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
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 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 or very personal. 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:| Rank | Title | Distributor | Worldwide gross |
| 1 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | Buena Vista | $1,066,179,725 |
| 2 | The Da Vinci Code | Sony | $760,006,945 |
| 3 | Ice Age: The Meltdown | 20th Century Fox | $660,998,756 |
| 4 | Casino Royale | Sony / MGM | $606,099,584 |
| 5 | Night at the Museum | 20th Century Fox | $574,480,841 |
| 6 | Cars | Buena Vista | $461,983,149 |
| 7 | X-Men: The Last Stand | 20th Century Fox | $460,435,291 |
| 8 | Mission: Impossible III | Paramount | $398,479,497 |
| 9 | Superman Returns | Warner Bros. | $391,081,192 |
| 10 | Happy Feet | Warner Bros. | $384,335,608 |
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 43rd highest-grossing film of all time.
Events
Awards
Palme d'Or :Golden Lion :
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2006 films
By country/region
- List of American films of 2006
- List of Argentine films of 2006
- List of Australian films of 2006
- List of Bangladeshi films of 2006
- List of Bengali films of 2006
- List of Bollywood films of 2006
- List of Brazilian films of 2006
- List of British films of 2006
- List of Canadian films of 2006
- List of Chinese films of 2006
- List of French films of 2006
- List of Hindi films of 2006
- List of Hong Kong films of 2006
- List of Italian films of 2006
- List of Japanese films of 2006
- List of Kannada films of 2006
- List of Malayalam films of 2006
- List of Mexican films of 2006
- List of Pakistani films of 2006
- List of Russian films of 2006
- List of South Korean films of 2006
- List of Spanish films of 2006
- List of Tamil films of 2006
- List of Telugu films of 2006
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
- April 22 - Nathanael Saleh, English actor
- April 28 - Kiawentiio, Canadian-American actress
- April 29 - Xochitl Gomez, American actress
- May 6 - Aryan Simhadri, American actor
- May 22 - Mattea Conforti, American actress
- June 18 - Iris Barbosa, Brazilian YouTuber, singer and 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
- July 19 - Beau Gadsdon, British actress
- August 5 - Elle McKinnon, Canadian actress
- September 7 - Ian Chen, American actor
- September 12
- *Alexander Molony, British actor
- *Zackary Arthur, American actor
- September 17 - Ella Jay Basco, American actress
- October 1 - Priah Ferguson, American actress
- October 5 – Jacob Tremblay, Canadian actor
- November 16 - Sophia Hammons, American actress
- December 6 - Millie Davis, Canadian actress
- December 9 - Pixie Davies, English actress
- December 18 - Malia Baker, Canadian actress
Deaths
| Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films |
| January | 2 | Osa Massen | 91 | Denmark | Actress | |
| January | 2 | John Woodnutt | 81 | UK | Actor | |
| January | 5 | Mark Roberts | 84 | US | Actor | |
| January | 7 | Jim Zulevic | 40 | US | Actor | |
| January | 12 | Stu Linder | 74 | US | Film Editor | |
| January | 12 | Norris Spencer | 62 | UK | Production Designer | |
| January | 14 | Shelley Winters | 85 | US | Actress | |
| January | 19 | Anthony Franciosa | 77 | US | Actor | |
