Saturday, December 28, 2019

The Biggest Movies of 1969

Yesterday we told you about all of the top TV shows of 1969.

Today we take a look at the big screen box office smashes ... 

And the Academy Awards (and Golden Globes) that followed.

TOP BOX OFFICE HITS, 1969:

Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 20th Century Fox $102,308,889
2. Midnight Cowboy United Artists $44,785,053
3. Easy Rider Columbia $41,728,598
4. Hello, Dolly! 20th Century Fox $33,208,099
5. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Columbia $31,897,253
6. Paint Your Wagon Paramount $31,678,778
7. True Grit Paramount $31,132,592
8. Cactus Flower Columbia $25,889,208
9. Goodbye, Columbus Paramount $22,939,805
10. On Her Majesty's Secret Service United Artists $22,774,493
11. I Am Curious (Yellow) Janus Films $20,238,100
12. Winning Universal $14,644,335
13. Z Cinema V $14,283,305
14. The Sterile Cuckoo Paramount $13,982,357
15. The Stewardesses Sherpix Inc. $13,500,000
16. Run, Angel, Run! Fanfare Films $13,000,000
17. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Cinerama $12,600,000
18. A Boy Named Charlie Brown National General Pictures $12,000,000
19. The Wild Bunch Warner Bros. $10,500,000
20. Sweet Charity Universal $8,000,000
21. The Undefeated 20th Century Fox $8,000,000
22. Where Eagles Dare MGM $7,100,000
23. Alice's Restaurant United Artists $6,300,000
24. Take the Money and Run Cinerama $6,080,000
25. Topaz Universal $6,000,000
26. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 20th Century Fox $6,000,000
27. If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium United Artists $6,000,000
28. Once Upon a Time in the West Paramount $5,321,508    

Top Awards  

Academy Awards: 

Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy - Hellman-Schlesinger, United Artists 

Best Director: John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy 

Best Actor: John Wayne – True Grit 

Best Actress: Maggie Smith – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 

Best Supporting Actor: Gig Young, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 

Best Supporting Actress: Goldie Hawn, Cactus Flower 

Best Foreign Language Film: Z, directed by Costa-Gavras, Algeria   

Golden Globe Awards: 

Drama: 

Best Picture: Anne of the Thousand Days 

Best Actor: John Wayne – True Grit 

Best Actress: Geneviève BujoldAnne of the Thousand Days 

Musical or comedy: 

Best Picture: The Secret of Santa Vittoria 

Best Actor: Peter O'TooleGoodbye, Mr. Chips 

Best Actress: Patty DukeMe, Natalie 

Best Director: Charles JarrottAnne of the Thousand Days