1969 in film
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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.
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
Academy 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
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
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
Other films released
- Andrei Rublev film
- Alice's Restaurant
- All Monsters Attack
- The Assassination Bureau
- Anne of the Thousand Days
- Blue Movie by Andy Warhol
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
- A Boy Named Charlie Brown
- The Bridge at Remagen
- Che!
- De Sade
- Early Years Golden Bear winner
- Hello, Dolly!, starring Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, and Michael Crawford
- If... Palme d'Or winner
- ''The Italian Job starring Michael Caine
- John and Mary
- The Love Bug
- Marooned
- 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
- Ring of Bright Water
- Support Your Local Sheriff!
- Sweet Charity
- Take the Money and Run
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Topaz by director Alfred Hitchcock
- The Wild Bunch
- Winning — starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
- Yellow Submarine (film)
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