The Top 10 of the Year
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. Golden Door/Nuovomondo - Emanuele Crialese + Best Italian Movie of the Year
5. Black Snake Moan - Craig Brewer + Most Undeserved Flop of the Year + Best Music Movie of the Year + Best Mississippi Movie of the Year
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. Nacho Libre - Jared Hess + Best Farce of the Year + Best Poster of the Year
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
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
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Tom Tykwer + Breakthrough Actor of the Year: Ben Whishaw + Best Crime Drama of the Year + Best Serial Killer Movie of the Year
The Pursuit of Happyness - Gabriele Muccino + Best Biopic of the Year + Best San Francisco Movie of the Year + Deserved Hit 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 Baby's Room/La Habitación del Niño, TV movie - Álex de la Iglesia
The Da Vinci Code - Ron Howard + Best Paris Movie of the Year
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 + 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
Den Hemmelige Krig, TV documentary - Christoffer Guldbrandsen
Inland Empire - David Lynch + Best Art Film of the Year + Best Character Study of the Year + Best Comeback Actress of the Year: Laura Dern
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
The Night Listener - Patrick Stettner
Pan's Labyrinth/El Laberinto del Fauno - Guillermo del Toro
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - Gore Verbinski + Best Action Adventure of the Year + Best Pirate Movie of the Year + Most Profitable Movie of the Year 201.44 mil. $ range
Seraphim Falls - David Von Ancken + Best Revenge Movie of the Year
Sprængfarlig Bombe - Tomas Villum Jensen
We Shall Overcome/Drømmen - Niels Arden Oplev
The Bottom 10 of the Year
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. The Pink Panther - Shawn Levy
9. Happy Feet - Warren Coleman, George Miller, Judy Morris
10. Dragon Tiger Gate/Lóng Hǔ Mén/龍虎門/龙虎门/Lung4 Fu2 Mun4 - Wilson Yip
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
Cars - John Lasseter, Joe Ranft + Most Undeserved Hit of the Year
Dreamgirls - Bill Condon
Final Destination 3 - James Wong
Haeckel's Tale, TV movie - John McNaughton
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
The Night of the Sunflowers/La Noche de los Girasoles - Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo
Off-Screen - Christoffer Boe + Worst Dollar Return of the Year: 0.05 Times its Cost
Paris Je t'Aime - 21 directors
Pick Me Up, TV movie - Larry Cohen
Poseidon - Wolfgang Petersen + Career Killer of the Year: Wolfgang Petersen + Costliest Flop of the Year: 87.36 mil. $ range
The Prestige - Christopher Nolan
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
[87 titles in total]
Notes:
The 3rd updated version of the 2006 lists adds 18 new titles, with one new entry breaching the Top 10 and two boarding 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 new entry Emanuele Crialese's inspired immigration drama masterpiece Golden Door, 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, Jasmila Zbanic's post-war drama Grbavica and with Jared Hess' hilarious Mexican wrestler farce Nacho Libre rounding off the list. David Lynch's fiercely unsettling, digital mystery epic Inland Empire falls out of the list in this edition.
Among the other great films of the year are Alfonso Cuarón's spectacular sci-fi achievement Children of Men, Todd Field's suburbia-set drama adaptation Little Children, 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, Gabriele Muccino's uplifting biopic The Pursuit of Happyness, Tom Tykwer's striking serial killer drama Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 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, Gore Verbinski's sprawling action-adventure Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and the 3rd and last season of David Milch's Deadwood.
The Bottom 10 of 2006 has received two more big studio features, but the worst 3 are all still 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 cinema 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, new entry Shawn Levy's grating Inspector Closeau reboot The Pink Panther and new entry Warren Coleman, George Miller and Judy Morris' aggravating dancing penguin animation Happy Feet, with Wilson Yip's ridiculous Hong Kong kung fu flick Dragon Tiger Gate now rounding off the list. James Wong's braindead Final Destination 3 and John Lasseter and Joe Ranft's generally poor, grating major animation Cars fly off the list in this edition.closing the ball.
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), Wolfgang Petersen (Poseidon), Christopher Nolan (The Prestige), Nancy Meyers (The Holiday) and Michel Gondry (The Science of Sleep).
The stars with box office triumphs this year include Ben Stiller (Night at the Museum), Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada), Tom Hanks (The Da Vinci Code); Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean 2), Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness); 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 flop side Bruce Willis fronted 2 flops (16 Blocks, Lucky Number Slevin); and Denzel Washington (Déja Vù), Hugh Jackman (The Fountain), Kurt Russell (Poseidon), Steve Martin (The Pink Panther), 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 suffered flops.
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. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - 201.44 mil. $ range NEW ENTRY
2. The Da Vinci Code - 178.28 mil. $ range
3. Night at the Museum - 119.76 mil. $ range
4. The Devil Wears Prada - 95.6 mil. $ range
5. The Lives of Others - 72.3 mil. $ range
6. The Pursuit of Happyness - 67.84 mil. $ range NEW ENTRY
7. Cars - 64.76 mil. $ range
8. Saw III - 55.92 mil. $ range
9. Happy Feet - 53.72 mil. $ range NEW ENTRY
10. Babel - 29.12 mil. $ range
Total profit: 938.74 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. Poseidon - 87.36 mil. $ range NEW ENTRY
2. The Good Shepherd - 49.92 mil. $ range
3. Children of Men - 48.04 mil. $ range
4. Goya's Ghosts - 46.24 mil. $ range
5. Blood Diamond - 31.44 mil. $ range
6. Flags of Our Fathers - 28.64 mil. $ range
7. The Fountain - 28.6 mil. $ range
8. Bandidas - 27.68 mil. $ range
9. 16 Blocks - 26.36 mil. $ range
10. Little Children - 20.4 mil. $ range
Total losses: 394.68 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 dancing 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
Highest-grossing films of the year:
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Buena Vista) - 1,066.1 mil. $
2. The Da Vinci Code (Sony) - 760 mil. $
3. Ice Age: The Meltdown (20th Century) - 660.9 mil. $
4. Casino Royale (Sony/MGM) - 606 mil. $
5. Night at the Museum (20th Century) - 574.4 mil. $
6. Cars (Disney) - 461.9 mil. $
7. X-Men: The Last Stand (20th Century) - 460.4 mil. $
8. Mission: Impossible III (Paramount) - 398.4 mil. $
9. Superman Returns (Warner Bros.) - 391 mil. $
10. Happy Feet (Warner Bros.) - 384.3 mil. $
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, Deck the Halls, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, The Fall, Ice Age: The Meltdown
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