Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid film of 1970 in France. The film won four Academy Awards: Best Cinematography; Best Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical); Best Music, Song (Burt Bacharach and Hal David for "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"); and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced. It was also nominated for Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Sound (William Edmondson and David Dockendorf). "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" also won numerous British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Actor (won by Redford though Newman was also
Robert Redford Lifetime Achievement—in 2002. In 2010, he was made a chevalier of the "Légion d'Honneur". He has won BAFTA, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards. In April 2014, "Time" magazine included Redford in their annual "Time" 100 as one of the "Most Influential People in the World", declaring him the "Godfather of Indie Film". In 2016, Redford was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Redford was born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Martha W. ("née" Hart) and Charles Robert Redford Sr., a milkman-turned-accountant. He has a stepbrother, William, from his father's