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Top 10 most successful films

In Germany

The ten most successful films at the German box office by number of visitors (as of August 23, 2011):

space	Movie title	Visitors
1.	Ice Age 2: Now it's thawing	8,747,409
2.	Pirates of the Caribbean 2	7,228,089
3.	The Da Vinci Code - The Da Vinci Code	5,638,982
4th	The parfume, the story of a murderer	5,596,205
5.	James Bond 007: Casino Royale	5,456,165
6th	Germany. A summer fairy tale	3,992,056
7th	7 dwarfs - the forest is not enough	3,580,591
8th.	Through the hedge	3,415,695
9.	Night in the museum	3,122,678
10.	The devil Wears Prada	2,991,300

In Austria

The ten most successful films at the Austrian box office according to number of visitors (as of August 2007):

space	Movie title	Visitors
1.	Ice Age 2: Now it's thawing	1,197,007
2.	Pirates of the Caribbean 2	882.087
3.	The Da Vinci Code - The Da Vinci Code	739.337
4th	The parfume, the story of a murderer	598,884
5.	James Bond 007: Casino Royale	586,403
6th	7 dwarfs - the forest is not enough	477.891
7th	Through the hedge	418,874
8th.	The devil Wears Prada	409.098
9.	Cars	396.010
10.	Night in the museum	346.702

In the United States

The ten most successful films at the US box office by grossing in US dollars (as of August 23, 2011):

space	Movie title	revenue
1.	Pirates of the Caribbean 2	$ 423,315,812
2.	Night in the museum	$ 250,863,268
3.	Cars	$ 244,082,982
4th	X-Men: The Last Stand	$ 234,362,462
5.	The Da Vinci Code - The Da Vinci Code	$ 217,536,138
6th	Superman Returns	$ 200,081,192
7th	Happy feet	$ 198,000,317
8th.	Ice Age 2: Now it's thawing	$ 195,330,621
9.	James Bond 007: Casino Royale	$ 167,445,960
10.	The pursuit of happiness	$ 163,566,459

Worldwide

The ten most successful films worldwide by grossing in US dollars (as of August 23, 2011):

space	Movie title	revenue
1.	Pirates of the Caribbean 2	$ 1,066,179,725
2.	The Da Vinci Code - The Da Vinci Code	$ 758,239,851
3.	Ice Age 2: Now it's thawing	$ 655,388,158
4th	James Bond 007: Casino Royale	$ 594,239,066
5.	Night in the museum	$ 574,480,841
6th	Cars	$ 461,983,149
7th	X-Men: The Last Stand	$ 459,359,555
8th.	Mission: Impossible III	$ 397,850,012
9.	Superman Returns	$ 391,081,192
10.	Happy feet	$ 384,335,608

Film awards

Jafar Panahi with his won Silver Bear for Offside

Berlinale

• Golden Bear : Esma's Secret - Grbavica - Director: Jasmila Žbanić
• Grand Jury Prize: A Soap - Directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen and Offside by Jafar Panahi
• Best directors: Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross for The Road to Guantanamo
• Best Actor: Moritz Bleibtreu in Elementary Particles
• Best leading actress: Sandra Hüller in Requiem

Complete list of award winners

Cannes

• Golden Palm : The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Ken Loach
• Grand Jury Prize: Flandres by Bruno Dumont
• Best Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu ( Babel )
• Best Actor: Jamel Debbouze , Sami Bouajila , Roschdy Zem and Samy Naceri for Days of Fame
• Best Actress: Penélope Cruz , Carmen Maura , Lola Dueñas and Blanca Portillo for Volver - Return
• Best Screenplay: Pedro Almodóvar (Volver - Returning)

Complete list of award winners

Venice

• Golden Lion : Still Life by Jia Zhangke
• Best director: Alain Resnais for hearts
• Best Actor: Ben Affleck for The Hollywood Conspiracy
• Best Actress: Helen Mirren for The Queen
• Special Jury Prize: Daratt by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Complete list of award winners

