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

Highest-grossing films

Highest-grossing films of 2006

Rank	Title	Distributor	Worldwide gross
1.	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Disney	$1,066,179,725
2.	The Da Vinci Code	Columbia	$758,239,851
3.	Ice Age: The Meltdown	20th Century Fox	$660,940,780
4.	Casino Royale	MGM / Columbia	$599,045,960
5.	Night at the Museum	20th Century Fox	$574,480,841
6.	Cars	Disney	$461,983,149
7.	X-Men: The Last Stand	20th Century Fox	$459,359,555
8.	Mission: Impossible III	Paramount	$397,850,012
9.	Superman Returns	Warner Bros.	$391,081,192
10.	Happy Feet		$384,335,608

Events

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, I Tried, 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.
	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 & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch won the best home entertainment award, and Ultimate Spider-Man won the new "best video game award".
	6	Disney 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	4	Dirty 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
	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 & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit wins Oscar for Animated feature film. Major awards as follows: Director: Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote Actress: Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line Supporting Actor: George Clooney for Syriana Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener
	13	11th Empire Awards: Pride & Prejudice and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith win the most awards with two.
April	18	Tom Cruise and fiancée 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.
	28	TV double act Ant & Dec make their big screen debut with Alien Autopsy.
May	17	The 2006 Cannes Film Festival began in Cannes, France. It continued until May 28. 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	3	The 2006 MTV Movie Awards winners were announced.
	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 "inspirational" 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.
December	7	64th Golden Globe Awards nominees are announced. Babel leads nominations with seven.

Awards

Category/Organization	64th Golden Globe Awards January 15, 2007		12th Critics' Choice January 20, 2007	13th Screen Actors Guild Awards	60th BAFTA Awards February 11, 2007	79th Academy Awards February 25, 2007
	Drama	Musical or Comedy
Best Film	Babel	Dreamgirls	The Departed	N/A	The Queen	The Departed
Best Director	Martin Scorsese The Departed			N/A	Paul Greengrass United 93	Martin Scorsese The Departed
Best Actor	Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland	Sacha Baron Cohen Borat	Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress	Helen Mirren The Queen	Meryl Streep The Devil Wears Prada	Helen Mirren The Queen
Best Supporting Actor	Eddie Murphy Dreamgirls				Alan Arkin Little Miss Sunshine
Best Supporting Actress	Jennifer Hudson Dreamgirls
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Peter Morgan The Queen		Michael Arndt Little Miss Sunshine	N/A	Jeremy Brock and Peter Morgan The Last King of Scotland	William Monahan The Departed
Best Screenplay, Original				N/A	Michael Arndt Little Miss Sunshine
Best Animated Film	Cars			N/A	Happy Feet
Best Original Score	The Painted Veil Alexandre Desplat		The Illusionist Philip Glass	N/A	Babel Gustavo Santaolalla
Best Original Song	"The Song of the Heart" Happy Feet		"Listen" Dreamgirls	N/A	N/A	"I Need to Wake Up" An Inconvenient Truth
Best Foreign Language Film	Letters from Iwo Jima			N/A	Pan's Labyrinth	The Lives of Others

