The Top 10 of 2006
1. The Lives of Others/Das Leben der Anderen - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck + Best Debut Movie of the Year + Best Dollar Return of the Year: 38.6 Times its Cost + Best German Movie of the Year + Best Mega-hit Movie of the Year + Best Spy Thriller of the Year
2. Apocalypto - Mel Gibson + Best Epic of the Year + Best American Movie of the Year + Best Adventure Movie of the Year + Best Chase Movie of the Year
3. The Art of Crying/Kunsten at Græde i Kor - Peter Schønau Fog + Best Danish Movie of the Year + Best Drama of the Year + Best Adaptation of the Year
4. Black Snake Moan - Craig Brewer + Most Undeserved Flop of the Year + Best Music Movie of the Year + Best Mississippi Movie of the Year
5. The Departed - Martin Scorsese + Best Boston Movie of the Year + Best Gangster Movie of the Year + Best Comeback Actor of the Year: Matt Damon + Best Remake of the Year + Best Ensemble of the Year: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson, Alex Baldwin, Kevin Corrigan, James Badge Dale
6. The Boss of It All/Direktøren for Det Hele - Lars Von Trier + Best Comedy of the Year + Best Experimental Movie of the Year + Most Under-appreciated Movie of the Year
7. Flags of Our Fathers - Clint Eastwood + Best War Movie of the Year + Best True-Story Movie of the Year + Best Big Flop Movie of the Year
8. Grbavica: Land of My Dreams/Grbavica/Esma's Secret: Grbavica - Jasmila Zbanic + Best Bosnian Movie of the Year + Best Low-Budget Movie of the Year
9. Nacho Libre - Jared Hess + Best Farce of the Year + Best Poster of the Year
10. Inland Empire - David Lynch + Best Art Film of the Year + Best Character Study of the Year + Best Comeback Actress of the Year: Laura Dern
Other masterpiece of 2006:
Babel - Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu
Other great movies of 2006 (in alphabetical order):
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints - Dito Montiel + Best Shooting Star Actor of the Year: Channing Tatum + Best New York Movie of the Year + Best Autobiographical Movie of the Year
A Soap/En Soap - Pernille Fischer Christensen + Best Copenhagen Movie of the Year + Best LGBT Movie of the Year + Best Melodrama of the Year
Children of Men - Alfonso Cuarón + Best Sci-fi Movie of the Year
Crank - Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor + Best Action Movie of the Year + Best Los Angeles Movie of the Year
Déjà Vu - Tony Scott + Best New Orleans Movie of the Year + Best Car Chase of the Year (chase in the past scene)
Ghosts of Cité Soleil, documentary - Asger Leth, Milos Loncarevic
The Good Shepherd - Robert De Niro + Best Period Movie of the Year + Costliest Flop of the Year: 49.92 mil. $ range
Goya's Ghosts - Milos Forman + Best Box Office Disaster of the Year
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, documentary - Stanley Nelson
The Last King of Scotland - Kevin Macdonald + Best Thriller of the Year + Best Huge Hit Movie of the Year
Little Children - Todd Field + Best Feel-Bad Movie of the Year
Notes on a Scandal - Richard Eyre + Best Drama-Thriller of the Year + Best Erotic Movie of the Year + Best London Movie of the Year + Best UK Movie of the Year
Other good, recommendable movies and TV-series of 2006 (in alphabetical order):
30 Rock - season 1 - Tina Fey + Best New TV-series of the Year + Best Sitcom of the Year
A Scanner Darkly - Richard Linklater + Best Adult Animation Movie of the Year + Best Drug Movie of the Year
The Abandoned/Los Abandonados - Nacho Cerdà + Best Horror Movie of the Year + Best Spanish Movie of the Year + Best Haunted House Movie of the Year
Art School Confidential - Terry Zwigoff + Best Huge Flop Movie of the Year
The Da Vinci Code - Ron Howard + Best Paris Movie of the Year + Most Profitable Movie of the Year 178.28 mil. $ range
Deadwood - season 3 - David Milch + Best Western Title of the Year + Best TV-series of the Year + Best Fight Scene of the Year (fight in the mud scene, episode 5: A Two-Headed Beast)
The Devil Wears Prada - Dave Frankel
Dexter - season 1 - James Manos Jr. + Best Miami Title of the Year
Factory Girl - George Hickenlooper + Best Biopic of the Year + Shooting Star Actress of the Year: Sienna Miller
The Fountain - Darren Aronofsky + Best Psychedelic Movie of the Year + Best Mega-flop Movie of the Year
Friends with Money - Nicole Holofcener + Best Dramedy of the Year
Letters from Iwo Jima/硫黄島からの手紙 [Öjima Kara no Tegami] - Clint Eastwood + Best Big Hit Movie of the Year
Little Miss Sunshine - Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris + Best Independent Movie of the Year + Best Road Movie of the Year
Lucky Number Slevin - Paul McGuigan
Night at the Museum - Shawn Levy + Best Family Movie of the Year + Best Fantasy Movie of the Year
Seraphim Falls - David Von Ancken + Best Revenge Movie of the Year + Career-Killer of the Year: David Von Ancken + Worst Dollar Return of the Year: 0.06 Times its Cost
