The film won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Music, Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical), Best Music, Song (Burt Bacharach and Hal David for “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”), and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced. It was nominated for Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Sound.
The film also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film.
In 2003, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
American Film Institute recognition
- AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movies #50
- AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Thrills #54
- AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Heroes and Villains: Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Heroes #20
- AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Songs #23 - Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head
- AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) #73
- AFI’s 10 Top 10 #7 Western
