Brad Pitt 1991 film "Across the Tracks"; Pitt portrayed Joe Maloney, a high school runner with a criminal brother, played by Rick Schroder. 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". 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. After "Thelma & Louise", Pitt starred in the 1991 film "Johnny Suede", a low-budget picture about an aspiring rock star, and
Brad Pitt filmography drama "Legends of the Fall" (1994), he earned his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor nomination. Pitt featured in the David Fincher-directed, commercially successful thriller "Seven" (1995), in which he played a detective on the trail of a psychopathic serial killer. The role of a mental patient in the science fiction film "12 Monkeys" earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination in the same category. He followed it with the role of Heinrich Harrer in the biopic "Seven Years in Tibet" (1997). Pitt reteamed with Fincher to star in the apocalyptic