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 per Variety . The data from April 9, 1969, is per Variety's weekly 50 Top-Grossing Films chart which was first published on April 23, 1969. The earlier data is per their weekly National Boxoffice Survey. The data was based on grosses from 20 to 24 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.

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Number-one films

#Week endingFilmGrossNotesRef
1January 1, 1969 Candy $555,000 [1]
2January 8, 1969TBD [2]
3January 15, 1969 Bullitt $415,000Number one in fifth week of release [2]
4January 22, 1969TBD [3]
5January 29, 1969 Funny Girl TBDFunny Girl returned to number one in its 19th week of release [4]
6February 5, 1969TBD [5]
7February 12, 1969TBDTBD
8February 19, 1969Funny GirlTBD [6]
9February 26, 1969TBD [7]
10March 5, 1969TBDTBD
11March 12, 1969Funny GirlTBD [8]
12March 19, 1969TBDTBD
13March 26, 1969Funny GirlTBD [9]
14April 2, 1969 The Love Bug TBD [10]
15April 9, 1969$497,750 [11]
16April 16, 1969$551,958Number one per Variety's first published computerized boxoffice chart. [11]
17April 23, 1969 Support Your Local Sheriff! $572,100 [12]
18April 30, 1969$389,820 [13]
19May 7, 1969 99 Women $311,778 [14]
20May 14, 1969 The Mad Room $283,500 [15]
21May 21, 1969 Oliver! $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 [16] [17]
22May 28, 1969 Winning $309,500Winning reached number one in its second week of release [17]
23June 4, 1969 The Killing of Sister George $628,500 [18]
24June 11, 1969 The Longest Day $501,259 [19]
25June 18, 1969Winning$413,600Winning returned to number one in its fifth week of release [20]
26June 25, 1969 Ice Station Zebra $476,500 [21]
27July 2, 1969The Love Bug$633,200 [22]
28July 9, 1969$724,000 [23]
29July 16, 1969$658,300 [24]
30July 23, 1969 The April Fools $587,100The April Fools reached number one in its eighth week of release [25]
31July 30, 1969 What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? $540,000 [26]
32August 6, 1969 Midnight Cowboy $550,237Midnight Cowboy reached number one in its tenth week of release [27]
33August 13, 1969 Goodbye, Columbus $935,500Goodbye, Columbus reached number one in its twentieth week of release [28]
34August 20, 1969$681,200 [29]
35August 27, 1969 True Grit $560,000True Grit reached number one in its eleventh week of release [30]
36September 3, 1969Goodbye, Columbus$522,100Goodbye, Columbus returned to number one in its 23rd week of release [31]
37September 10, 1969 Daddy's Gone-A-Hunting $545,700 [32]
38September 17, 1969True Grit$531,500True Grit returned to number one in its fourteenth week of release [33]
39September 24, 1969 The Learning Tree $401,120The Learning Tree reached number one in its seventh week of release [34]
40October 1, 1969 Bonnie and Clyde / Bullitt (double-bill)$546,163The Bonnie and Clyde and Bullitt double-bill reached number one in its fifth week of release [35]
41October 8, 1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid $500,608Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid reached number one in its second week of release [36]
42October 15, 1969$501,000 [37]
43October 22, 1969 Easy Rider $496,644Easy Rider reached number one in fourteenth week of release [38]
44October 29, 1969$410,211 [39]
45November 5, 1969$319,317 [40]
46November 12, 1969 Fanny Hill $625,000Fanny Hill reached number one in seventh week of release [41]
47November 19, 1969 I Am Curious (Yellow) $594,509I Am Curious (Yellow) reached number one in its 36th week of the chart [42]
48November 26, 1969$454,441 [43]
49December 3, 1969 Krakatoa, East of Java $621,800Krakatoa, East of Java reached number one in its 29th week of release [44]
50December 10, 1969 Paint Your Wagon $276,900Paint Your Wagon reached number one in its eighth week of release [45]
51December 17, 1969 A Boy Named Charlie Brown $290,000A Boy Named Charlie Brown reached number one in its second week of release [46]
52December 24, 1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service $1,223,000 [47]
53December 31, 1969$1,370,100 [48]

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] [49]

