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
Joey Newman the Boston Repertory Ballet) nurtured his musical beginnings. Further inspiration and guidance came from his grandfather, Lionel Newman (the Oscar-winning composer/conductor who headed 20th Century Fox's Music Department for 47 years after his older brother and nine-time Oscar winner, Alfred Newman, retired) and his composer cousins, Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman. His cousin Maria Newman (Alfred's youngest daughter) is a well known composer of music for the concert stage. Joey was drumming at the age of three, owning his first set of drums at the age of eight. At nine, he was chosen for the boy's chorus of