2006 in film
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Event timeline
Notable events concerning the film industry in 2006.
| Month | Day | Event |
|---|---|---|
| January | 4 | The Producers Guild of America nominates Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night, and Good Luck., Crash and Walk the Line as contenders for their best-produced film award. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) nominate Crash, Good Night, and Good Luck., Cinderella Man, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and The Squid and the Whale for best original screenplay. The WGA nominees for best adapted screenplay are Brokeback Mountain, Capote, The Constant Gardener, A History of Violence and Syriana. |
| 5 | Jon Stewart is named host of the 78th Academy Awards. | |
| 6 | Utah Jazz owner Larry H. Miller pulls Brokeback Mountain from one of his Utah movie theaters at the last minute, after learning it features a homosexual love story. | |
| 9 | The Broadcast Film Critics Association present their Critics' Choice Awards for the best films of 2005 live on The WB network in the United States. Brokeback Mountain is named best picture, best director for Ang Lee and ties for best supporting actress for Michelle Williams. Philip Seymour Hoffman is named best actor for Capote and Reese Witherspoon is awarded best actress for Walk the Line. | |
| 16 | The winners of the 63rd Golden Globe Awards include Brokeback Mountain for best dramatic picture and best director. | |
| 19 | The 2006 Sundance Film Festival starts in Park City, Utah. | |
| 28 | The Directors Guild of America names Ang Lee best film director of 2005 for Brokeback Mountain, best documentary goes to Werner Herzog for Grizzly Man and its Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Clint Eastwood. | |
| 29 | The Screen Actors Guild names Philip Seymour Hoffman outstanding male movie actor for Capote, Reese Witherspoon as outstanding female lead movie actor for Walk the Line, Rachel Weisz as outstanding female actor in a supporting role for The Constant Gardener, Paul Giamatti as outstanding male actor in a supporting role for Cinderella Man the cast of Crash as outstanding ensemble in a theatrical motion picture, and Shirley Temple Black is given a life achievement award. | |
| 30 | The 26th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards nominees include Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Dirty Love, The Dukes of Hazzard, House of Wax and Son of the Mask for worst film; Tom Cruise, Will Ferrell, Jamie Kennedy, The Rock and Rob Schneider for worst actor; and, Jessica Alba, Hilary Duff, Jennifer Lopez, Jenny McCarthy and Tara Reid for worst actress. | |
| 31 | The Academy Awards for best film achievement in 2005 had nominated primarly independent films. Brokeback Mountain lead the nominations with 8, followed by Crash, Good Night, and Good Luck. and Memoirs of a Geisha all earning six. | |
| February | 5 | The 33rd annual Annie Award - Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit won the best animated feature, as well as all nine categories which it was nominated. Family Guy won the best voice acting and directing, Star Wars:Clone Wars II Chapters 21-25 won the best animated TV production, Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch has a Glitch won the best home entertainment award, and Ultimate Spider-Man won the new "best video game award". |
| March | 5 | 78th Academy Awards: Crash earns upsetting win for Best Picture over favorite Brokeback Mountain. No film, for the first time, won a clear majority. Both films as well as Memoirs of a Geisha and King Kong win three Oscars each. Favorite March of the Penguins wins Oscar for Documentary Feature. South Africa wins its first motion picture Oscar with the Best Foreign Film award for Tsotsi.
Major awards as follows: |
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Upcoming Events
| Month | Day | Event |
|---|---|---|
| May | 17 | The 2006 Cannes Film Festival will begin in Cannes, France. |
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Top grossing films
Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2006; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year. The top ten of 2006 as of April 18, 2006 (U.S. and Canada), April 16, 2006 (UK) and Apr 17, 2006 (Australia) are as follows:
| 2006 Rank | Title | Studio | Total Int'l Box Office Gross | U.S. & Canada Box Office Gross | United Kingdom Box Office Gross | Australia Box Office Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ice Age: The Meltdown | 20th Century Fox | $427,905,412 | $152,036,035 | £19,503,104 | $13,043,531 |
| 2. | The Pink Panther | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Columbia Pictures | $154,755,046 | $81,954,023 | £5,752,427 | $4,470,011 |
| 3. | Big Momma's House 2 | 20th Century Fox | $132,894,836 | $69,796,089 | £9,078,398 | $5,491,547 |
| 4. | Inside Man | Universal Pictures | $131,407,012 | $76,572,985 | £6,366,774 | $6,019,113 |
| 5. | Nanny McPhee | Universal Studios | $115,372,081 | $46,902,845 | £16,428,714 | $8,339,155 |
| 6. | Failure to Launch | Warner Bros. Pictures | $108,219,512 | $83,699,641 | £2,657,334 | $1,886,739 |
| 7. | Underworld: Evolution | Screen Gems | $106,857,688 | $62,318,875 | £2,875,957 | $5,390,388 |
| 8. | V for Vendetta | Warner Bros. Pictures | $104,831,177 | $66,531,177 | £3,456,546 | $4,449,833 |
| 9. | Final Destination 3 | New Line | $96,270,262 | $54,098,051 | £8,870,775 | April 27 debut |
| 10. | Eight Below | Walt Disney Pictures | $91,757,930 | $80,169,930 | April 20 debut | April 20 debut |
As of April 18, 2006, one film released in 2006, Ice Age: The Meltdown, had grossed more than $400 million, reaching international blockbuster motion picture status.