Sprængfarlig Bombe - Tomas Villum Jensen
We Shall Overcome/Drømmen - Niels Arden Oplev
The Bottom 10 of 2006
1. Are You Scared - Andy Hurst
2. Ira & Abby - Robert Cary
3. Automaton Transfusion - Steven C. Miller
4. A Good Year - Ridley Scott + Worst Poster of the Year + Most Deserved Flop of the Year
5. Fay Grim - Hal Hartley
6. Fair Haired Child, TV movie - William Malone
7. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon - Scott Glosserman
8. Dragon Tiger Gate/Lóng Hǔ Mén/龍虎門/龙虎门/Lung4 Fu2 Mun4 - Wilson Yip
9. Final Destination 3 - James Wong
10. Cars - John Lasseter, Joe Ranft + Most Undeserved Hit of the Year
Other poor, failed and/or mediocre movies of 2006 (in alphabetical order):
16 Blocks - Richard Donner
A Real Friend/Adivina Quién Soy, TV movie - Enrique Urbizu
Bandidas - Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Blame/La Culpa, TV movie - Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Blood Diamond - Edward Zwick
The Caiman/Il Caimano - Nanni Moretti
Dreamgirls - Bill Condon
The Hills Have Eyes - Alexandre Aja
The Host/괴물 (Gwoemul) - Bong Joon Ho
The Illusionist - Neil Burger
The Lost - Chris Sivertson
Madea's Family Reunion - Tyler Perry
Mission: Impossible III - J.J. Abrams
Saw III - Darren Lynn Bousman + Best Gore Movie of the Year
The Science of Sleep - Michel Gondry + Most Overrated Movie of the Year
Silent Hill - Christophe Gans
[69 titles in total]
Notes:
The
second updated version of the 2006 lists adds 19 new titles, with two of them breaching the Top 10 and one the Bottom 10 list.
The Top 10 is still reigned by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's supreme East-German Stasi past spy thriller The Lives of Others, with Mel Gibson's sensational, Mayan-era chase adventure Apocalypto taking silver, and Peter Schønau Fog's wry, Jutland-set incest adaptation drama The Art of Crying bronze. The list continues with Craig Brewer's electric blues sex-drama masterpiece Black Snake Moan, Martin Scorsese's grand gangster epos The Departed, Lars Von Trier's strangely composited absurd comedy The Boss of It All, Clint Eastwood's riveting WWII hero (and nation) examination Flags of Our Father, new entry Jasmila Zbanic's post-war drama Grbavica, new entry Jared Hess' hilarious Mexican wrestler farce Nacho Libre, with David Lynch's fiercely unsettling, digital mystery epic Inland Empire finalizing the list. Alfonso Cuarón's spectacular sci-fi achievement Children of Men, and Todd Field's suburbia-set drama adaptation Little Children fall from the top 10 in this update.
Among the other great films of the year are Alejandro González Iñnáritu's ambitious fate-crossing masterpiece Babel, Dito Montiel's electric, New York-set debut A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Pernille Fischer Christensen's transvestite romance A Soap, Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's power-charged Crank, Asger Leth and Milos Loncarevic's incredible Haiti-centered crime documentary Ghosts of Cité Soleil, Milos Forman's career-closing Spanish period drama Goya's Ghosts and Kevin Macdonald's terrific Idi Amin-biopic thriller The Last King of Scotland. Other noteworthy good movies of the year include Richard Linklater's Philip K. Dick adaptation A Scanner Darkly, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' uplifting road comedy Little Miss Sunshine, Nacho Cerdá's bone-chilling ghost horror The Abandoned, David Von Ancken's horrifically flopping revenge western Seraphim Falls and the 3rd and last season of David Milch's Deadwood.
The Bottom 10 of 2006 is low on big studio fare, and the worst 3 are all low-budget trash: Andy Hurst's gory torture horror Are You Scared is the year's absolute worst, with Robert Cary's marriage-hating Ira & Abby taking silver and Steven C. Miller's amateurish zombie rubbish Automaton Transfusion bronze.
These poor attempts at entertainment and film are met by Ridley Scott's grating, hollow Provence-lauding A Good Year, Hal Hartley's tedious indie thriller Fay Grim, William Malone's Masters of Horror TV movie Fair Haired Child, Scott Glosserman's similarly low-flying, cheap horror Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Wilson Yip's ridiculous Hong Kong kung fu flick Dragon Tiger Gate, new entry James Wong's braindead Final Destination 3, with John Lasseter and Joe Ranft's generally poor, grating major animation Cars closing the ball. Great filmmaker Edward Zwick's morally dubious Africa actioner Blood Diamond falls from the Bottom 10 list in this round.
Among the other great filmmakers who made below-par output in 2006 are also Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg with their debut Bandidas, Bill Condon (Dreamgirls), Bong Joon Ho (The Host), J.J. Abrams (Mission: Impossible 3) and Michel Gondry (The Science of Sleep).
