Fragmente din Referat Medicina ” Sterilizarea ”

Sterilizarea este procedeul prin care sint indepartate sau distruse toate microorganismele vii de pe suprafata si din interiorul unor obiecte.
Dezinfectia = distrugerea unor grupe de microorganisme, mai ales patogene prin metode chimice.
Asepsia este ansamblul masurilor luate prin care se previne contaminarea unor materiale si organisme, in primul rind omul, cu microorganisme.
Metodele fizice

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1. Sterilizarea prin caldura ( uscata sau umeda )
Caldura uscata:
Incalzirea la incandescenta
Flambarea
Sterilizarea cu aer supraincalzit ( cuptorul Pasteur = Poupinel)
Caldura umeda:
- fierberea
- pasteurizarea
- tindalizarea
- sterilizarea prin vapori sub presiune
( autoclavare )
Sterilizarea cu aer supraincalzit

Se face in cuptorul Pasteur (sau Poupinel)
Sterilizarea se face la 180°C timp de o ora, determinind carbonizarea microorganismelor, forme vegetative sau spori. Temperatura de 180°C este necesara deoarece caldura uscata are o putere redusa de patrundere.
Se aplica pt. obiecte din sticla si portelan (nu obiectelor cu parti metalice, a celor din cauciuc, lichide)
Controlul sterilizarii se urmareste prin controlul temperaturii din interior, dar si prin culoarea hirtiei sau a dopurilor din vata care trebuie sa fie galbuie.

Metode de sterilizare prin caldura umeda
Fierberea = sterilizare incompleta deoarece nu actioneaza asupra tuturor sporilor. Timpul de sterilizare este de minimum 30 min., din momentul inceperii fierberii. Se foloseste pentru sterilizarea instrumentelor ce se utilizeaza imediat.
Pasteurizarea
Pasteurizarea = sterilizare partiala, fiind distruse doar formele vegetative prin coagularea proteinelor la temp. sub 100°C.
Incalzirea se face in baia de apa la 60-65°C timp de 30 min., 70-75°C timp de 15 min., sau 85-90°C citeva secunde urmata de racirea brusca la 4°C.
Metoda reduce nr. microorganismelor si opreste trecerea sporilor in forme vegetative.
Se utilizeaza in special pt conservarea unor produse alimentare ( produse lactate, alcoolice).
Tindalizarea
Tindalizarea=sterilizare fractionata sau discontinua. Se incalzesc produsele in baia de apa consecutiv 3-8 zile, timp de 1-3 ore intre 60-100°C. Intre incalziri materialul este pastrat la 4°C.
Metoda este aplicata in special pt lichidele care peste 100°C se altereaza ( unele medii de cultura).

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Fragmente din Disertatie Economie ” Eficienta activitatii unei intreprinderi”

Profitul – expresie a eficientei unei intreprinderi
Profitul cunoaste mai multe acceptiuni dupa care este definit:

diferenta intre veniturile si costurile aferente
venit rezidual ce revine intreprinzatorului ca urmare a progreselor economice si tehnice
compensatie a riscurilor pe care intreprinzatorul le-ar putea avea in desfasurarea activitaii economice, materializate in pierderea capitalului
profitul net – un rest ce revine detinatorului pentru capitalul sa investit intr-o afacere
Functiile profitului

indicator sintetic de apreciere a eficientei folosirii capitalurilor si a desfasurarii activitatii
stimuleaza initiativa si acceptarea riscului de catre intreprinzatori
principala sursa de autofinantare si remunerare a capitalurilor
parghie de cointeresare a actionarilor si asociatilor , a proprietarilor individuali si salariatilor
Izvor de plata a costurilor capitalurilor imprumutate
Instrument de control a activitatii economice si financiare a firmei
Asigura formarea reurselor bugetului statului, din care se vor satisface numeroase nevoi sociale

Atat marimea masei, cat si cea a ratei profitului este influentata de factori cu actiune directa, cat si cu factori cu actiune indirecta, cantitativi si calitativi, dintre care:

Volumul, structura si calitatea productiei
Nivelul costurilor de productie
Nivelul preturilor de vanzare
Nivelul productivitatii muncii
Repartizarea veniturilor intre principalii posesori ai factorilor de productie
Viteza de rotatie a capitalurilor
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1902
Hermann Emil Fischer
Germany
“for his work on sugar and purine syntheses”
1903
Svante August Arrhenius
Sweden
“for his electrolytic theory of dissociation (see ion)”

1904
Sir William Ramsay
United Kingdom
“for his discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air”

1905
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer
Germany
“for his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds”

1906
Henri Moissan
France
“for his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the electric furnace named after him” See:Moissan electric furnace

1907
Eduard Buchner
Germany
“for his biochemical research and his discovery of cell-free fermentation”

1908
Sir Ernest Rutherford
United Kingdom and New Zealand
“for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances”

1909
Wilhelm Ostwald
Germany
“his work on catalysis and for his investigations into chemical equilibria and rates of reaction”

1910
Otto Wallach
Germany
“for his work in the field of alicyclic compounds”

1911
Marie Sklodowska Curie
France
“for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her study of radium”
1912
Victor Grignard
France
“for his the discovery of the Grignard reagent”

Paul Sabatier
France
“for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds”
1913
Alfred Werner
Switzerland
“for his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules”

1914
Theodore William Richards
USA
“for his determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of elements”
1915
Richard Martin Willstätter
Germany
“for his research on plant pigments”
1918
Fritz Haber
Germany
“for his synthesis of ammonia”
1920
Walther Hermann Nernst
Germany
“for his work in thermochemistry”

1921
Frederick Soddy
United Kingdom
“for his work on the chemistry of radioactive substances and investigations into isotopes”

1922
Francis William Aston
United Kingdom
“for his discovery of isotopes in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his whole-number rule”
1923
Fritz Pregl
Austria
“for his invention of the method of micro-analysis of organic substances”
1925
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
Germany
“for his demonstration of the heterogeneous nature of colloid solutions and the methods used”
1926
Theodor Svedberg
Sweden
“for his work on disperse systems”
1927
Heinrich Otto Wieland
Germany
“for his investigations of the bile acids and related substances”

1928
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
Germany
“for his research into sterols and their connection with vitamins”

1929
Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
United Kingdom, Germany
“for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes”

1930
Hans Fischer
Germany
“for his research into haemin and chlorophyll”

1931
Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius
Germany, Germany
“for their contributions to chemical high pressure methods”
1932
Irving Langmuir
USA
“for his work in surface chemistry”
1934
Harold Clayton Urey
USA
“for his discovery of heavy hydrogen”

1935
Frédéric Joliot, Irene Joliot-Curie
France, France
“for their synthesis of new radioactive elements”
1936
Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye
The Netherlands
“for his work on molecular structure through investigations on dipole moments and the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases”

1937
Walter Norman Haworth
United Kingdom
“for his work on carbohydrates and vitamin C”

Paul Karrer
Switzerland
“for his work on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B2″

1938
Richard Kuhn
Germany
“for his work on carotenoids and vitamins”
1939
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt
Germany
“for his work on sex hormones”

Lavoslav Ružička
Switzerland
“for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes”

1943
George de Hevesy
Hungary
“for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers to study chemical processes”
1944
Otto Hahn
Germany
“for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei”

1945
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
Finland
“for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method”
1946
James Batcheller Sumner
USA
“for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized”
John Howard Northrop, Wendell Meredith Stanley
USA, USA
“for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form”

1947
Sir Robert Robinson
United Kingdom
“for his investigations on plant products, especially the alkaloids”

1948
Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
Sweden
“for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis”
1949
William Francis Giauque
USA
“for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics”

1950
Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Kurt Alder
Germany, Germany
“for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis. Diels-Alder reaction.”