For a complete list of 2006's top-grossing films, follow these links:
- Worldwide: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2006&p=.htm
- U.S. & Canada: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2006&p=.htm
- United Kingdom: http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/statistics/boxoffice/
- Australia: http://www.moviemarshal.com/
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Notable Deaths
| Month | Day | Name | Age | Cinematic Notability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1 | Mapita Cortés | 75 | Actress |
| 2 | Osa Massen | 91 | Actress | |
| 14 | Henri Colpi | 84 | Film editor | |
| Shelley Winters | 85 | Actress | ||
| 19 | Anthony Franciosa | 77 | Actor | |
| 24 | Fayard Nicholas | 91 | Tap dancer | |
| Chris Penn | 40 | Actor | ||
| 31 | Moira Shearer | 80 | Actress | |
| February | 18 | Richard Bright | 68 | Actor |
| 24 | Don Knotts | 81 | Actor | |
| 24 | Dennis Weaver | 81 | Actor | |
| 25 | Darren McGavin | 83 | Actor | |
| March | 13 | Maureen Stapleton | 80 | Actress |
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Wide-release movies
In the film industry, a wide-release movie is a film that studios believe will appeal to a broad spectrum of the public and that shows in at least 600 theatres in the United States and Canada. The following films meet these criteria:
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January-February
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March
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April-May
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Other movies released
This section lists films which either did not achieve wide-release status in North America, or were not released in North America. Release dates refer to the North American release unless otherwise stated.
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Films scheduled to be released in 2006
Template:Future film The following are two lists:
- The first is a list of movies sorted by their release date
- The second is a list of movies with no entered release date
- This list is based on U.S. and Canadian release dates. If you are seeking release date information for a different country, check the appropriate page in that film's IMDB entry.
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By release date
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April-June
Release dates:
- "LR": Limited release in select cities
- "WR": Wide-release to theaters
- "IMAX": Release to IMAX theaters
April
May
June
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July-September
Release dates:
- "LR": Limited release in select cities
- "WR": Wide-release to theaters
- "IMAX": Release to IMAX theaters
July
August
September
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October-December
Release dates:
- "LR": Limited release in select cities
- "WR": Wide-release to theaters
- "IMAX": Release to IMAX theaters
October
November
December
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Unannounced release date
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#-B
- 1001 Nights - starring Jeffrey Wright
- 30 Days of Night
- 300 - starring Gerard Butler, Michael Fassbender, Lena Headey, Deke Richards, Rodrigo Santoro, Dylan Smith (actor), David Wenham, Dominic West
- 88 Minutes - starring Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Amy Brenneman, Leelee Sobieski, Benjamin McKenzie, Deborah Kara Unger, William Forsythe, Neal McDonough, Brendan Fletcher
- The Adventures of Beatle Boyin - Michele Hicks, Ever Carradine, Orlando Jones, Sarah Shahi,
- Autopsy - starring Kelli Garner
- Becoming Jane - Anne Hathaway, Maggie Smith
- The Berkeley Connection - starring Jennifer Connelly, Robert Duvall, Dustin Hoffman
- Big Bug Man - animated, starring voices of: Brendan Fraser, Marlon Brando
- Black Christmas - November 2006 Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead
- Brother Bear 2 - August 29, 2006 - animated - direct-to-video - starring voices of: Jason Marsden, Mandy Moore, Jeremy Suarez
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C-D
- Caffeine - starring Katherine Heigl, Callum Blue, Breckin Meyer, Mena Suvari, Marsha Thomason, Mike Vogel
- Cat Tale - animated, vocies of Sean Astin, David Cross, Alan Cumming, Elisha Cuthbert, R. Lee Ermey, Billy Idol, Wayne Knight, Jerry O'Connell, Catherine O'Hara, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Richards, Rip Torn, Stanley Tucci, Fred Willard
- The Cleaner - starring Cedric the Entertainer
- Coming Out - starring Alan Cumming, Gavin Henson, Catherine Zeta-Jones
- A Cool Breeze on the Underground - Nick Stahl
- Cougars - Christopher Gorham, Sharon Stone
- The Crowded Room - Joel Schumacher (director)
- Deadwood Park - October 2006
- Delgo - animated voices of Anne Bancroft, Val Kilmer, Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Chris Kattan, Louis Gossett Jr., Eric Idle, Kelly Ripa, Michael Clarke Duncan, Malcolm McDowell
