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.

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1968
1969
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Top-grossing films (U.S.)

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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 Cactus Flower Columbia $11,900,000[1]
10 Goodbye, Columbus Paramount $10,500,000[1]

Events

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Awards

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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

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By country/region

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By genre/medium

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Short film series

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Births

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Deaths

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Film debuts

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  2. ^ Top 20 Films of 1969 by Domestic Revenue
  3. ^ "Gerard Butler". BFI. Archived from the original on August 10, 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Movie Bad Guy, Barton MacLane, Dead At 66". The Evening Independent. Associated Press. January 2, 1969. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  5. ^ Record of Howard McNear, Social Security Death Index.
  6. ^ Record of Howard T. McNear. Ancestry.com. California Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, US: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.
  7. ^ "Judy Garland | American singer and actress". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  8. ^ Ellenberger, Allan R. (2001). Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory. McFarland. p. 144. ISBN 9780786450190. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
  9. ^ "Silent Film Star Rod La Rocque Dies". October 17, 1969. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
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