1969 in film

The year 1969 in film involved some significant events, with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid dominating the U.S. box office and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time and Midnight Cowboy, a film rated X, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. United Artists would celebrate their 50th anniversary.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1969 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1969
Rank Title Distributor Domestic rentals
1 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 20th Century Fox $29,200,000[1]
2 The Love Bug Buena Vista $21,000,000[1]
3 Midnight Cowboy United Artists $20,500,000[2]
4 Easy Rider Columbia $16,900,000[1]
5 Hello, Dolly! 20th Century Fox $15,000,000[1]
6 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Columbia $14,600,000[1]
7 Paint Your Wagon Paramount $14,500,000[1]
8 True Grit $14,300,000[1]
9 A Boy Named Charlie Brown National General Pictures $12,000,000[1]
10 Cactus Flower Columbia $11,900,000[1]

Events

Awards

Category/Organization 27th Golden Globe Awards
February 2, 1970
23rd BAFTA Awards
March 8, 1970
42nd Academy Awards
April 7, 1970
Drama Musical or Comedy
Best Film Anne of the Thousand Days The Secret of Santa Vittoria Midnight Cowboy
Best Director Charles Jarrott
Anne of the Thousand Days
John Schlesinger
Midnight Cowboy
Best Actor John Wayne
True Grit
Peter O'Toole
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Dustin Hoffman
John and Mary / Midnight Cowboy
John Wayne
True Grit
Best Actress Genevieve Bujold
Anne of the Thousand Days
Patty Duke
Me, Natalie
Maggie Smith
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Best Supporting Actor Gig Young
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Laurence Olivier
Oh! What a Lovely War
Gig Young
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Best Supporting Actress Goldie Hawn
Cactus Flower
Celia Johnson
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Goldie Hawn
Cactus Flower
Best Screenplay, Adapted Bridget Boland, John Hale and Richard Sokolove
Anne of the Thousand Days
Waldo Salt
Midnight Cowboy
Waldo Salt
Midnight Cowboy
Best Screenplay, Original William Goldman
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Best Original Score Burt Bacharach
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
N/A Burt Bacharach
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman
Hello, Dolly!
Best Original Song "Jean"
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
N/A "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Best Foreign Language Film Z N/A Z

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

If...., directed by Lindsay Anderson, United Kingdom

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Rani Radovi (Early Works), directed by Želimir Žilnik, Yugoslavia

1969 films

By country/region

  • List of American films of 1969
  • List of Argentine films of 1969
  • List of Australian films of 1969
  • List of Bangladeshi films of 1969
  • List of British films of 1969
  • List of Canadian films of 1969
  • List of French films of 1969
  • List of Hong Kong films of 1969
  • List of Indian films of 1969
    • List of Hindi films of 1969
    • List of Kannada films of 1969
    • List of Malayalam films of 1969
    • List of Marathi films of 1969
    • List of Tamil films of 1969
    • List of Telugu films of 1969
  • List of Japanese films of 1969
  • List of Mexican films of 1969
  • List of Pakistani films of 1969
  • List of South Korean films of 1969
  • List of Soviet films of 1969
  • List of Spanish films of 1969

By genre/medium

  • List of action films of 1969
  • List of animated feature films of 1969
  • List of avant-garde films of 1969
  • List of comedy films of 1969
  • List of drama films of 1969
  • List of horror films of 1969
  • List of science fiction films of 1969
  • List of thriller films of 1969
  • List of western films of 1969

Short film series

Births

Deaths

Film debuts

References

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