Oscar

• Best film: LA Crash
• Best Director: Ang Lee ( Brokeback Mountain )
• Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon ( Walk the Line )
• Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman ( Capote )
• Best Foreign Language Film: Tsotsi ( South Africa )

Complete list of award winners

Golden Globe Award

• Best Picture (Drama): Brokeback Mountain
• Best film (comedy / musical): Walk the Line
• Best Director: Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)
• Best Actress (Drama): Felicity Huffman ( Transamerica )
• Best Actress (Comedy / Musical): Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)
• Best Actor (Drama): Philip Seymour Hoffman ( Capote )
• Best Actor (Comedy / Musical): Joaquín Phoenix (Walk the Line)
• Best Foreign Language Film: Paradise Now ( Palestine )

Complete list of award winners

German film award

• Best Film: The Lives of Others
• Best director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others)
• Best Actor: Ulrich Mühe (The Lives of Others)
• Best leading actress: Sandra Hüller ( Requiem )

Complete list of award winners

European film award

• Best film: The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• Best director: Pedro Almodóvar for Volver - Return
• Best Actor: Ulrich Mühe for The Lives of Others
• Best Actress: Penélope Cruz for Volver - Return

Complete list of award winners

César

• Best Picture: The Wild Beat Of My Heart
• Best Director: Jacques Audiard for The Wild Beat Of My Heart
• Best Actor: Michel Bouquet in Last Days at the Elysée
• Best Actress: Nathalie Baye in A Fatal Decision
• Best Foreign Film: Million Dollar Baby by Clint Eastwood

Complete list of award winners

British Academy Film Award

• Best Picture: Brokeback Mountain
• Best Director: Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain
• Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote
• Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line
• Best Non-English Language Film: The Wild Beat Of My Heart, by Jacques Audiard

Complete list of award winners

Sun Dance

• Grand Jury Prize: Quinceañera by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
• Best Director (Feature Film): Dito Montiel for A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
• Best Director (Documentary): James Longley for Iraq in Fragments

Complete list of award winners

Bavarian film award

The 2005 Bavarian Film Prize was awarded on January 13, 2006.

• Best production: Sophie Scholl - Die last Tage
• Best actress: Nina Hoss in The White Massai
• Best Actor: Ulrich Mühe in The Lives of Others
• Best young actress: Sandra Hüller in Requiem
• Best young actor: Max Riemelt in Der Rote Kakadu
• Best director: Andreas Dresen for summer in front of the balcony
• Honorary award: Maximilian Schell

New York Film Critics Circle Award

• Best Film: Flight 93 by Paul Greengrass
• Best director: Martin Scorsese for Departed - Unter Feinden
• Best Actor: Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland, In the Clutches of Power
• Best Actress: Helen Mirren in The Queen
• Best Supporting Actor: Jackie Earle Haley in Little Children
• Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls
• Best Cinematography: Guillermo Navarro for Pan's Labyrinth
• Best foreign film: Army in the shadow of Jean-Pierre Melville

National Board of Review

• Best Film: Letters from Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
• Best director: Martin Scorsese for Departed - Unter Feinden
• Best Actor: Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland
• Best Actress: Helen Mirren in The Queen
• Best Supporting Actor: Djimon Hounsou in Blood Diamond
• Best Supporting Actress: Catherine O'Hara in Long Live Hollywood
• Best Acting Company: Departed by Martin Scorsese
• Best Foreign Language Film: Volver - Return of Pedro Almodóvar

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

• Best Film: Letters from Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
• Best Director: Paul Greengrass for Flight 93
• Best Actor: Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat and Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland
• Best Actress: Helen Mirren in The Queen
• Best Supporting Actor: Michael Sheen in The Queen
• Best Supporting Actress: Luminiţa Gheorghiu in The Death of Mr Lazarescu
• Best foreign language film: The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Jupiter