1951
Edwin Mattison McMillan, Glenn Theodore Seaborg
USA, USA
“for their discoveries in the chemistry of transuranium elements”

1952
Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge
United Kingdom, United Kingdom
“for their invention of partition chromatography”

1953
Hermann Staudinger
Germany
“for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry”

1954
Linus Carl Pauling
USA
“for his research into the nature of the chemical bond”

1955
Vincent du Vigneaud
USA
“for his work on sulphur compounds, especially the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone”

1956
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov (Никола́й Никола́евич Семёнов) United Kingdom, USSR
“for their research into the mechanism of chemical reactions”
1957
Sir Alexander Todd
United Kingdom
“for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes”

1958
Frederick Sanger
United Kingdom
“for his work on the structure of proteins, especially insulin”

1959
Jaroslav Heyrovský
Czechoslovakia
“for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis”
1960
Willard Frank Libby
USA
“for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination”

1961
Melvin Calvin
USA
“for his research on carbon dioxide assimilation in plants”

1962
Max Ferdinand Perutz, John Cowdery Kendrew
United Kingdom
“for their studies of the structures of globular proteins”

1963
Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta
Germany, Italy
“for their discoveries relating to high polymers”

1964
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
United Kingdom
“for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances”
1965
Robert Burns Woodward
USA
“for his achievements in organic synthesis”
1966
Robert Sanderson Mulliken
USA
“for his work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules”
1967
Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter
Germany, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
“for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions”
1968
Lars Onsager
USA
“for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name”
1969
Derek Harold Richard Barton, Odd Hassel
United Kingdom, Norway
“for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation”

1970
Luis F. Leloir
Argentina
“for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates”
1971
Gerhard Herzberg
Canada
“for his contributions to electronic structure and the geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals”
1972
Christian B. Anfinsen
USA
“for his work on ribonuclease”

Stanford Moore, William H. Stein
USA, USA
“for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule”
1973
Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson
Germany, United Kingdom
“for their work on the chemistry of organometallic compounds”

1974
Paul J. Flory
USA
“for his fundamental work, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules”
1975
John Warcup Cornforth
United Kingdom and Australia
“for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions”
Vladimir Prelog
Switzerland
“for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions”
1976
William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
USA
“for his studies on the structure of Boranes”

1977
Ilya Prigogine
Belgium
“for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics”
1978
Peter D. Mitchell
United Kingdom
“for his formulation of the chemiosmotic theory”

1979
Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig
United Kingdom, Germany
“for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into reagents in organic synthesis”
1980
Paul Berg
USA
“for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA”

Walter Gilbert,Frederick Sanger
USA, United Kingdom
“for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids”

1981
Kenichi Fukui (福井謙一), Roald Hoffmann
Japan, USA
“for their theories concerning the course of chemical reactions”
1982
Aaron Klug
United Kingdom
“for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy”

1983
Henry Taube
USA
“for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions”
1984
Robert Bruce Merrifield
USA
“for his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix”
1985
Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle
USA, USA
“for their achievements in developing direct methods for the determination of crystal structures”
1986
Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee (李遠哲), John C. Polanyi
USA, USA, Canada
“for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes”
1987
Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen
USA, France, USA
“for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity”
1988
Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel
Germany, Germany, Germany
“for their determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre”

1989
Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech
Canada and USA, USA
“for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA”

1990
Elias James Corey
USA
“for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis”
1991
Richard R. Ernst
Switzerland
“for his contributions to the development of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy”
1992
Rudolph A. Marcus
USA
“for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems”
1993
Kary B. Mullis, Michael Smith
USA, Canada
“for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry”

1994
George A. Olah
USA
“for his contribution to carbocation chemistry”

1995
Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland
The Netherlands, USA, USA
“for their work in atmospheric chemistry, in particular ozone depletion”

1996
Robert Curl, Sir Harold Kroto, Richard Smalley
USA, United Kingdom, USA
“for their discovery of fullerenes”

1997
Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker
USA, United Kingdom
“for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate”
Jens C. Skou
Denmark
“for his discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+K+-ATPase”

1998
Walter Kohn
USA
“for his development of the density functional theory”

John A. Pople
United Kingdom
“for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry”

1999
Ahmed H. Zewail
Egypt and USA
“for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy”

2000
Alan J. Heeger, Alan G MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa (白川英樹)
USA, USA and New Zealand, Japan
“for their discovery and development of conductive polymers”

2001
William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori (野依良治)
USA, Japan
“for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions”
K. Barry Sharpless
USA
“for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions”

2002
Kurt Wüthrich, John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka (田中耕一) Switzerland, USA, Japan
“for their development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules”

2003
Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon
USA, USA
“for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes”

2004
Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose
Israel, Israel, USA
“for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation”

2005
Robert Grubbs, Richard Schrock and Yves Chauvin
USA, USA, France
“for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis”

Winners fizica
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1900s
Year Name Topics
1901
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Germany) “in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him”
1902
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (Netherlands) and Pieter Zeeman (Netherlands)
“in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena”. See: Zeeman effect

1903
Antoine Henri Becquerel (France) “in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity”

Pierre (France) and Marie Curie (Poland/France)
“in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel”
1904
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (UK)
“for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies”
1905
Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard
“for his work on cathode rays”

1906
Sir Joseph John Thomson
“in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases”
1907
Albert Abraham Michelson
“for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid”. See Michelson-Morley experiment.

1908
Gabriel Lippmann
“for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference”

1909
Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun
“in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy”
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1910s
Year Name Topics
1910
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
“For his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.” See: van der Waals force

1911
Wilhelm Wien
“For his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat.” See: Wien law

1912
Nils Gustaf Dalén
“For his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys.”
1913
Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes
“For his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium”

1914
Max von Laue
“For his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals.”
1915
Sir William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg
“For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays.”
1916
(The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.)
1917
Charles Glover Barkla
“For his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements.”

1918
Max Planck
“In recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta.”

1919
Johannes Stark
“For his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields.” See: Stark effect

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1920s
Year Name Topics
1920
Charles Edouard Guillaume
“in recognition of the service he has rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys”
1921
Albert Einstein
“for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”

1922
Niels Henrik David Bohr
“for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them”
1923
Robert Andrews Millikan
“for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect”
1924
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
“for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy”

1925
James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz
“for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom”

1926
Jean Baptiste Perrin
“for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium”

1927
Arthur Holly Compton
“for his discovery of the effect named after him”. See: Compton effect

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
“for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour”. See: cloud chamber

1928
Owen Willans Richardson
“for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him”

1929
Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie
“for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons”. See: De Broglie hypothesis

[edit]
1930s
Year Name Topics
1930
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
“for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him”

1931
(The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.)
1932
Werner Karl Heisenberg
“for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen”
1933
Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
“for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory”

1934
(The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.)
1935
James Chadwick
“for the discovery of the neutron”

1936
Victor Franz Hess
“for his discovery of cosmic radiation”

Carl David Anderson
“for his discovery of the positron”

1937
Clinton Joseph Davisson and George Paget Thomson
“for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals”. See: wave-particle duality

1938
Enrico Fermi
“for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons”
1939
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
“for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements”
[edit]
1940s
Year Name Topics
1940
The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1941

1942

1943
Otto Stern
“for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton”

1944
Isidor Isaac Rabi
“for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei”
1945
Wolfgang Pauli
“for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli principle”

1946
Percy Williams Bridgman
“for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made there within the field of high pressure physics”

1947
Sir Edward Victor Appleton
“for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer”

1948
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
“for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation”
1949
Hideki Yukawa (湯川 秀樹) “for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces”. See: Yukawa potential

[edit]
1950s
Year Name Topics
1950
Cecil Frank Powell
“for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method”
1951
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
“for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles”
1952
Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell
“for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith”
1953
Frits (Frederik) Zernike
“for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope”

1954
Max Born
“for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction”
Walther Bothe
“for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith”
1955
Willis Eugene Lamb
“for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum”. See: Lamb shift

Polykarp Kusch
“for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron”
1956
William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Houser Brattain
“for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect”
1957
Chen Ning Yang (楊振寧 Pinyin: Yáng Zhènníng) and Tsung-Dao Lee (李政道 Pinyin: Lǐ Zhèngdào)
“for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles”

1958
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (Павел Алексеевич Черенков), Il’ia Frank (Илья Михайлович Франк), and Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (Игорь Евгеньевич Тамм) “for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov-Vavilov effect”

