"reference to the advertising agency from ""Bewitched"". The scene toward the end where Moe points toward individual customers declaring they will ""be back"" before pointing toward and addressing the viewer (later revealed to be Barney via a cutaway) is a parody of the end of the film ""Reefer Madness"". The final scene, where Homer and Marge cycle into the distance while ""Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"" plays is a reference to the film ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"". Homer's song ""It was a Very Good Beer"" is sung to the tune of the 1961 song ""It Was a"
"The film received two Academy Award nominations, for Best Original Screenplay (Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner, Sam Peckinpah) and Best Original Music Score (Jerry Fielding). At the 42nd Academy Awards ceremony, both awards went to crew members of ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" (screenwriter William Goldman and composer Burt Bacharach). Cinematographer Lucien Ballard won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography. Decades later the American Film Institute placed the film in several of its ""100 Years"" lists: The film is ranked #94 on ""Empire"" magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Films of All Time. In 1999,"
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film). Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the ""Sundance Kid"" (Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies. The pair and Sundance's lover, Etta Place (Katharine Ross), flee to Bolivia"
"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 and the Sundance Kid"" has gone down as among the defining moments in late-'60s American cinema. Newman and Redford's chemistry was praised as was the film's charm and humor. The film earned $15 million in rentals in North America during its first year of release. With US box office of over US$100 million, it was the top-grossing film of the year. Adjusted for inflation, ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" ranks as the 34th top-grossing film of all time and the top 10 for its decade, due in part to subsequent re-releases. It was the eighth most popular"
"as helping write music for movies like ""The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad"" and ""Peter Pan"" when those two were in production. He shared credit with Jack Lawrence for the deleted song ""Never Smile at a Crocodile"" from ""Peter Pan"". In 1942, Churchill and fellow composer Oliver Wallace won an Oscar in the category ""Scoring of a Musical Picture"" for cowriting the score for ""Dumbo"". He also shared an Oscar nomination with Ned Washington for the song ""Baby Mine"" from ""Dumbo"" for Best Song. A year later, Churchill received two posthumous Oscar nominations; the first for cowriting the score"
"Me"", ""One Less Bell to Answer"" and ""Anyone Who Had a Heart"". The duo's film work includes the Oscar-nominated title songs for ""What's New Pussycat?"" and ""Alfie"", ""The Look of Love"", from ""Casino Royale""; and the Oscar-winning ""Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"" from ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"". In addition, ""Don't Make Me Over"", ""(They Long to Be) Close to You"" and ""Walk On By"" have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. David's work with other composers includes Albert Hammond for Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias's ""To All the Girls I've Loved Before""; Sarah Vaughan's ""Broken"
"placed 95th in the 55th Anniversary edition of the All-Time Hot 100 list in 2013. ""Billboard Magazine"" also ranked the song 15th on its Top 50 Movie Songs of All Time list in 2014. On December 3, 2013, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced that the single would be inducted into the 2014 Grammy Hall Of Fame. ""Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"" was used in the film ""Spy Hard"", which parodied the scene in ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"". Police Constable Pan-Am sings the opening lines at the end of his appearance in Series 2,"
"for our friend, Monsieur Hill."" Hill rebuilt his Hollywood reputation with the Julie Andrews movie ""Thoroughly Modern Millie"", then ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" and, after ""Slaughterhouse-Five"", ""The Sting"". Both ""Butch Cassidy"" and ""The Sting"" starred Paul Newman and Robert Redford. ""Butch Cassidy"" won four Academy Awards; ""The Sting"" won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The success of those two films meant that, for a time, Hill was the sole director in history to have made two of the top 10 moneymaking films. Hill disliked tardiness on set. Paul Newman said of his time (as"
"death. Hall died in 2003 owing to complications from bladder cancer at the Santa Monica Hospital. His Oscar for ""Road to Perdition"" (2002), which is dedicated to Hall, was posthumously accepted by his son Conrad W. Hall, also a cinematographer. Hall was and still is affectionately referred to as ""Connie"" by his peers and associates. Academy Award – British Academy Award – ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" (1969) American Society of Cinematographers - Outstanding Achievement Award - ""Tequila Sunrise"" (1988), ""Searching for Bobby Fischer"" (1993), ""American Beauty"" (1999) Lifetime Achievement Award (1994) Conrad Hall Conrad ""Connie"" Lafcadio Hall, ASC"
"the lowest common denominator. Although his body of work has been consumed by millions, he has never let his populism overwhelm a glittering intelligence and penchant for upending expectation."" In 2000, Goldman said of his writing: Goldman has also said of his work: ""I [don't] like my writing. I wrote a movie called ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" and I wrote a novel called ""The Princess Bride"" and those are the only two things I've ever written, not that I'm proud of, but that I can look at without humiliation."" He won two Academy Awards: one for Best Original"