| January | 21 | Robert Knudson | 80 | US | Sound Engineer | |
| January | 23 | Joseph M. Newman | 96 | US | Director | |
| January | 24 | Fayard Nicholas | 91 | US | Actor, Dancer, Choreographer | |
| January | 24 | Chris Penn | 40 | US | Actor | |
| January | 25 | Moss Mabry | 87 | US | Costume Designer | |
| January | 27 | Paul Valentine | 86 | US | Actor | |
| January | 28 | Henry McGee | 77 | UK | Actor | |
| January | 31 | Moira Shearer | 80 | UK | Actress, Dancer | |
| February | 1 | Roy Alon | 63 | UK | Stuntman | |
| February | 3 | Walerian Borowczyk | 82 | Poland | Director, Screenwriter | |
| February | 3 | Jean Byron | 80 | US | Actress | |
| February | 3 | Al Lewis | 82 | US | Actor | |
| February | 5 | Franklin Cover | 77 | US | Actor | |
| February | 6 | Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez | 80 | US | Actor | |
| February | 8 | Akira Ifukube | 91 | Japan | Composer | |
| February | 9 | Phil Brown | 89 | US | Actor | |
| February | 13 | Andreas Katsulas | 59 | US | Actor | |
| February | 14 | Darry Cowl | 80 | France | Actor | |
| February | 18 | Richard Bright | 64 | US | Actor | |
| February | 19 | Erna Lazarus | 102 | US | Screenwriter | |
| February | 21 | Richard Snell | 50 | US | Makeup Artist | |
| February | 24 | Don Knotts | 81 | US | Actor | |
| February | 24 | Dennis Weaver | 81 | US | Actor | |
| February | 25 | Darren McGavin | 83 | US | Actor | |
| March | 1 | Peter Sykes | 66 | Australia | Director | |
| March | 1 | Jack Wild | 53 | UK | Actor | |
| March | 2 | Phyllis Huffman | 61 | US | Casting Director | |
| March | 7 | John Junkin | 76 | UK | Actor | |
| March | 7 | Gordon Parks | 93 | US | Director | |
| March | 8 | Rhoda Williams | 75 | US | Actress | |
| March | 12 | Joseph Bova | 81 | US | Actor | |
| March | 13 | Maureen Stapleton | 80 | US | Actress | |
| March | 16 | Moira Redmond | 77 | UK | Actress | |
| March | 17 | Bob Papenbrook | 50 | US | Voice Actor | |
| March | 18 | Michael Attwell | 63 | UK | Actor | |
| March | 25 | Richard Fleischer | 89 | US | Director | |
| March | 29 | Henry Farrell | 85 | US | Screenwriter | |
| March | 29 | Gretchen Rau | 66 | US | Set Decorator, Art Director | |
| March | 31 | Candice Rialson | 54 | US | Actress | |
| April | 4 | Gary Gray | 69 | US | Actor | |
| April | 9 | Vilgot Sjöman | 82 | Sweden | Director | |
| April | 13 | Jacques Maumont | 81 | France | Sound Engineer | |
| April | 17 | Henderson Forsythe | 88 | US | Actor | |
| April | 22 | Alida Valli | 84 | Italy | Actress | |
| April | 23 | Susan Browning | 65 | US | Actress | |
| April | 23 | Jennifer Jayne | 74 | UK | Actress, Screenwriter | |
| April | 29 | Alberta Nelson | 68 | US | Actress | |
| May | 1 | Jay Presson Allen | 84 | US | Screenwriter | |
| May | 1 | Betsy Jones-Moreland | 76 | US | Actress | |
| May | 4 | Michael Taliferro | 44 | US | Actor | |
| May | 7 | Tanis Chandler | 81 | France | Actress | |
| May | 10 | Val Guest | 94 | UK | Director, Screenwriter | |
| May | 14 | Paul Marco | 78 | US | Actor | |
| May | 21 | Katherine Dunham | 96 | US | Dancer | |
| May | 24 | Henry Bumstead | 91 | US | Art Director, Production Designer | |
| May | 27 | Barbara Cohen | 53 | US | Casting Director | |
| May | 27 | Paul Gleason | 67 | US | Actor | |
