1969 in film
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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! and Goodbye, Columbus (film)
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Easy Rider
- I Am Curious (Yellow)
- Where Eagles Dare
- The Lion in Winter
[edit] 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
- 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
PALM 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
- The Assassination Bureau
- Anne of the Thousand Days
- L'Armée des ombres (Army of Shadows), starring Lino Ventura
- Bara no soretsu by Toshio Matsumoto
- Bambi Meets Gonzilla (very short cult film)
- 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
- Goodbye, Columbus
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- Hello Dolly!, starring Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, and Michael Crawford
- 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 with Laurence Olivier
- 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 -(film mentioned in article)
- Take the Money and Run
- The Reivers -(film only mentioned in article)
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- 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] Births
- February 11 - Jennifer Aniston, American actress.
- April 25 - Renée Zellweger, 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 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
