| 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. |
| 6 |
Utah Jazz owner Larry H. Miller pulls Brokeback Mountain from one of his Utah movie theaters at the last minute, after learning it features a homosexual love story. |
| 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 and 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 and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit wins Oscar for Animated feature film.
Major awards as follows:
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| April |
18 |
Tom Cruise and fiance 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 |
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. |
‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release
| Opening |
Title |
Studio |
Cast & Crew |
J
A
N
U
A
R
Y |
6 |
BloodRayne |
Romar Entertainment |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Columbia Pictures |
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 |
Revolution Studios |
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 |
| 4 |
Dieter: Der Film |
Universum Film |
Dieter Bohlen, Bertram Hiese, Antonia von Romatowski |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release
| Opening |
Title |
Studio |
Cast & 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 Imes-Jackson |
| 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 |
Columbia Pictures |
Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Debora 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 |
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 |
| Over the Hedge |
Paramount Pictures |
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 |
Pixar |
Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, John Ratzenberger, Jeremy Clarkson, John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen |
| A Prairie Home Companion |
Pictureshouse |
Garrison Keillor, Lindsay Lohan, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones |
| 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 |
| 23 |
Click |
Columbia Pictures |
Adam Sandler, Christopher Walken |
| 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 |
‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release
| Opening |
Title |
Studio |
Cast & 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 |
| 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. |
Zach Tyler Eisen, Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Paul Giamatti, Regina King, Bruce Campbell, Lily Tomlin, Cheri Oteri, Larry Miller, Ricardo Montalbán, Allison Mack |
| 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 |
A
U
G
U
S
T |
4 |
Barnyard |
Paramount Pictures |
Kevin James, Courteney Cox |
| 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 |
Paramount Pictures |
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 |
| Zoom |
Revolution Studios |
Tim Allen, Chevy Chase, Courteney Cox, Rip Torn, Spencer Breslin, Kevin Zegers, Michael Cassidy, Kate Mara |
| 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 |
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E
P
T
E
M
B
E
R |
1 |
Crank |
Lions Gate Entertainment |
Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Efren Ramirez, Dwight Yoakam |
| Crossover |
Columbia Pictures |
Anthony Mackie |
| The Wicker Man |
Warner Bros. |
Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Leelee Sobieski |
| 8 |
The Covenant |
Screen Gems |
Toby Hemingway, Chace Crawford, Steven Strait, Taylor Kitsch |
| 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 |
| 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, Ed Helms |
| 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 |
| Fearless |
Rogue Pictures |
Jet Li, Collin Chou |
| Flyboys |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
James Franco, Jean Reno, Martin Henderson |
| Jackass Number Two |
Paramount Pictures |
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) |
‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release
| Opening |
Title |
Studio |
Cast & Crew |
O
C
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O
B
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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 |
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 |
| The Marine |
20th Century Fox |
John Cena, Robert Patrick, Kelly Carlson, Jeff Chase, Christina Lindley |
| 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 |