1959
Emilio Gino Segre and Owen Chamberlain
“for their discovery of the antiproton”

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1960s
Year Name Topics
1960
Donald Arthur Glaser
“for the invention of the bubble chamber”

1961
Robert Hofstadter
“for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons”
Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
“for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the effect which bears his name”. See:Mossbauer effect

1962
Lev Davidovich Landau (Лев Давидович Ландау) “for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium”

1963
Eugene Paul Wigner
“for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles”
Maria Goeppert-Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen
“for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure”
1964
Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov (Николай Геннадиевич Басов), and Aleksandr Prokhorov (Александр Михайлович Прохоров) “for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle”

1965
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (朝永 振一郎), Julian Schwinger, and Richard P. Feynman
“for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles”
1966
Alfred Kastler
“for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms”
1967
Hans Albrecht Bethe
“for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars”

1968
Luis Walter Alvarez
“for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis”
1969
Murray Gell-Mann
“for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions”. See: Eightfold way

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1970s
Year Name Topics
1970
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén
“for fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics”

Louis Eugene Félix Néel
“for fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid state physics”

1971
Dennis Gabor
“for his invention and development of the holographic method”

1972
John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer
“for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory”

1973
Leo Esaki (江崎 玲於奈) and Ivar Giaever
“for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively”
Brian David Josephson
“for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effect”

1974
Sir Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish
“for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars”

1975
Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, and Leo James Rainwater
“for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection”
1976
Burton Richter and Samuel Chao Chung Ting (丁肇中 Pinyin: Dīng Zhàozhōng) “for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind”. In other words: for discovery of the J/Ψ particle as it confirmed the idea that baryonic matter (such as the nuclei of atoms) is made out of quarks.

1977
Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, and John Hasbrouck van Vleck
“for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems”
1978
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Пётр Леонидович Капица) “for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics”
Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson
“for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation”

1979
Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, and Steven Weinberg
“for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current”

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1980s
Year Name Topics
1980
James Watson Cronin and Val Logsdon Fitch
“for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons”. See: CP-violation

1981
Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Leonard Schawlow
“for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy”
Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn
“for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy”
1982
Kenneth G. Wilson
“for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions”
1983
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
“for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars”. See Chandrasekhar limit

William Alfred Fowler
“for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe”
1984
Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer
“for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction”
1985
Klaus von Klitzing
“for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect”

1986
Ernst Ruska
“for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope”

Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer
“for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope”

1987
Johannes Georg Bednorz and Karl Alexander Müller
“for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials”

1988
Leon Max Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, and Jack Steinberger
“for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino”
1989
Norman Foster Ramsey
“for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks”
Hans Georg Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul
“for the development of the ion trap technique”
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1990s
Year Name Topics
1990
Jerome Isaac Friedman, Henry Way Kendall, and Richard Edward Taylor
“for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics”
1991
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
“for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers”
1992
Georges Charpak
“for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber”

1993
Russell Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
“for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation”
1994
Both “for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter”

Bertram Neville Brockhouse
“for the development of neutron spectroscopy”
Clifford Glenwood Shull
“for the development of the neutron diffraction technique”
1995
Both “for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics”
Martin Lewis Perl
“for the discovery of the tau lepton”

Frederick Reines
“for the detection of the neutrino”

1996
David Morris Lee, Douglas Dean Osheroff, and Robert Coleman Richardson
“for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3″

1997
Steven Chu(朱棣文, pinyin: zhū dìwén), Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, and William Daniel Phillips
“for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light”
1998
Robert B. Laughlin, Horst Ludwig Störmer, and Daniel Chee Tsui(崔琦, pinyin: cuī qí) “for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations”. See: Quantum Hall effect

1999
Gerardus ‘t Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman
“for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics”

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2000s
Year Name Topics
2000

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Жорес Иванович Алферов) and Herbert Kroemer
“for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and optoelectronics”

Jack St. Clair Kilby
“for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit”

2001
Eric Allin Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl Edwin Wieman
“for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates”
2002
Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba (小柴 昌俊)
“for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos”

Riccardo Giacconi
“for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources”
2003
Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov (Алексей Алексеевич Абрикосов), Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (Виталий Лазаревич Гинзбург) and Anthony James Leggett
“for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids”

2004
David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek
“for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction”

2005
Roy J. Glauber
“for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence”
John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch
“for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique”
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See Also
• List of Nobel Prize in Physics winners by longevity
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day.
Year Name Topics
1901
Emil Adolf von Behring
“for his serum therepy to treat diphtheria”

1902
Ronald Ross
“for research on malaria”

1903
Niels Ryberg Finsen
“for his light treatment of lupus vulgaris”

1904
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
“for work on the physiology of the digestive system”

1905
Robert Koch
“for discovering the cause of tuberculosis”

1906
Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal
“for research on the nervous system”

1907
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
“for research into protozoa causing disease”

1908
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich
“for study of the immune system”

1909
Emil Theodor Kocher
“for work on the thyroid gland”

1910
Albrecht Kossel
“for research in cell biology, especially proteins and nucleic acids”

1911
Allvar Gullstrand
“for research on the image formation by the lens of the eye”

1912
Alexis Carrel
“for work on suture of blood vessels and transplantation”

1913
Charles Robert Richet
“for the discovery of anaphylaxis”

1914
Robert Bárány
“for research on the vestibular apparatus of the inner ear”

1919
Jules Bordet
“for discovery of the complement in the immune system”

1920
Schack August Steenberg Krogh
“for showing that the gas exchange in the lungs is ordinary diffusion”

1922
Archibald Vivian Hill, Otto Fritz Meyerhof
“for research on muscles, especially their generation of heat and the relationship between oxygen consumption and lactic acid metabolism ”

1923
Frederick Grant Banting, John James Richard Macleod
“for the discovery of insulin”

1924
Willem Einthoven
“for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram”

1926
Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger
“for elucidating Spiroptera carcinoma and artificially inducing cancer in an animal.”

1927
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
“for healing general paralysis by infection with malaria”

1928
Charles Jules Henri Nicolle
“for work on typhus”

1929
Christiaan Eijkman, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
“for discovery of various vitamins”

1930
Karl Landsteiner
“for discovery of human blood types”

1931
Otto Heinrich Warburg
“for research on cytochromes in cellular respiration”

1932
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Edgar Douglas Adrian
“for work on the function of neurons, including the fact that stronger stimuli result in a higher frequency of nerve impulses”
1933
Thomas Hunt Morgan
“for discovering the role of chromosomes in heredity”

1934
George Hoyt Whipple, George Richards Minot, William Parry Murphy
“for discovering liver therapy for anemia”

1935
Hans Spemann
“for the discovery of organizing centers in the early development of organisms”

1936
Sir Henry Hallett Dale, Otto Loewi
“for work on transmission of nerve impulses via neurotransmitters”

1937
Albert Szent-Györgyi von Nagyrapolt
“for the description of vitamin C and the discovery that oxygen combines with hydrogen in cellular respiration”

1938
Corneille Jean François Heymans
“for showing how blood pressure and oxygen content of the blood are measured by the body and transmitted to the brain”

1939
Gerhard Domagk
“for the discovery of the sulphonamide Prontosil, the first drug effective against bacterial infections”

1943
Carl Peter Henrik Dam, Edward Adelbert Doisy
“for the discovery of vitamin K and its chemical structure”
1944
Joseph Erlanger, Herbert Spencer Gasser
“for the discovery of different types of nerve fibers”
1945
Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Howard Walter Florey
“for the discovery of penicillin and its properties in the cure of infectious diseases”

1946
Hermann Joseph Muller
“for the discovery that mutations can be induced by x-rays”

1947
Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Theresa Cori (née Radnitz)
“for the discovery on how glycogen is converted to glucose in the body, and for the effects of hypophysis hormones on sugar metabolism”

Bernardo Alberto Houssay
“for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar”
1948
Paul Hermann Müller
“for the discovery of the insecticide DDT”

1949
Walter Rudolf Hess, Antonio Caetano De Abreu Freire Egas Moniz
“Hess for mapping the various functions of the midbrain; Moniz for discovering the therapeutic effect of lobotomy”

1950
Edward Calvin Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein, Philip Showalter Hench
“for the discovery of the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and function”

