Butler was nominated for an Academy Award (shared the nomination with Wexler)[REF] and a BAFTA Film Award for his work in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and has won Primetime Emmy Awards for Raid on Entebbe (1977) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1984) [REF].
On April 28, 2013, the Charleston International Film Festival presented Butler with the festival's inaugural lifetime achievement award [REF].