2006 in film

none 2006 film radio television music 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. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was the year's highest grossing film, while The Departed won the Academy Award for Best Picture (out of four awards). 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?Critics' Review of 2006 Highest-grossing films Lists of box office number-one films#2006 The top 10 films released in 2006 by worldwide gross are as follows:https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2006/?ref_=bo_cso_table_1 2006 Worldwide Box Office Box Office Mojo IMDb March 7, 2020 + Highest-grossing films of 2006 Rank Title Distributor(s) Worldwide gross 1 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Walt Disney Pictures $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 Walt Disney Pictures $484,090,167 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 $384,335,608 Box office records Sony Pictures grossed more than 3 billion no in annual worldwide box office revenue for the first time in its history.2006-12-07 Sony Pictures Entertainment Reaches $3 Billion at Worldwide Box Office for the First Time https://www.sony.com/content/sony/en/en_us/SCA/company-news/press-releases/columbia-pictures/2006/sony-pictures-entertainment-reaches-3-billion-at-worldwide-box-office-for-the-first-time.html 2022-04-23 Sony.com Sony en-US 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 Month Day Event January 4 The Producers Guild of America nominates Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Good Night, and Good Luck and Walk the Line as contenders for their best-produced film award. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) nominate The 40-Year-Old Virgin, I Tried, Crash, Good Night, and Good Luck 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 Critics Choice 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 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 Mission: Impossible III and United 93. 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 AwardsJanuary 15, 2007 12th Critics' Choice AwardsJanuary 14, 2007 Producers, Directors, Screen Actors, and Writers Guild AwardsJanuary 20-February 11, 2007 60th BAFTA AwardsFebruary 11, 2007 79th Academy AwardsFebruary 25, 2007 Drama Musical or Comedy Best Film Babel Dreamgirls The Departed Little Miss Sunshine The Queen The Departed Best Director Martin ScorseseThe Departed Paul GreengrassUnited 93 Martin ScorseseThe Departed Best Actor Forest WhitakerThe Last King of Scotland Sacha Baron CohenBorat Forest WhitakerThe Last King of Scotland Best Actress Helen MirrenThe Queen Meryl StreepThe Devil Wears Prada Helen MirrenThe Queen Best Supporting Actor Eddie MurphyDreamgirls Alan ArkinLittle Miss Sunshine Best Supporting Actress Jennifer HudsonDreamgirls Best Screenplay, Adapted Peter MorganThe Queen Michael ArndtLittle Miss SunshineWilliam MonahanThe Departed Jeremy Brock and Peter MorganThe Last King of Scotland William MonahanThe Departed Best Screenplay, Original Michael ArndtLittle Miss Sunshine Best Animated Film Cars Happy Feet Best Original Score The Painted VeilAlexandre Desplat The IllusionistPhilip Glass rowspan=3 BabelGustavo Santaolalla Best Original Song "The Song of the Heart"Happy Feet "Listen"Dreamgirls "I Need to Wake Up"An Inconvenient Truth Best Foreign Language Film Letters from Iwo Jima Pan's Labyrinth The Lives of Others Best Documentary An Inconvenient