2006 Wide-release films

January–March

‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew
J A N U A R Y	6	BloodRayne	Boll KG Productions	Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Rodriguez
		Grandma's Boy	20th Century Fox	Allen Covert, Doris Roberts, Shirley Jones
		Hostel	Lions Gate Entertainment	Jay Hernandez
	13	Glory Road	Walt Disney Pictures	Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Jon Voight
		Hoodwinked!	The Weinstein Company	Anne Hathaway, Glenn Close, James Belushi, Xzibit, Andy Dick, Patrick Warburton, David Ogden Stiers
		Last Holiday	Paramount Pictures	Queen Latifah, Gérard Depardieu, LL Cool J
		Tristan and Isolde	20th Century Fox	James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell
	20	End of the Spear	Every Tribe Entertainment	Louie Leonardo, Chad Allen, Jack Guzman
		Underworld: Evolution	Screen Gems	Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Bill Nighy
	24	Wristcutters: A Love Story	Autonomous Films	Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon
	27	Annapolis	Touchstone Pictures	James Franco, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster
		Big Momma's House 2	20th Century Fox	Martin Lawrence, Nia Long
		Nanny McPhee	Universal Studios	Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury
F E B R U A R Y	3	Something New	Focus Features	Sanaa Lathan, Simon Baker, Mike Epps
		When a Stranger Calls	Screen Gems	Camilla Belle, Katie Cassidy
	10	Curious George	Universal Studios	Will Ferrell, Drew Barrymore, David Cross, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright, Dick Van Dyke
		Final Destination 3	New Line Cinema	Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche, Alexz Johnson, Amanda Crew
		Firewall	Warner Bros.	Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen
		The Pink Panther	MGM/Columbia	Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Beyoncé Knowles, Kristin Chenoweth
	17	Date Movie	20th Century Fox	Alyson Hannigan, Jennifer Coolidge, Carmen Electra
		Eight Below	Walt Disney Pictures	Paul Walker, Jason Biggs
		Freedomland	Columbia Pictures	Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard
	24	Doogal	The Weinstein Company	Daniel Tay, Jimmy Fallon, Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Stewart, William H. Macy, Chevy Chase, Kevin Smith, Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Kylie Minogue, Bill Hader
		Madea's Family Reunion	Lions Gate Entertainment	Tyler Perry
		Running Scared	New Line Cinema	Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Vera Farmiga
	25	Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York	Marvista Entertainment Echo Bridge Home Entertainment	Costas Mandylor, Alexandra Paul, Michael Ironside
M A R C H	3	16 Blocks	Warner Bros.	Bruce Willis, Mos Def
		Aquamarine	20th Century Fox	Sara Paxton, Emma Roberts, JoJo
		Dave Chappelle's Block Party	Rogue Pictures	Dave Chappelle, Kanye West, Mos Def
		Ultraviolet	Screen Gems	Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund
	10	Failure to Launch	Paramount Pictures	Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Bates
		The Hills Have Eyes	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Vinessa Shaw, Kathleen Quinlan, Aaron Stanford, Emilie de Ravin
		The Shaggy Dog	Walt Disney Pictures	Tim Allen, Kristin Davis, Danny Glover, Robert Downey, Jr., Spencer Breslin
	17	She's the Man	DreamWorks	Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum
		Thank You for Smoking	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Katie Holmes
		V for Vendetta	Warner Bros.	Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving
	24	Inside Man	Universal Studios	Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster
		The Secret
		Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector	Lions Gate Entertainment	Larry the Cable Guy
		Stay Alive	Hollywood Pictures	Jon Foster, Samaire Armstrong, Frankie Muniz
		Unidentified	Five & Two Pictures	Jonathan Aube, Josh Adamson, Michael Blain-Rozgay, Rebecca St. James
	31	ATL	Warner Bros.	T.I., Lauren London, Evan Ross, Big Boi, Keith David, Jason Weaver, Jackie Long
		Basic Instinct 2	Columbia Pictures	Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, Charlotte Rampling, David Thewlis
		Ice Age: The Meltdown	20th Century Fox / Blue Sky	Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Jay Leno
		Slither	Universal Studios	Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker

April–June

‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew
A P R I L	7	The Benchwarmers	Revolution Studios	Rob Schneider, David Spade, Jon Heder, Jon Lovitz
		Friends with Money	Sony Pictures Classics	Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack
		Lucky Number Slevin	The Weinstein Company	Josh Hartnett, Lucy Liu, Ben Kingsley, Bruce Willis
		Phat Girlz	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Mo'Nique
		Take the Lead	New Line Cinema	Antonio Banderas, Yaya DaCosta, Alfre Woodard
	14	Scary Movie 4	Dimension Films	Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Charlie Sheen, Leslie Nielsen, Bill Pullman, Carmen Electra
		The Wild	Walt Disney Pictures	Kiefer Sutherland, William Shatner, Greg Cipes, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo, Richard Kind
	21	American Dreamz	Universal Studios	Hugh Grant, Mandy Moore, Dennis Quaid
		The Sentinel	20th Century Fox	Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Basinger, Eva Longoria
		Silent Hill	Tristar Pictures	Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Deborah Kara Unger, Laurie Holden, Jodelle Ferland, Alice Krige
	28	Akeelah and the Bee	Lions Gate Entertainment	Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett
		Alien Autopsy	Warner Bros.	Ant McPartlin, Declan Donnelly (Ant & Dec), Bill Pullman, Jimmy Carr
		Stick It	Touchstone Pictures	Missy Peregrym, Jeff Bridges, Vanessa Lengies
		United 93	Universal Studios	David Rasche, Rebecca Schull, Denny Dillon
		RV	Columbia Pictures	Robin Williams, Josh Hutcherson, Cheryl Hines
M A Y	5	An American Haunting	Freestyle Releasing	Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, James D'Arcy
		Art School Confidential	United Artists	Max Minghella, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Anjelica Huston, Joel Moore
		Hoot	New Line Cinema	Logan Lerman, Brie Larson, Luke Wilson
		Mission: Impossible III	Paramount Pictures	Tom Cruise, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Michelle Monaghan, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Keri Russell, Maggie Q
	12	Goal!	Touchstone Pictures	Kuno Becker, Marcel Iureş, Anna Friel
		Just My Luck	20th Century Fox	Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Faizon Love, Samaire Armstrong
		Poseidon	Warner Bros.	Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss, Jacinda Barrett, Emmy Rossum, Mike Vogel, Kevin Dillon, Stacy Ferguson
	19	The Da Vinci Code	Columbia Pictures	Tom Hanks, Ian McKellen, Audrey Tautou, Paul Bettany, Alfred Molina; Ron Howard (director)
		Over the Hedge	Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Animation	Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, William Shatner, Avril Lavigne, Wanda Sykes
		See No Evil	Lions Gate Entertainment	Glenn Jacobs, Rachael Taylor
	26	X-Men: The Last Stand	20th Century Fox	Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Kelsey Grammer, Anna Paquin
J U N E	2	The Break-Up	Universal Studios	Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn
	6	The Omen	20th Century Fox	Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Mia Farrow, David Thewlis
	9	Cars	Walt Disney Pictures Pixar	Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, John Ratzenberger, Jeremy Clarkson
		A Prairie Home Companion	Pictureshouse	Garrison Keillor, Lindsay Lohan, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Virginia Madsen; Robert Altman (director)
	16	The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift	Universal Studios	Lucas Black, Bow Wow, Zachery Ty Bryan
		Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties	20th Century Fox	Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt
		The Lake House	Warner Bros.	Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock
		Nacho Libre	Paramount Pictures	Jack Black
	21	The Collingswood Story
	23	Click	Columbia Pictures	Adam Sandler, Christopher Walken, Kate Beckinsale
		Waist Deep	Focus Features	Tyrese Gibson, Meagan Good, The Game, Larenz Tate
	28	Superman Returns	Warner Bros.	Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Parker Posey, James Marsden, Frank Langella
	30	The Devil Wears Prada	20th Century Fox	Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Adrian Grenier, Simon Baker

