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

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.

Number-one films

# Week ending Film Gross Notes Ref
1 January 1, 1969 Candy $555,000 [1]
2 January 8, 1969 TBD [2]
3 January 15, 1969 Bullitt $415,000 Number one in fifth week of release [2]
4 January 22, 1969 TBD [3]
5 January 29, 1969 Funny Girl TBD Funny Girl returned to number one in its 19th week of release [4]
6 February 5, 1969 TBD [5]
7 February 12, 1969 TBD TBD
8 February 19, 1969 Funny Girl TBD [6]
9 February 26, 1969 TBD [7]
10 March 5, 1969 TBD TBD
11 March 12, 1969 Funny Girl TBD [8]
12 March 19, 1969 TBD TBD
13 March 26, 1969 Funny Girl TBD [9]
14 April 2, 1969 The Love Bug TBD [10]
15 April 9, 1969 $497,750 [11]
16 April 16, 1969 $551,958 Number one per Variety's first published computerized boxoffice chart. [11]
17 April 23, 1969 Support Your Local Sheriff! $572,100 [12]
18 April 30, 1969 $389,820 [13]
19 May 7, 1969 99 Women $311,778 [14]
20 May 14, 1969 The Mad Room $283,500 [15]
21 May 21, 1969 Oliver! $271,955 The 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]
22 May 28, 1969 Winning $309,500 Winning reached number one in its second week of release [17]
23 June 4, 1969 The Killing of Sister George $628,500 [18]
24 June 11, 1969 The Longest Day $501,259 [19]
25 June 18, 1969 Winning $413,600 Winning returned to number one in its fifth week of release [20]
26 June 25, 1969 Ice Station Zebra $476,500 [21]
27 July 2, 1969 The Love Bug $633,200 [22]
28 July 9, 1969 $724,000 [23]
29 July 16, 1969 $658,300 [24]
30 July 23, 1969 The April Fools $587,100 The April Fools reached number one in its eighth week of release [25]
31 July 30, 1969 What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? $540,000 [26]
32 August 6, 1969 Midnight Cowboy $550,237 Midnight Cowboy reached number one in its tenth week of release [27]
33 August 13, 1969 Goodbye, Columbus $935,500 Goodbye, Columbus reached number one in its twentieth week of release [28]
34 August 20, 1969 $681,200 [29]
35 August 27, 1969 True Grit $560,000 True Grit reached number one in its eleventh week of release [30]
36 September 3, 1969 Goodbye, Columbus $522,100 Goodbye, Columbus returned to number one in its 23rd week of release [31]
37 September 10, 1969 Daddy's Gone-A-Hunting $545,700 [32]
38 September 17, 1969 True Grit $531,500 True Grit returned to number one in its fourteenth week of release [33]
39 September 24, 1969 The Learning Tree $401,120 The Learning Tree reached number one in its seventh week of release [34]
40 October 1, 1969 Bonnie and Clyde/Bullitt (double-bill) $546,163 The Bonnie and Clyde and Bullitt double-bill reached number one in its fifth week of release [35]
41 October 8, 1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid $500,608 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid reached number one in its second week of release [36]
42 October 15, 1969 $501,000 [37]
43 October 22, 1969 Easy Rider $496,644 Easy Rider reached number one in fourteenth week of release [38]
44 October 29, 1969 $410,211 [39]
45 November 5, 1969 $319,317 [40]
46 November 12, 1969 Fanny Hill $625,000 Fanny Hill reached number one in seventh week of release [41]
47 November 19, 1969 I Am Curious (Yellow) $594,509 I Am Curious (Yellow) reached number one in its 36th week of the chart [42]
48 November 26, 1969 $454,441 [43]
49 December 3, 1969 Krakatoa, East of Java $621,800 Krakatoa, East of Java reached number one in its 29th week of release [44]
50 December 10, 1969 Paint Your Wagon $276,900 Paint Your Wagon reached number one in its eighth week of release [45]
51 December 17, 1969 A Boy Named Charlie Brown $290,000 A Boy Named Charlie Brown reached number one in its second week of release [46]
52 December 24, 1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service $1,223,000 [47]
53 December 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]

Rank Title Studio Playing weeks[nb 2] Gross ($) Rank on 1969 rental chart[50]
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

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]

Rank Title Studio Director Producer Rental ($)
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]

References

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  3. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. January 22, 1969. p. 11.
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  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.
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  12. ^ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety. April 30, 1969. p. 11.
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  20. ^ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety. June 25, 1969. p. 11.
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  22. ^ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety. July 9, 1969. p. 11.
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  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. ^ a b "Big Rental Films Of 1969". Variety. January 7, 1970. p. 15.
  51. ^ "Big Rental Films Of 1968". Variety. January 8, 1969. p. 15.
  52. ^ a b "All-Time Boxoffice Champs". Variety. January 7, 1970. p. 25.

Chronology

Preceded by 1969 Succeeded by