The stars with B.O. triumphs this year include Ben Stiller (Night at the Museum), Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada) and Tom Hanks (The Da Vinci Code); Cate Blanchett (Babel, Notes on a Scandal) impressed in two terrific hits; and Jack Nicholson proved he still holds sway in The Departed, also with Leonardo DiCaprio, who nevertheless also headed a costly flop, Blood Diamond. On the opposite side Bruce Willis fronted 2 flops (16 Blocks, Lucky Number Slevin); and Denzel Washington (Déja Vù), Hugh Jackman (The Fountain), Penélope Cruz & Salma Hayek (Bandidas), Samuel L. Jackson (Black Snake Moan), Russell Crowe (A Good Year), Eddie Muprhy (Dreamgirls), Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie and Matt Damon (The Good Shepherd), Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson (Seraphim Falls) and Javier Bardem and Natalie Portman (Goya's Ghosts) all flopped.
Biggest Hits of the Year (reviewed so far):
[The
profit is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films.
Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other
auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. The Da Vinci Code - 178.28 mil. $ range
2. Night at the Museum - 119.76 mil. $ range
3. The Devil Wears Prada - 95.6 mil. $ range
4. The Lives of Others - 72.3 mil. $ range
5. Cars - 64.76 mil. $ range
6. Saw III - 55.92 mil. $ range
7. Babel - 29.12 mil. $ range
8. The Departed - 25.92 mil. $ range
9. The Host - 24.76 mil. $ range
10. Final Destination 3 - 22.08 mil. $ range
Total profit: 688.5 mil. $
Biggest Flops of the Year (reviewed so far):
[The
loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films.
Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other
auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. The Good Shepherd - 49.92 mil. $ range
2. Children of Men - 48.04 mil. $ range
3. Goya's Ghosts - 46.24 mil. $ range
4. Blood Diamond - 31.44 mil. $ range
5. Flags of Our Fathers - 28.64 mil. $ range
6. The Fountain - 28.6 mil. $ range
7. Bandidas - 27.68 mil. $ range
8. 16 Blocks - 26.36 mil. $ range
9. Little Children - 20.4 mil. $ range
10. A Good Year - 18.2 mil. $ range
Total losses: 325.52 mil. $
On the 2007 Oscars:
Ellen DeGeneres
was successful as host for the first time, and the show had almost 40
mil. viewers domestically, up 2.5 % from the previous year. The most
nominated film of the year was the not quite good flop musical Dreamgirls with 8 nominations, which, unusually, nevertheless was not nominated in the Best Picture category, followed by Babel with 7 nominations. But the night's biggest winner was The Departed with 4 wins, followed by Pan's Labyrinth with 3.
The golden men landed like this:
The Departed got Best Picture, Director (a long time coming for New-Yorker master filmmaker Martin Scorsese), Adapted Screenplay (William Monahan) and Editing. The other Best Picture nominees were Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine and The Queen.
Forest Whitaker took home Best Actor for The Last King of Scotland; Helen Mirren won Best Actress for The Queen. Alan Arkin won Best Supporting Actor for Little Miss Sunshine, while debuting Jennifer Hudson took home Best Supporting Actress for Dreamgirls. Michael Arndt won Best Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine. Best Animated Feature was won by George Miller's poor penguin film Happy Feet; Best Foreign Film was won by The Lives of Others, and An Inconvenient Truth took Best Documentary and Best Song for I Need to Wake Up by Melissa Etheridge, a first for a documentary. The short film Oscars went to The Blood of Yingzhou District (doc.), West Bank Story (live action) and The Danish Poet (animated). Gustavo Santolalla won Best Score for Babel. Letters from Iwo Jima, and Dreamgirls took Best Sound Editing and Mixing, respectively. Guillermo Navarro won Best Cinematography for Pan's Labyrinth, which also won for Art Direction and Makeup. Marie Antoinette won for Best Costumes, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest won for Best Visual Effects. Honorary Oscars went to Ennio Morricone and Sherry Lansing.
IMDb's user-generated Top 10 most popular movies of the year:
1. The Holiday
2. Casino Royale
3. Deck the Halls
4. The Departed
5. The Prestige
6. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
7. Inside Man
8. Children of Men
9. 300
10. The Fall
2006 titles still on the watch-list:
The Blue Elephant, Pelts, The History Boys, Venus, Borat, Curse of the Golden Flower, Superman Returns, An Inconvenient Truth, The Good German, The Danish Poet, Lifted, No Time for Nuts, The Little Matchgirl, Helmer & Søn, The Blood of Yingzhou District, Recycled Life, Rehearsing a Dream, Two Hands: The Leon Fleischer Story, Iraq in Fragments, Jesus Camp, My Country, My Country, Days of Glory, Monster House, Away from Her, Peter and the Wolf, My Love, The Mozart of Pickpockets, Tanghi Argentini, Sari's Mother, Time
Previous annual lists:
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2019 in films - according to Film Excess
2018 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
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Which 2006 titles would make to your top and bottom lists?
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