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
Oscar W. Newman Oscar W. Newman Oscar W. Newman (April 14, 1867 – February 19, 1928) was a jurist from Portsmouth, Ohio, United States who was elected as a Democrat to a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court from 1913 to 1918. Oscar W. Newman was born to George O. and Clay B. Moore Newman of Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio on April 14, 1867. He graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1884. He studied at Kenyon College for three years, and then studied law in his father's office before admission to the bar in 1889, when he joined his father's law practice. In