George Roy Hill for our friend, Monsieur Hill." Hill rebuilt his Hollywood reputation with the Julie Andrews movie "Thoroughly Modern Millie", then "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and, after "Slaughterhouse-Five", "The Sting". Both "Butch Cassidy" and "The Sting" starred Paul Newman and Robert Redford. "Butch Cassidy" won four Academy Awards; "The Sting" won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The success of those two films meant that, for a time, Hill was the sole director in history to have made two of the top 10 moneymaking films. Hill disliked tardiness on set. Paul Newman said of his time (as
Robert Redford the film rights for the book from Bryson after reading it more than a decade earlier, with the intent of costarring in it with Paul Newman, but had shelved the project after Newman's death. In August 2018, Redford announced his retirement from acting after completion of "The Old Man & the Gun", which was released in September 2018. Redford had long harbored ambitions to work on both sides of the camera. As early as 1969, Redford had served as the executive producer for "Downhill Racer". His first film as director was 1980's Best Picture winner "Ordinary People", a drama about