel of the same name.<ref name="austin">Template:Cite news</ref> He was part of an ensemble cast that included Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, and Antonio Banderas.<ref name="austin" /> Despite his winning two MTV Movie Awards at the 1995 ceremony,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Following the release of Interview with the Vampire, Pitt starred in Legends of the Fall (1994),<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> based on a novel by the same name by Jim Harrison, set in the American West during the first four decades of the twentieth century. Portraying Tristan Ludlow, son of Colonel William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) a Cornish immigrant,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Pitt received his first Golden Globe Award nomination, in the Best Actor category.<ref name="golden globes">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Aidan Quinn and Henry Thomas co-starred as Pitt's brothers. Although the film's reception was mixed,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> many film critics praised 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."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Deseret News predicted that Legends of the Fall would solidify Pitt's reputation as a lead actor.<ref name="deseret">Template:Cite news</ref>
In 1995, Pitt starred alongside Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kevin Spacey in the crime thriller Seven, playing a detective on the trail of a serial killer who preys on people he considers guilty of the Seven Deadly Sins.<ref name="seven">Template:Cite news</ref> Pitt called it a great movie and declared the part would expand his acting horizons.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He expressed his intent to move on from "this 'pretty boy' thing [...] and play someone with flaws."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Seven earned $327 million at the international box office.<ref name="earnings" /> Following the success of Seven, Pitt played psychotic anarchist Jeffrey Goines in Terry Gilliam's 1995 science fiction film 12 Monkeys. The movie received predominantly positive reviews, with Pitt praised in particular. Janet Maslin of The New York Times called Twelve Monkeys "fierce and disturbing" and remarked on Pitt's "startlingly frenzied performance", concluding that he "electrifies Jeffrey with a weird magnetism that becomes important later in the film."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film<ref name="golden globes" /> and received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The following year, he appeared in the legal drama Sleepers (1996), based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel of the same name.<ref name="sleep cast">Template:Cite news</ref> The film received mixed reviews.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the 1997 film The Devil's Own Pitt starred, opposite Harrison Ford, as Irish Republican Army terrorist Rory Devany,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> a role for which he was required to learn an Irish accent.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Critical opinion was divided on his 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Charleston Gazette opined that it had favored Pitt's accent over the movie.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Devil's Own grossed $140 million worldwide.<ref name="earnings" />
Later that year, he led as Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer in the Jean-Jacques Annaud film Seven Years in Tibet.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Pitt trained for months for the role, which demanded significant mountain climbing and trekking practice, including rock climbing in California and the European Alps with his co-star David Thewlis.<ref name="tibet">Template:Cite news</ref> Pitt had the lead role in 1998's fantasy romance film 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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 "make an audience believe that he knows all the mysteries of death and eternity."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Roger Ebert remarked, "Pitt is a fine actor, but this performance is a miscalculation."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Rise to prominence (1999–2003)Edit
In 1999, Pitt portrayed Tyler Durden in Fight Club,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> a film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name, directed by David Fincher.<ref name="fight">Template:Cite news</ref> Pitt prepared for the part with lessons in boxing, taekwondo, and grappling.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> To look the part, Pitt consented to the removal of pieces of his front teeth which were restored when filming ended.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> While promoting Fight Club, Pitt said that the film explored not taking one's aggressions out on someone else but to "have an experience, take a punch more and see how you come out on the other end."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Fight Club premiered at the 1999 Venice International Film Festival.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Despite divided critical opinion on the film as a whole,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Pitt's performance was widely praised. Paul Clinton of CNN noted the risky yet successful nature of the film,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> while Variety remarked upon Pitt's ability to be "cool, charismatic and more dynamically physical, perhaps than [...] his breakthrough role in Thelma and Louise".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In spite of a worse-than-expected box office performance, Fight Club became a cult classic after its DVD release in 2000.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Pitt was cast as an Irish Traveller boxer with a barely intelligible accent in Guy Ritchie's 2000 gangster film Snatch.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Several reviewers were critical of Snatch; however, most praised Pitt.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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;"<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> while Amy Taubin of The Village Voice claimed that "Pitt gets maximum comic mileage out of a one-joke role".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
