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Easy Rider was made on a filming budget of $360,000 to $400,000. It earned $60 million worldwide, including $41.7 million domestically in the United States and Canada, making it the fourth highest-grossing film of 1969.
Dennis Hopper directed Easy Rider. The screenplay credit went to Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, though Southern disputed how much Hopper contributed, saying most of the script came from him and Fonda.
Rip Torn was the original choice for the role of George Hanson. In early 1968, a meeting between Torn and Hopper at a New York restaurant ended in a near-physical confrontation after Hopper made remarks about Southerners that Torn, a Texan, found offensive. Torn withdrew from the project and was replaced by Nicholson.
The iconic choppers were designed and built by Cliff Vaughs and Ben Hardy, two African American chopper builders, whose designs reflected styles popular among Black motorcyclists at the time. Neither Vaughs nor Hardy was mentioned in the film's credits.
Editor Donn Cambern assembled the soundtrack from his own record collection while cutting through up to 80 hours of footage. The tracks worked so well that they replaced a planned original score by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Licensing the music cost $1 million, approximately three times the film's shooting budget.
Easy Rider received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor for Jack Nicholson and Best Original Screenplay for Fonda, Hopper, and Southern. It won an award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969. In 1998, the Library of Congress added it to the United States National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."