2. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Won: Four Oscars, including Best Adapted Screenplay (William Golding) and Best Cinematography (Conrad L. Hall), 1970 The first on-screen collaboration for legends Paul Newman (Butch Cassidy) and Robert Redford (The Sundance Kid) (neither of whom were nominated for their work here), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is one of the finest films of the 1960s; one which was nominated for seven Oscars on the night, winning for William Golding's original screenplay, and Conrad L. Hall's cinematography, the DoP's second win on this list after American Beauty (the other two wins were for Burt Bacharach's Score, and too for his song , Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, which for some is the most memorable part of the film). The story of two bank robbers who flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, as well as being a fine western starring two of the best to ever do it, also contains one of the greatest of all movie endings, with our eponymous heroes running out into a hail of bullets as the picture comes to a close. Most notable for Newman and Redford's chemistry and charisma, Butch Cassidy... lost out on Best Picture to Midnight Cowboy in 1970, but there would be justice (not that Midnight Cowboy is an unworthy winner, but you know what I mean), however, when the Newman/Redford starring, The Sting, won Best Picture four years later (that film, like this one, was also directed by George Roy Hill, who was nominated for the former and won for the latter).