The following year Pitt starred opposite Julia Roberts in the romantic comedy The Mexican,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> a film that garnered a range of reviews<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> but enjoyed box office success.<ref name="earnings" /> Pitt's next role, in 2001's $143 million-grossing Cold War thriller Spy Game,<ref name="earnings" /> was as Tom Bishop, an operative of the CIA's Special Activities Division, mentored by Robert Redford's character.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Mark Holcomb of Salon.com enjoyed the film, although he noted that neither Pitt nor Redford provided "much of an emotional connection for the audience".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
On November 22, 2001, Pitt made a guest appearance in the eighth season 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> For this performance he was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> In December 2001, Pitt played 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.<ref name="oceans">Template:Cite news</ref> Well received by critics, Ocean's Eleven was highly successful at the box office, earning $450 million worldwide.<ref name="earnings" />
Pitt appeared in two episodes of MTV's reality series Jackass in February 2002, first running through the streets of Los Angeles with several cast members in gorilla suits,<ref>Template:Cite episode</ref> and in a subsequent episode participating in his own staged abduction.<ref>Template:Cite episode</ref> In the same year, Pitt had a cameo role in George Clooney's directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He took on his first voice-acting roles in 2003, speaking as the titular character of the DreamWorks animated film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and playing Boomhauer's brother, Patch, in an episode of the animated television series King of the Hill.<ref>Template:Cite episode</ref>
Worldwide recognition (2004–2008)Edit
Pitt had two major film roles in 2004, starring as Achilles in Troy, and reprising his role, Rusty Ryan, in the sequel Ocean's Twelve. He spent six months sword training before the filming of Troy, based on the Iliad.<ref name="troy">Template:Cite news</ref> An on-set injury to his Achilles tendon delayed production on the picture for several weeks.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post stated that Pitt excelled at such a demanding role.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Troy was the first film produced by Plan B Entertainment, a film production company he had founded two years earlier with Jennifer Aniston and Brad Grey, CEO of Paramount Pictures.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Ocean's Twelve earned $362 million worldwide,<ref name="earnings">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Pitt and Clooney's dynamic was described by CNN's Paul Clinton as "the best male chemistry since Paul Newman and Robert Redford."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2005, Pitt starred as John Smith 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".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Mr. & Mrs. Smith earned $478 million worldwide, making it one of the biggest hits of 2005.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
For his next film, Pitt starred opposite Cate Blanchett in Alejandro González Iñárritu's multi-narrative drama Babel (2006).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Pitt's performance was critically well-received, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said that he was credible and gave the film visibility.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Pitt later said he regarded taking the part as one of the best decisions of his career.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The film was screened at a special presentation at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and was later featured at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival.<ref name="tongue">Template:Cite news</ref> Babel received seven Academy and Golden Globe award nominations, winning the Best Drama Golden Globe, and earned Pitt a nomination for the Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe.<ref name="golden globes" /> That same year, Pitt's company Plan B Entertainment produced The Departed, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Pitt was credited on-screen as a producer; however, only Graham King was ruled eligible for the Oscar win.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Reprising his role as Rusty Ryan in a third picture, Pitt starred in 2007's Ocean's Thirteen.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> While less lucrative than the first two films, this sequel earned $311 million at the international box office.<ref name="earnings" /> Pitt's next film role was as American outlaw Jesse James in the 2007 Western drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, adapted from Ron Hansen's 1983 novel of the same name.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Directed by Andrew Dominik and produced by Pitt's company Plan B Entertainment, the film premiered at the 2007 Venice Film Festival,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> with Pitt playing a "scary and charismatic" role, according to Lewis Beale of Film Journal International,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and earning Pitt the Volpi Cup award for Best Actor at the 64th Venice International Film Festival.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He eventually collected the award one year later at the 2008 festival.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> As of January 2019, it was his own favorite of his films.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
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",<ref name="Guard0827">Template:Cite news</ref> noting that Pitt's performance was one of the funniest.<ref name="Guard0827" /> He was later cast as Benjamin Button, the lead in David Fincher's 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a loosely adapted version of a 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story follows a man who is born an octogenarian and ages in reverse,<ref name="Benjamin">Template:Cite news</ref> with Pitt's "sensitive" performance making Benjamin Button a "timeless masterpiece", according to Michael Sragow of The Baltimore Sun.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The performance earned Pitt his first Screen Actors Guild Award nomination,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> as well as a fourth Golden Globe and second Academy Award nomination,<ref name="golden globes" /> all in the category for Best Actor. The film received thirteen Academy Award nominations, and grossed $329 million at the box office worldwide.<ref name="earnings" />
