1969 in film

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The year 1969 in film involved some significant events.
Contents[hide]
1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1969
5 Short Film Series
6 Births
7 Deaths
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[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Films released in 1969
Alice's Restaurant
All Monsters Attack
Angel in My Pocket
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
The April Fools
L'Armée des ombres (Army of Shadows), starring Lino Ventura
The Assassination Bureau
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

[edit] Short Film Series
Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)

[edit] 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

[edit] 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