• Best International Film: Million Dollar Baby by Clint Eastwood
• Best German Film: Sophie Scholl - The Last Days by Marc Rothemund
• Best International Director: Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby
• Best German director: Marc Rothemund for Sophie Scholl - The last days
• Best Actor International: Jamie Foxx in Ray
• Best German actor: Benno Fürmann in Merry Christmas
• Best Actress International: Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby
• Best German actress: Julia Jentsch in Sophie Scholl - The Last Days

Further film prizes and awards

• AFI Life Achievement Award : Sean Connery
• Amanda : Free Jimmy by Christopher Nielsen (Best Norwegian Film), Walk the Line by James Mangold (Best Foreign Film)
• American Society of Cinematographers Award : Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men
• Australian Film Institute Award : 10 canoes, 150 spears and 3 women by Rolf de Heer (Best Australian Film)
• Bodil : Homicide - In the vicious circle of violence by Per Fly
• Bohemian lion : I served the English king from Jiří Menzel
• Boston Society of Film Critics Awards : Brokeback Mountain by Ang Lee
• Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata : Noticias lejanas by Ricardo Benet
• British Independent Film Awards : This Is England (Best British Film) and Caché (Best Foreign Film)
• Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival : Adam's Apples by Anders Thomas Jensen
• Chlotrudis Awards : Capote by Bennett Miller
• Copenhagen International Film Festival : A fost sau na fost? by Corneliu Porumboiu
• David di Donatello : The Italian (Best Italian Film) and LA Crash (Best Foreign Film)
• German critic award : Maximilian Brückner
• Directors Guild of America Award : Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain , Clint Eastwood (Lifetime Achievement)
• Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Andreas Dresen for summer in front of the balcony
• Evening Standard British Film Award : The Eternal Gardener by Fernando Meirelles
• Nordic Council Film Award : Zozo by Josef Fares
• 26th Genie Awards : CRAZY - Crazy Life by Jean-Marc Vallée
• Gilde Film Award : As in Heaven by Kay Pollak (Best Foreign Film), The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Best German Film)
• Golden Frog : Guillermo Navarro for Pan's Labyrinth
• Golden Prometheus : Knallhart by Detlev Buck
• Golden Calf : Black Book
• Golden Leopard : The young lady of Andrea Staka
• Gotham Awards : Half Nelson by Ryan Fleck
• Goya 2006 : The Secret Life of Isabel Coixet's Words
• Independent Spirit Awards 2006 : Brokeback Mountain by Ang Lee (Best Film) and Paradise Now by Hany Abu-Assad (Best Foreign Film)
• International Literary Film Award : True Lies by Atom Egoyan
• Japanese Academy Awards : Always san-chōme no yūhi by Takashi Yamazaki
• Louis Delluc Prize : Lady Chatterley by Pascale Ferran
• Max Ophüls Prize : Sleeper by Benjamin Heisenberg
• MTV Movie Awards : Wedding Crashers by David Dobkin
• National Society of Film Critics Award : Capote by Bennett Miller
• Political Film Society Award for Democracy : Sophie Scholl - The Last Days by Marc Rothemund
• Political Film Society Award for Peace : Merry Christmas by Christian Carion
• Political Film Society Award for Human Rights : Babel by Alejandro González Iñárritu and The Last King of Scotland - In the Clutches of Power by Kevin Macdonald
• Polish Film Award : The Bailiff by Feliks Falk (Best Polish Film), My Summer of Love by Paweł Pawlikowski (Best European Film)
• German Film Critics' Prize : Requiem by Hans-Christian Schmid
• Premio Ariel : Mezcal by Ignacio Ortiz (Best Mexican Film), Sumas y restas by Victor Gaviria (Best Latin American Film)
• Prix ​​Lumières : The Wild Beat Of My Heart By Jacques Audiard
• Robert : Adams Apples by Anders Thomas Jensen (Best Danish Film), Der Untergang von Oliver Hirschbiegel (Best Foreign Film Without USA), Sideways by Alexander Payne (Best American Film)
• Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián : Half Moon by Bahman Ghobadi (Golden Shell)
• Satellite Awards : Departed - Unter Feinden (Best Film / Drama) and Dreamgirls (Best Film / Comedy-Musical)
• Swiss Film Award : My name is Eugen von Michael Steiner
• Screen Actors Guild Awards : Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote and Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line ; Lifetime Achievement Award: Shirley Temple
• International Film Festival Shanghai : Four minutes by Chris Kraus
• Nastro d'Argento : Romanzo criminale by Michele Placido and Million Dollar Baby by Clint Eastwood
• Toronto International Film Festival : Bella by Alejandro Gomez Monteverde (Audience Award)
• Undine Award : Sergej Moya in Keller - Teenage Wasteland (best leading actor), Jördis Triebel in Emmas Glück (best leading actress)
• Vancouver International Film Festival : The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• International Film Festival Warsaw : The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (audience award)
• Vienna Film Prize : Just before it happened by Anja Salomonowitz
• Writers Guild of America Award : LA Crash by Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco (Best Original Screenplay), Brokeback Mountain by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (Best Adapted Screenplay)