Truth An Inconvenient Truth Palme d'Or (59th Cannes Film Festival): The Wind That Shakes the Barley, directed by Ken Loach, United Kingdom Golden Lion (63rd Venice International Film Festival): Still Life (三峡好人), directed by Jia Zhangke, China Golden Bear (56th Berlin International Film Festival): Grbavica, directed by Jasmila Žbanić, Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 5 6 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 6 Sadie Sandler, American actress 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 28 - Laurel Griggs, American actress (died 2019) 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 October 30 - Saniyya Sidney, American actress 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 A Woman's Face Rocketship X-M 2 John Woodnutt 81 UK Actor Who Dares Wins Lifeforce 5 Mark Roberts 84 US Actor Gilda Shadowed 7 Jim Zulevic 40 US Actor Let's Go to Prison Matchstick Men 12 Stu Linder 74 US Film Editor Rain Man Good Morning, Vietnam 12 Norris Spencer 62 UK Production Designer Thelma & Louise National Treasure 14 Shelley Winters 85 US Actress The Diary of Anne Frank Lolita 19 Anthony Franciosa 77 US Actor A Hatful of Rain A Face in the Crowd 21 Robert Knudson 80 US Sound Engineer E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial The Exorcist 23 Joseph M. Newman 96 US Director This Island Earth 711 Ocean Drive 24 Fayard Nicholas 91 US Actor, Dancer, Choreographer Stormy Weather The Pirate 24 Chris Penn 40 US Actor Reservoir Dogs Footloose 25 Moss Mabry 87 US Costume Designer The Way We Were Giant 27 Paul Valentine 86 US Actor Out of the Past House of Strangers 28 Henry McGee 77 UK Actor The Italian Job Revenge of the Pink Panther 31 Moira Shearer 80 UK Actress, Dancer Peeping Tom The Red Shoes February 1 Roy Alon 63 UK Stuntman Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Entrapment 3 Walerian Borowczyk 82 Poland Director, Screenwriter Goto, Island of Love La Bête 3 Jean Byron 80 US Actress Flareup The Magnetic Monster 3 Al Lewis 82 US Actor Used Cars Married to the Mob 5 Franklin Cover 77 US Actor Wall Street Almost Heroes 6 Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez 80 US Actor The High and the Mighty Rio Bravo 8 Akira Ifukube 91 Japan Composer Godzilla The Burmese Harp 9 Phil Brown 89 US Actor Star Wars Superman 13 Andreas Katsulas 59 US Actor The Fugitive Executive Decision 14 Darry Cowl 80 France Actor Not on the Lips Don't Touch the White Woman! 18 Richard Bright 64 US Actor The Godfather Once Upon a Time in America 19 Erna Lazarus 102 US Screenwriter The Body Disappears Hollywood or Bust 21 Richard Snell 50 US Makeup Artist Demolition Man How the Grinch Stole Christmas 24 Don Knotts 81 US Actor The Incredible Mr. Limpet The Reluctant Astronaut 24 Dennis Weaver 81 US Actor Touch of Evil Duel at Diablo 25 Darren McGavin 83 US Actor The Man with the Golden Arm A Christmas Story March 1 Peter Sykes 66 Australia Director To the Devil a Daughter Jesus 1 Jack Wild 53 UK Actor Oliver! Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 2 Phyllis Huffman 61 US Casting Director Million Dollar Baby Unforgiven 7 John Junkin 76 UK Actor A Hard Day's Night The Football Factory 7 Gordon Parks 93 US Director Shaft The Learning Tree 8 Rhoda Williams 75 US Actress Cinderella The Persuader 12 Joseph Bova 81 US Actor Serpico Pretty Poison 13 Maureen Stapleton 80 US Actress Reds Cocoon 16 Moira Redmond 77 UK Actress A Shot in the Dark Nightmare 17 Bob Papenbrook 50 US Voice Actor Stranger than Fiction Jeepers Creepers 2 18 Michael Attwell 63 UK Actor Labyrinth High Heels and Low Lifes 25 Richard Fleischer 89 US Director 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Tora! Tora! Tora! 29 Henry Farrell 85 US Screenwriter Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte What's the Matter with Helen? 