"Sundance and the Kid Sundance and the Kid is the American release title of Vivi o, preferibilmente, morti, a 1969 Spaghetti Western comedy directed by Duccio Tessari and starring Giuliano Gemma, Nino Benvenuti, and Sydne Rome. The film is also known as Alive or Preferably Dead (a literal translation of the Italian title) and Sundance Cassidy and Butch the Kid. Two estranged brothers, city gambler Monty (Gemma) and Wild West farmer Ted Mulligan (Benvenuti) inherit $300,000 from their late uncle, on condition that they endure to live together for six months. The two start fighting about everything, and trouble begins"
"bought an open-cockpit Waco biplane built in 1930, which he retained until about ten years before his death. Hill died on December 27, 2002 at his home in New York City from complications of Parkinson's disease, one week after his 81st birthday. George Roy Hill George Roy Hill (December 20, 1921 – December 27, 2002) was an American film director. He is most noted for directing such films as ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" (1969) and ""The Sting"" (1973), both starring the acting duo Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Other notable Hill films include: ""Slaughterhouse-Five"", ""The World According to"
"and Stimpy on Nickelodeon. Academy Award nominated for Best Original Song. Grammy nominated for Best Song Written for Visual Media. Satellite Award nominated for Best Original Song. Critics' Choice Movie Award nominated for Best Song. Denver Film Critics Society Award winner for Best Original Song. Georgia Film Critics Association nominated for Best Original Song. Hollywood Music In Media Award winner for Song - Animated Film. Houston Film Critics Society Award winner for Best Original Song. Talk Film Society Award winner for Best Original Song. Iowa Film Critics Award winner for Best Original Song. Phoenix Film Critics Society Award winner for"
"the ceremony but did not win the award. The song also received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. The main music video for the song, directed by Meiert Avis, features a stuffed toy rabbit (voiced by, and patterned after, Adam Duritz) in the apartment of a young couple (the girl is Ashley Roberts from The Pussycat Dolls and the boy is LA Models model Steve Vanda), complete with a TV showing scenes from the film. The rabbit comes to"
"of about 100 titles. His many awards include an Oscar for best original score for ""The Milagro Beanfield War"", as well as Oscar nominations for ""The Champ"", ""The Fabulous Baker Boys"", ""The Firm"", ""Havana"", ""Heaven Can Wait"", and ""On Golden Pond"". He also received a Best Original Song nomination for ""It Might Be You"" from the film ""Tootsie"". Six of the fourteen cuts on the soundtrack from ""The Graduate"" are his. Other film scores he has composed include ""Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?"", ""Three Days of the Condor"", ""The Goonies"", ""Tequila Sunrise"", ""Hope Floats"", ""Random Hearts"", ""The"
"second after being surpassed by ""The Lion King"", which became the highest-grossing animated film at the time and remains the highest-grossing traditionally animated film in history. Both films won Academy Awards for Best Original Song and Best Original Score. ""Aladdin"" also earned an additional Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song and nominations for Best Sound and Best Sound Effects Editing, for a total of five nominations. ""The Lion King"" earned two additional Academy Award nominations for Best Original Song, giving it a total of four Academy Award nominations. Howard Ashman wrote several songs for ""Aladdin"" before his death, but"
"Butch Cassidy (TV series) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on NBC from September 8, 1973 to December 1, 1973. The series title is a play on the name of the unrelated 1969 film ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"". The character's music group is called the Sundance Kids. Similar to both ""Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!"" and ""Josie and the Pussycats"" on CBS, the show depicted the adventures of a teen pop group of the series title. The band consisted of heartthrob Butch Cassidy (lead vocals, lead"
"love for one another, as do Phil and Judy. The background of the set is removed to show the snow falling, everyone raises a glass, and toasts, ""May your days be merry and bright; and may all your Christmases be white."" All songs were written by Irving Berlin. The centerpiece of the film is the title song, first used in ""Holiday Inn"", which won that film an Oscar for Best Original Song in 1942. In addition, ""Count Your Blessings"" earned the picture its own Oscar nomination in the same category. The song ""Snow"" was originally written for ""Call Me Madam"""
"George Roy Hill when they were both actors in a Shakespeare repertory company. They were married in 1951, and had four children, but divorced in the 1970s. They reportedly remained close even after their separation. George Roy Hill, who was best known for directing the 1973's ""The Sting"", an Oscar-winning film, as well as 1969's ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"", died in 2002. Horton made her feature film debut in ""All My Sons"" in 1948, opposite Edward G. Robinson and Burt Lancaster in a film based upon the play by Arthur Miller. Her additional film credits included ""Swashbuckler"", a"
"Mort Drucker and written by Arnie Kogen in issue No. 136, July 1970. In 1979 """", a prequel, was released starring Tom Berenger as Butch Cassidy and William Katt as the Sundance Kid. It was directed by Richard Lester and written by Allan Burns. William Goldman, the Oscar-winning writer of the original film, was an executive producer. Jeff Corey was the only actor to appear in the original and the prequel. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who"
"in search of a more successful criminal career. 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 American Film Institute ranked ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" as the 73rd-greatest American film on its ""AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)"" list. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were ranked 20th greatest heroes on ""AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains"". In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever, talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion"
