1969 in film - 2 reference results
The year 1969 in film involved some significant events.
Events
- Cannes Film Festival opens, but closes in support of a French general strike without awarding any prizes.
- Last year for the Venice Film Festival until it is revived in 1980.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid* | 20th Century Fox | $45,953,000 |
| 2. | The Love Bug* | Disney | $23,150,000 |
| 3. | Midnight Cowboy | United Artists | $20,499,000 |
| 4. | Easy Rider | Columbia | $19,100,000 |
| 5. | Hello, Dolly! | 20th Century Fox | $15,200,000 |
| 6. | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | Columbia | $14,600,000 |
| 7. | Paint Your Wagon | Paramount | $14,500,000 |
| 8. | True Grit | Paramount | $14,250,000 |
| 9. | Cactus Flower | Columbia | $11,850,000 |
| 10. | Goodbye, Columbus | Paramount | $10,500,000 |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1969.shtml
Awards
- Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy - Hellman-Schlesinger, United Artists
- Best Director: John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy
- Best Foreign Language Film: Z, directed by Costa-Gavras, Algeria
- Drama:
- Best Actor: John Wayne - True Grit
- Best Actress: Geneviève Bujold - Anne of the Thousand Days
- Musical or comedy:
- Other
- Best Director: Charles Jarrott - Anne of the Thousand Days
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- If...., directed by Lindsay Anderson, United Kingdom
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): Not awarded
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Rani Radovi (Early Works), directed by Zelimir Zilnik, Yugoslavia
Films released in 1969
- Alice's Restaurant
- All Monsters Attack
- Angel in My Pocket
- Andrei Rublev (screening in Moscow and at the Cannes Film Festival 1969 / Official USSR release, 20 min. shorter, in 1971)
- Anne of the Thousand Days
- The April Fools
- Army of Shadows, starring Lino Ventura
- The Assassination Bureau
- Funeral Parade of Roses by Toshio Matsumoto
- Bambi Meets Godzilla (very short cult film)
- Battle of Britain, starring Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard, Michael Caine and Christopher Plummer
- The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, by Dario Argento
- Blood of Dracula's Castle
- Blue Movie by Andy Warhol
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
- A Boy Named Charlie Brown
- The Bridge at Remagen
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Cactus Flower
- Che!
- The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
- De Sade
- Death Rides a Horse (U.S. release)
- Duffy
- Easy Rider
- Gamera vs. Guiron
- Goodbye, Columbus
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- Hello, Dolly!, starring Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, and Michael Crawford
- Hook, Line & Sinker, starring Jerry Lewis
- If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
- ''The Italian Job starring Michael Caine
- John and Mary
- The Love Bug
- The Magic Christian
- Marooned
- Medium Cool, directed by Haskell Wexler
- Midnight Cowboy
- Monte Carlo or Bust
- Mosquito Squadron, a British WWII action film
- My Night at Maud's
- Oh! What a Lovely War directed by Richard Attenborough with Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson and John Mills
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- Once Upon a Time in the West (U.S. release)
- Paint Your Wagon
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- The Promise
- Rani Radovi (Early Years), Golden Bear winner
- Ring of Bright Water
- The Secret of Santa Vittoria
- Support Your Local Sheriff!
- Sweet Charity
- Take the Money and Run
- The Reivers -(film only mentioned in article)
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- This Man Must Die
- Topaz by director Alfred Hitchcock
- True Grit
- The Undefeated
- The Valley of Gwangi
- Where Eagles Dare (U.S. release)
- The Wild Bunch
- Winning — starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
- Women in Love
- Z, directed by Costa Gavras
Short Film Series
- Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
- Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
Births
- February 11 - Jennifer Aniston, American actress.
- April 25 - Renée Zellweger, actress
- May 14 - Cate Blanchett, actress
- July 24 - Jennifer Lopez, actress, singer
- August 18 - Edward Norton, actor
- October 19- Trey Parker, actor, creator of south park
- December 21 - Julie Delpy, actress
Film Debuts
Deaths
- January 4 - Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins, actresses, appeared in film Freaks
- January 8 - Leslie Goodwins, director
- February 2 - Boris Karloff, actor
- February 4 - Thelma Ritter, actress
- February 11 - James Lanphier, actor
- February 27 - John Boles, actor
- May 24 - Mitzi Green, actress
- May 27 - Jeffrey Hunter, actor
- June 8 - Robert Taylor, actor
- June 10 - Frank Lawton, actor
- June 13 - Martita Hunt, actress
- June 19 - Natalie Talmadge, silent screen actress
- June 22 - Judy Garland, actress
- July 5 - Leo McCarey, director
- July 8 - Gladys Swarthout, actress
- August 9 - Sharon Tate, actress, murdered by Charles Manson Family, wife of director Roman Polanski
- August 14 - Sigrid Gurie, actress
- August 15 - William Goetz, producer, studio executive
- October 12 - Sonja Henie, actress, former Olympic ice skater
- October 15 - Rod La Roque, silent screen actor
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