Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid nominated), and Best Actress for Katharine Ross, among others. William Goldman won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2003, the film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Academy Film Archive preserved "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" in 1998. The film inspired the television series "Alias Smith and Jones", starring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy as outlaws trying to earn an amnesty. A parody titled "Botch Casually and the Somedunce Kid" was published in "MAD". It was illustrated by
Butch Cassidy driving a Ford Model T. Among the residents interviewed is the town sheriff, Ross Moore, who claims it was common knowledge locally that Cassidy did not die in South America, stating that his own grandmother saw Cassidy in 1924. In the episode, author John Rolfe Burroughs recounts several interviews he reportedly conducted in the 1950s supporting the claims of a 1924 visit by Parker to Baggs, Wyoming. Notably, this episode also interviews Cassidy's sister, Lula Parker Betenson (d. 1980), who states Cassidy returned to the family home in Circleville, Utah during this same period. Betenson states that Cassidy picked up