Editing Midnight Cowboy (section)

===Box office===
The film opened at the [[Coronet Theater (Broadway)|Coronet Theatre]] in New York City, and grossed a house record $61,503 in its first week.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title='Men' Meek $17,219 on Slow B'way; But 'Cowboy' Tall $54,460 2d., 'West' Fast $54,324 in 2 Sites, 'Che' 52G|date=June 11, 1969|page=8}}</ref> In its tenth week of release, the film became number one in the United States, with a weekly gross of $550,237,<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=50 Top-Grossing Films|date=August 13, 1969|page=11}}</ref> and was the highest-grossing movie in September 1969.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=Sept. Totals Soar to High Plateau; 'Cowboy,' 'True Grit,' 'Easy Rider,' 'Daddy,' 'Oliver,' 'Curious' Leaders|date=October 8, 1969|page=7|last=Wear|first=Mike}}</ref> The film earned $11 million in rentals in the United States and Canada in 1969,<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Big Rental Films of 1969|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=January 7, 1970|page=15|url=https://ameblo.jp/ayumi-niwano/entry-12249691199.html|access-date=July 16, 2018|archive-date=June 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613073539/https://ameblo.jp/ayumi-niwano/entry-12249691199.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and added a further $5.3 million the following year when it won the Academy Award for Best Picture.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Top 10 Films Yield 40% Of Rentals|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=January 6, 1971|last=Fredrick|first=Robert B.|page=11}}</ref> It eventually earned rentals of $20.5 million in the United States and Canada.<ref name=AllTime>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=All-Time Film Rental Champs|date=October 15, 1990|page=M172|first=Lawrence|last=Cohn}}</ref> By 1975, it had earned rentals of over $30 million worldwide.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=Why Crix Give Producers The Brush|date=May 14, 1975|pages=3, 64|last=Verrill|first=Addison|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1975-05-14_279_1/page/n1/mode/2up?view=theater|access-date=April 12, 2024|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>