1951
Max Theiler
“for developing a vaccine for yellow fever”

1952
Selman Abraham Waksman
“for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis”

1953
Hans Adolf Krebs
“for the discovery of the citric acid cycle in cellular respiration”

Fritz Albert Lipmann
“for discovery and research on coenzyme A”

1954
John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins
“for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in the test tube”
1955
Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell
“for research on enzymes and their actions, especially oxydizing enzymes”
1956
André Frédéric Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W. Richards
“for showing how to insert a catheter into the heart and studying various heart diseases”
1957
Daniel Bovet
“for discovering synthetic drugs such as antihistamines that block the action of biological amines”

1958
George Wells Beadle, Edward Lawrie Tatum, Joshua Lederberg
“for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism”

1959
Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg
“for the synthesis of the nucleic acids RNA and DNA”

1960
Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet, Peter Brian Medawar
“for the discovery that the immune system of the fetus learns how to distinguish between self and non-self”
1961
Georg von Békésy
“for elucidating the cochlea of the ear”

1962
Francis Harry Compton Crick, James Dewey Watson, Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
“for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material”[1]

1963
Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley
“for describing the electric transmission of impulses along nerves”

1964
Konrad Bloch, Feodor Lynen
“for research on cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism”

1965
François Jacob, André Lwoff, Jacques Monod
“for discovering messenger RNA, ribosomes, and the genes controlling the expression of other genes”
1966
Peyton Rous
“for the discovery of viruses that induce tumours”

Charles B. Huggins
“for the discovery of the treatment of prostate cancer with hormones”

1967
Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Wald
“for describing the different types of light-sensitive cells in the eye and how light interacts with them”

1968
Robert W. Holley, Hargobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg
“for describing the genetic code and how it operates in protein synthesis”

1969
Max Delbrück, Alfred Hershey, Salvador E. Luria
“for work on the replication mechanism and genetics of viruses”

1970
Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod
“for work on neurotransmitters”

1971
Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
“for discovery of the action of hormones, especially epinephrine, via second messengers”

1972
Gerald M. Edelman, Rodney R. Porter
“for discovering the chemical structure of antibodies”

1973
Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen
“for the study of social animal behavior, especially the explanation of the “dance language” of bees and how young birds become fixated on their mother”
1974
Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E. Palade
“for describing the structure and function of organelles in biological cells”

1975
David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard Martin Temin
“for describing how tumor viruses act on the genetic material of the cell”
1976
Baruch S. Blumberg
“for the discovery of hepatitis B virus”

D. Carleton Gajdusek
“for describing the disease kuru caused by cannibalism ”
1977
Roger Guillemin, Andrew V. Schally
“for work on peptide hormones produced in the brain”

Rosalyn Yalow
“for creating the Yalow-Berson method to measure minute amounts of peptide hormones using antibodies”

1978
Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O. Smith
“for the discovery of restriction enzymes which are instrumental in molecular biology”

1979
Allan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield
“for developing computer assisted tomography”

1980
Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D. Snell
“for discovery of the Major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface molecules important for the immune system’s distinction between self and non-self”
1981
Roger W. Sperry
“for research on the cerebral hemispheres”

David H. Hubel, Torsten N. Wiesel
“for work on the processing of visual information in the brain”

1982
Sune Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson, John R. Vane
“for the discovery of prostaglandins”

1983
Barbara McClintock
“for discovery of mobile genetic elements or transposons in maize”

1984
Niels K. Jerne, Georges J.F. Köhler, César Milstein
“for work on the immune system and the production of monoclonal antibodies”

1985
Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein
“for describing the regulation of cholesterol metabolism”

1986
Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini
“for discovering growth factors”

1987
Susumu Tonegawa
“for discovering how the large diversity of antibodies is produced genetically”
1988
Sir James W. Black,Gertrude B. Elion,George H. Hitchings
“for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment”

1989
J. Michael Bishop, Harold E. Varmus
“for discovering the cellular origins of retroviral oncogenes”

1990
Joseph E. Murray, E. Donnall Thomas
“for work on organ and cell transplantation”

1991
Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann
“for developing techniques which show that ion channels exist in the cell membrane and which allow to study their properties”
1992
Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs
“for discovering how phosphorylation of proteins is used to regulate biological processes”
1993
Richard J. Roberts, Phillip A. Sharp
“for the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns, and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways, yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence”
1994
Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell
“for the discovery of G proteins and their role in signal transduction in cells”

1995
Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Eric F. Wieschaus
“for the discovery of the genes involved in the developmental program of the fruit fly, the homeobox genes”
1996
Peter C. Doherty, Rolf M. Zinkernagel
“for describing how MHC molecules are used by white blood cells to detect and kill virus-infected cells.”

1997
Stanley B. Prusiner
“for the discovery of prions, infectious protein particles”
1998
Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad
“for discovery of the signalling properties of nitric oxide”

1999
Günter Blobel
“for the discovery that newly synthesized proteins contain “address tags” which direct them to the proper location within the cell”
2000
Arvid Carlsson
“for proving that dopamine is a neurotransmitter in the brain whose depletion leads to symptoms of Parkinson’s disease”

Paul Greengard
“for showing how neurotransmitters act on the cell and can activate a central molecule known as DARPP-32″

Eric R. Kandel
“for describing how short-term and long-term memory is formed on the molecular level”
2001
Leland H. Hartwell, R. Timothy Hunt, Sir Paul M. Nurse
“for the discovery of cyclin and cyclin dependent kinase, central molecules in the regulation of the cell cycle”

2002
Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, John E. Sulston
“for establishing the precise order in which cells in the worm C. elegans divide and die, and for elucidating the process of programmed cell death or apoptosis”

2003
Paul Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield
“for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging”

2004
Linda B. Buck and Richard Axel
“for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system”

2005
Barry J. Marshall and Robin Warren
“for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease”

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Nobel Prize in Literature
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The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of Alfred Nobel, produced “the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency”. The “work” in this case generally refers to an author’s work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes cited in the awards. The Swedish Academy decides who, if anyone, will receive the prize in any given year.
The original citation of Nobels has led to much controversy. In the original Swedish, the word idealisk can be translated as either “idealistic” or “ideal”. In earlier years the Nobel Committee stuck closely to the intent of the will, and left out certain world-renowned writers such as Leo Tolstoy and Henrik Ibsen for the Prize, probably because their works were not “idealistic” enough. In later years the wording is interpreted much more liberally, and the Prize is awarded, as is often argued that it should be, for lasting literary merit. However, the award continues to generate some amount of controversy as more famous names in literature are sometimes neglected in favor of less widely received ones, as in Dario Fo in 1997. However, this may be seen as unavoidable in all literary awards based on subjective opinions. Whether or not the committee has been unduly biased towards certain political perspectives is a matter of discussion.
The Nobel Prize is not the sole measure of literary excellence and lasting worth. The following people, for instance, missed the Nobel Prize: Jorge Amado, Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Julio Cortázar, Anton Chekhov, Jacques Derrida, Lion Feuchtwanger, Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Alberto Moravia, Vladimir Nabokov, George Orwell, Fernando Pessoa, Marcel Proust, Oswald Spengler, August Strindberg, Hjalmar Söderberg, Leo Tolstoy, Arnold Toynbee, and Evelyn Waugh.
Contents
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• 1 Nomination procedure
• 2 List of Nobel Laureates in Literature
• 3 Trivia
• 4 Most awarded languages
• 5 Most awarded countries
• 6 See also
• 7 External links

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Nomination procedure
Each year the Swedish Academy sends out requests for nominations of candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Members of the Academy, members of literature academies and societies, professors of literature and language, former Nobel literature laureates, and the presidents of writers’ organizations are all allowed to nominate a candidate. However, it is not possible to nominate oneself.
Thousands of requests are sent out each year, and about fifty proposals are returned. These proposals must be received by the Academy by February 1, after which they are examined by the Nobel Committee. By April, the Academy narrows the field to around twenty candidates, and by summer the list is reduced further to some five names. In October that year, members of the Academy vote, and the candidate who receives more than half the number of votes is named the Nobel Laureate in Literature. The process is similar to those of other Nobel Prizes.
The prize money of the Nobel Prize has been fluctuating since its inauguration but as present stands at 10 million Swedish krona. The winner also wins a gold medal and a Nobel diploma.
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List of Nobel Laureates in Literature
List of Nobel Prize laureates in Literature from 1901 to the present date.
Year Name Country Language(s)
1901
Sully Prudhomme
France
French

