Paul Newman ▲

Apex — Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

27,240 feet (The Death Zone)

7th highest of 108

Best Picture, and the second time he and Redford owned the box office. Butch Cassidy came first and earned less.

The career, climbed — every film on the shared Everest scale; hover for detail

Film	Year	Elevation
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ▲ apex	1969	23,705 ft
The Sting	1973	23,690 ft
The Verdict	1982	22,791 ft
The Towering Inferno	1974	22,783 ft
The Color of Money	1986	22,768 ft
Cool Hand Luke	1967	22,716 ft
Fort Apache, the Bronx	1981	22,603 ft
Torn Curtain	1966	22,568 ft
Hombre	1967	22,561 ft
Road to Perdition	2002	22,533 ft
Harper	1966	22,519 ft
Absence of Malice	1981	22,475 ft
Winning	1969	22,471 ft
Nobody's Fool	1994	22,470 ft
Slap Shot	1977	22,468 ft
Sometimes a Great Notion	1971	22,373 ft
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean	1972	22,363 ft
The Drowning Pool	1975	22,351 ft
Twilight	1998	22,331 ft
The MacKintosh Man	1973	22,311 ft
Blaze	1989	22,302 ft
Harry & Son	1984	22,290 ft
The Secret War of Harry Frigg	1968	22,281 ft
Where the Money Is	2000	22,260 ft
Fat Man and Little Boy	1989	22,215 ft
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson	1976	22,213 ft
Pocket Money	1972	22,200 ft
WUSA	1970	22,179 ft
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge	1990	22,178 ft
When Time Ran Out...	1980	22,150 ft
Quintet	1979	22,125 ft
Cars	2006	21,962 ft
Message in a Bottle	1999	21,919 ft
Lady L	1965	21,903 ft
The Hudsucker Proxy	1994	21,887 ft
Rachel, Rachel	1968	21,864 ft
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds	1972	21,815 ft
The Glass Menagerie	1987	21,735 ft
Silent Movie	1976	21,579 ft
They Might Be Giants	1971	21,578 ft
Cars 3	2017	21,571 ft