What is the best Brad Pitt role of all time?

Cool-headed criminals, mythic warriors, dim-witted hitmen, and world-weary detectives — his best roles balance magnetic charisma with surprising depth. Where do you stand?

1

Fight Club (1999)

Pitt plays Tyler Durden, the anarchic alter ego of an insomniac office worker who builds an underground fight club and anti-capitalist movement.

2

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Pitt won the Oscar playing Cliff Booth, a stuntman with a murky past who is the loyal best friend of a fading TV actor.

3

Se7en (1995)

Pitt plays Detective David Mills, the hot-headed new partner of a veteran cop investigating a series of murders based on the seven deadly sins.

4

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Pitt plays Lt. Aldo Raine, the drawling Tennessee hillbilly leading a squad of Jewish-American soldiers on a gleeful Nazi-scalping mission.

5

Moneyball (2011)

Pitt plays Billy Beane, the Oakland A's general manager who revolutionized baseball by using statistical analysis to build a competitive team.

6

Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Pitt earned an Oscar nomination playing a manic mental patient who may hold the key to a time-traveler's mission to prevent a deadly plague.

7

Snatch (2000)

Pitt plays Mickey O'Neil, a barely intelligible Irish Traveler bare-knuckle boxer in Guy Ritchie's kinetic crime caper.

8

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Pitt plays a man who ages in reverse, from infancy to adolescence, living through most of the 20th century in this fantasy drama.

9

Troy (2004)

Pitt plays Achilles, the nearly invincible Greek hero whose pride and passion fuel this sweeping epic retelling of the Trojan War.

10

Ocean's Eleven (2001)

Pitt plays Rusty Ryan, the ever-snacking card shark and right-hand man to Danny Ocean in this slick, star-studded Las Vegas heist.

11

Interview with the Vampire (1994)

Pitt plays Louis, a tormented vampire struggling with his immortal nature and moral conscience for centuries alongside Tom Cruise's Lestat.

12

Babel (2006)

Pitt plays a grieving American tourist whose wife is accidentally shot in Morocco, triggering a global chain of tragedy in Iñárritu's ensemble drama.

13

Burn After Reading (2008)

Pitt plays the hilariously dim-witted personal trainer Chad Feldheimer, whose clumsy attempt at espionage spirals into Coen Brothers chaos.