July–September

‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew
J U L Y	7	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Walt Disney Pictures	Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Stellan Skarsgård, Bill Nighy, Naomie Harris Kevin McNally, Lee Arenberg, Mackenzie Crook, Tom Hollander, Geoffrey Rush
	14	Little Man	Revolution Studios	Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Kerry Washington
		You, Me and Dupree	Universal Studios	Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon, Michael Douglas
	21	Clerks II	The Weinstein Company	Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith
		Lady in the Water	Warner Bros.	Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Bob Balaban
		Monster House	Columbia Pictures	Mitchel Musso, Spencer Locke
		My Super Ex-Girlfriend	20th Century Fox	Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris
	26	Little Miss Sunshine	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano
	28	The Ant Bully	Warner Bros. / Legendary Pictures	Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Paul Giamatti
		John Tucker Must Die	20th Century Fox	Jesse Metcalfe, Ashanti, Sophia Bush, Brittany Snow, Arielle Kebbel, Jenny McCarthy
		Miami Vice	Universal Studios	Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Justin Theroux, Naomie Harris, Ciarán Hinds
		Scoop	BBC Films	Scarlett Johansson, Woody Allen, Hugh Jackman, Ian McShane
A U G U S T	4	Barnyard	Paramount / Nickelodeon	Kevin James, Courteney Cox, Wanda Sykes,
		The Descent	Lions Gate Entertainment	MyAnna Buring, Nora-Jane Noone, Alex Reid
		The Night Listener	Miramax Films	Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Bobby Cannavale
		Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby	Columbia Pictures	Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen
	9	World Trade Center	20th Century Fox / Paramount	Nicolas Cage, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Stephen Dorff, Oliver Stone (director)
	11	Pulse	Dimension Films	Christina Milian, Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder
		Step Up	Touchstone Pictures	Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan
		Zoom	Revolution Studios	Tim Allen, Chevy Chase, Courteney Cox, Rip Torn, Spencer Breslin, Kevin Zegers, Michael Cassidy
	18	Accepted	Universal Studios	Justin Long, Blake Lively
		Kenny		Shane Jacobson
		The Illusionist ‡	Yari Film Group	Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Paul Giamatti
		Material Girls	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff, Anjelica Huston, Brent Spiner, Lukas Haas
		Snakes on a Plane	New Line Cinema	Samuel L. Jackson, Nathan Phillips, Julianna Margulies, Rachel Blanchard
	25	Beerfest	Warner Bros.	Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske
		How to Eat Fried Worms	New Line Cinema	Luke Benward, Adam Hicks
		Idlewild	Universal Studios	Macy Gray, Terrence Howard, Patti LaBelle, Ving Rhames, Cicely Tyson, Ben Vereen
		Invincible	Walt Disney Pictures	Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rispoli
S E P T E M B E R	1	Idiocracy	20th Century Fox	Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Alan Crews
		Crank	Lions Gate Entertainment	Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Efren Ramirez, Dwight Yoakam
		Crossover	Tristar Pictures	Anthony Mackie
		The Wicker Man	Warner Bros.	Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Leelee Sobieski
	8	The Covenant	Screen Gems / Paramount	Toby Hemingway, Chace Crawford, Steven Strait, Taylor Kitsch, Laura Ramsey
		Hollywoodland	Focus Features	Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck, Diane Lane, Bob Hoskins, Robin Tunney
		Tom-Yum-Goong	The Weinstein Company	Tony Jaa, Nathan Jones
	15	The Black Dahlia	Universal Studios	Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Fiona Shaw; Brian De Palma (director)
		Everyone's Hero	20th Century Fox	Jake T. Austin, William H. Macy, Rob Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Raven-Symoné, Brian Dennehy, Mandy Patinkin, Robert Wagner, Forest Whitaker, Robin Williams, Dana Reeve, Richard Kind, Joe Torre
		Gridiron Gang	Columbia Pictures	The Rock, Xzibit, L. Scott Caldwell
		The Last Kiss	DreamWorks	Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Rachel Bilson
	16	Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers	Shochiku	Shunji Igarashi, Masaki Nishina, Minoru Tanaka, Ai Saikawa, Daisuke Watanabe, Kenta Uchino, Misato Hirata
	22	All the King's Men	Columbia Pictures	Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins, James Gandolfini, Patricia Clarkson, Mark Ruffalo
		Fearless	Rogue Pictures	Jet Li, Collin Chou
		Flyboys	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	James Franco, Jean Reno, Martin Henderson
		Jackass Number Two	Paramount / MTV Films	Johnny Knoxville, Chris Pontius, Bam Margera, Preston Lacy, Ryan Dunn, Brandon DiCamillo, Wee Man
	29	Facing the Giants	Samuel Goldwyn Films	Alex Kendrick, Shannen Fields, James Blackwell, Jim McBride, Jason McLeod, Erin Bethea
		The Guardian	Touchstone Pictures	Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Sela Ward, Melissa Sagemiller
		Open Season	Columbia Pictures	Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher, Gary Sinise, Debra Messing, Billy Connolly, Jon Favreau, Georgia Engel
		School for Scoundrels	The Weinstein Company	Jacinda Barrett, Jon Heder, Billy Bob Thornton
	30	The Queen	Miramax Films	Helen Mirren, James Cromwell, Michael Sheen, Helen McCrory, Stephen Frears (director)