Established actor (2009–present)Edit
Pitt's next leading role came in 2009 with the Quentin Tarantino-directed war film Inglourious Basterds, which premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Pitt played Lieutenant Aldo Raine, an American resistance fighter battling Nazis in German-occupied France.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The film was a box office hit, taking $311 million worldwide,<ref name="earnings" /> and garnered generally favorable reviews.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The film received multiple awards and nominations, including eight Academy Award nominations and seven MTV Movie Award nominations, including Best Male Performance for Pitt.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He next voiced the superhero character Metro Man in the 2010 animated feature Megamind.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Pitt produced and appeared in Terrence Malick's experimental drama The Tree of Life, co-starring Sean Penn, which won the Palme d'Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> In a performance that attracted strong praise, he portrayed the Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane in the drama Moneyball, which is based on the 2003 book of the same name written by Michael Lewis.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Moneyball received six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor for Pitt.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
His next role was as mob hitman Jackie Cogan in Andrew Dominik's 2012 Killing Them Softly, based on the novel Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2013, Pitt starred in World War Z, a thriller about a zombie apocalypse, based on Max Brooks's novel of the same name. Pitt also produced the film.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> World War Z grossed $540 million at the box office worldwide,<ref name="earnings" /> becoming Pitt's highest grossing picture.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Next in 2013, he produced, and played a small role in, 12 Years a Slave, a historical drama based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The film received critical acclaim<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning three, including Best Picture.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Also in 2013, Pitt had a supporting role in Ridley Scott's The Counselor.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Plan B Entertainment landed its first television series on the 2013–2014 schedule, as their joint venture with ABC Studios, the sci-fi/fantasy drama Resurrection, was picked up by ABC.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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Pitt starred in Fury, a World War II film directed and written by David Ayer, and co-starring Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, Michael Peña, and Jason Isaacs.<ref name="THR Fury">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The film was released on October 17, 2014.<ref name="THR Fury" /> By the end of its run, Fury proved to be a commercial and critical success; it grossed more than $211 million worldwide<ref name="earnings" /> and received highly positive reviews from critics.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2015, Pitt starred opposite his wife, Jolie, in her third directorial effort, By the Sea, a romantic drama about a marriage in crisis, based on her screenplay. The film was their first collaboration since 2005's Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Pitt's next role came with the biographical comedy-drama The Big Short, which he also produced and also co-starred alongside Christian Bale, Steve Carell, and Ryan Gosling. The film was a commercial and critical success. It went on to gross over $102 million worldwide<ref name="BOM">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and received positive reviews from critics.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, earning Pitt his third Academy Award nomination as producer. In 2016, Pitt starred in Robert Zemeckis's romantic thriller Allied, in which he plays an assassin who falls in love with a French spy (played by Marion Cotillard) during a mission to kill a German official in World War II.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2017, he starred in the Netflix satirical war comedy War Machine,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> which he also produced.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Pitt played a recurring role as a weatherman on the late-night talk show The Jim Jefferies Show throughout 2017.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
A 2017 sequel to World War Z was in announced in 2016,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> before the film was briefly delayed, then confirmed to be directed by David Fincher, and then ultimately shelved due to budget issues.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Pitt starred as Cliff Booth, a stunt double, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, in Quentin Tarantino's 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, reuniting with DiCaprio after The Departed, which Pitt produced and DiCaprio starred in.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> For his performance in the film, he received awards for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and Critics' Choice Movie Awards.<ref>Accolades for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood:
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- Screen Actors Guild Awards: Template:Cite news</ref> This is the second Academy Award for Brad Pitt, his first that he received for acting.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2019, he also starred in James Gray's deep space epic Ad Astra, in which he played Roy McBride, a space engineer searching the galaxy for his father.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref> Pitt's performance was praised as one of his career-best turn,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> delivering a performance "that weaponizes passivity into a lethal form of self-defense".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2020, Pitt portrayed Dr. Anthony Fauci in the cold open on Saturday Night Live, earning him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series nomination.<ref name="w174">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="w846">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
