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Brad Pitt’s producer credits are just as impressive as his acting ones, especially when it comes to the diverse films he’s backed over the years.
The actor and producer, 57, has had a hand in many Oscar-winning movies, and his commitment to diversifying Hollywood didn’t just start withMinari.
TheFight Clubactor has a total of 60 producing credits to his name, includingVice(2018),The Last Black Man in San Francisco(2019) andBong Joon-ho’sOkja(2017). Here are some of the award-winning movies Pitt has helped bring to the screen.
Minari(2020)
Minariwas up for six Oscars this year, including Best Picture. Executive producer Pitt had the honor of presenting the Best Supporting Actress Oscar toYoun Yuh-jung, who played the matriarch of the family in the film.She became the first Korean actress to win the category, and Pitt stood to the side andwatched with tears in his eyesas she accepted the award.
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Moonlight(2016)
Pitt agreed to lend support to Jenkins' adaptation of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s unproduced playIn Moonlight Black Boys Look Blueafterthe two met at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival. The movie swept awards season with several wins, includingthree Oscars(Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor) and a Golden Globe for best motion picture - drama.
If Beale Street Could Talk(2018)
Pitt and Jenkins came together again forIf Beale Street Could Talk, an adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel of the same name. Set in 1970s Harlem, Tish (Kiki Layne) recalls the passionate love story of her and Alonzo (Stephan James), and the life they slowly build together until Alonzo is arrested for a crime he did not commit.Regina Kingreceived her first Oscar win forBest Supporting Actressfor her role as Tish’s mother Sharon Rivers.
Selma(2014)
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12 Years a Slave(2013)
Pitt won his first Oscar as a producer on the Steve McQueen-directed slave drama12 Years a Slave, which made history at the Academy Awards as the first movie from a black director to win the highest honor since the show’s creation in 1929. The film follows the life of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South.
Lupita Nyong’o, who won Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film, told PEOPLE she was “starstruck” when she finally met Pitt.
“I’m still trying to get over the fact that my name is being mentioned with people likeBrad Pitt. Honestly,” Nyong’o said with a laugh. “When I was cast in his film [I thought] surely I was going to meet him one day. I wouldn’t say I was starstruck. I was stunned. I was like, ‘Yup, this is actually happening.'”
source: people.com
