In 2000, the album was presented with gold and platinum awards based on sales that could be documented, although Capitol estimated it may have sold over two million copies. By 2007, there had been at least three books dedicated to "Pet Sounds". Writing in his 2012 book "Music Producer: for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students", Michael Zager stated that the album's production techniques remained in use forty-six years later. The album motivated film producer Bill Pohlad to direct the 2014 biopic on Brian Wilson, "Love & Mercy", a film which includes a substantial depiction of the album's making, with actor Paul Dano portraying Wilson.