October–December

‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew
O C T O B E R	6	The Departed	Warner Bros.	Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Ray Winstone, Martin Sheen, Vera Farmiga, Alec Baldwin, Martin Scorsese (director)
		Employee of the Month	Lions Gate Entertainment	Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson, Dax Shepard
		The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning	New Line Cinema / Platinum Dunes	Andrew Bryniarski, Jordana Brewster, Matthew Bomer, Diora Baird, Taylor Handley, R. Lee Ermey
		Trailer Park Boys: The Movie	Alliance Atlantis	John Paul Tremblay, Robb Wells, John Dunsworth, Jonathan Torrens
	13	The Grudge 2	Columbia Pictures	Sarah Michelle Gellar, Amber Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel, Sarah Roemer, Teresa Palmer
		Man of the Year	Universal Studios	Robin Williams, Laura Linney, Barry Levinson (director)
		The Marine	20th Century Fox	John Cena, Robert Patrick, Kelly Carlson, Jeff Chase
		One Night with the King	Gener8Xion Entertainment	Tiffany Dupont, Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole, John Rhys-Davies, Luke Goss
	20	Flags of Our Fathers	DreamWorks Pictures / Warner Bros.	Paul Walker, Ryan Phillippe, Neal McDonough, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, Jamie Bell, Benjamin Walker, John Benjamin Hickey, Clint Eastwood (director)
		Flicka	20th Century Fox	Alison Lohman, Maria Bello, Tim McGraw
		Marie Antoinette	Columbia Pictures	Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Steve Coogan
		The Prestige	Touchstone Pictures / Warner Bros.	Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Christopher Nolan (director)
	24	Halloween Night
	27	Babel ‡	Paramount Vantage / Paramount Pictures	Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Rinko Kikuchi, Adriana Barraza, Elle Fanning
		Dirty Sanchez: the Movie	Vertigo Films	Matthew Pritchard, Michael Locke (The Pain Men), Lee Dainton, Dan Joyce
		Saw III	Lions Gate Entertainment	Angus Macfadyen, Shawnee Smith, Donnie Wahlberg, Tobin Bell, Dina Meyer, Bahar Soomekh, J. Larose
N O V E M B E R	3	Borat	20th Century Fox	Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Pamela Anderson, Pat Haggerty, Bob Barr, Larry Charles (director)
		Flushed Away	Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Animation	Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Bill Nighy, Jean Reno
		The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause	Walt Disney Pictures	Tim Allen, Martin Short, Elizabeth Mitchell, Ann-Margret, Alan Arkin, Judge Reinhold, Wendy Crewson, Eric Lloyd, Spencer Breslin, Liliana Mumy, Peter Boyle, Kevin Pollak, Michael Lembeck (director)
		Volver ‡	Sony Pictures Classics	Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Pedro Almodóvar (director)
	9	Breaking and Entering	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / The Weinstein Company	Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright, Martin Freeman, Ray Winstone, Juliet Stevenson, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Minghella (director)
	10	A Good Year	20th Century Fox	Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Ridley Scott (director)
		Harsh Times	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Christian Bale, Freddy Rodriguez, Eva Longoria
		The Return	Rogue Pictures	Sarah Michelle Gellar, Peter O'Brien, Sam Shepard
		Stranger Than Fiction	Columbia Pictures	Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson
	17	Bobby ‡	The Weinstein Company	Laurence Fishburne, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Hunt, Lindsay Lohan, William H. Macy, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Elijah Wood, Harry Belafonte, Joy Bryant, Nick Cannon, Emilio Estevez, Heather Graham, Joshua Jackson, Ashton Kutcher, Shia LaBeouf, Freddy Rodriguez, Martin Sheen, Christian Slater
