2006 in movies

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The following is an overview of events in 2006, including the highest-grossing movies, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of movies released and notable deaths.

Highest-grossing movies

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest became the third movie in cinema history to gross over $1 billion and is the 24th highest-grossing movie of all time.

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Events

MonthDayEvent
January 4The Producers Guild of America nominates Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Good Night, and Good Luck and Walk the Line as contenders for their best-produced movie award. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) nominate The 40-Year-Old Virgin, I Tried, Crash, Good Night, and Good Luck 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.
5Jon Stewart is named host of the 78th Academy Awards.
9The Broadcast Film Critics Association present their Critics' Choice Awards for the best movies 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.
16The winners of the 63rd Golden Globe Awards include Brokeback Mountain for best dramatic picture and best director.
19The 2006 Sundance Film Festival starts in Park City, Utah.
24Disney announces plans to acquire Pixar
28The Directors Guild of America names Ang Lee best movie director of 2005 for Brokeback Mountain, best documentary goes to Werner Herzog for Grizzly Man and its Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Clint Eastwood.
29The 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.
30The 26th 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 movie; 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.
31The Academy Awards for best movie achievement in 2005 had nominated primarily independent movies. Brokeback Mountain led the nominations with 8, followed by Crash, Good Night, and Good Luck and Memoirs of a Geisha all earning six.
February 5The 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 & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch won the best home entertainment award, and Ultimate Spider-Man won the new "best video game award".
6Disney re-acquires the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit from NBCUniversal, in exchange for ABC letting commentator Al Michaels work on NBC Sunday Night Football.
March 4Dirty Love dominates the 26th Golden Raspberry Awards with 4 awards including Worst Picture and Worst Actress for Jenny McCarthy. Rob Schneider took home for Worst Actor for his performance in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. Other awards went to Hayden Christensen as Worst Supporting Actor for Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and Paris Hilton as Worst Supporting Actress for House of Wax
578th Academy Awards: Crash earns a win for Best Picture upsetting favorite Brokeback Mountain. No movie, for the first time in 58 years, won a clear majority. Both movies 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. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit wins Oscar for Animated feature movie.

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1311th Empire Awards: Pride & Prejudice and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith win the most awards with two.
April 18Tom Cruise and fiancée Katie Holmes welcomed their newborn baby Suri.
25The 5th annual Tribeca Film Festival opens with notable movies such as Mission: Impossible III and United 93.
28TV double act Ant & Dec make their big screen debut with Alien Autopsy.
May 17The 2006 Cannes Film Festival began in Cannes, France. It continued until May 28. It was hosted by Vincent Cassel. Movies in competition included Babel by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Fast Food Nation by Richard Linklater, Iklimler by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, El Laberinto del Fauno by Guillermo del Toro, Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola, Southland Tales by Richard Kelly, Volver by Pedro Almodóvar, and The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Ken Loach
27Brad Pitt and Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie give birth to daughter Shiloh in the African nation of Namibia.
June 3The 2006 MTV Movie Awards winners were announced.
14The American Film Institute releases its ninth list of its AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers recognizing 100 movies as the most "inspirational" in cinema history. Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is named the most "inspirational" movie of all time.
July 7Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest opens later grossing $55.8 million on its opening day, setting records for the largest opening day, the largest single day gross, and the largest Friday gross of all time (the previous record was held by Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith with $50,013,859, the previous year). It also surpassed the opening weekend gross (at $135,634,554 between July 7–9) previously set by Spider-Man in 2002 with $114,844,116 between May 3–5.
28Actor and Oscar-winning director producer Mel Gibson is arrested after speeding on Pacific Coast Highway due to a DUI. Police reports later reveal stinging anti-Semitic comments made to the officer (a Jew). Gibson checked into rehab and issued several statements apologizing for his rude comments. See Mel Gibson DUI incident for more details.
September 7Ellen DeGeneres is named host of the 79th Academy Awards.
7-16The 2006 Toronto International Film Festival takes place.
December 764th Golden Globe Awards nominees are announced. Babel leads nominations with seven.
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Awards

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2006 wide-release movies

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Movies released in 2006

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  • American movies
  • Argentine movies
  • Australian movies
  • Bengali movies
  • Bollywood movies
  • Brazilian movies
  • British movies
  • French movies
  • Hong Kong movies
  • Italian movies
  • Japanese movies
  • Mexican movies
  • Pakistani movies
  • Russian movies
  • South Korean movies
  • Spanish movies
  • Tamil movies
  • Telugu movies

