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
Kevin Cassidy an interview with the writer of the book "This Is Our Year", who told him that an acquaintance at social events often introduces him as "the man who cost Kevin Cassidy a Celtic Cross". Cassidy responded by referring to his Glasgow birth and his soccer heritage: The writer of the book mentioned that he had suggested to Cassidy to tell McGuinness that "some of those discussions were off the record, blame me and then you wouldn't lose your place" and asked Cassidy, "Why didn't you?" Cassidy said: Cassidy admitted he had never read "This Is Our Year", though he also