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 slow disintegration of an upper-middle class family, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. Redford was credited with obtaining a powerful dramatic performance from Mary Tyler Moore, as well as superb work from Donald Sutherland and Timothy Hutton, who also won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Redford did not direct again until "The Milagro Beanfield War" (1988), a well-crafted, though not commercially successful, screen version of John Nichols' acclaimed novel of the Southwest. "The Milagro Beanfield War" is the story of the people of Milagro, New Mexico (based on the real town of Truchas in