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Hitting A Grand Slam: "Moneyball" Nominated For Six Academy Awards, Including Best Picture

Columbia Pictures’ “Moneyball” was nominated for six Academy Awards this morning, including being one of nine nominees for Best Picture. BRAD PITT was nominated for Best Actor for his depiction of A’s GM BILLY BEANE, while JONAH HILL was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. STEVEN ZAILLIAN, AARON SORKIN and STAN CHERVIN were nominated in the Adapted Screenplay category for their transformation of MICHAEL LEWIS' '03 best-selling book to the silver screen. The film was also nominated for Film Editing and Sound Mixing (THE DAILY). Pitt said of the nominations, “It means so much considering this film was just dead on the rocks two years ago.” Pitt: “It’s a great honor and a real tribute to Billy Beane and the Oakland A’s organization” (“Today,” NBC, 1/24). CBSSPORTS.com's Matt Snyder writes, "'Moneyball' has made the playoffs, if you will, now let's see if it can do what the real-life Oakland A's of the 2000s could not: Win it all" (CBSSPORTS.com, 1/24).

GREAT WEEK FOR THE MARA FAMILY: ROONEY MARA -- the daughter of NFL Giants VP/Player Evaluation CHRIS MARA, the granddaughter of late Giants Owner WELLINGTON MARA and the great-granddaughter of Steelers Founder ART ROONEY SR. -- was nominated in the Best Actress category for her role in “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” (THE DAILY).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

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