2006 in film

2006 in film
The following is an overview of events in 2006, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Pixar celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2006 with the release of its 7th film, Cars.
Evaluation of the year
Philip French of The Guardian described 2006 as "an outstanding year for British cinema". He went on to emphasize, "Six of our well-established directors have made highly individual films of real distinction: Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Christopher Nolan's The Prestige, Stephen Frears's The Queen, Paul Greengrass's United 93 and Nicholas Hytner's The History Boys. Two young directors made confident debuts, both offering a jaundiced view of contemporary Britain: Andrea Arnold's Red Road and Paul Andrew Williams's London to Brighton. In addition the gifted Mexican Alfonso Cuaron came here to make the dystopian thriller Children of Men." He also stated, "In the (United) States, M. Night Shyamalan of The Sixth Sense fame fell flat on his over-confident face with Lady in the Water, but Martin Scorsese's The Departed was his best for years, and he was with Jack Nicholson at last. Apart from that, the best American films were political (Syriana, Good Night, and Good Luck, The New World) or very personal (Little Miss Sunshine, Little Children, The Squid and the Whale). Sadly, Oliver Stone's 9/11 picture World Trade Center was neither. Asian cinema produced a string of elegant thrillers and horror flicks. The best Eastern European movie was The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, a devastating look at the Romania Ceausescu left behind him. Most of the best Western European films came from France, with Michael Haneke's Caché, proving the most widely discussed art-house puzzle picture since Last Year at Marienbad. The award of 18 certificates by the BBFC to Shortbus and Destricted has brought close the abolition of censorship, but not of classification, and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain was a real step forward for the representation of homosexuals in mainstream cinema, though Gore Vidal claims that there's a gay subtext to every western. However, the year's most extraordinary event, or conjunction, was the almost simultaneous release of Tommy Lee Jones's directorial debut The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Who would have predicted in the Sixties, when they were roommates at Harvard and used by Erich Segal as joint models for Oliver Barrett IV in Love Story, that both Jones and Gore would end up as movie stars - if, in Gore's case, accidentally and temporarily?"
Highest-grossing films
The top 10 films released in 2006 by worldwide gross are as follows:
Box office records
Sony Pictures grossed more than in annual worldwide box office revenue for the first time in its history.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest became the third film in cinema history to gross over $1 billion and is the 35th highest-grossing film of all time.
Events
Awards
Films released in 2006
The list of films released in 2006, arranged by country, are as follows:
American films
Argentine films
Australian films
Bengali films
Bollywood films
Brazilian films
British films
French films
Hong Kong films
Italian films
Japanese films
Kannadigan films
Malayalam films
Mexican films
Pakistani films
Russian films
South Korean films
Spanish films
Tamil films
Telugu films
By genre/medium
List of action films of 2006
List of animated feature films of 2006
List of avant-garde films of 2006
List of crime films of 2006
List of comedy films of 2006
List of drama films of 2006
List of horror films of 2006
List of science fiction films of 2006
List of thriller films of 2006
Births
March 1 - Julian Grey, American actor
April 20 - Kailia Posey, American actress and reality television show contestant (died 2022)
April 22 - Nathanael Saleh, English actor
April 28 - Kiawentiio, Canadian-American actress
April 29 - Xochitl Gomez, American actress
May 22 - Mattea Conforti, American actress
June 25 – Mckenna Grace, American actress
June 29 - Sam Lavagnino, American voice actor and YouTuber
July 8 – Isabella Sermon, English actress
July 12 – Kevin Vechiatto, Brazilian actor
August 5 - Elle McKinnon, Canadian actress
September 7 - Ian Chen, American actor
September 12 - Alexander Molony, British actor
September 17 - Ella Jay Basco, American actress
October 1 - Priah Ferguson, American actress
October 5 – Jacob Tremblay, Canadian actor
December 6 - Millie Davis, Canadian actress
December 9 - Pixie Davies, English actress
Deaths
Film debuts
Ana de Armas – Virgin Rose
Dave Bautista – Relative Strangers
Leïla Bekhti – Sheitan
Mario Casas – Summer Rain
Common – Smokin' Aces
Scott Eastwood – Flags of Our Fathers
Verónica Echegui – My Name Is Juani
Greta Fernández – Fiction
Greta Gerwig – LOL
Bill Hader – Doogal
Rebecca Hall – Starter for 10
Andrea Riseborough – Venus
Léa Seydoux – Girlfriends
Olivia Thirlby – United 93
Tessa Thompson – When a Stranger Calls
Adriana Ugarte – Doghead
Mia Wasikowska – Suburban Mayhem
References
External links
Box Office Mojo film release schedule.
List of 2006 films at IMDb
2006 Domestic Grosses at Box Office Mojo
List of 2006 deaths at IMDb
List of 2006 births at IMDb
Film by year