# 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 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 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

| † | This implies the highest-grossing movie of the year. |
| # | Week ending | Film | Gross | Notes |
| 1 | January 1, 1969 | Candy | $555,000 | |
| 2 | January 8, 1969 | Candy | TBD | |
| 3 | January 15, 1969 | Bullitt | $415,000 | Number one in fifth week of release |
| 4 | January 22, 1969 | Bullitt | TBD | |
| 5 | January 29, 1969 | Funny Girl † | TBD | Funny Girl returned to number one in its 19th week of release |
| 6 | February 5, 1969 | Funny Girl † | TBD | |
| 7 | February 12, 1969 | Funny Girl † | TBD | |
| 8 | February 19, 1969 | Funny Girl † | TBD | |
| 9 | February 26, 1969 | Funny Girl † | TBD | |
| 10 | March 5, 1969 | Funny Girl † | TBD | |
| 11 | March 12, 1969 | Funny Girl † | TBD | |
| 12 | March 19, 1969 | Funny Girl † | TBD | |
| 13 | March 26, 1969 | Funny Girl † | TBD | |
| 14 | April 2, 1969 | The Love Bug | TBD | |
| 15 | April 9, 1969 | The Love Bug | $497,750 | |
| 16 | April 16, 1969 | The Love Bug | $551,958 | Number one per Variety's first published computerized boxoffice chart. |
| 17 | April 23, 1969 | Support Your Local Sheriff! | $572,100 | |
| 18 | April 30, 1969 | Support Your Local Sheriff! | $389,820 | |
| 19 | May 7, 1969 | 99 Women | $311,778 | |
| 20 | May 14, 1969 | The Mad Room | $283,500 | |
| 21 | May 21, 1969 | 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 | May 28, 1969 | Winning | $309,500 | Winning reached number one in its second week of release |
| 23 | June 4, 1969 | The Killing of Sister George | $628,500 | |
| 24 | June 11, 1969 | The Longest Day | $501,259 | |
| 25 | June 18, 1969 | Winning | $413,600 | Winning returned to number one in its fifth week of release |
| 26 | June 25, 1969 | Ice Station Zebra | $476,500 | |
| 27 | July 2, 1969 | The Love Bug | $633,200 | |
| 28 | July 9, 1969 | The Love Bug | $724,000 | |
| 29 | July 16, 1969 | The Love Bug | $658,300 | |
| 30 | July 23, 1969 | The April Fools | $587,100 | The April Fools reached number one in its eighth week of release |
| 31 | July 30, 1969 | What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? | $540,000 | |
| 32 | August 6, 1969 | Midnight Cowboy | $550,237 | Midnight Cowboy reached number one in its tenth week of release |
| 33 | August 13, 1969 | Goodbye, Columbus | $935,500 | Goodbye, Columbus reached number one in its twentieth week of release |
| 34 | August 20, 1969 | Goodbye, Columbus | $681,200 | |
| 35 | August 27, 1969 | True Grit | $560,000 | True Grit reached number one in its eleventh week of release |
| 36 | September 3, 1969 | Goodbye, Columbus | $522,100 | Goodbye, Columbus returned to number one in its 23rd week of release |
| 37 | September 10, 1969 | Daddy's Gone-A-Hunting | $545,700 | |
| 38 | September 17, 1969 | True Grit | $531,500 | True Grit returned to number one in its fourteenth week of release |
| 39 | September 24, 1969 | The Learning Tree | $401,120 | The Learning Tree reached number one in its seventh week of release |
| 40 | October 1, 1969 | 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 | October 8, 1969 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | $500,608 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid reached number one in its second week of release |
| 42 | October 15, 1969 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | $501,000 | |
| 43 | October 22, 1969 | Easy Rider | $496,644 | Easy Rider reached number one in fourteenth week of release |
| 44 | October 29, 1969 | Easy Rider | $410,211 | |
| 45 | November 5, 1969 | Easy Rider | $319,317 | |
| 46 | November 12, 1969 | Fanny Hill | $625,000 | Fanny Hill reached number one in seventh week of release |
| 47 | November 19, 1969 | I Am Curious (Yellow) | $594,509 | I Am Curious (Yellow) reached number one in its 36th week of the chart |
| 48 | November 26, 1969 | I Am Curious (Yellow) | $454,441 | |
| 49 | December 3, 1969 | Krakatoa, East of Java | $621,800 | Krakatoa, East of Java reached number one in its 29th week of release |
| 50 | December 10, 1969 | Paint Your Wagon | $276,900 | Paint Your Wagon reached number one in its eighth week of release |
| 51 | December 17, 1969 | A Boy Named Charlie Brown | $290,000 | A Boy Named Charlie Brown reached number one in its second week of release |
| 52 | December 24, 1969 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | $1,223,000 | |
| 53 | December 31, 1969 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | $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 | Studio | Playing weeks | Gross ($) | Rank on 1969 rental chart |
| 1. | Funny Girl | Columbia | 896 | 11,096,561 | 2 |
| 2. | Oliver! | Columbia | 840 | 10,269,146 | 8 |
| 3. | Goodbye, Columbus | Paramount | 739 | 8,216,164 | 8 |
| 4. | I Am Curious (Yellow) | Grove Press | 792 | 7,903,057 | 12 |
| 5. | Midnight Cowboy | United Artists | 472 | 7,346,975 | 7 |
| 6. | Easy Rider | Columbia | 541 | 6,812,878 | 11 |
| 7. | The Lion in Winter | Avco Embassy | 693 | 6,415,737 | 14 |
| 8. | Romeo and Juliet | Paramount | 880 | 6,208,599 | 5 |
| 9. | Bullitt | Warner Bros. | 599 | 5,911,826 | 3 |
| 10. | The Love Bug | Buena Vista | 528 | 5,515,662 | 1 |
| 11. | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 20th Century Fox | 454 | 5,056,592 | 4 |
| 12. | True Grit | Paramount | 461 | 4,899,170 | 6 |
| 13. | 2001: A Space Odyssey | MGM | 392 | 4,058,460 | N/A |
| 14. | Charly | CRC | 739 | 3,993,528 | N/A |
| 15. | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | United Artists | 488 | 3,864,963 | 10 |
| 16. | Alice's Restaurant | United Artists | 419 | 3,701,847 | 27 |
| 17. | Krakatoa, East of Java | CRC | 449 | 3,552,108 | N/A |
| 18. | Sweet Charity | Universal | 432 | 3,538,617 | 83 |
| 19. | The Killing of Sister George | CRC | 383 | 3,195,658 | N/A |
| 20. | The Wild Bunch | Warner Bros. | 348 | 3,151,760 | 23 |
| 21. | Winning | Universal | 364 | 3,108,248 | 16 |
| 22. | Where Eagles Dare | MGM | 372 | 3,079,885 | 13 |
| 23. | The April Fools | National General Pictures | 510 | 2,921,836 | 21 |
| 24. | Ice Station Zebra | MGM | 411 | 2,902,104 | N/A |
| 25. | Candy | CRC | 340 | 2,883,927 | N/A |
Highest-grossing films of 1969 by rental in the United States and Canada accruing to the distributor to the end of 1969 (not total receipts as listed above for a selection of cities and includes rentals from late 1968).
| Rank | Title | Studio | Director | Producer | Rental ($) |
| 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 |
| 8. | 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 |
$^*$Includes 1968 rental