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
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