In 2021, Pitt entered the recording business by creating a company with French record producer Damien Quintard. Set in Pitt's Chateau Miraval in South of France, Miraval Studios will re-open in 2022 after two decades of inactivity. The previous version of the studio was one of the most iconic studios in the world, producing the records for Pink Floyd, the Cranberries, AC/DC, Sade and Muse, among others.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2022, Pitt starred in Bullet Train, directed by David Leitch,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and reunited with his Once Upon a Time in Hollywood co-star Margot Robbie in Babylon, directed by Damien Chazelle.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On January 5, 2022, he signed on to star in and produce a racing film on Formula One titled F1, directed by Joseph Kosinski,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> for which he will earn $30 million.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He reteamed with George Clooney in Wolfs, a comedy-thriller written and directed by Jon Watts, which was released in September 2024.<ref name="k170">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Acting credits and accoladesEdit
Template:See also Over his career, Pitt has received numerous awards including two Academy Awards (as a producer and actor), two BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Pitt has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the following performances:
- 68th Academy Awards (1995): Best Supporting Actor, nomination, 12 Monkeys
- 81st Academy Awards (2008): Best Actor, nomination, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- 84th Academy Awards (2011): Best Actor, nomination, Moneyball
- 92nd Academy Awards (2019): Best Supporting Actor, win, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Philanthropy and activismEdit
Pitt visited the University of Missouri campus in October 2004 to encourage students to vote in the 2004 U.S. presidential election,<ref name="kerry">Template:Cite news</ref> in which he supported John Kerry.<ref name="kerry" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref name="stem">Template:Cite news</ref> In support of this he endorsed Proposition 71, a California ballot initiative intended to provide state government funding for stem-cell research.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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Pitt supports One Campaign, an organization aimed at combating AIDS and poverty in the developing world.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He narrated the 2005 PBS public television series Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge, which discusses current global health issues.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Along with Clooney, Damon, Don Cheadle, David Pressman, and Jerry Weintraub, Pitt is one of the founders of Not On Our Watch, an organization that focuses global attention on stopping "mass atrocities".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Pitt has a sustained interest in architecture,<ref name="john h">Template:Cite news</ref> even taking time away from film to study computer-aided design at the Los Angeles offices of renowned architect Frank Gehry.<ref name="guardian">Template:Cite news</ref> He narrated e2 design, a PBS television series focused on worldwide efforts to build environmentally friendly structures through sustainable architecture and design.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2000, he co-authored an architectural book on the Blacker House with the architects Thomas A. Heinz and Randell Makinson.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 2006, he founded the Make It Right Foundation, 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
The project involves 13 architectural firms and the environmental organization Global Green USA, with several of the firms donating their services.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Pitt and philanthropist Steve Bing have each committed $5 million in donations.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The first six homes were completed in October 2008,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref name="white house">Template:Cite news</ref>
In September 2006, Pitt and Jolie established a charitable organization, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, to aid humanitarian causes around the world.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The foundation made initial donations of $1 million each to Global Action for Children and Doctors Without Borders,<ref name="group">Template:Cite news</ref> followed by an October 2006 donation of $100,000 to the Daniel Pearl Foundation, an organization created in memory of the late American journalist Daniel Pearl.<ref name="daniel pearl">Template:Cite news</ref> According to federal filings, Pitt and Jolie invested $8.5 million into the foundation in 2006; it gave away $2.4 million in 2006<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and $3.4 million in 2007.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In January 2010, the foundation donated $1 million to Doctors Without Borders for emergency medical assistance to help victims of the Haiti earthquake.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Pitt is a supporter of same-sex marriage.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In an October 2006 interview with Esquire, Pitt said that he would marry Jolie when everyone in America is legally able to marry.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In September 2008, he 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In March 2012, Pitt was featured in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, 8 – a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage – as Judge Vaughn Walker.<ref name="8 the play">Template:Cite news</ref> In September 2012, Pitt reaffirmed his support for Obama, saying, "I am an Obama supporter and I'm backing his U.S. election campaign."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In October 2020, he narrated an advertisement for Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Personal lifeEdit
