Brad Pitt Movie List – A Closer Look

Venerable Hollywood actor, Brad Pitt, has a lengthy and extensive list of credits in his acting career. The complete Brad Pitt movie list spans as early as his first serious role in 1988s The Dark Side of The Sun (released in 1997) up to his most recent work in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

The early Brad Pitt movie list contained two movies in which he had unaccredited roles, Less Than Zero (1987) as a preppie kid, and in No Man’s Land (1987) as a waiter. In the following two years, he took roles in several television series until 1989 when he had minor roles in Cutting Class as Dwight Ingalls and in Happy Together as Brian.

One big screen production that set Brad Pitt’s career in motion was Thelma and Louise (1991), in which Brad had a short part. The most memorable scene was when Brad’s partially nude character created a whole new fan base of followers. Over the course of the next several years, the Brad Pitt movie list witnessed additional major parts and leading roles in nine more films until 1995′s Se7en and 12 Monkeys. The two of these films featured Brad Pitt’s resilient acting capacity and further propelled his professional acting career in the following 5 years culminating with his box office hit Oceans Eleven part.

Entering the new millenium, the Brad Pitt movie list would reveal over 6 hits that would bring in over 100 million dollars each worldwide in box office receipts. These exceptional movies included Troy, Ocean’s Twelve and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Currently the Brad Pitt movie list features 2 box office sensations, Burn after Reading and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Lead Actor. These two blockbuster hits were released in the fall of 2008, and ascertains the virility of Brad as one hot Hollywood commodity. A recent news article reported that Brad receives twenty million dollars each movie, a far cry from his initial movie role for which Brad received about 10,000 dollars, twenty years earlier.

Although Brad has admitted he does not know how many more movies he has in him, the future Brad Pitt movie list will include 11 projects that he currently has in the works. In some of these projects Brad’s capacity will be as a producer rather than an actor, nevertheless, his ‘brand name’ still has value in Hollywood circles, whether he has a starring role or as a producer.

The future Brad Pitt movie list includes Inglourious Basterds, with locations in Germany and France and to be released in late 2009, where Brad has the role of an illiterate hillbilly from Tennessee, and The Tree of Life, a drama filmed in Texas, also expected to be released this year.

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