| May | 29 | Katarína Kolníková | 85 | Slovakia | Actress | |
| May | 30 | Shōhei Imamura | 79 | Japan | Director, Screenwriter | |
| May | 30 | Robert Sterling | 88 | US | Actor | |
| June | 8 | Robert Donner | 75 | US | Actor | |
| June | 10 | Gerald James | 88 | UK | Actor | |
| June | 12 | Hugh Latimer | 75 | UK | Actor | |
| June | 10 | Monty Berman | 92 | UK | Producer, Director, Cinematographer | |
| June | 16 | Arthur Franz | 86 | US | Actor | |
| June | 18 | Vincent Sherman | 99 | US | Director | |
| June | 18 | Richard Stahl | 74 | US | Actor | |
| June | 23 | Aaron Spelling | 83 | US | Producer, Actor | |
| June | 25 | Kenneth Griffith | 84 | UK | Actor | |
| July | 2 | Jan Murray | 89 | US | Actor | |
| July | 3 | Jack Smith | 92 | US | Actor | |
| July | 5 | Amzie Strickland | 87 | US | Actress | |
| July | 6 | Kasey Rogers | 80 | US | Actress | |
| July | 8 | June Allyson | 88 | US | Actress | |
| July | 9 | Chris Drake | 82 | US | Actor | |
| July | 11 | Barnard Hughes | 90 | US | Actor | |
| July | 12 | Kurt Kreuger | 89 | Germany | Actor | |
| July | 12 | Loredana Nusciak | 64 | Italy | Actress | |
| July | 13 | Red Buttons | 87 | US | Actor | |
| July | 19 | 51 | FR | French voice actor | ||
| July | 19 | Jack Warden | 85 | US | Actor | |
| July | 20 | Robert Cornthwaite | 89 | US | Actor | |
| July | 21 | Mako | 72 | Japan | Actor | |
| July | 27 | Johnny Weissmuller Jr. | 65 | US | Actor | |
| July | 28 | Patrick Allen | 79 | Malawi | Actor | |
| August | 4 | John Alderson | 90 | UK | Actor | |
| August | 7 | Lois January | 92 | US | Actress | |
| August | 13 | Tony Jay | 73 | UK | Voice Actor, Actor | |
| August | 14 | Bruno Kirby | 57 | US | Actor | |
| August | 16 | Alan Vint | 61 | US | Actor | |
| August | 19 | Sig Shore | 87 | US | Producer, Director | |
| August | 25 | Ann Richards | 88 | Australia | Actress | |
| August | 25 | Joseph Stefano | 84 | US | Screenwriter | |
| August | 29 | Bill Stewart | 63 | UK | Actor | |
| August | 30 | Glenn Ford | 90 | Canada | Actor | |
| August | 31 | William Aldrich | 61 | US | Producer, Actor | |
| September | 4 | Steve Irwin | 44 | Australia | Wildlife Expert, Actor | |
| September | 4 | Fernando Siro | 74 | Argentina | Actor, Director | |
| September | 5 | Hilary Mason | 89 | UK | Actress | |
| September | 7 | Robert Earl Jones | 96 | US | Actor | |
| September | 8 | Frank Middlemass | 87 | UK | Actor | |
| September | 9 | Gérard Brach | 79 | France | Director, Screenwriter | |
| September | 9 | Herbert Rudley | 96 | US | Actor | |
| September | 11 | Pat Corley | 76 | US | Actor | |
| September | 14 | Mickey Hargitay | 80 | Hungary | Actor | |
| September | 14 | Johnny Sekka | 72 | Senegal | Actor | |
| September | 14 | Virginia Vale | 86 | US | Actress | |
| September | 19 | Elizabeth Allen | 77 | US | Actress | |
| September | 20 | Sven Nykvist | 83 | Sweden | Cinematographer | |
| September | 22 | Edward Albert | 55 | US | Actor | |
| September | 23 | Malcolm Arnold | 84 | UK | Composer | |
| September | 24 | Sally Gray | 91 | UK | Actress | |
| September | 24 | Tetsurō Tamba | 84 | Japan | Actor | |
| September | 26 | Lionel Murton | 91 | UK | Actor | |
| September | 28 | Hy Pyke | 70 | US | Actor | |
| October | 2 | Frances Bergen | 84 | US | Actress | |