Relationships and marriagesEdit
From the late 1980s to early 1990s, Pitt was romantically involved with several of his co-stars, including Shalane McCall (Dallas),<ref>Thomas, Brett (July 20, 1997). "The Ex-Files". The Sydney Morning Herald.</ref> Robin Givens (Head of the Class),<ref name="love lost">Template:Cite news</ref> Jill Schoelen (Cutting Class),<ref name="love lost" /> Geena Davis (Thelma & Louise),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Juliette Lewis (Too Young to Die? and Kalifornia).<ref name="river runs" /> McCall and Lewis were 15 and 16 respectively when Pitt started dating them.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Subsequently, Pitt had a much-publicized romance and engagement to his Seven co-star, Gwyneth Paltrow, whom he dated from 1994 to 1997.<ref name="love lost" />
Pitt met actress Jennifer Aniston in 1998; they married in a private wedding ceremony in Malibu on July 29, 2000.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In January 2005, Pitt and Aniston announced they had decided to separate. Two months later, Aniston filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.<ref name="divorce final">Template:Cite news</ref> Pitt and Aniston's divorce was finalized by the Los Angeles Superior Court on October 2, 2005.<ref name="divorce final" /> Despite media reports that Pitt and Aniston had an acrimonious relationship, Pitt said in a February 2009 interview that he and Aniston "check in with each other", adding that they were both big parts of each other's lives.<ref name="check in">Template:Cite news</ref>
During Pitt's divorce proceedings, his involvement with his Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie attracted media attention. Jolie and Pitt stated that they fell in love on the set<ref name="Harris"/><ref name="Binelli">Template:Cite magazine</ref> and that there was no infidelity.<ref name="Harris">Template:Cite news</ref> 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 press interpreted the pictures as evidence of a relationship between Pitt and Jolie. Throughout 2005, the two were seen together with increasing frequency, and the entertainment media dubbed the couple "Brangelina".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On January 11, 2006, Jolie confirmed to People that she was pregnant with Pitt's child, thereby publicly acknowledging their relationship for the first time.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Pitt and Jolie announced their engagement in April 2012 after seven years together.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> They were legally married on August 14, 2014, and had their wedding in a private ceremony at the Château Miraval, France, on August 23, 2014.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On September 19, 2016, Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt, citing irreconcilable differences.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On April 12, 2019, the divorce became legal.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After Pitt sued Jolie for selling her share of a winery they owned to a third party, she filed a countersuit, in which she alleged that he physically and verbally abused her and their children during a plane flight in 2016.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2022, he began dating Ines de Ramon (b. 1992), a jewelry designer.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
ChildrenEdit
In July 2005, Pitt accompanied Jolie to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she adopted her second child, a girl named Zahara.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On December 3, 2005, Pitt was in the process of becoming the adoptive father of Jolie's daughter, and Jolie's first adopted child, a boy named Maddox.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On January 19, 2006, a California judge granted Jolie's request to change the children's surnames from "Jolie" to "Jolie-Pitt".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The adoptions were finalized soon after.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Jolie gave birth to their daughter Shiloh in Swakopmund, Namibia, on May 27, 2006. Pitt confirmed that she would qualify for a Namibian passport.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The couple sold the first pictures of their daughter through the distributor Getty Images; the North American rights were purchased by People for over $4.1 million, while Hello! obtained the British rights for approximately $3.5 million. The proceeds from the sale were donated to charities serving African children.<ref name="The Most Expensive Celebrity Photos">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Madame Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of the two-month-old; it marked the first time an infant had been honoured with a statue in the museum.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted a 3-year-old boy, Pax, from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Pitt adopted the boy in the United States on February 21, 2008.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> At the Cannes Film Festival in May 2008, Jolie confirmed that she was expecting twins.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She gave birth to son and daughter, Knox and Vivienne, on July 12, 2008, in Nice, France.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The rights for the first images of the twins were jointly sold to People and Hello! for $14 million—the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken.<ref name="charity fund">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The couple donated the proceeds to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.<ref name="charity fund" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Since Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt on September 19, 2016, they have been embroiled in a custody battle over their children. Jolie had full custody until May 2021 when Pitt was granted joint custody, over four and a half years after proceedings began.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> However, in July, Los Angeles superior court judge John W. Ouderkirk was removed from the case due to concerns over his impartiality as he did not sufficiently disclose business relationships with Pitt's lawyers. This resulted in the custody arrangement reverting to a previous November 2018 agreement where Jolie has primary physical custody while Pitt has "custodial time" with their minor children.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Abuse allegationEdit
