The Year in Film: 1969


Best Picture
#1: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (dir: Sydney Pollock)
#2: The Wild Bunch (dir: Sam Peckinpah)
#3: Z (dir: Costa-Gavras)
#4: Midnight Cowboy (dir: John Schlesinger)
#5: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (dir: George Roy Hill)
#6: The Passion of Anna (dir: Ingmar Bergman)
#7: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (dir: Peter R. Hunt)
#8: 
Easy Rider (dir: Dennis Hopper)
#9: 
The Prime of Miss Brodie (dir: Ronald Neame)
#10: The Gladiators (dir: Peter Watkins)

Honorable Mentions: Take the Money and Run
 (dir: Woody Allen), Medium Cool(dir: Haskell Wexler), and Mississippi Mermaid (dir: François Truffaut).