Circa 1969, Robert Redford cemented his stardom with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, filmed across Utah and Colorado. By 1973, he reunited with Paul Newman in The Sting, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. Redford’s early career began in New York theater in the late 1950s before his Hollywood breakthrough in Barefoot in the Park (1967) opposite Jane Fonda. Behind the camera, he founded the Sundance Institute in 1981 in Utah, nurturing independent cinema. His career bridged artistry a