1902
Theodor Mommsen
Germany
German

1903
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Norway
Norwegian

1904
Frédéric Mistral
France
Occitan

José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
Spain
Spanish

1905
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Poland
Polish

1906
Giosuè Carducci
Italy
Italian

1907
Rudyard Kipling
United Kingdom
English

1908
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Germany
German

1909
Selma Lagerlöf
Sweden
Swedish

1910
Paul Heyse
Germany
German

1911
Count Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgium
French

1912
Gerhart Hauptmann
Germany
German

1913
Rabindranath Tagore
India
Bengali

1915
Romain Rolland
France
French

1916
Verner von Heidenstam
Sweden
Swedish

1917
Karl Adolph Gjellerup
Denmark
Danish

Henrik Pontoppidan
Denmark
Danish

1919
Carl Spitteler
Switzerland
German

1920
Knut Hamsun
Norway
Norwegian

1921
Anatole France
France
French

1922
Jacinto Benavente
Spain
Spanish

1923
William Butler Yeats
Ireland
English

1924
Władysław Reymont
Poland
Polish

1925
George Bernard Shaw
Ireland
English

1926
Grazia Deledda
Italy
Italian

1927
Henri Bergson
France
French

1928
Sigrid Undset
Norway
Norwegian

1929
Thomas Mann
Germany
German

1930
Sinclair Lewis
United States
English

1931
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Sweden
Swedish

1932
John Galsworthy
United Kingdom
English

1933
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
Russia (in exile)
Russian

1934
Luigi Pirandello
Italy
Italian

1936
Eugene O’Neill
United States
English

1937
Roger Martin du Gard
France
French

1938
Pearl S. Buck
United States
English

1939
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Finland
Finnish

1944
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Denmark
Danish

1945
Gabriela Mistral
Chile
Spanish

1946
Hermann Hesse
Switzerland
German

1947
André Gide
France
French

1948
T. S. Eliot
United States/United Kingdom
English

1949
William Faulkner
United States
English

1950
Bertrand Russell
United Kingdom
English

1951
Pär Lagerkvist
Sweden
Swedish

1952
François Mauriac
France
French

1953
Sir Winston Churchill
United Kingdom
English

1954
Ernest Hemingway
United States
English

1955
Halldór Laxness
Iceland
Icelandic

1956
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Spain
Spanish

1957
Albert Camus
France
French

1958
Boris Pasternak (declined the prize)[1]
Russia
Russian

1959
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italy
Italian

1960
Saint-John Perse
France
French

1961
Ivo Andric
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croat

1962
John Steinbeck
United States
English

1963
Giorgos Seferis
Greece
Greek

1964
Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the prize)[2]
France
French

1965
Michail Sholokhov
Russia
Russian

1966
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Israel
Hebrew

Nelly Sachs
Germany
German

1967
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Guatemala
Spanish

1968
Yasunari Kawabata
Japan
Japanese

1969
Samuel Beckett
Ireland
English/French

1970
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russia
Russian

1971
Pablo Neruda
Chile
Spanish

1972
Heinrich Böll
Germany (West)
German

1973
Patrick White
Australia
English

1974
Eyvind Johnson
Sweden
Swedish

Harry Martinson
Sweden
Swedish

1975
Eugenio Montale
Italy
Italian

1976
Saul Bellow
Canada/United States
English

1977
Vicente Aleixandre
Spain
Spanish

1978
Isaac Bashevis Singer
United States
Yiddish

1979
Odysseas Elytis
Greece
Greek

1980
Czesław Miłosz
Poland/United States
Polish

1981
Elias Canetti
United Kingdom
German

1982
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombia
Spanish

1983
William Golding
United Kingdom
English

1984
Jaroslav Seifert
Czechoslovakia
Czech

1985
Claude Simon
France
French

1986
Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka
Nigeria
English

1987
Joseph Brodsky
Russia/United States
Russian/English

1988
Naguib Mahfouz
Egypt
Arabic

1989
Camilo José Cela
Spain
Spanish

1990
Octavio Paz
Mexico
Spanish

1991
Nadine Gordimer
South Africa
English

1992
Derek Walcott
St. Lucia
English

1993
Toni Morrison
United States
English

1994
Kenzaburo Oe
Japan
Japanese

1995
Seamus Heaney
Ireland
English

1996
Wisława Szymborska
Poland
Polish

1997
Dario Fo
Italy
Italian

1998
José Saramago
Portugal
Portuguese

1999
Günter Grass
Germany
German

2000
Gao Xingjian
France/China
Chinese

2001
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
United Kingdom
English

2002
Imre Kertész
Hungary
Hungarian

2003
John Maxwell Coetzee
South Africa
English

2004
Elfriede Jelinek
Austria
German

2005
Harold Pinter
United Kingdom
English

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Trivia
• The oldest person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature was Theodor Mommsen, who was 85 when he received the Prize in 1902. The youngest was Rudyard Kipling, who was 42 when he won the Prize in 1907.
• Mommsen was also the first Nobel laureate born (November 30, 1817), a combination of his advanced age and the early year in which he received the Prize. He was born nearly 129 years before the most recently born laureate, Elfriede Jelinek (October 20, 1946).
• The longest-lived laureate to date is Bertrand Russell, who was 97 when he passed away. The oldest living laureate is Naguib Mahfouz, currently 94 years old. He will surpass Russell if he lives past August 29, 2009. The shortest-lived laureate was Albert Camus, who died in a car crash at the age of 46, three years after receiving the award.
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Most awarded languages
Language
spoken Laureates %
English
26 25.00
French
13 12.50
German
12 11.54
Spanish
10 9.62
Italian
6 5.77
Swedish
6 5.77
Russian
5 4.81
Polish
4 3.85
Danish
3 2.88
Norwegian
3 2.88
Greek
2 1.92
Japanese
2 1.92
Arabic
1 0.96
Bengali
1 0.96
Chinese
1 0.96
Czech
1 0.96
Finnish
1 0.96
Hebrew
1 0.96
Hungarian
1 0.96
Icelandic
1 0.96
Occitan
1 0.96
Portuguese
1 0.96
Serbo-Croat
1 0.96
Yiddish
1 0.96

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Most awarded countries
Country Laureates %
France
13 12.75
United States
12 11.76
United Kingdom
10 9.80
Germany
8 7.84
Italy
6 5.88
Sweden
6 5.88
Russia
5 4.90
Spain
5 4.90
Ireland
4 3.92
Poland
4 3.92
Denmark
3 2.94
Norway
3 2.94
Chile
2 1.96
Greece
2 1.96
Japan
2 1.96
South Africa
2 1.96
Switzerland
2 1.96
Australia
1 0.98
Austria
1 0.98
Belgium
1 0.98
Canada
1 0.98
China
1 0.98
Colombia
1 0.98
Czechoslovakia
1 0.98
Egypt
1 0.98
Finland
1 0.98
Guatemala
1 0.98
Hungary
1 0.98
Iceland
1 0.98
India
1 0.98
Israel
1 0.98
Mexico
1 0.98
Nigeria
1 0.98
Portugal
1 0.98
St. Lucia
1 0.98
Yugoslavia
1 0.98
Recipients listed as belonging to more than one country are counted as one for each of those. E.g., T. S. Eliot is counted as an American and again as a Briton. Declining or exiled recipients are counted under the listed country. East and West German recipients

Nobel Peace Prize
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The Nobel Peace Prize Medal featuring a portrait of Alfred Nobel
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequested by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. Ironically, as some point out, Alfred Nobel was the man whose inventions include dynamite and Ballistite, which led to the death of millions of people. He created the Nobel Prize in an effort to make up for what he believed to be past evils. According to the will of Alfred Nobel, the prize should be awarded “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”.
The Peace Prize is awarded annually in Oslo, the capital of Norway, unlike the prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine and literature, which are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. For the past decade, the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony has been followed the next day by the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, which is broadcast to over 150 countries and more than 450 million households around the world. The Concert has received worldwide fame and the participation of top celebrity hosts and performers.
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• 1 Appointment Process
• 2 Nominations
• 3 Laureates
• 4 Controversy
• 5 See also
• 6 External links