deceased

January to March

January

• 0January 2nd: Osa Massen , Danish actress (* 1916)
• 0January 3: Angela Salloker , Austrian actress (* 1913)
• 0January 5th: Sophie Heathcote , Australian actress (born 1972)
• 0January 6: Leonard J. South , American cameraman (born 1913)
• 0January 7th: John Baer , American actor (born 1923)
• 0January 9: Gary Rhine , American director (* 1951)
• January 12: Stu Linder , American film editor (* 1931)
• January 14th: Henri Colpi , Swiss director (* 1921)
• January 14th: Shelley Winters , American actress (* 1920)
• January 16: Douglas Hines , American film editor (born 1923)
• January 19: Anthony Franciosa , American actor (* 1928)
• January 19: Franz Seitz junior , German producer, director and screenwriter (* 1921)
• January 21: Josef Illík , Czech cameraman (* 1919)
• January 24th: Chris Penn , American actor (* 1965)
• January 25: Moss Mabry , American costume designer (* 1918)
• January 27: Paul Valentine , American actor (born 1929)
• January 30th: Paul Clinton , American film critic (* 1953)
• January 31: Paul Regina , American actress (* 1956)
• January 31: Moira Shearer , British actress (born 1926)

February

• 0February 1: Roy Alon , British stuntman (* 1942)
• 0February 3: Marquard Bohm , German actor (* 1941)
• 0February 3: Walerian Borowczyk , Polish director (* 1923)
• 0February 3: Jean Byron , American actress (* 1925)
• 0February 3: Al Lewis , American actor (born 1923)
• 0February 4: Myron Waldman , American animation animator (* 1908)
• 0February 5: Franklin Cover , American actor (born 1928)
• 0February 6: Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez , American actor (* 1925)
• 0February 6: Esther Sandoval , Puerto Rican actress (* 1928)
• 0February 8: Ernst Grabbe , German actor (* 1926)
• 0February 8: Gigi Parrish , American actress (* 1911)
• February 10: Phil Brown , American actor (born 1916)
• February 13: Andreas Katsulas , American actor (* 1946)
• February 14: Darry Cowl , French actor (* 1925)
• February 17: Paul Carr , American actor (* 1934)
• February 18: Richard Bright , American actor (born 1937)
• February 19: Erna Lazarus , American screenwriter (* 1903)
• February 20: Lou Gish , British actress (* 1967)
• February 23: Diane Shalet , American actress (* 1934)
• February 24: Don Knotts , American actor (born 1924)
• February 24: Dennis Weaver , American actor (* 1924)
• February 25: Darren McGavin , American actor (born 1922)

March

Gordon Parks (1912-2006)