Paul Walker, Ryan Phillippe, Neal McDonough, Jesse Bradford, 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 |
Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Christopher Nolan (director) |
| 27 |
Babel ‡ |
Paramount Vantage |
Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Rinko Kikuchi, Adriana Barraza |
| 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
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R |
3 |
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan |
20th Century Fox |
Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Pamela Anderson, Pat Haggerty, Bob Barr, Larry Charles (director) |
| Flushed Away |
DreamWorks |
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, Aisha Tyler, Peter Boyle, Kevin Pollak, Art LaFleur, Michael Lembeck (director) |
| Volver ‡ |
Sony Pictures Classics |
Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Pedro Almodóvar (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, Brian Geraghty, Heather Graham, Joshua Jackson, Ashton Kutcher, Shia LeBeouf, Freddy Rodriguez, Martin Sheen, Christian Slater |
| Casino Royale |
Columbia Pictures |
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, Fred Willard |
| 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, James 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 |
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E
C
E
M
B
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1 |
The Nativity Story |
New Line Cinema |
Keisha Castle-Hughes, Shohreh Aghdashloo |
| Turistas |
Fox Atomic |
Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde |
| Van Wilder 2: Rise of the 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 |
Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black |
| Unaccompanied Minors |
Warner Bros. |
Wilmer Valderrama, Lewis Black |
| 15 |
Charlotte's Web |
Paramount Pictures |
Julia Roberts, Dakota Fanning, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Cedric the Entertainer, Kathy Bates, Reba McEntire, Robert Redford, Thomas Haden Church, André Benjamin, Beau Bridges, Kevin Anderson, Essie Davis, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Gary Basaraba |
| Dreamgirls ‡ |
DreamWorks |
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 |
| 20 |
Letters from Iwo Jima ‡ |
Warner Brothers |
Ken Watanabe, Clint Eastwood (director) |
| Rocky Balboa |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Sylvester Stallone, Milo Ventimiglia |
| 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 |
Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie, Matt Damon |
| 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, Rami Malek, Charles Q. Murphy, Paul Rudd |
| We Are Marshall |
Warner Bros. |
Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Kate Mara, Anthony Mackie |
| 25 |
Black Christmas |
The Weinstein Company |
Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Crystal Lowe, Andrea Martin |
| 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) |
| Month |
Date |
Name |
Age |
Country |
Profession |
Notable films |
| January |
7 |
Jim Zulevic |
40 |
USA |
Actor |
Let's Go to Prison • Matchstick Men |
| 12 |
Stu Linder |
74 |
USA |
Film Editor |
Rain Man • Good Morning, Vietnam • Bugsy • Quiz Show • Envy •Sphere |
| 14 |
Shelley Winters |
85 |
USA |
Actress |
Lolita • The Poseidon Adventure • The Diary of Anne Frank • Cleopatra Jones • Alfie • A Place in the Sun |
| 19 |
Anthony Franciosa |
77 |
USA |
Actor |
The Long, Hot Summer • City Hall • Tenebre • Death Wish II • A Hatful of Rain |
| 24 |
Chris Penn |
40 |
USA |
Actor |
Reservoir Dogs • Footloose • Rush Hour • Starsky & Hutch • Pale Rider • Corky Romano • True Romance |
| February |
1 |
Roy Alon |
63 |
UK |
Stuntman |
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom • Children of Men • Troy • Die Another Day • Entrapment • Buffalo Soldiers • An American Werewolf in London • The Three Musketeers |
| 3 |
Al Lewis |
82 |
USA |
Actor |
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? • The Boatniks • Car 54, Where Are You? |
| 9 |
Phil Brown |
89 |
USA |
Actor |
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope • Superman • Chaplin • The Camp on Blood Island • The Pink Panther Strikes Again |
| 13 |
Andreas Katsulas |
59 |
USA |
Actor |
The Fugitive • Executive Decision • Next of Kin • Hot Shots! Part Deux • The Sicilian |
