Paul Newman ▲

Apex — The Sting (1973)

26,620 feet (The Death Zone)

15th highest of 105

An enduring, oft-rewatched summit, edging Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

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

Filmography — by elevation

	Film	Year	Elevation
	The Sting ▲ apex	1973	27,073 ft
	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969	25,628 ft
	Cool Hand Luke	1967	24,638 ft
	Fort Apache, the Bronx	1981	23,973 ft
	The Color of Money	1986	23,838 ft
	Hombre	1967	23,540 ft
	Slap Shot	1977	23,530 ft
	Harper	1966	23,416 ft
	The Verdict	1982	23,379 ft
	Winning	1969	23,248 ft
	Blaze	1989	23,030 ft
	Sometimes a Great Notion	1971	22,881 ft
	The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean	1972	22,870 ft
	The Drowning Pool	1975	22,838 ft
	Torn Curtain	1966	22,787 ft
	Fat Man and Little Boy	1989	22,735 ft
	The MacKintosh Man	1973	22,706 ft
	The Meerkats	2008	22,607 ft
	Mr. & Mrs. Bridge	1990	22,598 ft
	Roving Mars	2006	22,583 ft
	The Secret War of Harry Frigg	1968	22,559 ft
	Where the Money Is	2000	22,526 ft
	Nobody's Fool	1994	22,499 ft
	Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson	1976	22,496 ft
	When Time Ran Out...	1980	22,491 ft
	Quintet	1979	22,440 ft
	Absence of Malice	1981	22,440 ft
	The Towering Inferno	1974	22,385 ft
	Pocket Money	1972	22,303 ft
	WUSA	1970	22,298 ft
	Road to Perdition	2002	22,113 ft
	Twilight	1998	21,987 ft
	Harry & Son	1984	21,847 ft
	Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman	2015	21,778 ft
	Lady L	1965	21,382 ft
	The Hudsucker Proxy	1994	21,146 ft
	Cars	2006	21,001 ft
	Message in a Bottle	1999	20,860 ft
	Best of Enemies	2015	20,148 ft
	The Emperor's New Clothes	2015	20,145 ft
	Tab Hunter Confidential	2015	20,140 ft
	Silent Movie	1976	20,139 ft
	La Classe américaine	1993	20,139 ft
	Waking Sleeping Beauty	2009	20,139 ft
	Cars 3	2017	20,139 ft
	kid 90	2021	20,139 ft