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The first of the AFI 100 Years... series of cinematic milestones, AFI's 100 Years... 100 American Movies is a list of the 100 best American movies, as determined by the American Film Institute from a poll of more than 1,500 artists and leaders in the film industry who chose from a list of 400 nominated movies. The 100-best list American films ...
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 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. United Artists will celebrated their 50th anniversary.
The First Time: Paramount Pictures: Peter Deuel (director); Robert F. Simon, Beverly Garland, Linda Evans: 12 Blue Movie: Colorama Films: Andy Warhol (director); Viva, Joe Dallesandro, Geri Miller: 13 True Grit: Paramount Pictures: Henry Hathaway (director); John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell: 18 Eye of the Cat: Cinerama Releasing Corporation
Three of the four highest-grossing films, including Avatar at the top, were written and directed by James Cameron.. With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9 billion, Avatar is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film ...
AFI asked jurors to consider the following criteria in their selection process: Feature length: Narrative format typically over 60 minutes long.; American film: English language, with significant creative and/or financial production from the United States.
2005: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes — top American film quotes of all time Selection for this list considered quotes that "circulate through popular culture, become part of the national lexicon and evoke the memory of a treasured film." [8] 2005: AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores — the 25 greatest American films scores of all time
After a track from First Take, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", was included by Clint Eastwood in his 1971 film Play Misty for Me, and the song became a number-one hit in the United States, causing the album to reach number one on the Billboard albums chart and Billboard R&B album chart; furthermore, the single topped the chart for the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972, possibly ...