RankTitleStudioPlaying weeks [nb 2] Gross ($)Rank on 1969 rental chart [50]
1. Funny Girl Columbia 89611,096,5612
2. Oliver! Columbia84010,269,1468
3. Goodbye, Columbus Paramount 7398,216,1648
4. I Am Curious (Yellow) Grove Press 7927,903,05712
5. Midnight Cowboy United Artists 4727,346,9757
6. Easy Rider Columbia5416,812,87811
7. The Lion in Winter Avco Embassy 6936,415,73714
8. Romeo and Juliet Paramount8806,208,5995
9. Bullitt Warner Bros. 5995,911,8263
10. The Love Bug Buena Vista 5285,515,6621
11. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 20th Century Fox 4545,056,5924
12. True Grit Paramount4614,899,1706
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey MGM 3924,058,460N/A [nb 3]
14. Charly CRC 7393,993,528N/A
15. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang United Artists4883,864,96310
16. Alice's Restaurant United Artists4193,701,84727
17. Krakatoa, East of Java CRC4493,552,108N/A
18. Sweet Charity Universal 4323,538,61783
19. The Killing of Sister George CRC3833,195,658N/A
20. The Wild Bunch Warner Bros.3483,151,76023
21. Winning Universal3643,108,24816
22. Where Eagles Dare MGM3723,079,88513
23. The April Fools National General Pictures 5102,921,83621
24. Ice Station Zebra MGM4112,902,104N/A [nb 4]
25. Candy CRC3402,883,927N/A

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). [50]

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 *

*Includes 1968 rental

See also

Notes

  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. ↑ Playing weeks represent one film in one theatre for one week
  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. ↑ Listed on 1969 All-Time Box Office Champs list with a rental of $4,070,000. [52]

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References

  1. ↑ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety . January 1, 1969. p. 13.
  2. 1 2 "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety . January 15, 1969. p. 15.
  3. ↑ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety . January 22, 1969. p. 11.
  4. ↑ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety . January 29, 1969. p. 14.
  5. ↑ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety . February 5, 1969. p. 11.
  6. ↑ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety . February 19, 1969. p. 11.
  7. ↑ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety . February 26, 1969. p. 13.
  8. ↑ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety . March 12, 1969. p. 13.
  9. ↑ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety . March 26, 1969. p. 10.
  10. ↑ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety . April 2, 1969. p. 15.
  11. 1 2 "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . April 23, 1969. p. 11.
  12. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . April 30, 1969. p. 11.
  13. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . May 7, 1969. p. 11.
  14. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . May 14, 1969. p. 11.
  15. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . May 21, 1969. p. 11.
  16. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . May 28, 1969. p. 15.
  17. 1 2 "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . June 4, 1969. p. 15.
  18. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . June 11, 1969. p. 9.
  19. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . June 18, 1969. p. 11.
  20. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . June 25, 1969. p. 11.
  21. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . July 2, 1969. p. 11.
  22. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . July 9, 1969. p. 11.
  23. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . July 16, 1969. p. 11.
  24. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . July 23, 1969. p. 9.
  25. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . July 30, 1969. p. 15.
  26. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . August 6, 1969. p. 9.
  27. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . August 13, 1969. p. 11.
  28. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . August 20, 1969. p. 11.
  29. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . August 27, 1969. p. 9.
  30. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . September 3, 1969. p. 13.
  31. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . September 10, 1969. p. 25.
  32. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . September 17, 1969. p. 11.
  33. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . September 24, 1969. p. 11.
  34. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . October 1, 1969. p. 11.
  35. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . October 8, 1969. p. 11.
  36. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . October 15, 1969. p. 11.
  37. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . October 22, 1969. p. 11.
  38. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . October 29, 1969. p. 11.
  39. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . November 5, 1969. p. 11.
  40. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . November 12, 1969. p. 13.
  41. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . November 19, 1969. p. 11.
  42. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . November 26, 1969. p. 11.
  43. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . December 3, 1969. p. 11.
  44. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . December 10, 1969. p. 17.
  45. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . December 17, 1969. p. 11.
  46. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . December 24, 1969. p. 11.
  47. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . December 31, 1969. p. 9.
  48. ↑ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety . January 14, 1970. p. 13.
  49. ↑ "Variety's B.O. Charts' 1969 Results". Variety . April 29, 1970. p. 26.
  50. 1 2 "Big Rental Films Of 1969". Variety . January 7, 1970. p. 15.
  51. ↑ "Big Rental Films Of 1968". Variety . January 8, 1969. p. 15.
  52. 1 2 "All-Time Boxoffice Champs". Variety . January 7, 1970. p. 25.

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