List of 1969 box office number-one films in the United States

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This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1969.[citation needed]

Number-one films

† This implies the highest-grossing movie of the year.[1]
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# Week ending Film Gross Notes Ref
1January 1, 1969Candy$555,000[2]
2January 8, 1969TBD[3]
3January 15, 1969Bullitt$415,000Number one in fifth week of release[3]
4January 22, 1969TBD[4]
5January 29, 1969Funny Girl †Funny Girl returned to number one in its 19th week of release[5]
6February 5, 1969[6]
7February 12, 1969
8February 19, 1969[7]
9February 26, 1969[8]
10March 5, 1969
11March 12, 1969[9]
12March 19, 1969
13March 26, 1969[10]
14April 2, 1969The Love Bug[11]
15April 9, 1969$497,750[12]
16April 16, 1969$551,958Number one per Variety's first published computerized boxoffice chart.[12]
17April 23, 1969Support Your Local Sheriff!$572,100[13]
18April 30, 1969$389,820[14]
19May 7, 196999 Women$311,778[15]
20May 14, 1969The Mad Room$283,500[16]
21May 21, 1969Oliver!$271,955The chart for the week ending May 28 listed 100 Rifles as the number one film for the last week (week ending May 21) with a gross of $340,500. The last week grosses for the other films were not in line with that published previously and the grosses for this last week were added to the totals for the week ending May 28 indicating that there had been an earlier error with the dates for the charts published earlier[17][18]
22May 28, 1969Winning$309,500Winning reached number one in its second week of release[18]
23June 4, 1969The Killing of Sister George$628,500[19]
24June 11, 1969The Longest Day$501,259[20]
25June 18, 1969Winning$413,600Winning returned to number one in its fifth week of release[21]
26June 25, 1969Ice Station Zebra$476,500[22]
27July 2, 1969The Love Bug$633,200[23]
28July 9, 1969$724,000[24]
29July 16, 1969$658,300[25]
30July 23, 1969The April Fools$587,100The April Fools reached number one in its eighth week of release[26]
31July 30, 1969What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?$540,000[27]
32August 6, 1969Midnight Cowboy$550,237Midnight Cowboy reached number one in its tenth week of release[28]
33August 13, 1969Goodbye, Columbus$935,500Goodbye, Columbus reached number one in its twentieth week of release[29]
34August 20, 1969$681,200[30]
35August 27, 1969True Grit$560,000True Grit reached number one in its eleventh week of release[31]
36September 3, 1969Goodbye, Columbus$522,100Goodbye, Columbus returned to number one in its 23rd week of release[32]
37September 10, 1969Daddy's Gone-A-Hunting$545,700[33]
38September 17, 1969True Grit$531,500True Grit returned to number one in its fourteenth week of release[34]
39September 24, 1969The Learning Tree$401,120The Learning Tree reached number one in its seventh week of release[35]
40October 1, 1969Bonnie and Clyde/Bullitt (double-bill)$546,163The Bonnie and Clyde and Bullitt double-bill reached number one in its fifth week of release[36]
41October 8, 1969Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid$500,608Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid reached number one in its second week of release[37]
42October 15, 1969$501,000[38]
43October 22, 1969Easy Rider$496,644Easy Rider reached number one in fourteenth week of release[39]
44October 29, 1969$410,211[40]
45November 5, 1969$319,317[41]
46November 12, 1969Fanny Hill$625,000Fanny Hill reached number one in seventh week of release[42]
47November 19, 1969I Am Curious (Yellow)$594,509I Am Curious (Yellow) reached number one in its 36th week of the chart[43]
48November 26, 1969$454,441[44]
49December 3, 1969Krakatoa, East of Java$621,800Krakatoa, East of Java reached number one in its 29th week of release[45]
50December 10, 1969Paint Your Wagon$276,900Paint Your Wagon reached number one in its eighth week of release[46]
51December 17, 1969A Boy Named Charlie Brown$290,000A Boy Named Charlie Brown reached number one in its second week of release[47]
52December 24, 1969On Her Majesty's Secret Service$1,223,000[48]
53December 31, 1969$1,370,100[49]
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Highest-grossing films

Highest-grossing films of 1969 by calendar year gross based on the cities covered by Variety for the weekly charts.[nb 1][50]

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RankTitleStudioPlaying weeks[nb 2]Gross ($)Rank on 1969 rental chart[1]
1. Funny Girl Columbia 896 11,096,561 2
2. Oliver! Columbia 840 10,269,146 8
3. Goodbye, Columbus Paramount 739 8,216,164 8
4. I Am Curious (Yellow) Grove Press 792 7,903,057 12
5. Midnight Cowboy United Artists 472 7,346,975 7
6. Easy Rider Columbia 541 6,812,878 11
7. The Lion in Winter Avco Embassy 693 6,415,737 14
8. Romeo and Juliet Paramount 880 6,208,599 5
9. Bullitt Warner Bros. 599 5,911,826 3
10. The Love Bug Buena Vista 528 5,515,662 1
11. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 20th Century Fox 454 5,056,592 4
12. True Grit Paramount 461 4,899,170 6
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey MGM 392 4,058,460 N/A[nb 3]
14. Charly CRC 739 3,993,528 N/A
15. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang United Artists 488 3,864,963 10
16. Alice's Restaurant United Artists 419 3,701,847 27
17. Krakatoa, East of Java CRC 449 3,552,108 N/A
18. Sweet Charity Universal 432 3,538,617 83
19. The Killing of Sister George CRC 383 3,195,658 N/A
20. The Wild Bunch Warner Bros. 348 3,151,760 23
21. Winning Universal 364 3,108,248 16
22. Where Eagles Dare MGM 372 3,079,885 13
23. The April Fools National General Pictures 510 2,921,836 21
24. Ice Station Zebra MGM 411 2,902,104 N/A[nb 4]
25. Candy CRC 340 2,883,927 N/A
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Highest-grossing films of 1969 by rental in the United States and Canada accruing to the distributor to the end of 1969 (not total receipts as listed above for a selection of cities and includes rentals from late 1968).[1]

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RankTitleStudioDirectorProducerRental ($)
1. The Love Bug Buena Vista Robert Stevenson Bill Walsh 17,000,000
2. Funny Girl Columbia William Wyler Ray Stark 16,500,000*
3. Bullitt Warner Bros. Peter Yates Philip D'Antoni 16,400,000
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 20th Century Fox George Roy Hill John Foreman 15,000,000
5. Romeo and Juliet Paramount Franco Zeffirelli Anthony Havelock-Allan
John Brabourne		 14,500,000*
6. True Grit Paramount Henry Hathaway Hal Wallis 11,500,000
7. Midnight Cowboy United Artists John Schlesinger Jerome Hellman 11,000,000
8. Oliver! Columbia Carol Reed John Woolf 10,500,000*
Goodbye, Columbus Paramount Larry Peerce Stanley R. Jaffe 10,500,000
10. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang United Artists Ken Hughes Albert R. Broccoli 7,500,000*
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*Includes 1968 rental

See also

Notes

  1. [1]
    Variety noted that the total grosses that they collated represented about 30% of total US grosses as defined by the US Department of Commerce.
  2. [2]
    Playing weeks represent one film in one theatre for one week
  3. [3]
    Listed on 1968 rental chart. Rental for 2001: A Space Odyssey increased by $6.0 million on 1969 All-Time Box Office Champs list[51][52]
  4. [4]
    Listed on 1969 All-Time Box Office Champs list with a rental of $4,070,000.[52]

References

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