| 17 |
Harold Hunter |
31 |
USA |
Actor |
Kids • Kung Faux |
| 18 |
Richard Bright |
64 |
USA |
Actor |
The Godfather • Once Upon a Time in America • Red Heat • Two of a Kind |
| 24 |
Don Knotts |
81 |
USA |
Actor |
Cats Don't Dance • The Apple Dumpling Gang • The Shakiest Gun in the West • Pleasantville • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World • Chicken Little • Cannonball Run II • Big Bully • Gus • No Deposit, No Return • Hot Lead and Cold Feet |
| 24 |
Dennis Weaver |
81 |
USA |
Actor |
Duel • War Arrow • A Man Called Sledge • The Gallant Hours • Navy Wife • Touch of Evil |
| 25 |
Darren McGavin |
83 |
USA |
Actor |
The Omen • A Christmas Story • Airport '77 • The Natural • Billy Madison • Captain America • Raw Deal |
| March |
2 |
Jack Wild |
53 |
UK |
Actor |
Oliver! • Melody • Pufnstuf • Alice |
| 7 |
Gordon Parks |
93 |
USA |
Director |
Shaft • The Learning Tree • The Super Cops • Leadbelly |
| 12 |
Joseph Bova |
81 |
USA |
Actor |
Serpico • Pretty Poison • Once Upon a Mattress |
| 13 |
Maureen Stapleton |
80 |
USA |
Actress |
Reds • Airport • Lonelyhearts • Cocoon • Bye Bye Birdie • Nuts |
| 17 |
Bob Papenbrook |
50 |
USA |
Voice Actor |
Stranger than Fiction • Jeepers Creepers 2 • Digimon: The Movie |
| 25 |
Richard Fleischer |
89 |
USA |
Director |
Tora! Tora! Tora! • Doctor Dolittle • Fantastic Voyage • Soylent Green • Conan the Destroyer • 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea • The Jazz Singer • Million Dollar Mystery |
| 29 |
Gretchen Rau |
66 |
USA |
Set/Art Director |
Crocodile Dundee • Unbreakable • A River Runs Through It • The Shipping News • The Good Shepherd • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou • Memoirs of a Geisha |
| April |
4 |
Gary Gray |
69 |
USA |
Actor |
Meet Me in St. Louis • Gaslight • Heaven Can Wait |
| 17 |
Henderson Forsythe |
88 |
USA |
Actor |
Silkwood • Species II • Chances Are |
| 22 |
Alida Valli |
84 |
Italy |
Actress |
The Third Man • Inferno • The Long Absence • A Month by the Lake |
| May |
8 |
George Lutz |
59 |
USA |
Author, Screenwriter |
The Amityville Horror |
| 10 |
Val Guest |
94 |
USA |
Director, Screenwriter |
Casino Royale • The Abominable Snowman • 80,000 Suspects • Miss Pilgrim's Progress |
| 14 |
Paul Marco |
78 |
USA |
Actor |
Plan 9 from Outer Space • Hiawatha |
| 24 |
Henry Bumstead |
91 |
USA |
Art Director |
To Kill a Mockingbird • Vertigo • The Sting • Blood Work • Home Alone 3 • Vertigo • Million Dollar Baby • Slap Shot |
| 27 |
Paul Gleason |
67 |
USA |
Actor |
The Breakfast Club • Die Hard • Van Wilder • Trading Places • Not Another Teen Movie |
| June |
8 |
Robert Donner |
75 |
USA |
Actor |
Cool Hand Luke • El Dorado • High Plains Drifter • Hoot |
| 16 |
Arthur Franz |
86 |
USA |
Actor |
Invaders from Mars • Sands of Iwo Jima • The Caine Mutiny |
| 18 |
Vincent Sherman |
99 |
USA |
Director |
The Young Philadelphians • Mr. Skeffington • Harriet Craig • Nora Prentiss |
| 21 |
Mako Iwamatsu |
72 |
Japan |
Actor |
The Sand Pebbles • Seven Years in Tibet • Conan the Barbarian • Pearl Harbour • Bulletproof Monk • Sidekicks |
| 23 |
Aaron Spelling |
83 |
USA |
Producer, Actor |
Mr. Mom • The Spirit of St. Louis • The Mod Squad |
| 25 |
Kenneth Griffith |
84 |
UK |
Actor |
Four Weddings and a Funeral • Sky Riders • The Assassination Bureau • A Night to Remember |
| July |
1 |
Benjamin Hendrickson |
55 |
USA |
Actor |
Manhunter |
| 9 |
Amzie Strickland |
87 |
USA |
Actress |
Pretty Woman • Shiloh • Doc Hollywood • Tower of Terror |
| 12 |
Kurt Kreuger |
89 |
Germany |
Actor |
Sahara • The Enemy Below |
| 13 |
Red Buttons |
87 |
USA |
Actor |
Sayonara • Pete's Dragon • Stagecoach • The Longest Day • C.H.O.M.P.S. |
| 19 |
Jack Warden |
85 |
USA |
Actor |
Heaven Can Wait • Shampoo • All the President's Men • 12 Angry Men • Bullets Over Broadway • The White Buffalo |
| 20 |
Robert O. Cornthwaite |
89 |
USA |
Actor |
The War of the Worlds • Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? |
| 27 |
Johnny Weissmuller Jr. |
65 |
USA |
Actor |
THX 1138 • American Graffiti |
| 28 |
Patrick Allen |
79 |
Malawi |
Actor |
Dial M for Murder • Jet Storm • Dunkirk • Never Take Sweets from a Stranger • High Tide at Noon |
| August |
7 |
Lois January |
92 |
USA |
Actress |
The Wizard of Oz • The Pace That Kills |
| 13 |
Tony Jay |
73 |
UK |
