Claim: Tony Bill produced The Sting in 1971.
Evidence: He produced the 1973 movie The Sting , for which he shared the Academy Award for Best Picture with Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips.
The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936 , involving a complicated plot by two professional grifters -LRB- Paul Newman and Robert Redford -RRB- to con a mob boss -LRB- Robert Shaw -RRB-.