Notable deaths

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable movies
January ??Rose Alba85UKActress
2Osa Massen91DenmarkActress
  • A Woman's Face
  • Rocketship X-M
2John Woodnutt81UKActor
  • Who Dares Wins
  • Lifeforce
5Mark Roberts84USAActor
7Jim Zulevic40USAActor
  • Let's Go to Prison
  • Matchstick Men
12Stu Linder74USAFilm Editor
14Shelley Winters85USAActress
19Anthony Franciosa77USAActor
21Robert Knudson80USASound Re-Recording Mixer
23Joseph M. Newman96USADirector
  • This Island Earth
  • 711 Ocean Drive
24Fayard Nicholas91USAActor, Dancer, Choreographer
  • Stormy Weather
  • The Pirate
24Chris Penn40USAActor
26Len Carlson68CanadaActorCypher
27Paul Valentine86USAActor
  • Out of the Past
  • House of Strangers
28Henry McGee77UKActor
31Moira Shearer80UKActress, Dancer
February 1Roy Alon63UKStuntman
3Jean Byron80USAActress
3Al Lewis82USAActor
5Franklin Cover77USAActor
6Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez80USAActor
  • The High and the Mighty
  • Rio Bravo
9Phil Brown89USAActor
13Andreas Katsulas59USAActor
14Darry Cowl80FranceActor
  • Not on the Lips
  • Don't Touch the White Woman!
17Harold Hunter31USAActor
18Richard Bright64USAActor
19Erna Lazarus102USAScreenwriter
  • The Body Disappears
  • Hollywood or Bust
21Richard Snell50BahamasMakeup Artist
24Don Knotts81USAActor
  • The Incredible Mr. Limpet
  • The Shakiest Gun in the West
  • The Apple Dumpling Gang
  • The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
  • Pleasantville
24Dennis Weaver81USAActor
25Darren McGavin83USAActor
March 1Peter Sykes66AustraliaDirector, Actor
  • To the Devil a Daughter
  • Jesus
1Jack Wild53UKActor
2Phyllis Huffman61USACasting Director
7John Junkin76UKWriter, Actor
  • A Hard Day's Night
  • The Football Factory
7Gordon Parks93USADirector
  • Shaft
  • The Learning Tree
12Joseph Bova81USAActor
13Maureen Stapleton80USAActress
16Moira Redmond77UKActress
  • A Shot in the Dark
  • Nightmare
17Bob Papenbrook50USAVoice Actor
18Michael Attwell63UKActor
25Richard Fleischer89USADirector
29Gretchen Rau66USASet and Art Director
April 4Gary Gray69USAActor
9Vilgot Sjöman82SwedenDirector
  • I Am Curious (Yellow)
  • I Am Curious (Blue)
11June Pointer52USAActress
16John Godey93USAAuthor
17Henderson Forsythe88USAActor
22Alida Valli84ItalyActress
23Susan Browning65USAActress
23Jennifer Jayne74UKActress, Writer
  • The Medusa Touch
  • Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
May 1Jay Presson Allen84USAWriter, Producer
1Betsy Jones-Moreland76USAActress
  • Last Woman on Earth
  • Creature from the Haunted Sea
4Michael Taliferro44USAActor, Director, Producer
  • The Replacements
  • Bad Boys
  • Life
  • You Got Served
8George Lutz59USAAuthor, ScreenwriterThe Amityville Horror
10Val Guest94USADirector, Screenwriter
14Paul Marco78USAActor
21Katherine Dunham96USADancer
  • Stormy Weather
  • Casbah
24Henry Bumstead91USAArt Director
27Paul Gleason67USAActor
30Shohei Imamura79JapanActor
  • Endless Desire
  • The Insect Woman
30Robert Sterling88USAActor
June 4Alec Bregonzi76UKActor
8Robert Donner75USAActor
10Gerald James88UKActor
12Hugh Latimer75UKActor
  • The Million Pound Note
  • Jane Eyre
16Arthur Franz86USAActor
18Vincent Sherman99USADirector
  • The Young Philadelphians
  • Mr. Skeffington
18Richard Stahl74USAActor
23Aaron Spelling83USAProducer, Actor
25Kenneth Griffith84UKActor
July 2Jan Murray89USAActor
  • Which Way to the Front?
  • The Busy Body
3Jack Smith92USAActor
5Amzie Strickland87USAActress
6Kasey Rogers80USAActress
  • Strangers on a Train
  • Two Lost Worlds
8June Allyson88USAActress
  • The Glenn Miller Story
  • The Three Musketeers
9Chris Drake82USAActor
11Barnard Hughes90USAActor
12Kurt Kreuger89GermanyActor
13Red Buttons87USAActor
18David Maloney72UKDirector, Producer
19Jack Warden85USAActor
20Robert O. Cornthwaite89USAActor
  • The War of the Worlds
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
21Mako72JapanActor
27Johnny Weissmuller, Jr.65USAActor
28Patrick Allen79MalawiActor
August 4John Alderson90USAActor
7Lois January92USAActress
13Tony Jay73UKVoice Actor, Actor
14Bruno Kirby57USAActor
16Alan Vint61USAActor
  • Badlands
  • The Panic in Needle Park
24Earl Jolly Brown66USAActorLive and Let Die
25Ann Richards88AustraliaActress
25Joseph Stefano84USAScreenwriter
