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
Brian Cassidy his role." Brian Cassidy Detective Brian Cassidy is a fictional character played by Dean Winters in the American crime drama television series "" on NBC. A recurring cast member during the first season, Cassidy is a young and inexperienced detective with the New York Police Department's Special Victims Unit, and the original partner of John Munch (Richard Belzer). The stress of the Special Victims Unit is too much for Cassidy, and he transfers to the narcotics unit in the middle of the season. Cassidy later returns in the finale working undercover for a pimp the SVU detectives are investigating. Winters