| October | 2 | Tamara Dobson | 59 | US | Actress | |
| October | 4 | Tom Bell | 73 | UK | Actor | |
| October | 9 | Danièle Huillet | 70 | France | Director | |
| October | 10 | Jerry Belson | 68 | US | Screenwriter, Producer | |
| October | 12 | Gillo Pontecorvo | 86 | Italy | Director, Screenwriter | |
| October | 15 | Derek Bond | 86 | UK | Actor | |
| October | 16 | Jack DeLeon | 81 | US | Actor | |
| October | 16 | Tommy Johnson | 71 | US | Musician | |
| October | 19 | James Glennon | 64 | US | Cinematographer | |
| October | 19 | Phyllis Kirk | 79 | US | Actress | |
| October | 20 | Jane Wyatt | 96 | US | Actress | |
| October | 21 | Peter Barkworth | 77 | UK | Actor | |
| October | 21 | Daryl Duke | 77 | Canada | Director | |
| October | 21 | Milton Selzer | 87 | US | Actor | |
| October | 22 | Arthur Hill | 84 | Canada | Actor | |
| October | 22 | Richard Mayes | 83 | UK | Actor | |
| October | 29 | Roy Barnes | 70 | US | Set Designer, Art Director | |
| October | 29 | Nigel Kneale | 84 | UK | Screenwriter | |
| October | 31 | William Franklyn | 81 | UK | Actor | |
| November | 1 | Adrienne Shelly | 40 | US | Actress, Director | |
| November | 2 | Leonard Schrader | 62 | US | Screenwriter | |
| November | 2 | Milly Vitale | 73 | Italy | Actress | |
| November | 8 | Basil Poledouris | 61 | US | Composer | |
| November | 9 | Wayne Artman | 69 | US | Sound Engineer | |
| November | 9 | Marian Marsh | 93 | Trinidad | Actress | |
| November | 10 | Diana Coupland | 74 | UK | Actress | |
| November | 10 | Jack Palance | 87 | US | Actor | |
| November | 11 | Ronnie Stevens | 81 | UK | Actor | |
| November | 14 | John Hallam | 65 | UK | Actor | |
| November | 16 | Ernest Day | 79 | UK | Cinematographer, Director | |
| November | 16 | Eustace Lycett | 91 | UK | Special Effects Artist | |
| November | 19 | Jeremy Slate | 80 | US | Actor | |
| November | 20 | Robert Altman | 81 | US | Director, Screenwriter | |
| November | 20 | Kevin McClory | 80 | Ireland | Producer | |
| November | 23 | Betty Comden | 89 | US | Screenwriter, Lyricist | |
| November | 23 | Philippe Noiret | 76 | France | Actor | |
| November | 24 | Phyllis Cerf | 90 | US | Actress | |
| November | 27 | Alan Freeman | 79 | Australia | Actor | |
| November | 30 | Shirley Walker | 61 | US | Composer, Orchestrator | |
| December | 1 | Sid Raymond | 97 | US | Actor, Voice Actor | |
| December | 4 | Adam Williams | 84 | US | Actor | |
| December | 5 | Michael Gilden | 44 | US | Actor | |
| December | 5 | Gerry Humphreys | 74 | UK | Sound Engineer | |
| December | 5 | Van Smith | 61 | US | Costume Designer, Makeup Artist | |
| December | 8 | Martha Tilton | 91 | US | Singer, Actress | |
| December | 9 | Russell Wade | 89 | US | Actor | |
| December | 12 | Ivor Barry | 87 | UK | Actor | |
| December | 12 | Peter Boyle | 71 | US | Actor | |
| December | 14 | Hallie D'Amore | 64 | US | Makeup Artist | |
| December | 18 | Joseph Barbera | 95 | US | Animator, Director, Producer | |
| December | 20 | John Bishop | 77 | US | Screenwriter | |
| December | 21 | Lois Hall | 80 | US | Actress | |
| December | 22 | Philip Pine | 86 | US | Actor | |
| December | 23 | Charlie Drake | 81 | UK | Actor | |
| December | 25 | James Brown | 73 | US | Singer, Actor | |
| December | 30 | Frank Campanella | 87 | US | Actor |