• 0March 1: Jack Wild , British actor (born 1952)
• 0March 5: Don Oreck , American actor (* 1930)
• 0March 6: K. Shankar , Indian director (* 1926)
• 0March 7th: Elfriede Florin , German actress (* 1912)
• 0March 7th: Gordon Parks , American director (born 1912)
• 0March 7th: Dana Reeve , American actress (* 1961)
• 0March 9: Bernard Joseph McFadden , American actor (born 1946)
• March 12: Joseph Bova , American actor (born 1924)
• March 13: Maureen Stapleton , American actress (* 1925)
• March 16: Susi Lanner , Austrian-American actress (* 1911)
• March 24: Richard Fleischer , American director (* 1916)
• March 25: Tom Toelle , German director (* 1931)
• March 27: Peter Brogle , Swiss actor (* 1933)
• March 27th: Dan Curtis , American director (* 1928)
• March 29th: Gretchen Rau , American production designer (* 1939)

April to June

Claude Piéplu († May 24)

April

• 0April 6: Amanda Duff , American actress (* 1914)
• 0April 9: Vilgot Sjöman , Swedish director (* 1924)
• April 10: Stephen Strimpell , American actor (born 1937)
• April 22nd: Alida Valli , Italian actress (* 1921)

May

• 0May 5: Atıf Yılmaz , Turkish director (* 1925)
• May 11: Byron Morrow , American actor (born 1911)
• May 10: Val Guest , British director (born 1911)
• May 14: Paul Marco , American actor (* 1925)
• May 18: Takahiro Tamura , Japanese actor (* 1928)
• May 24: Henry Bumstead , American set designer (* 1915)
• May 24: Claude Piéplu , French actor (* 1923)
• May 27: Paul Gleason , American actor (born 1939)
• May 28: Masumi Okada , Japanese actor (* 1935)
• May 29: Edwin Zbonek , Austrian director (* 1928)
• May 30th: Shōhei Imamura , Japanese director (* 1926)
• May 30: Robert Sterling , American actor (born 1917)

June

• 0June 3: Sako Cheskija , Bulgarian director (* 1922)
• 0June 4th: Alec Bregonzi , British actor (born 1930)
• 0June 7th: Ingo Preminger , American-Austrian producer (* 1911)
• 0June 8: Robert Donner , American actor (* 1931)
• June 12: György Illés , Hungarian cameraman (* 1914)
• June 12: Rosalind Marquis , American actress (born 1915)
• June 16: Arthur Franz , American actor (* 1920)
• June 18: Vincent Sherman , American director (born 1906)
• June 23: Judith Holzmeister , Austrian actress (* 1920)
• June 24th: Joaquim Jordà , Spanish director and screenwriter (* 1935)
• June 25: Kenneth Griffith , British actor (born 1921)
• June 29: Fabián Bielinsky , Argentine director (* 1959)

July to September

Glenn Ford (1916-2006)

July

• 0July 5th: Juan Pablo Rebella , Uruguayan director (* 1974)
• 0July 6: Kasey Rogers , American actress (* 1926)
• 0July 8: June Allyson , American actress (born 1917)
• 0July 9: Christian Drake , American actor (* 1923)
• 0July 9: Manning Redwood , American actor (born 1929)
• July 11: Barnard Hughes , American actor (born 1915)
• July 12: Kurt Kreuger , American actor (* 1916)
• July 13: Red Buttons , American actor (born 1919)
• July 14: Dragomir Felba , Serbian actor (* 1921)
• July 17: Tetsurō Tamba , Japanese actor (* 1922)
• July 19: Jack Warden , American actor (born 1920)
• July 20: Robert Cornthwaite , American actor (born 1917)
• July 20: Gérard Oury , French director (* 1919)
• July 21: Makoto Iwamatsu , Japanese actor (* 1933)
• July 23: Franz Josef Gottlieb , Austrian director (* 1930)

