1969 IN FILM

The year '1969 in film' involved some significant events.

Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Awards

Films released in 1969

Short Film Series

Births

Deaths

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

:North America
# ''The Love Bug''
# ''Funny Girl''
# ''Bullitt''
# ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'', starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman
# ''Romeo and Juliet'' by director Franco Zeffirelli
# ''True Grit'', starring John Wayne, Robert Duvall, and Dennis Hopper
# ''Midnight Cowboy'', starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman
# tie: ''Oliver!''
# tie: ''Goodbye, Columbus (film)''
# ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang''
# ''Easy Rider''
# ''I Am Curious (Yellow)''
# ''Where Eagles Dare''
# ''The Lion in Winter''

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 Bujold' - ''Anne of the Thousand Days''
:'Musical or comedy:'
:Best Picture: '''The Secret of Santa Vittoria'''
:Best Actor: 'Peter O'Toole' - ''Goodbye, Mr. Chips''
:Best Actress: 'Patty Duke' - ''Me, Natalie''
:'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''

★ ''The Assassination Bureau''

★ ''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''

★ ''L'Armée des ombres'' (''Army of Shadows''), starring Lino Ventura

★ ''Bara no soretsu'' by Toshio Matsumoto

★ ''Bambi Meets Godzilla (very short cult film)

★ ''Battle of Britain'', starring Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard, Michael Caine and Christopher Plummer

★ ''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''

★ ''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

★ ''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''

★ ''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''

★ ''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 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

★ December 21 - Julie Delpy, actress

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