Editing Easy Rider (section)

==Reception and legacy==
[[File:Peter Fonda's American Flag Patch.jpg|thumb|Peter Fonda's American Flag patch, which sold for $89,625 in 2007]]

===Critical reception===
The film received mostly positive reviews from critics. [[Vincent Canby]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' called it "pretty but lower case cinema" despite the "upper case" "pious statement about our society which is sick". He was mildly impressed by the photography, rock score and Nicholson's performance.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The New York Times]]|last=Canby|first=Vincent|author-link=Vincent Canby|date=July 15, 1969|title=Easy Rider film review}}</ref> [[Penelope Gilliatt]] in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' said that it "speaks tersely and aptly for this American age, that is both the best of times and the worst of times."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=Bedsprings, Alienation, Psycho Killer|date=July 23, 1969|page=19}}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] added ''Easy Rider'' to his "Great Movies" list in 2004.<ref>{{cite news|first=Roger |last=Ebert |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-easy-rider-1969 |title=A cinematic snapshot of the '60s |date=October 24, 2004}}</ref> ''Easy Rider'' holds an 84% rating on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] based on 55 reviews, with an average rating of 7.70/10. The site's consensus says, "Edgy and seminal, ''Easy Rider'' encapsulates the dreams, hopes, and hopelessness of [[1960s counterculture]]."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/easy_rider|title = Easy Rider|website = [[Rotten Tomatoes]] }}</ref>

===Box office===
The film opened on July 14, 1969, at the Beekman theater in New York City, and grossed a house record of $40,422 in its first week.<ref name=chart>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=Rain, Moon Monday Balance B'way; 'Daddy,' 'Rider' Good 40G Starts; 'Midnight Cowboy', 8th, Wham 48G|date=July 23, 1969|page=8}}</ref> It grossed even more the following week with $46,609.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title='Castle Keep' Whammy 94G, B'Way; 'Easy Rider' Amazing At 46G, 2d; Warhol's Beddy-Bye a Mop-Up|date=July 30, 1969|page=11}}</ref> In its fourteenth week of release, it was the number one film at the U.S. box office and remained there for three weeks.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=50 Top-Grossing Films|date=October 29, 1969|page=11}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=50 Top-Grossing Films|date=November 12, 1969|page=13}}</ref> It was the [[1969 in film|fourth highest-grossing film of 1969]], with a worldwide gross of $60 million, including $41.7 million domestically in the U.S. and Canada.<ref name="box office"/><ref name="numbers">{{cite web|url=http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1969/0ERID.php|website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]]|title=''Easy Rider''|access-date=February 26, 2012}}</ref>

===Accolades===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[42nd Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1970 |title=The 42nd Academy Awards |access-date=6 July 2017 |website=oscars.org |date=October 4, 2014 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]}}</ref>
| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| [[Jack Nicholson]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]]
| [[Peter Fonda]], [[Dennis Hopper]] and [[Terry Southern]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[23rd British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Awards]]
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role|Best Actor in a Supporting Role]]
| Jack Nicholson
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[1969 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes Film Festival]]<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2517/year/1969.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Easy Rider |access-date=2009-04-05|website=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404235952/https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/films/easy-rider |archive-date=April 4, 2023}}</ref>
| [[Palme d'Or]]
| rowspan="3"| Dennis Hopper
| {{nom}}
|-
| Best First Work
| {{won}}
|-
| [[22nd Directors Guild of America Awards|Directors Guild of America Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1960s/1969.aspx?value=1969|title=22nd Annual Directors Guild of America Awards|website=DGA.org}}</ref>
| [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[27th Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture]]
| rowspan="2"| Jack Nicholson
| {{nom}}
|-
| Kansas City Film Circle Critics Awards
| Best Supporting Actor
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Kinema Junpo|Kinema Junpo Awards]]
| Best Foreign Language Film
| Dennis Hopper
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="5"| [[Laurel Awards]]
| colspan="2"| Best Drama
| {{draw|5th Place}}
|-
| Top Male Supporting Performance
| Jack Nicholson
| {{won}}
|-
| Top Cinematographer
| [[László Kovács (cinematographer)|László Kovács]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| Male New Face
| Peter Fonda
| {{nom}}
|-
| Dennis Hopper
| {{draw|5th Place}}
|-
| [[National Film Preservation Board]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Film Registry]]
| {{won|Inducted}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[1969 National Society of Film Critics Awards|National Society of Film Critics Awards]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Weiler|first1=A. H.|title=National Film Critics Crown 'Z,' Jon Voight, Miss Redgrave|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/06/archives/national-film-critics-crown-z-jon-voight-miss-redgrave.html|accessdate=3 January 2018|work=The New York Times|date=6 January 1970}}</ref>
| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| Jack Nicholson
| {{won}}
|-
| Special Award
| Dennis Hopper <small>("For his achievements as director, co-writer and co-star.")</small>
| {{won}}
|-
| [[1969 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|New York Film Critics Circle Awards]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Weiler|first1=A. H.|title='Z' Voted Best Film of 1969 by Critics Here; Jane Fonda and Jon Voight Capture Acting Honor|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/12/30/archives/z-voted-best-film-of-1969-by-critics-here-jane-fonda-and-jon-voight.html|accessdate=29 December 2017|work=The New York Times|date=30 December 1969}}</ref>
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| Jack Nicholson
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[9th Golden Satellite Awards|Satellite Awards]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pressacademy.com/satawards/awards2005a.shtml |title=2005 Satellite Awards - New Media |website=[[International Press Academy]] |access-date=October 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080202161512/http://www.pressacademy.com/satawards/awards2005a.shtml |archive-date=2008-02-02}}</ref>
| colspan="2"| [[Satellite Award for Best Classic DVD|Best Classic DVD]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| colspan="2"| [[Satellite Award for Best DVD Extras|Best DVD Extras]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| colspan="2"| [[Satellite Award for Outstanding Overall Blu-Ray/DVD|Outstanding Overall DVD]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[22nd Writers Guild of America Awards|Writers Guild of America Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551|title=Awards Winners|work=wga.org|publisher=Writers Guild of America|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205095022/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551|archive-date=2012-12-05|access-date=2010-06-06|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen]]
| Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern
| {{nom}}
|}