- The Departed - December 29, 2006 WR - Warner Bros. - Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson
- Die Hard 4.0 - Bruce Willis
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F-G
- Fido - Carrie-Anne Moss, Billy Connolly, Dylan Baker
- Flags of Our Fathers - DreamWorks - Clint Eastwood (director), Paul Haggis (Screenwriter), Jamie Bell
- The Fountain - Warner Bros. - Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz
- The Great Debaters - Harpo Films\Miramax - Denzel Washington (director), Suzan-Lori Parks and Robert Eisele (screenwriters)
- The Guardian - Touchstone Pictures - Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Sela Ward
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H
- Half-Life - Jennifer Phang (writer & director)
- Halloween: Retribution - August 2006 - Heather Bowen
- Hannibal - Columbia Pictures - Vin Diesel (director and actor)
- Happily N'Ever After - animated voices of Sigourney Weaver, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr., George Carlin
- The Heartbreak Kide - DreamWorks - Bobby Farrelly/Peter Farrelly (directors), Jason Bateman
- Henry's List of Wrongs - New Line
- High Rise
- Highlander: The Source - Lions Gate - Adrian Paul
- Hollywood Dreams - Karen Black, Justin Kirk, Melissa Leo
- Hollywoodland - Focus Features - Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck, Diane Lane, Bob Hoskins
- Hood of Horror - Snoop Dogg, Ernie Hudson, Danny Trejo, Aries Spears, Dallas Page
- Hot Fuzz - Working Title Films
- Hui Buh - Das Schlossgespenst - Michael Herbig
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I-M
- The Ice at the Bottom of the World - New Line - Charlize Theron
- Idiocracy - Mike Judge (writer, director, and producer) - Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph
- Inkheart - December 2006
- I Remember - Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Andrew Keegan, Jeremy London, Beverley Mitchell
- Isolated
- Jadesoturi
- The Last Unicorn - Christopher Lee, Mia Farrow, Rene Auberjonois
- The Legend Trip - Jamie Bilke, Jason Paul Collum, Mark Metcalf
- Lovewrecked - Amanda Bynes, Chris Carmack, Fred Willard, Lance Bass
- Madness - Fiona Horne
- The Man from London - Tilda Swinton
- Mortal Kombat: Devastation - Robin Shou, Linden Ashby
- Auotefg Moteanis (anime) - Japan on December 29 - Studio Ghibli - Hayao Miyazaki (director)
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N-R
- Night of the Living Dead 3-D - March 17 - Greg Travis, Sid Haig
- Night Skies - Jason Connery, A.J. Cook, Ashley Peldon
- The Night Watchman - Keanu Reeves
- Nobel Son - Alan Rickman, Ted Danson, Danny DeVito, Bill Pullman
- Outward Blonde - Hilary Duff
- Perfect Stranger - Revolution Studios - Halle Berry, Bruce Willis
- Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew - Spring 2006 - direct-to-video - Miramax Films - Kunihiko Yuyama (director)
- Population 436 - Jeremy Sisto, Charlotte Sullivan
- Romance & Cigarettes - United Artists - John Turturro (director), James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Mandy Moore, Mary-Louise Parker, Eddie Izzard
- Room 6 - Jerry O'Connell, Christine Taylor
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S
- School for Scoundrels - October 2006
- Scoop - BBC Films - Woody Allen (director), Romola Garai, Jody Halse, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Ian McShane, James Nesbitt, Colin Salmon
- The Secret Life of Bees - Focus Features - Dakota Fanning
- Sicko - September 2006 - Weinstein Company
- Simon Says - Crispin Glover, Margo Harshman, Greg Cipes
- Soul Searchers - Billy Drago
- Southland Tales - Universal Pictures - The Rock, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Miranda Richardson, Kevin Smith, Curtis Armstrong, Bai Ling, Nora Dunn, Janeane Garofalo, Christopher Lambert, Jon Lovitz, Mandy Moore, Cheri Oteri, Amy Poehler, Will Sasso, Justin Timberlake
- Starter for Ten - Picturehouse - Benedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy, Catherine Tate
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T-Z
- Tekken - Susie Amy, Sienna Guillory, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Chiaki Kuriyama, Andy Serkis
- They Call Me Bruce - Bruce Campbell, Ted Raimi
- Tideland - Terry Gilliam (director), Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Tilly
- Toto - Gael García Bernal
- Trailer Park Boys: Baked on a True Story
- Tales from Earthsea (anime) - Japan on July 2006
- Valley of Flowers
- The Visiting - Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam
- Voyeur - Phil Austin
- Whitepaddy - Sherilyn Fenn, Lisa Bonet, Karen Black, Hill Harper
- The Wicker Man - Warner Bros. - Neil LaBute (director), Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn
- The Woods - Colleen Williams
- Young Hannibal - Peter Webber (director), Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li
- Zombies - Screen Gems - Scout Taylor-Compton, Chloe Moretz, Geoffrey Lewis
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Sources
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