or a Hollywood director and screenwriter who came into the business around the time Westerns started to fade in popularity, Walter Hill has certainly made a name for himself in the genre, having received best director Emmy Awards for the pilot episode of HBO’s (2004) and the two-part miniseries (2006). also earned Hill a Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, as did his big-screen film (1993).
