2006 in film
| Years in film: | 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 |
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| Years: | 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 |
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. | |
| 24 | Disney announces plans to acquire Pixar | |
| 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 primarily independent films. Brokeback Mountain led 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 a win for Best Picture upsetting favorite Brokeback Mountain. No film, for the first time in 58 years, 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. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit wins Oscar for Animated feature film.
Major awards as follows: |
| April | 18 | Tom Cruise and fiance Katie Holmes welcomed their newborn baby Suri. |
| 25 | The 5th annual Tribeca Film Festival opens with notable films such as United 93 and Mission Impossible III. | |
| May | 17 | The 2006 Cannes Film Festival began in Cannes, France. It continued until the 28th. It was hosted by Vincent Cassel. Films 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 |
| 27 | Brad Pitt and Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie give birth to daughter Shiloh in the African nation of Namibia. | |
| June | 14 | The American Film Institute releases its ninth list of its AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers recognizing 100 films as the most "inspirational" in cinema history. Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is named the most "insprational" film of all time. |
| July | 7 | Pirates 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. |
| 28 | Actor 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 | 7 | Ellen DeGeneres is named host of the 79th Academy Awards. |
| 7-16 | The 2006 Toronto International Film Festival takes place. |
Upcoming Events
These are upcoming events set to happen in the film industry. Dates are subject to change.
| Month | Day | Event |
| December | 11 | The Hollywood Foreign Press Association will announce the nominees for the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards. |
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 October 5, 2006 (U.S. & Canada and Interantional); October 1, 2006 (UK) and October 1, 2006 (Australia) are as follows:
| 2006 Rank |
Title | Studio | Box Office Gross | ||||
| Total World | U.S./Canada | Total Int.l | U. K. | Australia | |||
| 1. | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | Walt Disney Pictures | $1,052,950,126 | $420,331,126 | $631,619,000 | £51,735,498 | $37,896,546 |
| 2. | The Da Vinci Code | Columbia Pictures | $754,261,280 | $217,536,138 | $536,725,142 | £30,405,163 | $26,920,579 |
| 3. | Ice Age: The Meltdown | 20th Century Fox | $645,925,320 | $195,330,621 | $450,594,699 | £29,140,955 | $24,460,223 |
| 4. | X-Men: The Last Stand | 20th Century Fox | $455,648,929 | $234,362,462 | $221,286,467 | £19,066,987 | $16,478,403 |
| 5. | Cars | Walt Disney Pictures / Pixar | $447,515,463 | $243,735,463 | $203,780,000 | £12,820,576 | $17,589,501 |
| 6. | Mission: Impossible III | Paramount Pictures | $395,679,065 | $133,501,348 | $262,177,717 | £15,342,575 | $10,959,994 |
| 7. | Superman Returns | Warner Bros. | $389,056,144 | $199,056,144 | $190,000,000 | £15,426,329 | $13,830,282 |
| 8. | - | - | $33,610,391 | $155,019,340 | $159,967,628 | £12,086,727 | $16,254,588 |
| 9. | The Break Up | Universal Pictures | $199,975,048 | $118,703,275 | $81,271,809 | £10,049,790 | $9,712,060 |
| 10. | Click | Universal Pictures | $196,889,610 | $137,340,146 | $59,549,464 | £1,797,073 | $14,031,847 |
As of October 1, 2006, five films released in 2006 had grossed more than $400 million, reaching international blockbuster motion picture status and as of September 11, 2006, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest became the third and fastest film in Hollywood history to reach the billion dollar worldwide Box Office mark with a $1,004,100,000.