29 Gretchen Rau 66 US Set Decorator, Art Director Memoirs of a Geisha The Last Samurai 31 Candice Rialson 54 US Actress Hollywood Boulevard Summer School Teachers April 4 Gary Gray 69 US Actor Rachel and the Stranger Wild Heritage 9 Vilgot Sjöman 82 Sweden Director I Am Curious (Yellow) My Sister, My Love 13 Jacques Maumont 81 France Sound Engineer The Longest Day Breathless 17 Henderson Forsythe 88 US Actor Silkwood Species II 22 Alida Valli 84 Italy Actress The Third Man Suspiria 23 Susan Browning 65 US Actress Sister Act The Money Pit 23 Jennifer Jayne 74 UK Actress, Screenwriter The Medusa Touch Dr. Terror's House of Horrors 29 Alberta Nelson 68 US Actress Beach Blanket Bingo Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine May 1 Jay Presson Allen 84 US Screenwriter Cabaret Marnie 1 Betsy Jones-Moreland 76 US Actress Last Woman on Earth Creature from the Haunted Sea 4 Michael Taliferro 44 US Actor The Replacements Bad Boys 7 Tanis Chandler 81 France Actress Shadows Over Chinatown Lured 10 Val Guest 94 UK Director, Screenwriter Casino Royale The Day the Earth Caught Fire 14 Paul Marco 78 US Actor Plan 9 from Outer Space Hiawatha 21 Katherine Dunham 96 US Dancer Stormy Weather Casbah 24 Henry Bumstead 91 US Art Director, Production Designer To Kill a Mockingbird Vertigo 27 Barbara Cohen 53 US Casting Director Rushmore I Am Sam 27 Paul Gleason 67 US Actor The Breakfast Club Die Hard 29 Katarína Kolníková 85 Slovakia Actress Vášnivý bozk 30 Shōhei Imamura 79 Japan Director, Screenwriter Endless Desire The Insect Woman 30 Robert Sterling 88 US Actor Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Show Boat June 8 Robert Donner 75 US Actor Cool Hand Luke El Dorado 10 Gerald James 88 UK Actor The Man with the Golden Gun Hope and Glory 12 Hugh Latimer 75 UK Actor The Million Pound Note Jane Eyre 10 Monty Berman 92 UK Producer, Director, Cinematographer Jack the Ripper What a Carve Up! 16 Arthur Franz 86 US Actor Invaders from Mars Sands of Iwo Jima 18 Vincent Sherman 99 US Director The Young Philadelphians Mr. Skeffington 18 Richard Stahl 74 US Actor Private School Ghosts of Mississippi 23 Aaron Spelling 83 US Producer, Actor Mr. Mom Soapdish 25 Kenneth Griffith 84 UK Actor Four Weddings and a Funeral Sky Riders July 2 Jan Murray 89 US Actor Which Way to the Front? The Busy Body 3 Jack Smith 92 US Actor On Moonlight Bay Cannonball Run II 5 Amzie Strickland 87 US Actress Pretty Woman Shiloh 6 Kasey Rogers 80 US Actress Strangers on a Train Two Lost Worlds 8 June Allyson 88 US Actress The Glenn Miller Story The Three Musketeers 9 Chris Drake 82 US Actor Them! A Walk in the Sun 11 Barnard Hughes 90 US Actor Tron Midnight Cowboy 12 Kurt Kreuger 89 Germany Actor Sahara The Enemy Below 12 Loredana Nusciak 64 Italy Actress Django Gladiators 7 13 Red Buttons 87 US Actor Sayonara Pete's Dragon 19 Pascal Renwick fr Pascal Renwick 51 FR French voice actor The Terminator The Running Man The Matrix 19 Jack Warden 85 US Actor Heaven Can Wait 12 Angry Men 20 Robert Cornthwaite 89 US Actor The War of the Worlds What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 21 Mako 72 Japan Actor Conan the Barbarian The Sand Pebbles 27 Johnny Weissmuller Jr. 65 US Actor THX 1138 American Graffiti 28 Patrick Allen 79 Malawi Actor Dial M for Murder Jet Storm August 4 John Alderson 90 UK Actor Blazing Saddles My Fair Lady 7 Lois January 92 US Actress The Wizard of Oz The Pace That Kills 13 Tony Jay 73 UK Voice Actor, Actor The Hunchback of Notre Dame Beauty and the Beast 14 Bruno Kirby 57 US Actor City Slickers When Harry Met Sally... 