Starring Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges and Chris Cooper Directed by Gary Ross Earning seven Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Cinematography, Seabiscuit is a true story of three lost men: Johnny "Red" Pollard (Maguire), a young man with a broken spirit, Charles Howard (four-time Oscar nominee Jeff Bridges), a former millionaire who lost everything but with his rough-hewn, undersized horse, Seabiscuit, and Tom Smith (Oscar winner Chris Cooper), an old cowboy whose world was vanishing. The three men find each other and discover hope in an unlikely place – a racecourse. Their fortunes become tied to Seabiscuit, a racehorse that rose to become the most popular and victorious champion of his time.