Voice Actor, Actor |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Twins • Beauty and the Beast • Treasure Planet • Time Bandits |
| 14 |
Bruno Kirby |
57 |
USA |
Actor |
The Godfather Part II • City Slickers • When Harry Met Sally... • The Basketball Diaries • This is Spinal Tap • Stuart Little • Hoffa |
| 16 |
Alan Vint |
61 |
USA |
Actor |
Badlands • The Panic in Needle Park • Earthquake • Macon County Line |
| 25 |
Joseph Stefano |
84 |
USA |
Screenwriter |
Psycho • Two Bits |
| 30 |
Glenn Ford |
90 |
Canada |
Actor |
Cimarron • 3:10 to Yuma • Gilda • Blackboard Jungle • Superman • Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • The Courtship of Eddie's Father |
| September |
4 |
Steve Irwin |
44 |
Australia |
Wildlife Expert, Actor |
Happy Feet • The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course |
| 5 |
Hilary Mason |
89 |
UK |
Actress |
Don't Look Now • Robot Jox • Haunted • Dolls |
| 7 |
Robert Earl Jones |
96 |
USA |
Actor |
The Sting • Witness • Trading Places • Sleepaway Camp |
| 8 |
Frank Middlemass |
87 |
UK |
Actor |
Barry Lyndon • Dreamchild |
| 11 |
Pat Corley |
76 |
USA |
Actor |
Coming Home • The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training • Mr. Destiny • The Black Marble • The Onion Field |
| 19 |
Elizabeth Allen |
77 |
USA |
Actor |
Donovan's Reef • Star Spangled Girl • Cheyenne Autumn • Born for Trouble • Crimes and Misdemeanors • With Honors • Mixed Nuts |
| 20 |
Sven Nykvist |
83 |
Sweden |
Cinematographer |
Sleepless in Seattle • Chaplin • What's Eating Gilbert Grape • Born for Trouble • The Carey Treatment |
| 23 |
Malcolm Arnold |
84 |
UK |
Composer |
The Bridge on the River Kwai • The Belles of St Trinian's • The Inn of the Sixth Happiness |
| 28 |
Hy Pyke |
70 |
USA |
Actor |
Blade Runner • White House Madness |
| October |
4 |
Tom Bell |
40 |
UK |
Director |
Wish You Were Here • Feast of July |
| 15 |
Derek Bond |
86 |
UK |
Actor |
Uncle Silas • When Eight Bells Toll • Tony Draws a Horse • Christopher Colmbus |
| 19 |
Phyllis Kirk |
79 |
USA |
Actress |
House of Wax • Back from Eternity • Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone |
| 20 |
Jane Wyatt |
96 |
USA |
Actress |
Boomerang • Gentleman's Agreement • None but the Lonely Heart |
| 21 |
Milton Selzer |
87 |
USA |
Actor |
Sid and Nancy • The Cincinnati Kid • Capricorn One • Tapeheads |
| November |
1 |
Adrienne Shelly |
40 |
USA |
Actress, Director |
Waitress • The Unbelievable Truth |
| 2 |
Leonard Schrader |
62 |
USA |
Screenwriter |
Kiss of the Spider Woman • Blue Collar • Naked Tango |
| 8 |
Basil Poledouris |
61 |
USA |
Composer |
Red Dawn • Robocop • Iron Eagle • Conan the Barbarian • The Hunt for Red October • Free Willy • Mickey Blue Eyes |
| 10 |
Jack Palance |
87 |
USA |
Actor |
Shane • City Slickers • Batman • Young Guns • Dragonslayer |
| 14 |
John Hallam |
65 |
UK |
Actor |
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves • Flash Gordon • The Wicker Man • Young Guns • Sudden Fear • Tango & Cash |
| 19 |
Jeremy Slate |
80 |
USA |
Actor |
True Grit • The Born Losers • I'll Take Sweden • The Dead Pit • The Lawnmower Man |
| 20 |
Robert Altman |
81 |
USA |
Director |
MASH • Nashville • The Player • Gosford Park • Dr. T & the Women • Short Cuts • Popeye |
| 30 |
Shirley Walker |
61 |
USA |
Composer, Orchestrator |
Apocalypse Now • Final Destination • Batman: Mask of the Phantasm • Willard • True Lies • Mystery Men • Dick Tracy • Backdraft • Scrooged • A League of Their Own • Darkman • Black Christmas • Edward Scissorhands |
| December |
1 |
Sid Raymond |
97 |
USA |
Actor, Voice Actor of Baby Huey |
Two Much |
| 4 |
Adam Williams |
84 |
USA |
Actor |
North by Northwest • Fear Strikes Out • The Big Heat • The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit |
| 5 |
Michael Gilden |
44 |
USA |
Actor |
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi • Pulp Fiction • Under the Rainbow |
| 12 |
Peter Boyle |
71 |
USA |
Actor |
Young Frankenstein • Taxi Driver • Malcolm X • Red Heat • The Santa Clause • Monster's Ball • Honeymoon in Vegas • Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed • Where the Buffalo Roam • Dr. Dolittle |
| 18 |
Joseph Barbera |
95 |
USA |
Director, Producer, Actor |
The Flintstones • Jetsons: The Movie |
| 25 |
James Brown |
73 |
USA |
Singer, Actor |
Rocky IV • The Blues Brothers • The Tuxedo • Doctor Detroit • Undercover Brother |