What movie is the text about?
Q: What movie is the text about?
A: The text is about the 1969 American movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Q: Who directed and produced it?
A: George Roy Hill directed it, and John Foreman produced it.
Q: Who starred in it?
A: Paul Newman and Robert Redford starred in it as two robbers in Wyoming who go to Bolivia to escape the law.
Q: How was the movie loosely based on a real story?
A: The movie was loosely based on the real story of the two title characters (Butch Cassidy and his friend Harry Longabaugh, also called "Sundance"). It made their legends more popular.
Q: What awards did it win?
A: It won four Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Song (Burt Bacharach's "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head") and Best Original Screenplay (William Goldman). It was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director (Hill) and Best Sound. Goldman won the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay.
Q: How successful was it commercially?
A: It was one of the largest-grossing movies of the 1960s with $102.3 million in box office revenue in the United States alone. It was number fifty on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list.
Q: Who were originally considered for roles in this film?
A: Warren Beatty, Steve McQueen, and Marlon Brando were all initially considered to play Butch Cassidy or Sundance Kid before Paul Newman and Robert Redford took their place with Newman playing Sundance Kid while Redford played Butch Cassidy instead - which wasn't liked by 20th Century Fox but supported by Hill who wanted them that way which made Redford more famous as an actor afterwards.
