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
Paul Newman the set in 1957 (they had first met in 1953). He won Best Actor at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival for this film. He had a supporting role in the Coen brothers' first big-budget production, 1994's "The Hudsucker Proxy". Newman starred in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)", "The Young Philadelphians" (1959), "Exodus" (1960), "From the Terrace", (1960), "The Hustler" (1961), "Hud" (1963), Torn Curtain (1966), "Harper" (1966), "Hombre" (1967), "Cool Hand Luke" (1967), "The Towering Inferno" (1974), "Slap Shot" (1977), "Absence of Malice" (1981) and "The Verdict" (1982). He teamed with fellow actor Robert Redford and director George