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

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

Rank	Title	Studio	Playing weeks	Gross ($)	Rank on 1969 rental chart
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.		MGM	392	4,058,460	N/A
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		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
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

See also

• List of American films - American films by year
• Lists of box office number-one films

Notes and References

1. Variety. National Boxoffice Survey. January 1, 1969. 13.
2. Variety. National Boxoffice Survey. January 15, 1969. 15.
3. Variety. National Boxoffice Survey. January 22, 1969. 11.
4. Variety. National Boxoffice Survey. January 29, 1969. 14.
5. Variety. National Boxoffice Survey. February 5, 1969. 11.
6. Variety. National Boxoffice Survey. February 19, 1969. 11.
7. Variety. National Boxoffice Survey. February 26, 1969. 13.
8. Variety. National Boxoffice Survey. March 12, 1969. 13.
9. Variety. National Boxoffice Survey. March 26, 1969. 10.
10. Variety. National Boxoffice Survey. April 2, 1969. 15.
11. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. April 23, 1969. 11.
12. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. April 30, 1969. 11.
13. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. May 7, 1969. 11.
14. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. May 14, 1969. 11.
15. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. May 21, 1969. 11.
16. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. May 28, 1969. 15.
17. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. June 4, 1969. 15.
18. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. June 11, 1969. 9.
19. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. June 18, 1969. 11.
20. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. June 25, 1969. 11.
21. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. July 2, 1969. 11.
22. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. July 9, 1969. 11.
23. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. July 16, 1969. 11.
24. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. July 23, 1969. 9.
25. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. July 30, 1969. 15.
26. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. August 6, 1969. 9.
27. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. August 13, 1969. 11.
28. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. August 20, 1969. 11.
29. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. August 27, 1969. 9.
30. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. September 3, 1969. 13.
31. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. September 10, 1969. 25.
32. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. September 17, 1969. 11.
33. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. September 24, 1969. 11.
34. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. October 1, 1969. 11.
35. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. October 8, 1969. 11.
36. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. October 15, 1969. 11.
37. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. October 22, 1969. 11.
38. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. October 29, 1969. 11.
39. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. November 5, 1969. 11.
40. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. November 12, 1969. 13.
41. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. November 19, 1969. 11.
42. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. November 26, 1969. 11.
43. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. December 3, 1969. 11.
44. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. December 10, 1969. 17.
45. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. December 17, 1969. 11.
46. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. December 24, 1969. 11.
47. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. December 31, 1969. 9.
48. Variety. 50 Top-Grossing Films. January 14, 1970. 13.
49. Variety. Variety's B.O. Charts' 1969 Results. April 29, 1970. 26.
50. Variety. Big Rental Films Of 1969. January 7, 1970. 15.