2006 In Films

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.

Evaluation of the year

Legendary film critic 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 Hidden (Cache), 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
*Malayalam films
* Mexican films
* Pakistani films
* Russian films
* South Korean films
* Spanish films
* Tamil films
* Telugu films

Births

* April 20 - Kailia Posey, American actress and reality television show contestant (died 2022)
* April 22 - Nathanael Saleh, English actor
* April 29 - Xochitl Gomez, American actress
* June 25 – Mckenna Grace, American actress
* September 7 - Ian Chen (actor), 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 9 - Pixie Davies, English actress

Deaths

Film Debuts

* Dave Bautista - ''Relative Strangers''
* Jon Bernthal – ''World Trade Center''
* Rachel Bilson – '' The Last Kiss''
* Katie Cassidy – '' When a Stranger Calls''
* Rebecca Hall – '' Starter for 10''
* Armie Hammer – ''Flicka''
* Jennifer Hudson – ''Dreamgirls''
* Kane - '' See No Evil''
* Simone Aaberg Kærn — '' Smiling in a War Zone''
* Rami Malek — ''Night at the Museum''
* Eddie Redmayne – ''Like Minds''
* Aziz Ansari – ''School for Scoundrels''
* Mia Wasikowska – ''Suburban Mayhem''
* Ed Westwick – ''Children of Men''

References

External links

Box Office Mojo film release schedule.

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