16 Alan Vint 61 US Actor Badlands The Panic in Needle Park 19 Sig Shore 87 US Producer, Director Super Fly That's the Way of the World 25 Ann Richards 88 Australia Actress Sorry, Wrong Number An American Romance 25 Joseph Stefano 84 US Screenwriter Psycho Two Bits 29 Bill Stewart 63 UK Actor 101 Dalmatians Anna and the King 30 Glenn Ford 90 Canada Actor Gilda Superman 31 William Aldrich 61 US Producer, Actor Flight of the Phoenix The Sheltering Sky September 4 Steve Irwin 44 Australia Wildlife Expert, Actor The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course Happy Feet 4 Fernando Siro 74 Argentina Actor, Director Where the Wind Dies Un Argentino en New York 5 Hilary Mason 89 UK Actress Don't Look Now Robot Jox 7 Robert Earl Jones 96 US Actor The Sting Witness 8 Frank Middlemass 87 UK Actor Barry Lyndon The Island 9 Gérard Brach 79 France Director, Screenwriter The Name of the Rose Frantic 9 Herbert Rudley 96 US Actor The Court Jester The Young Lions 11 Pat Corley 76 US Actor Coming Home The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training 14 Mickey Hargitay 80 Hungary Actor Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? The Loves of Hercules 14 Johnny Sekka 72 Senegal Actor The Message Ashanti 14 Virginia Vale 86 US Actress Blonde Comet Broadway Big Shot 19 Elizabeth Allen 77 US Actress Donovan's Reef Star Spangled Girl 20 Sven Nykvist 83 Sweden Cinematographer Cries and Whispers The Unbearable Lightness of Being 22 Edward Albert 55 US Actor Butterflies Are Free 40 Carats 23 Malcolm Arnold 84 UK Composer The Bridge on the River Kwai Suddenly, Last Summer 24 Sally Gray 91 UK Actress Green for Danger The Saint in London 24 Tetsurō Tamba 84 Japan Actor Harakiri You Only Live Twice 26 Lionel Murton 91 UK Actor Patton The Dirty Dozen 28 Hy Pyke 70 US Actor Blade Runner Dolemite October 2 Frances Bergen 84 US Actress American Gigolo The Muppets Take Manhattan 2 Tamara Dobson 59 US Actress Cleopatra Jones Norman... Is That You? 4 Tom Bell 73 UK Actor Wish You Were Here Feast of July 9 Danièle Huillet 70 France Director The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach History Lessons 10 Jerry Belson 68 US Screenwriter, Producer Always Fun with Dick and Jane 12 Gillo Pontecorvo 86 Italy Director, Screenwriter The Battle of Algiers Kapò 15 Derek Bond 86 UK Actor Uncle Silas When Eight Bells Toll 16 Jack DeLeon 81 US Actor The Hobbit Life Stinks 16 Tommy Johnson 71 US Musician The Matrix The Godfather 19 James Glennon 64 US Cinematographer About Schmidt Election 19 Phyllis Kirk 79 US Actress House of Wax Back from Eternity 20 Jane Wyatt 96 US Actress Lost Horizon Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 21 Peter Barkworth 77 UK Actor Patton Where Eagles Dare 21 Daryl Duke 77 Canada Director The Silent Partner The Thorn Birds 21 Milton Selzer 87 US Actor Sid and Nancy The Cincinnati Kid 22 Arthur Hill 84 Canada Actor Harper The Andromeda Strain 22 Richard Mayes 83 UK Actor Gandhi Top Secret! 