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 1959 Cuba during the Revolution, as well as "Sneakers" (1992), in which he co-starred with River Phoenix among others. He appeared as a disgraced Army general sent to prison in the prison drama "The Last Castle" (2001), directed by Rod Lurie. In the same year, Redford reteamed with Brad Pitt for "Spy Game", another success for the pair but with Redford switching this time from director to actor. Redford, a leading environmental activist, narrated the IMAX documentary "Sacred Planet" (2004), a sweeping journey across the globe to some of its most exotic and endangered places. In "The Clearing" (2004), a