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

This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1969.

Number-one films †This implies the highest-grossing movie of the year. {| class="wikitable sortable" ! style=width:3% | ! style=width:9% | Week ending ! style=width:13% | Film ! style=width:5% | Gross ! style=width:66% | Notes ! class="unsortable" style=width:4% | |- | 1 || || rowspan="2" |Candy || $555,000|| || |- | 2 || || TBD|| || |- | 3 || || rowspan="2" |Bullitt ||$415,000||Number one in fifth week of release|| |- | 4 || || rowspan="11" | TBD|| || |- | 5 || || rowspan="9" style="background-color:#FFFF99" |Funny Girl † ||Funny Girl returned to number one in its 19th week of release|| |- | 6 || || || |- | 7 || || || |- | 8 || || || |- | 9 || || || |- | 10 || || || |- | 11 || || || |- | 12 || || || |- | 13 || || || |- | 14 || || rowspan="3" |The Love Bug|| || |- | 15 || || $497,750|| || |- | 16 || || $551,958 ||Number one per Variety'''s first published computerized boxoffice chart.|| |- | 17 || || rowspan="2" |Support Your Local Sheriff! ||$572,100|| || |- | 18 || || $389,820 || || |- | 19 || || 99 Women ||$311,778 || || |- | 20 || || The Mad Room ||$283,500|| || |- | 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|| |- | 22 || || Winning ||$309,500||Winning reached number one in its second week of release|| |- | 23 || || The Killing of Sister George ||$628,500 || || |- | 24 || || The Longest Day || $501,259|| || |- | 25 || || Winning ||$413,600 ||Winning returned to number one in its fifth week of release|| |- | 26 || || Ice Station Zebra ||$476,500 || || |- | 27 || || rowspan="3" |The Love Bug ||$633,200|| || |- | 28 || || $724,000|| || |- | 29 || || $658,300|| || |- | 30 || || The April Fools ||$587,100||The April Fools reached number one in its eighth week of release|| |- | 31 || || What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? ||$540,000|| || |- | 32 || || Midnight Cowboy || $550,237||Midnight Cowboy reached number one in its tenth week of release|| |- | 33 || || rowspan="2" |Goodbye, Columbus ||$935,500||Goodbye, Columbus reached number one in its twentieth week of release|| |- | 34 || || $681,200|| || |- | 35 || || True Grit ||$560,000 ||True Grit reached number one in its eleventh week of release|| |- | 36 || || Goodbye, Columbus ||$522,100 ||Goodbye, Columbus returned to number one in its 23rd week of release|| |- | 37 || || Daddy's Gone-A-Hunting ||$545,700|| || |- | 38 || || True Grit ||$531,500 ||True Grit returned to number one in its fourteenth week of release|| |- | 39 || || The Learning Tree ||$401,120 ||The Learning Tree reached number one in its seventh week of release|| |- | 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|| |- | 41 || || rowspan="2" |Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ||$500,608 ||Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid reached number one in its second week of release|| |- | 42 || ||$501,000|| || |- | 43 || || rowspan="3" |Easy Rider ||$496,644||Easy Rider reached number one in fourteenth week of release|| |- | 44 || || $410,211|| || |- | 45 || ||$319,317|| || |- | 46 || ||Fanny Hill ||$625,000||Fanny Hill reached number one in seventh week of release|| |- | 47 || || rowspan="2" |I Am Curious (Yellow)||$594,509||I Am Curious (Yellow) reached number one in its 36th week of the chart|| |- | 48 || ||$454,441|| || |- | 49 || ||Krakatoa, East of Java||$621,800||Krakatoa, East of Java reached number one in its 29th week of release|| |- | 50 || ||Paint Your Wagon ||$276,900||Paint Your Wagon reached number one in its eighth week of release|| |- | 51 || ||A Boy Named Charlie Brown ||$290,000||A Boy Named Charlie Brown reached number one in its second week of release|| |- | 52 || || rowspan="2" |On Her Majesty's Secret Service ||$1,223,000 || || |- | 53 || ||$1,370,100 || ||

Highest-grossing films Highest-grossing films of 1969 by calendar year gross based on the cities covered by Variety'' for the weekly charts. Rank Title StudioPlaying weeks Gross ($)Rank on 1969 rental chart1.Funny GirlColumbia89611,096,56122.Oliver!Columbia84010,269,14683. Goodbye, ColumbusParamount7398,216,16484.I Am Curious (Yellow)Grove Press7927,903,057125.Midnight Cowboy United Artists472 7,346,97576.Easy RiderColumbia5416,812,878117. The Lion in WinterAvco Embassy6936,415,737148.Romeo and JulietParamount8806,208,59959.BullittWarner Bros.5995,911,826310.The Love BugBuena Vista5285,515,662111.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid20th Century Fox454 5,056,592412.True GritParamount461 4,899,170613.2001: A Space OdysseyMGM392 4,058,460N/A14.CharlyCRC7393,993,528N/A15.Chitty Chitty Bang BangUnited Artists488 3,864,9631016.Alice's Restaurant United Artists419 3,701,8472717.Krakatoa, East of JavaCRC4493,552,108 N/A18.Sweet CharityUniversal 4323,538,6178319.The Killing of Sister GeorgeCRC3833,195,658N/A20.The Wild BunchWarner Bros.3483,151,7602321.Winning Universal3643,108,2481622.Where Eagles DareMGM3723,079,8851323.The April FoolsNational General Pictures5102,921,836 2124.Ice Station ZebraMGM411 2,902,104N/A25.CandyCRC3402,883,927N/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). Rank Title StudioDirector Producer Rental ($)1.The Love BugBuena VistaRobert StevensonBill Walsh17,000,0002.Funny GirlColumbiaWilliam WylerRay Stark16,500,0003.BullittWarner Bros.Peter YatesPhilip D'Antoni16,400,0004.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid20th Century FoxGeorge Roy HillJohn Foreman15,000,0005.Romeo and JulietParamountFranco ZeffirelliAnthony Havelock-AllanJohn Brabourne14,500,0006.True GritParamountHenry HathawayHal Wallis11,500,0007.Midnight Cowboy United ArtistsJohn SchlesingerJerome Hellman11,000,0008.Oliver!ColumbiaCarol ReedJohn Woolf10,500,000 Goodbye, ColumbusParamountLarry PeerceStanley R. Jaffe10,500,00010.Chitty Chitty Bang BangUnited ArtistsKen HughesAlbert R. Broccoli7,500,000

See also List of American films — American films by year Lists of box office number-one films

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