August

• 0August 4th: Mike Monty , American actor and screenwriter (born 1936)
• 0August 5: Sam White , American director (born 1906)
• 0August 6: Daniel Schmid , Swiss director (* 1941)
• 0August 7: Lois January , American actress (born 1913)
• 0August 9: Jenny Gröllmann , German actress (* 1947)
• August 14: Bruno Kirby , American actor (born 1949)
• August 20: Renate Brausewetter , German actress (* 1905)
• August 20: Giuseppe Moccia , Italian screenwriter and director (* 1933)
• August 24: Viktor Pavlov , Russian actor (* 1940)
• August 25: Joseph Stefano , American screenwriter (born 1922)
• August 28: Ed Benedict , American animator (* 1912)
• August 29: Mady Saks , Dutch director (* 1941)
• August 30th: Glenn Ford , American actor (born 1916)
• August 31: Dieter O. Holzinger , Austrian author and director (* 1941)

September

• 0September 4: Rémy Belvaux , Belgian actor and director (* 1967)
• 0September 4: John Conte , American actor (born 1915)
• 0September 4th: Steve Irwin , Australian documentary filmmaker (born 1962)
• 0September 7th: Robert Earl Jones , American actor (born 1910)
• 0September 9: Gérard Brach , French screenwriter (* 1927)
• 0September 9: Herbert Rudley , American actor (born 1910)
• September 11th: Pat Corley , American actor (born 1930)
• September 14: José Antonio Nieves Conde , Spanish director (* 1915)
• September 14: Mickey Hargitay , Hungarian-American actor (* 1926)
• September 14: Virginia Vale , American actress (* 1920)
• September 15: Wolfgang Wahl , German actor (* 1925)
• September 20: Sven Nykvist , Swedish cameraman and director (* 1922)
• September 24th: Sally Gray , English actress (* 1916)

October to December

Jack Palance (1919-2006)

Claude Jade (1948-2006)

October

• 0October 1: Frank Beyer , German director (* 1932)
• 0October 2: Tamara Dobson , American actress (* 1947)
• 0October 4th: Tom Bell , British actor (born 1933)
• 0October 9: Danièle Huillet , French director (* 1936)
• October 12: Gillo Pontecorvo , Italian director (* 1919)
• October 20: Jane Wyatt , American actress (born 1910)
• October 21: Milton Selzer , American actor (* 1918)
• October 28: Tina Aumont , French actress (* 1946)
• October 30: Aud Schønemann , Norwegian actress (* 1922)

November

• 0November 1: Adrienne Shelly , American actress and director (* 1966)
• 0November 2: Leonard Schrader , American director and producer (* 1943)
• 0November 8: Basil Poledouris , American composer (* 1945)
• November 10: Jack Palance , American actor (born 1919)
• November 16: John Veale , British composer (born 1922)
• November 16: Eustace Lycett , American special effects artist (* 1914)
• November 18: Joachim Höppner , German actor, director and voice actor (* 1946)
• November 19: Francis Girod , French director (* 1944)
• November 20: Robert Altman , American director, auteur filmmaker and film producer (* 1925)
• November 23: Betty Comden , American screenwriter (* 1917)
• November 23: Philippe Noiret , French actor (born 1930)
• November 29th: Leon Niemczyk , Polish actor (* 1922)
• November 30th: Shirley Walker , American composer (* 1945)

December

• 0December 1: Claude Jade , French actress (* 1948)
• December 11th: Elisabeth Müller , Swiss actress (* 1926)
• December 12: Peter Boyle , American actor (born 1935)
• December 18: Joseph Barbera , American animated film maker (born 1911)
• December 19: Maj-Britt Nilsson , Swedish actress (* 1924)
• December 25th: Dickie Jobson , Jamaican director and artist agent (* 1941)
• December 29: Aroldo Tieri , Italian actor (* 1917)

See also

Portal: Film  - Overview of Wikipedia content on film

Web links

Commons : Film Year 2006  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The most successful films in Germany 2006 on insidekino.com, accessed on August 23, 2011
2. ↑ Facts & Figures 06: Top 50 Films , accessed on August 23, 2011
3. ^ Box Office United States , accessed August 23, 2011
4. ↑ Box Office Worldwide , accessed August 23, 2011