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Appointment Process

The Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, whose members are chosen by the Norwegian Parliament, is appointed to select the laureate for the Peace Prize, and the prize is awarded by its chairman, currently Dr. Ole Danbolt Mjøs. At the time of Alfred Nobel’s death Sweden and Norway were in a personal union in which the Swedish government was solely responsible for foreign policy, and the Norwegian Parliament was responsible for Norwegian domestic policy. While Alfred Nobel never told anybody [1] why he didn’t give a Swedish body the task of awarding the Peace Prize, one of the suggested reasons has been to prevent the manipulation of the selection process by foreign powers. Other suggestions point to the fact that the Norwegian Assembly (Storting) was the first national legislature to vote support for the international peace movement and Nobel’s admiration of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, the Norwegian patriot and leading author at that time.
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Nominations
Nominations for the prize may be made by a broad array of qualified individuals, including former recipients, members of national assemblies and congresses, university professors, international judges, and special advisors to the prize committee. In some years as many as 199 nominations have been received. The nominations are kept secret by the committee which asks that nominators do the same. Over time many individuals have become known as “Nobel Peace Prize Nominees”, but this designation has no official standing [2]. Nominations from 1901 to 1951 have been released in a database. When the past nominations were released it was discovered that Adolf Hitler was once nominated in 1939, though the nomination was retracted in February of the same year. Other infamous nominees included Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini.
Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, the Nobel Peace Prize may be awarded to persons or organizations that are in the process of resolving an issue, rather than upon the resolution of the issue. Since the prize can be given to individuals involved in ongoing peace processes, some of the awards now appear, with hindsight, questionable, particularly when those processes failed to bear lasting fruit. For example, the awards given to Theodore Roosevelt, Yasser Arafat, Lê Ðức Thọ, and Henry Kissinger were particularly controversial and criticized; the latter prompted two dissenting committee members to resign [3]. The Nobel Committee has also received criticism from right-wing groups who see their decisions as guided by an apparent left-wing bias.
In 2005, the Nobel Peace Center opened, to present the laureates, conflicts, and work for peace around the world.
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Laureates
List of Nobel Prize laureates in Peace from 1901 to the present day.
Year Individual or Organization Notes
1901
Jean Henri Dunant (Switzerland)
founder of the Red Cross and initiator of the Geneva Convention.

Frédéric Passy (France)
founder and president of the Société Française pour l’arbitrage entre nations.

1902
Élie Ducommun (Switzerland) and Charles Albert Gobat
honorary secretaries of the Permanent International Peace Bureau in Berne.

1903
Sir William Randal Cremer (UK)
secretary of the International Arbitration League.

1904
Institut de droit international (Gent, Belgium).
1905
Bertha Sophie Felicitas Baronin von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau (Austria-Hungary) writer, honorary president of the Permanent International Peace Bureau.

1906
Theodore Roosevelt (USA)
president of the United States, for drawing up the peace treaty in the Russo-Japanese War.

1907
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (Italy)
president of the Lombard League of Peace.

Louis Renault (France)
professor of International Law.
1908
Klas Pontus Arnoldson (Sweden) founder of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Association.

Fredrik Bajer (Denmark)
honorary president of the Permanent International Peace Bureau.

1909
Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert (Belgium)
member of the Cour Internationale d’Arbitrage.

Paul-Henri-Benjamin d’Estournelles de Constant (France) founder and president of the French parliamentary group for international arbitration. Founder of the Comité de défense des intérets nationaux et de conciliation internationale

1910
Bureau International Permanent de la Paix (Permanent International Peace Bureau), Berne.
1911
Tobias Michael Carel Asser (Netherlands) initiator of the International Conferences of Private Law in The Hague.

Alfred Hermann Fried (Austria-Hungary) founder of Die Waffen Nieder.

1912
Elihu Root (USA)
for initiating various arbitration agreements.
1913
Henri la Fontaine (Belgium)
president of the Permanent International Peace Bureau.

1914
not awarded World War I

1915
not awarded World War I

1916
not awarded World War I

1917
International Red Cross, Geneva.
1918
Not awarded
1919
Woodrow Wilson (USA)
president of the United States, for founding the League of Nations.

1920
Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
president of the Council of the League of Nations.

1921
Hjalmar Branting (Sweden)
prime minister, Swedish delegate to the Council of the League of Nations.

Christian Lous Lange (Norway)
secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

1922
Fridtjof Nansen (Norway)
Norwegian delegate to the League of Nations, originator of the Nansen passports for refugees.

1923
Not awarded
1924

1925
Sir Austen Chamberlain (UK)
for the Locarno Treaties.

Charles Gates Dawes (USA)
chairman of the Allied Reparation Commission and originator of the Dawes Plan.

1926
Aristide Briand (France)
for the Locarno Treaties.

Gustav Stresemann (Germany)
for the Locarno Treaties.

1927
Ferdinand Buisson (France)
founder and president of the League for Human Rights.

Ludwig Quidde (Germany)
delegate to numerous peace conferences.
1928
Not awarded
1929
Frank B. Kellogg (USA)
for the Briand-Kellogg Pact.

1930
Archbishop Lars Olof Nathan (Jonathan) Söderblom (Sweden)
leader of the ecumenical movement.
1931
Jane Addams (USA)
international president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

Nicholas Murray Butler (USA)
for promoting the Briand-Kellogg Pact.

1932
Not awarded
1933
Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane) (UK) writer, member of the Executive Committee of the League of Nations and the National Peace Council.

1934
Arthur Henderson (UK)
chairman of the League of Nations Disarmament Conference

1935
Carl von Ossietzky (Germany)
pacifist journalist.
1936
Carlos Saavedra Lamas (Argentina) president of the League of Nations and mediator in a conflict between Paraguay and Bolivia.

1937
The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
founder and president of the International Peace Campaign.

1938
Nansen International Office For Refugees, Geneva.

1939
Not awarded World War II

1940
Not awarded World War II

1941
Not awarded World War II

1942
Not awarded World War II

1943
Not awarded World War II

1944
International Committee of the Red Cross (awarded retroactively in 1945).
1945
Cordell Hull (USA)
for co-initiating the United Nations.

1946
Emily Greene Balch (USA)
honorary international president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

John R. Mott (USA)
chairman of the International Missionary Council and president of the World Alliance of Young Men’s Christian Associations

1947
The Friends Service Council (UK) and The American Friends Service Committee (USA)
on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers.
1948
Not awarded Apparently it would have been awarded to Mahatma Gandhi had he not been assassinated. See the Nobel e-museum article. [4]

1949
The Lord Boyd-Orr (UK)
director General Food and Agricultural Organization, president National Peace Council, president World Union of Peace Organizations.

1950
Ralph Bunche (USA)
for mediating in Palestine (1948).

1951
Léon Jouhaux (France)
president of the International Committee of the European Council, vice president of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, vice president of the World Federation of Trade Unions, member of the ILO Council, delegate to the UN.
1952
Albert Schweitzer (Germany)
for founding the Lambarene Hospital in Gabon.

1953
American Secretary of State George Catlett Marshall
for the Marshall Plan.

1954
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

1955
Not awarded
1956
Not awarded
1957
Lester Bowles Pearson (Canada)
president of the 7th session of the United Nations General Assembly for introducing peacekeeping forces to resolve the Suez Crisis.

1958
Georges Pire (Belgium)
leader of L’Europe du Coeur au Service du Monde, a relief organization for refugees.

1959
Philip Noel-Baker (UK)
for his lifelong ardent work for international peace and co-operation.
1960
Albert Lutuli (South Africa)
president of the ANC (African National Congress).
1961
Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden)
secretary-general of the UN (awarded posthumously).
1962
Linus Carl Pauling (USA)
for his campaign against nuclear weapons testing.
1963
International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva.