In 1998, ''Easy Rider'' was added to the United States [[National Film Registry]], having been deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."<ref name="Registry" />

In April 2019, a restored version of the film was selected to be shown in the Cannes Classics section at the [[2019 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Cannes Classics 2019 |url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/press/press-articles/communique/articles/cannes-classics-2019-1 |website=Festival de Cannes |access-date=26 April 2019 |date=26 April 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426215446/https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/press/press-articles/communique/articles/cannes-classics-2019-1 |archive-date=April 26, 2019}}</ref>

'''[[American Film Institute]] Lists'''
* [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies]] – #88<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies |url=https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-movies/?id=1402325 |website=AFI.com |access-date=10 October 2023}}</ref>
* [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs]]: "[[Born to Be Wild]]" – #29<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-songs/?id=1751232|title=AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs|access-date=June 22, 2024|website=AFI.com}}</ref>
* [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)]] – #84<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-movies-10th-anniversary-edition/?id=1751834|title=AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies — 10th Anniversary Edition|access-date=June 22, 2024|website=AFI.com}}</ref>

===Significance===
[[File:Photography by Victor Albert Grigas (1919-2017) CHICAGO 1250 img 002 (39291637225).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Posters of Peter Fonda on his motorcycle from Easy Rider for sale in a store in [[Old Town, Chicago|Chicago]] circa 1970.]]
Along with ''[[Bonnie and Clyde (film)|Bonnie and Clyde]]'' and ''[[The Graduate]]'', ''Easy Rider'' helped kick-start the [[New Hollywood]] era during the late 1960s and 1970s.<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news | title = Easy Rider (1969) | url = https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/15197/Easy-Rider/overview | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071103010136/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/15197/Easy-Rider/overview | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2007-11-03 | access-date = 2008-10-18| first=Vincent| department = Movies & TV Dept. | work = [[The New York Times]] | author-link = Vincent Canby | date = 2007 | last=Canby}}</ref> The major studios realized that money could be made from low-budget films made by [[avant-garde]] directors. Heavily influenced by the [[French New Wave]], the films of the so-called "post-classical Hollywood" came to represent a counterculture generation increasingly disillusioned with its government as well as the government's effects on the world at large and the establishment in general.<ref name="nytimes"/> Although [[Jack Nicholson]] appears only as a supporting actor and in the last half of the film, the standout performance signaled his arrival as a movie star,<ref name="nytimes"/> along with his subsequent film ''[[Five Easy Pieces]]'' in which he had the lead role. [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Spiro Agnew]] criticized ''Easy Rider'', along with the band [[Jefferson Airplane]], as examples of the permissiveness of the 1960s counterculture.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974 |first=James T. |last= Patterson |author-link= James T. Patterson (historian) |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year= 1996 |isbn= 9780195076806 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-bE23kRusDkC&pg=PP780 |access-date= January 15, 2015 }}</ref>

The film's success, and the new era of Hollywood which it helped usher in, gave Hopper the chance to direct again with complete artistic control. The result was 1971's ''[[The Last Movie]]'', which was a notable box office and critical failure, effectively ending Hopper's career as a director for well over a decade.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}

It also gave Fonda the chance to direct with ''[[The Hired Hand]]'', although he rarely produced again.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/peter-fonda-10-phases-acting/|title=Peter Fonda – 10 Phases of Acting|date=October 26, 2019 }}</ref>