29 Roy Barnes 70 US Set Designer, Art Director War of the Worlds The Last Samurai 29 Nigel Kneale 84 UK Screenwriter The Entertainer Quatermass and the Pit 31 William Franklyn 81 UK Actor Cul-de-sac The Satanic Rites of Dracula November 1 Adrienne Shelly 40 US Actress, Director Waitress The Unbelievable Truth 2 Leonard Schrader 62 US Screenwriter Kiss of the Spider Woman Blue Collar 2 Milly Vitale 73 Italy Actress The Seven Little Foys The Juggler 8 Basil Poledouris 61 US Composer RoboCop The Hunt for Red October 9 Wayne Artman 69 US Sound Engineer Falling Down Lethal Weapon 3 9 Marian Marsh 93 Trinidad Actress The Mad Genius The Black Room 10 Diana Coupland 74 UK Actress The Twelve Chairs The Millionairess 10 Jack Palance 87 US Actor Shane City Slickers 11 Ronnie Stevens 81 UK Actor The Parent Trap Brassed Off 14 John Hallam 65 UK Actor Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Flash Gordon 16 Ernest Day 79 UK Cinematographer, Director A Passage to India Superman IV: The Quest for Peace 16 Eustace Lycett 91 UK Special Effects Artist Mary Poppins Bedknobs and Broomsticks 19 Jeremy Slate 80 US Actor The Devil's Brigade True Grit 20 Robert Altman 81 US Director, Screenwriter M*A*S*H Gosford Park 20 Kevin McClory 80 Ireland Producer Thunderball Never Say Never Again 23 Betty Comden 89 US Screenwriter, Lyricist Singin' in the Rain The Band Wagon 23 Philippe Noiret 76 France Actor Cinema Paradiso Il Postino: The Postman 24 Phyllis Cerf 90 US Actress Vivacious Lady Little Men 27 Alan Freeman 79 Australia Actor Dr. Terror's House of Horrors Absolute Beginners 30 Shirley Walker 61 US Composer, Orchestrator Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Final Destination December 1 Sid Raymond 97 US Actor, Voice Actor Two Much Herman and Katnip 4 Adam Williams 84 US Actor North by Northwest Fear Strikes Out 5 Michael Gilden 44 US Actor Return of the Jedi Pulp Fiction 5 Gerry Humphreys 74 UK Sound Engineer Blade Runner Gandhi 5 Van Smith 61 US Costume Designer, Makeup Artist Pink Flamingos Hairspray 8 Martha Tilton 91 US Singer, Actress Swing Hostess Crime, Inc. 9 Russell Wade 89 US Actor Ball of Fire Mr. & Mrs. Smith 12 Ivor Barry 87 UK Actor Weird Science The Andromeda Strain 12 Peter Boyle 71 US Actor Taxi Driver Young Frankenstein 14 Hallie D'Amore 64 US Makeup Artist Forrest Gump Apollo 13 18 Joseph Barbera 95 US Animator, Director, Producer The Man Called Flintstone Jetsons: The Movie 20 John Bishop 77 US Screenwriter Drop Zone The Package 21 Lois Hall 80 US Actress Gone in 60 Seconds Flightplan 22 Philip Pine 86 US Actor D.O.A The Set-Up 23 Charlie Drake 81 UK Actor The Cracksman Sands of the Desert 25 James Brown 73 US Singer, Actor The Blues Brothers Rocky IV 30 Frank Campanella 87 US Actor Capone Dick Tracy Film debuts Dianna Agron – When a Stranger Calls Moisés Arias – Nacho Libre Dave Bautista – Relative Strangers Leïla Bekhti – Sheitan Mario Casas – Summer Rain Óscar Casas – 53 Winter Days Justin Chon – Fleetwood Common – Smokin' Aces Ana de Armas – Virgin Rose 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 Scott Haze – Danny Roane: First Time Director Sandra Hüller – Requiem Avril Lavigne – Over the Hedge Kellan Lutz – Stick It Deepika Padukone – Aishwarya Imogen Poots – V for Vendetta Andrea Riseborough – Venus Evan Ross – ATL Xavier Samuel – 2:37 Léa Seydoux – Girlfriends T.I. – ATL 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 Category:Film by year