		Casino Royale	MGM/Columbia	Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright
		For Your Consideration ‡	Warner Independent	Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Jennifer Coolidge, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard, Jane Lynch
		Happy Feet	Warner Bros.	Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving
		Let's Go to Prison	Universal Studios	Dax Shepard, Will Arnett
	22	Deck the Halls	20th Century Fox	Danny DeVito, Matthew Broderick, Kristin Davis, Kristin Chenoweth
		Déjà Vu	Touchstone Pictures	Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, Jim Caviezel
		The Fountain	Warner Bros.	Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn
		Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny	New Line Cinema	Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Jason Reed
D E C E M B E R	1	The Nativity Story	New Line Cinema	Keisha Castle-Hughes, Shohreh Aghdashloo
		Turistas	Fox Atomic	Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde
		Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Kal Penn
	8	Apocalypto	Touchstone Pictures	Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Mel Gibson (director)
		Blood Diamond	Warner Bros.	Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, Edward Zwick (director)
		The Holiday	Columbia Pictures / Universal Pictures	Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black, Edward Burns, Eli Wallach, Rufus Sewell, Lindsay Lohan, James Franco, Shannyn Sossamon, Kathryn Hahn, Odette Yustman, Nancy Meyers (director)
	15	Charlotte's Web	Paramount Pictures / Nickelodeon Movies	Julia Roberts, Dakota Fanning, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Cedric the Entertainer, Kathy Bates, Reba McEntire, Robert Redford, Thomas Haden Church, Beau Bridges, Kevin Anderson
		Dreamgirls ‡	DreamWorks Pictures / Paramount Pictures	Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, Danny Glover, Anika Noni Rose
		Eragon	20th Century Fox	Edward Speleers, Sienna Guillory, Djimon Hounsou, Jeremy Irons, Rachel Weisz, Robert Carlyle, John Malkovich
		The Pursuit of Happyness	Columbia Pictures	Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton
	19	Salvage		Lauren Currie, Cody Darbe
	20	Letters from Iwo Jima ‡	Warner Bros. / DreamWorks Pictures	Ken Watanabe, Clint Eastwood (director)
		Rocky Balboa	MGM / Columbia	Sylvester Stallone, Milo Ventimiglia, Geraldine Hughes, Burt Young
	21	Curse of the Golden Flower ‡	Sony Pictures Classics	Chow Yun-fat, Gong Li, Jay Chou, Zhang Yimou (director)
	22	The Good Shepherd	Universal Studios	Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie
		Night at the Museum	20th Century Fox	Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Robin Williams, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson, Jake Cherry, Kim Raver, Steve Coogan, Patrick Gallagher, Charles Q. Murphy, Paul Rudd
		We Are Marshall	Warner Bros.	Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Kate Mara, Anthony Mackie
	25	Black Christmas	MGM / Dimension Films / The Weinstein Co.	Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Crystal Lowe, Andrea Martin, Lacey Chabert
		Children of Men ‡	Universal Studios	Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine
		Notes on a Scandal ‡	Fox Searchlight	Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett
	29	Arthur and the Invisibles ‡	The Weinstein Company	Freddie Highmore, Madonna, Jimmy Fallon, David Bowie, Mia Farrow, Snoop Dogg, Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro
		Pan's Labyrinth ‡	Picturehouse	Guillermo del Toro (director)

Films released in 2006

For complete lists, see Category:2006 films and Category:2006 television films.

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

References

• Box Office Mojo film release schedule.