"and only number from a Disney feature to earn a Grammy Award for Song of the Year for the film's theme song sung by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle. The film's VHS release also set a sales record and grossed about $500million in the United States. success led to various derived works and other material inspired by the film, including two direct-to-video sequels, ""The Return of Jafar"" (1994) and ""Aladdin and the King of Thieves"" (1996); an animated television series of the same name; and a Broadway adaptation. A live-action adaptation of the film directed by Guy Ritchie will be"
"The Legend of Butch & Sundance The Legend of Butch & Sundance is a 2004 television film directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Butch Cassidy receives a pardon after being incarcerated for a year under the condition that he does not commit any more crimes in Wyoming. He later joins forces with the Sundance Kid and his relative Mike Cassidy's gang as adversaries of the Pinkerton Agency. The gang becomes known as the Wild Bunch after Mike Cassidy dies. A love triangle develops between Butch, Sundance, and photographer Etta Place. Originally, ""The Legend of Butch"
"is also included in the 18-disc release ""Best Picture Oscar Collection"", also released by Warner Bros. The Broadway Melody The Broadway Melody, also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is an American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929–1930. Today the Technicolor sequence is lost; only a black and white copy survives in available versions. The film was"
"songs to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The other four were ""Live and Let Die"" in 1973, ""For Your Eyes Only"" in 1981, ""Skyfall"", and ""Writing on the Wall"". ""Skyfall"" went on to win the award in 2013 and ""Writing on the Wall"" won in 2016. It was the first theme song with a title different from the film's, although the phrase ""the spy who loved me"" is in the lyrics. Hamlisch states in the documentary on the film's DVD that the song's opening bars were influenced by a riff in a Mozart tune. The"
"appeal, especially with mass media promotion and through the efforts of numerous entertainers who performed his songs. Carmichael and lyricist Johnny Mercer received an Academy Award for Best Music, Song, for ""In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening,"" which was featured in the 1951 film ""Here Comes the Groom"". ""Ole Buttermilk Sky"" received an Oscar nomination for Best Music, Song, of 1946, but it was not the winner. Carmichael's recording of ""Star Dust"" in 1927 at the Gennett Records studio that includes him playing the piano solo was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In addition, it was"
"DVD as a double billing with ""Death Hunt"" on February 1, 2011. It is currently available on BLU-RAY through Timeless Media Group. Butch and Sundance: The Early Days Butch and Sundance: The Early Days is a 1979 Western film and prequel of sorts to the 1969 film ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"". It stars Tom Berenger as Butch Cassidy and William Katt as the Sundance Kid. It was directed by Richard Lester and written by Allan Burns. It generally received mixed reviews but was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design. Wyoming. Wannabe outlaw Butch Cassidy joins"
"won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. In 1984, the gospel duo BeBe & CeCe Winans recorded a religious variation of the song that received airplay on Christian radio stations, and their remake in 1996 earned them a GMA Dove Award. Various versions of the song have also been used to parody the final scene of the film on television shows such as ""Family Guy"", ""The Simpsons"", and ""South Park"". The fact that the song is a ballad was seen as a misstep in Cocker’s career, which had been built on performing rock and"
"tells Si she hates the act because she is not funny, all she wants to do is sing and that Columbia Records is interested in her. She gives Si a cassette tape of her songs and tells him he has to let go of her, because she needs to depend on herself; she is going to New York City alone. They hug and kiss goodbye, and Laurie drives away. Sometime later, Laurie's song ""You Light Up My Life"" climbs the music charts and reaches number one. The film received the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe Award"
"and nominations in a variety of categories, with particular praise for its title song performed by Irene Cara. It received four Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Cara), and Best Original Score (Michael Gore). At the 38th Golden Globe Awards, the film only won one award for Best Original Song (""Fame""). At the 53rd Academy Awards, the film received a total of six Oscar nominations, including Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing and Best Sound. The songs ""Fame"" and ""Out Here on My Own"" both received"
"Geek deemed it ""one of Disney's great anthems/motivational mantras for all aspiring athletes and deities."" MoviePilot suggests that the shooting star during ""Go the Distance"" is actually Aladdin and Jasmine's magic carpet ride. The Globe and Mail likened it to Duddy's Leaving St. Urbain Street, while BoingBoing compared it to ""Pocahontas""'s ""Just Around the Riverbend"". Vulture deemed it ""inspiring"". The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Both awards, however, went to ""My Heart Will Go On"", a song from ""Titanic"", a film directed by James Cameron."
"Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 55th Grammy Awards, Best Original Song at the Satellite Awards and Best Song at the 17th Critics Choice Awards, in which two other songs from the film, ""Life's a Happy Song"" and ""Pictures in My Head"", were also nominated, with the former winning. In the film, the song is performed by Gary (Jason Segel), Walter (Peter Linz), a Muppet form of Gary (Bill Barretta), and Walter's human form (Jim Parsons). The song is a piece that reflects Gary and Walter questioning what their true identities are. Through the course of the film,"