In September 2016, the FBI and the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services investigated Pitt for child abuse following an incident on a plane, where Pitt was accused by an anonymous person of being "verbally abusive" and "physical" towards one of his children.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Pitt was not criminally charged for the incident by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, or by the FBI.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
In 2022, Jolie filed a countersuit against Pitt during a legal battle over their formerly co-owned vineyard. Jolie's lawyers stated that during negotiations, Pitt had asked Jolie to sign "a nondisclosure agreement prohibiting her from speaking outside of court about his abuse of her and their children."<ref name=jacobs>Template:Cite news</ref> Her complaint stated that he grabbed and shook her during the plane ride, strangled one of their children, and struck another in the face, among other allegations.<ref name=jacobs />
Alcohol and drug useEdit
In September 2016, Pitt got sober and began attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In December 2019, he wrote an article for Interview in which he talked with his Legends of the Fall and Meet Joe Black costar and fellow recovering alcoholic Anthony Hopkins about their experiences with addiction and recovery.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Pitt credits fellow actor Bradley Cooper with helping him in his sobriety.<ref name=Tapp>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Pitt has admitted to using cannabis in the late 1990s as a way to deal with his increasing fame.<ref name="Marijuana">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Nominee">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> According to Pitt: "I was hiding out from the celebrity thing; I was smoking way too much dope; I was sitting on the couch and just turning into a doughnut."<ref name="Marijuana" /><ref name="Nominee" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He reduced his cannabis use and focused on his work after a trip to Morocco, where he witnessed extreme poverty and suffering.<ref name="Marijuana" /><ref name="Nominee" />
ProsopagnosiaEdit
In 2022, Pitt said that he had struggled for years to recognize people's faces due to prosopagnosia (face blindness).<ref name="nyt">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In a 2013 interview, he said that his inability to recognize people's faces had become so severe that he often wanted to stay home.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Formally, however, Pitt has not been diagnosed with prosopagnosia.<ref name="nyt"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
ArtworksEdit
Pitt has an interest in art, learned pottery,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and has created sculptures. Nine of his sculptures were exhibited together with works by musician Nick Cave and artist Thomas Houseago at the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere, Finland, in 2022 and 2023.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Public imageEdit
Pitt has been frequently cited as one of the most attractive actors of all time and has been described as a sex symbol by many sources, including Empire, who named him one of the 25 sexiest stars in film history in 1995.<ref name="fox film" /><ref name="bbc brad" /><ref name="www. foxnews. com">Template:Cite news</ref> The same year, he was named PeopleTemplate:'s Sexiest Man Alive, an accolade he received again in 2000.<ref name="bbc brad">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Pitt appeared on ForbesTemplate:' annual Celebrity 100 list of the 100 most powerful celebrities from 2006 to 2008 placing at numbers 20, 5 and 10, respectively.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2007, he appeared on the Time 100 list, a compilation of the 100 most influential people in the world, as selected annually by Time magazine.<ref name="time 100" /> The magazine credited Pitt for using "his star power to get people to look [to where] cameras don't usually catch".<ref name="time 100">Template:Cite magazine</ref> He was again included on the Time 100 in 2009, this time in the "Builders and Titans" list.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Template:As of, Pitt's films have grossed over $6.9Template:Nbspbillion worldwide, according to The Numbers.<ref name="m690">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Beginning in 2005, Pitt's relationship with Angelina Jolie became one of the world's most reported celebrity stories. After Jolie was confirmed to be pregnant in early 2006, the intense media hype surrounding the couple reached what Reuters, in a story titled "The Brangelina fever," called "the point of insanity".<ref name="fever">Template:Cite news</ref> To avoid media attention, the couple flew to Namibia for the birth of their daughter, which was described by a paparazzi blog as "the most anticipated baby since Jesus Christ."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Similarly, intense media interest greeted the announcement of Jolie's second pregnancy two years later; 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In a 2006 global industry survey by ACNielsen in 42 international markets, Pitt, together with Jolie, were found to be the favorite celebrity endorsers for brands and products worldwide.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Pitt has appeared in several television commercials. For the U.S. market, he starred in a Heineken commercial aired during the 2005 Super Bowl; it was directed by David Fincher, who had directed Pitt in Seven, Fight Club, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Other commercial appearances came in television spots including Acura Integra, in which he was featured opposite Russian model Tatiana Sorokko,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> as well as SoftBank, and Edwin Jeans.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On June 2, 2015, the minor planet 29132 Bradpitt was named in his honor.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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