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/cinemagoing/boxoffice/
- Australia: http://www.moviemarshal.com/boxoffice-aus.html
Notable Deaths
| Month | Day | Name | Age | Cinematic Notability |
| January | 1 | Mapita Cortés | 75 | Actress |
| 2 | Osa Massen | 91 | Actress | |
| 9 | Mikk Mikiver | 68 | Actor | |
| 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 | 9 | Phil Brown | 89 | Actor |
| 18 | Richard Bright | 68 | Actor | |
| 24 | Don Knotts | 81 | Actor | |
| Dennis Weaver | 81 | Actor | ||
| 25 | Darren McGavin | 83 | Actor | |
| March | 2 | Jack Wild | 53 | Actor |
| 13 | Maureen Stapleton | 80 | Actress | |
| 25 | Richard Fleischer | 89 | Director | |
| April | 11 | Shin Sang-ok | 79 | Director and Producer |
| 22 | Alida Valli | 84 | Actress | |
| May | 5 | Naushad | 85 | Film score composer |
| 10 | Val Guest | 94 | Director | |
| 24 | Henry Bumstead | 91 | Art director | |
| 27 | Paul Gleason | 62 | Actor | |
| 30 | Shohei Imamura | 79 | Director | |
| June | 17 | Arthur Franz | 86 | Actor |
| 18 | Vincent Sherman | 99 | Director | |
| 23 | Aaron Spelling | 83 | Producer | |
| 25 | Kenneth Griffith | 84 | Actor and documentary film-maker | |
| July | 8 | June Allyson | 88 | Actress |
| 12 | Kurt Kreuger | 89 | Actor | |
| 13 | Red Buttons | 87 | Actor and Comedian | |
| 19 | Jack Warden | 85 | Actor | |
| August | 13 | Tony Jay | 71 | Voice Actor and Actor |
| 14 | Bruno Kirby | 57 | Actor | |
| 25 | Joseph Stefano | 84 | Screenwriter | |
| 27 | Hrishikesh Mukherjee | 83 | Director | |
| 30 | Glenn Ford | 90 | Actor | |
| September | 4 | Steve Irwin | 44 | Documentary film-maker |
| 9 | Gérard Brach | 79 | Director and screenwriter | |
| 20 | Sven Nykvist | 83 | Cinematographer |
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:
January-March
April-June
July-September
October-December
Other films released
This section lists films which either did not achieve wide-release status in North America, or were not released before in North America. Release dates refer to the North American release unless otherwise stated.
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.
By release date
November-December
Release dates:
- "LR": Limited release in select cities
- "WR": Wide-release to theaters
- "IMAX": Release to IMAX theaters
November
December
Unannounced release date
The following films are scheduled to be released in North American cinemas during 2006 without a specific release date:
#-H
- 88 Minutes [1] - 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 [2]- Ever Carradine, Orlando Jones, Sarah Shahi
- Autopsy [3] - starring Kelli Garner
- Breaking and Entering
- Caffeine [4]- starring Katherine Heigl, Callum Blue, Breckin Meyer, Mena Suvari, Marsha Thomason, Mike Vogel
- The Children [5]- Screen Gems - Scout Taylor-Compton, Chloe Moretz, Geoffrey Lewis
- Deadwood Park [6]- October 2006
- Fido [7]- Carrie-Anne Moss
- Half-Life [8]- Jennifer Phang (writer & director)(no relation to game)
- Highlander: The Source [9]- Lions Gate - Adrian Paul
- Hood of Horror
- Hui Buh - Das Schlossgespenst [10]- Michael Herbig
I-R
- I Could Never Be Your Woman
- I Remember [11] - Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Andrew Keegan, Jeremy London, Beverley Mitchell
- Isolated [12]
- Jadesoturi [13]
- Killshot
- Lovewrecked [14]- Amanda Bynes, Chris Carmack, Fred Willard, Lance Bass
- Night Skies [15]- Jason Connery, A. J. Cook, Ashley Peldon, George Stults, Gwendoline Yeo
- Nobel Son [16]- Alan Rickman, Ted Danson, Danny DeVito, Bill Pullman
S-Z
- The Secret [17]- David Duchovny, Lili Taylor
- Simon Says [18]- Crispin Glover, Margo Harshman, Greg Cipes
- Soul Searchers [19]- Billy Drago
- Southland Tales [20]- November 2006 - 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 [21]- Picturehouse - Benedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy, Catherine Tate
- Toto [22]- Gael García Bernal
- Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
- Valley of Flowers' [23]