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The year 1969 in film involved some significant events, with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid dominating the U.S. box office and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time and Midnight Cowboy, a film rated X, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The following events occurred in January 1969: ... (2'8" or 81 cm) American film actor known for ... The accident happened during operation of an aircraft ...
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 ...
Highest-grossing films of 1969 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: 20th Century Fox: $102,308,900 2 The Love Bug: Walt Disney: $50,576,808 3 Midnight Cowboy: MGM: $44,785,053 4 Easy Rider: Columbia Pictures: $41,728,598 5 Hello, Dolly: 20th Century Fox $33,208,099 6 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice: Columbia ...
Pages in category "January 1969 events in the United States" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... 1968 New York Film Critics Circle Awards;
The story revolves around twelve-year-old Sam Gribley (Teddy Eccles), a devotee of Thoreau (as many were back in the 1960s [2] [3]).He decides to leave Toronto to spend time alone in the Canadian woods to see if he can make it as a self-sufficient spirit after his parents' promised summer trip doesn't pan out.
A Boy Named Charlie Brown is a 1969 American animated musical comedy-drama film, produced by Cinema Center Films, distributed by National General Pictures, and directed by Bill Melendez with a screenplay by Charles M. Schulz. [5] It is the first feature film based on the Peanuts comic strip. [6]
January 16 – Ten paintings are defaced in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. January 18 – In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution displays the art of Winslow Homer for 6 weeks. [dubious – discuss] January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th president of the United States, and Spiro Agnew is sworn in as the 39th vice ...