29Bill Stewart63UKActor
30Glenn Ford90CanadaActor
31William Aldrich61USAProducer, Actor
  • Flight of the Phoenix
  • The Sheltering Sky
September 4Steve Irwin44AustraliaWildlife Expert, Actor
4Fernando Siro74ArgentinaActor, Director
  • Where the Wind Dies
  • Un Argentino en New York
5Hilary Mason89UKActress
7Robert Earl Jones96USAActor
8Frank Middlemass87UKActor
9Gérard Brach79FranceDirector, Writer
9Herbert Rudley96USAActor
  • The Court Jester
  • The Young Lions
11Pat Corley76USAActor
14Johnny Sekka72USAActor
  • Mohammad, Messenger of God
  • Babylon 5: The Gathering
14Virginia Vale86USAActress
  • Blonde Comet
  • Broadway Big Shot
19Elizabeth Allen77USAActress
20Sven Nykvist83SwedenCinematographer
22Edward Albert55USAActor
  • Butterflies Are Free
  • 40 Carats
23Malcolm Arnold84UKComposer
24Sally Gray91UKActress
26Lionel Murton91UKActor
28Hy Pyke70USAActor
October 2Frances Bergen84USAActress
2Tamara Dobson59USAActress, Makeup Artist
  • Cleopatra Jones
  • Norman... Is That You?
4Tom Bell73UKActor
  • Wish You Were Here
  • Feast of July
9Danièle Huillet70FranceDirector
  • The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
  • History Lessons
10Jerry Belson68USAProducer, Writer
12Gillo Pontecorvo86ItalyDirector, Writer
  • The Battle of Algiers
  • Kapò
15Derek Bond86UKActor
  • Uncle Silas
  • When Eight Bells Toll
16Ross Davidson57UKActor
16Jack DeLeon81USAActor, Miscellaneous
  • The Hobbit
  • Life Stinks
16Tommy Johnson71USAMusician
19James Glennon64USACinematographer, Second Assistant Camera
19Phyllis Kirk79USAActress
  • House of Wax
  • Back from Eternity
20Jane Wyatt96USAActress
21Peter Barkworth77UKActor
21Daryl Duke77CanadaDirector
21Milton Selzer87USAActor
22B. Constance Barry93USAActress
22Arthur Hill84CanadaActor
22Richard Mayes83UKActor
29Roy Barnes70USAArt Director, Set Designer
29Nigel Kneale84UKScreenwriter, Actor
31William Franklyn81UKActor, Writer
  • Cul-de-sac
  • The Satanic Rites of Dracula
November 1Adrienne Shelly40USAActress, Director
  • Waitress
  • The Unbelievable Truth
2Leonard Schrader62USAScreenwriter
2Milly Vitale73ItalyActress
  • The Seven Little Foys
  • The Juggler
8Basil Poledouris61USAComposer
9Wayne Artman69USASound Re-Recording
9Marian Marsh93USAActress
  • The Mad Genius
  • The Black Room
10Diana Coupland74UKActress
  • The Twelve Chairs
  • The Millionairess
10Chubby Oates63UKActorKiller's Moon
10Jack Palance87USAActor
11Belinda Emmett32AustraliaActressThe Nugget
11Ronnie Stevens81UKActor
14John Hallam65UKActor
15Elaine Ives-Cameron67UKActressSupergirl
16Eustace Lycett91USASpecial Effects, Visual Effects
19Jeremy Slate80USAActor
  • The Devil's Brigade
  • True Grit
20Robert Altman81USADirector, Screenwriter
20Kevin McClory80IrelandMiscellaneous, Producer
23Betty Comden89USAScreenwriter, Lyricist
23Philippe Noiret76FranceActor, Voice Dubbing
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Il Postino: The Postman
24Phyllis Cerf90USAActress
  • Vivacious Lady
  • Little Men
27Alan Freeman79UKActor, Producer
  • Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
  • Absolute Beginners
27Anthony Jackson62UKActorLabyrinth
29Leon Niemczyk62PolandActorInland Empire
30Shirley Walker61USAComposer, Orchestrator
December 1Sid Raymond97USAActor, Voice Actor
  • Two Much
  • Herman and Katnip
4Adam Williams84USAActor
5Michael Gilden44USAActor
5Gerry Humphreys74UKSound Re-Recording
6Mavis Pugh92UKActressThe Class of Miss MacMichael
7Desmond Briscoe81UKSound Effects
8Martha Tilton91USASinger, Actress
  • Swing Hostess
  • Crime, Inc.
9Russell Wade89USAActorBall of Fire • Mr. & Mrs. Smith
12Ivor Barry87USAActor, WriterWeird Science • The Andromeda Strain
12Peter Boyle71USAActor
14Hallie D'Amore64UKMakeup ArtistForrest Gump • Apollo 13
14Mike Evans57USAWriter, ActorNow You See Him, Now You Don't • The House on Skull Mountain
18Joseph Barbera95USADirector, ProducerThe Flintstones • Jetsons: The Movie
21Lois Hall80USAActressGone in 60 Seconds • Flightplan
22Philip Pine86USAActorD.O.A • The Set-Up
23Charlie Drake81USAActorThe Plank • Sands of the Desert
24Marc Smith61UKActorLive and Let Die • Moonraker
25James Brown73USASinger, ActorJerry Maguire • The Proposal
27Anna Navarro73USAActressLast Action Hero • Topaz
30Frank Campanella87USAActor
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