The year 2006 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with Superman Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Casino Royale, Clerks II, X-Men: The Last Stand, Mission: Impossible III, Final Destination 3 and Scary Movie 4.

Events

Month	Day	Event
January	4	The Producers Guild of America nominates Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night, and Good Luck., Crash and Walk the Line as contenders for their best-produced film award. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) nominate Crash, Good Night, and Good Luck., I Tried, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and The Squid and the Whale for best original screenplay. The WGA nominees for best adapted screenplay are Brokeback Mountain, Capote, The Constant Gardener, A History of Violence and Syriana.
	5	Jon Stewart is named host of the 78th Academy Awards.
	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".
March	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:

• 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

April "10" valign="top">18[[Tom Cruise] and fiance Katie Holmes welcomed their newborn baby Suri. 25The 5th annual Tribeca Film Festival opens with notable films such as United 93 and Mission Impossible III. May "10" valign="top">17The [[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 27Brad Pitt and Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie give birth to daughter Shiloh in the African nation of Namibia. June 14The 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 "insprational" film of all time. July 7Pirates 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. 28Actor 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.