League of Red Cross Societies, Geneva.
1964
Martin Luther King Jr (USA)
campaigner for civil rights.
1965
United Nation’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

1966
Not awarded
1967

1968
René Cassin (France)
president of the European Court of Human Rights.

1969
International Labour Organization (I.L.O.), Geneva.

1970
Norman Borlaug (USA)
for research at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center.

1971
Chancellor Willy Brandt (West Germany) for West Germany’s Ostpolitik, embodying a new attitude towards Eastern Europe and East Germany.

1972
Not awarded
1973
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger (USA) and Foreign Minister Lê Ðức Thọ (Vietnam, declined) for the Vietnam peace accord.

1974
Seán MacBride (Ireland)
president of the International Peace Bureau and the Commission of Namibia of the United Nations.

Eisaku Sato (佐藤榮作) (Japan)
prime minister.
1975
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (USSR) for his campaigning for human rights.
1976
Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan
founders of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People).

1977
Amnesty International, London
for its campaign against torture.
1978
President Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat (Egypt) and Prime Minister Menachem Begin (Israel) for negotiating peace between Egypt and Israel.

1979
Mother Teresa (India)
poverty awareness campaigner (India)
1980
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (Argentina) human rights
1981
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

1982
Alva Myrdal (Sweden) and Alfonso García Robles (Mexico)
delegates to the United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament.
1983
Lech Wałęsa (Poland)
founder of Solidarność and campaigner for human rights. Later served as the first president of Poland after the fall of Communism

1984
Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu (South Africa) for his work against apartheid.

1985
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Boston.
1986
Elie Wiesel (USA)
author, Holocaust survivor

1987
President Óscar Arias Sánchez (Costa Rica) for initiating peace negotiations in Central America.

1988
United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces.
For participation in numerous conflicts since 1956. As of the time of the award, 736 people from a variety of nations had lost their lives in peacekeeping efforts.
1989
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.
for his consistent resistance to the use of violence in his people’s struggle to regain their liberty.
1990
President Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (USSR)
“for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community”
1991
Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar)
“for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights”
1992
Author Rigoberta Menchú (Guatemala)
“in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples”
1993
President Nelson Mandela (South Africa) and former President Frederik Willem de Klerk (South Africa)
“for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa”
1994
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres (שמעון פרס) (Israel) and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (יצחק רבין) (Israel) “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East”
1995
Józef Rotblat (Poland/UK) and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
“for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms”
1996
Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo (East Timor) and José Ramos Horta (East Timor)
“for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor”
1997
International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams
“for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines”
1998
John Hume and David Trimble (both Northern Ireland)
“for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland”
1999
Médecins Sans Frontières, Brussels. “in recognition of the organization’s pioneering humanitarian work on several continents”
2000
President Kim Dae Jung (김대중) (South Korea)
“for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular”
2001
The United Nations and Secretary-General Kofi Annan (Ghana)
“for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world”
2002
Jimmy Carter (USA) – former President of the United States
“for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development”
2003
Shirin Ebadi (شيرين عبادي), (Iran)
“for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children.”
2004
Wangari Maathai (Kenya)
“for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace”
2005
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Mohamed ElBaradei (محمد البرادعي) (Egypt)
“for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way”
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Controversy
The Nobel Peace Prize is controversial in numerous respects. The parliament of Norway is responsible for appointing the Peace Prize committee. The same parliament has pursued partisan military aims by ratifying membership in NATO in 1949, by hosting NATO troops, and by leasing ports and territorial waters to US ballistic missile submarines in 1983. By contrast Sweden, which awards the other Nobel Prizes, has remained neutral.
A particular claimed weakness of the Nobel Peace Prize awarding process is the swiftness of recognition. The scientific and literature Nobel prizes are usually issued in retrospect, often two or three decades after the intellectual achievement, thus representing a time-proven confirmation and balance of approval by the established academic community, seldom contradicted by newer developments. In contrast, the Nobel Peace prize at times takes the form of summary judgment, being issued in the same year as or the year immediately following the political act. Some commentators have suggested that to award a peace prize on the basis of unquantifiable contemporary opinion is unjust or possibly erroneous, especially as many of the judges cannot themselves be said to be impartial observers. The fight against Communism is played out most noticeably in this Scandinavean paradise of minds. This situation may be said to deprive the ‘real’ peace makers, who may not be recognised for their long-term or subtle approaches. However, others have pointed to the uniqueness of the Peace prize in that its high profile can often focus world attention on particular problems and possibly aid in the peace-efforts themselves. When looked at more closely, the peace-laureates often have a lifetime’s history of working at and promoting humanitarian issues, as in the examples of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., an African-American Christian civil rights activist (1964 laureate); Mother Teresa, a Catholic missionary nun (1979 laureate); and Aung San Suu Kyi, a Buddhist nonviolent pro-democracy activist (1991 laureate). While still others are selected for efforts rather than success, as in the examples of Jimmy Carter and Mohamed ElBaradei.
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See also
• International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
• Nobel Prize
• Norwegian Nobel Committee
• Sweden-Norway
• Nobel Prize controversies
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
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The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (in Swedish Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is a prize awarded each year for outstanding intellectual contributions in the field of economics. The award was instituted by the Bank of Sweden (the world’s oldest central bank) at its 300th anniversary in 1968. Although it was not one of the awards established in the will of Alfred Nobel, the economics laureates receive their diploma and gold medal from the Swedish monarch at the same December 10 ceremony in Stockholm as the Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and literature. The amount of money awarded to the economics laureates is also equal to that of the other prizes.
The prestige of the prize derives in part from its association with the awards created by Alfred Nobel’s will, an association which has often been a source of controversy. The prize is commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics or, more correctly, as the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
In February 1995, it was decided that the economics prize be essentially defined as a prize in social sciences, opening the Nobel Prize to great contributions in fields like political science, psychology, and sociology. Also, the Economics Prize Committee was changed to require two non-economists to decide the prize each year, whereas previously the prize committee had consisted of five economists.
Contents
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• 1 Award process
• 2 Controversy
• 3 Winners
• 4 1960s
• 5 1970s
• 6 1980s
• 7 1990s
• 8 2000s
• 9 External links

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Award process
The economics laureates, like the Nobel laureates in chemistry and physics, are chosen by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Nominations of about one hundred living persons are made each year by qualified nominators and are received by a five to eight member committee, which then submits its choice of winners to the Nobel Assembly for its final approval. No more than three people can share the prize for a given year. The final award is made in Stockholm, and is accompanied by a prize (10 million Kronor, or roughly 1 million euros as of 2004).
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Controversy
Controversy stems from a few questions:
1. May its affiliation with the Nobel name, despite not being part of Alfred Nobel’s bequest, be justified by the similarity of the award process?
2. Have there been any systematic political biases?
3. Is objective evaluation of candidates more difficult for a social science like economics, relative to physics, chemistry, medicine, literature or peace?
4. Is it true that the most influential economists were awarded the prize in the ’70s and early ’80s, and that since then the available candidates in the field have been weaker and hence more controversial?
Among the most vocal critics of the economics prize is Peter Nobel who is a peripheral member of the Nobel family – his paternal grandfather’s grandmother was one of the daughters of Alfred Nobel’s elder brother Ludvig.
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Winners
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1960s
Year Name Topics
1969 Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (Norway), Jan Tinbergen (Netherlands)
for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes
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1970s
Year Name Topics
1970 Paul Samuelson (United States)
for the scientific work through which he has developed static and dynamic economic theory and actively contributed to raising the level of analysis in economic science
1971
Simon Kuznets (USA)
for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development
1972
John Hicks (United Kingdom), Kenneth Arrow (USA) for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory
1973
Wassily Leontief (USA)
for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems.
1974
Gunnar Myrdal (Sweden), Friedrich Hayek (UK)
for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena
1975
Leonid Kantorovich (Soviet Union), Tjalling Koopmans (USA) for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources
1976
Milton Friedman (USA)
for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy.
1977
Bertil Ohlin (Sweden), James Meade (UK)
for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements
1978
Herbert Simon (USA)
for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations
1979
Theodore Schultz (USA), Arthur Lewis (UK)
for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries
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1980s
Year Name Topics
1980 Lawrence Klein (USA)
for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies
1981
James Tobin (USA)
for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices
1982
George Stigler (USA)
for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation
1983
Gerard Debreu (USA)
for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium
1984
Richard Stone (UK)
for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis
1985
Franco Modigliani (USA)
for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets
1986
James Buchanan Jr. (USA)
for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making
1987
Robert Solow (USA)
for his contributions to the theory of economic growth
1988
Maurice Allais (France)
for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources
1989
Trygve Haavelmo (Norway)
for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures
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1990s
Year Name Topics
1990 Harry Markowitz (USA), Merton Miller (USA), William Sharpe (USA)
for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics
1991
Ronald Coase (UK)
for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy
1992
Gary Becker (USA)
for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour
1993
Robert Fogel (USA), Douglass North (USA)
for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change
1994
John Harsanyi (USA), John Forbes Nash (USA), Reinhard Selten (Germany)
for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games
1995
Robert Lucas Jr. (USA)
for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy
1996
James Mirrlees (UK), William Vickrey (USA)
for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information
1997
Robert Carhart Merton (USA), Myron Scholes (USA) for a new method to determine the value of derivatives
1998
Amartya Sen (India)
for his contributions to welfare economics
1999
Robert Mundell (Canada)
for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas
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2000s
Year Name Topics
2000 James Heckman (USA),
Daniel McFadden (USA)
for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples
for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice
2001
George A. Akerlof (USA), Michael Spence (USA), Joseph E. Stiglitz (USA)
for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information.
2002
Daniel Kahneman (Israel/USA),
Vernon L. Smith (USA)
for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty
for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms
2003
Robert F. Engle (USA), Clive W. J. Granger (UK)
for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility or common trends
2004
Finn E. Kydland (Norway), Edward C. Prescott (USA)
for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles
2005
Robert J. Aumann (Israel/USA), Thomas Schelling (USA)
for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis

1997
Rank Title Studio Total Int’l
Box Office Gross U.S. & Canada
Box Office Gross United Kingdom
Box Office Gross Australia
Box Office Gross
1. Titanic
Paramount Pictures
$1,845,034,188 $600,788,188 £68,532,746 $57,644,334
2. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Universal Pictures
$618,638,999 $229,086,679 £25,799,961 $20,071,203
3. Men in Black
Columbia Pictures
$589,390,539 £250,690,539 £35,820,921 $22,789,539
4. Tomorrow Never Dies
MGM
$339,340,102 $125,304,276 £19,584,504 $12,188,046
5. Air Force One
Columbia Pictures
$315,156,409 $172,956,409 $8,654,814
6. As Good as It Gets
Sony Pictures
$314,178,011 $148,478,011 £9,387,937 $18,744,433
7. Liar Liar
Universal Pictures
$302,710,615 $181,410,615 £11,785,973 $21,117,778
8. My Best Friend’s Wedding
Sony Pictures
$299,288,605 $127,120,029 $17,746,187
9. The Fifth Element
Columbia Pictures
$263,920,180 $63,820,180 $8,117,585
10. The Full Monty
Fox Searchlight Pictures
$257,848,975 $45,948,975 £51,992,765 $23,197,810
International and U.S. & Canada combined box office gross figures are listed in U.S. dollars, British results in pounds sterling and Australian results in Australian dollars.

In total, three films released in 1997 grossed more than $400 million, reaching international blockbuster motion picture status.
For a complete list of 1997’s top-grossing films, follow these links:
• Worldwide: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1997&p=.htm
o U.S. & Canada: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1997&p=.htm
o United Kingdom: http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/statistics/boxoffice/
o Australia: http://www.moviemarshal.com/
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Academy Awards
• Best Picture: Titanic – 20th Century Fox, Lightstorm Entertainment, Paramount Pictures
• Best Actor: Jack Nicholson – As Good as It Gets
• Best Actress: Helen Hunt – As Good as It Gets
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Births
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Deaths
• January 10 – Sheldon Leonard, producer, actor, director
• January 18 – Diana Lewis, actress
• February 11 – Don Porter, actor
• March 15 – Gail Davis, actress
• May 5 – Walter Gotell, actor (b. 1924)
• June 14 – Richard Jaeckel, actor
• July 1 – Robert Mitchum, actor
• July 2 – James Stewart, actor
• August 27 – Brandon Tartikoff, studio executive
• September 9 – Burgess Meredith, actor
• September 17 – Red Skelton, actor
• September 21 – Jennifer Holt, actress
• October 12- John Denver, singer, actor
• December 18 – Chris Farley, comedian, actor
• December 24 – Toshiro Mifune, actor
• December 31 – Billie Dove, actress
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Other movies released
• Amistad
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
• Batman & Robin
• Boogie Nights
• Cube
• Dante’s Peak
• The Fifth Element
• The Full Monty
• Gattaca
• Hercules
• Home Alone 3
• The Ice Storm
• Into Thin Air
• L.A. Confidential
• Mononoke Hime (July 12 – Japan)
• Power Rangers Turbo: The Movie
• The Rainmaker
• Suicide Kings
• The Sweet Hereafter
• Volcano starring Tommy Lee Jones (April 25)
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Categories: 1997 | 1997 films | Years in film
Events
• February 14 – Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein
• Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver at a California shopping mall.
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Top grossing films
Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 1998; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year. The top ten films of 1998 as of January 26, 2006 (U.S. and Canada), January 26, 2006 (UK) and January 26, 2006 (Australia) are as follows:

1998
Rank Title Studio Total Int’l
Box Office Gross U.S. & Canada
Box Office Gross United Kingdom
Box Office Gross Australia
Box Office Gross
1. Armageddon
Buena Vista
$553,709,788 $201,578,182 £16,401,954 $14,316,211
2. Saving Private Ryan
DreamWorks
$481,840,909 $216,540,909 £18,740,016 $24,172,708
3. Godzilla
Columbia Pictures
$379,014,294 £136,314,294 £15,920,578 $13,496,649
4. There’s Something About Mary
20th Century Fox
$369,884,651 $176,484,651 £15,665,386 $20,007,019
5. A Bug’s Life
Buena Vista
$363,398,565 $162,798,565 £28,824,239 $20,131,422
6. Deep Impact
Paramount Pictures
$349,464,664 $140,464,664 £10,157,326 $16,929,903
7. Mulan
Buena Vista
$304,320,254 $120,620,254 £9,454,609 $4,776,349
8. Dr. Dolittle
20th Century Fox
$294,456,605 $144,156,605 £19,671,348 $16,617,575
9. Shakespeare in Love
Miramax
$289,317,794 $100,317,794 £20,080,703 $12,009,367
10. Lethal Weapon 4
Warner Bros.
$285,444,603 $130,444,603 £7,006,948 $10,998,583
International and U.S. & Canada combined box office gross figures are listed in U.S. dollars, British results in pounds sterling and Australian results in Australian dollars.

In total, two films released in 1998 grossed more than $400 million, reaching international blockbuster motion picture status.
For a complete list of 1998’s top-grossing films, follow these links:
• Worldwide: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1998&p=.htm
o U.S. & Canada: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1998&p=.htm
o United Kingdom: http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/statistics/boxoffice/
o Australia: http://www.moviemarshal.com/
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Academy Awards
• Best Picture: Shakespeare in Love – Bedford Falls Productions, Miramax Films, Universal Pictures
• Best Actor: Roberto Benigni – Life Is Beautiful
• Best Actress: Gwyneth Paltrow – Shakespeare in Love
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Deaths
• January 4 – Mae Questel, actress, voice of animated character Betty Boop
• January 5 – Sonny Bono, singer, actor, United States Representative
• February 27 – J. T. Walsh, actor
• March 10 – Lloyd Bridges, actor
• March 25 – Daniel Massey, actor
• May 9 – Alice Faye, actress
• May 14 – Frank Sinatra, singer, actor
• June 23 – Maureen O’Sullivan, actress
• July 6 – Roy Rogers, singer, actor
• July 21 – Robert Young, actor
• July 27 – Binnie Barnes, actress
• August 24 – E. G. Marshall, actor
• September 6 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director
• September 11 – Dane Clark, actor
• October 2 – Gene Autry, actor
• October 3 – Roddy McDowall, actor
• October 17 – Joan Hickson, actress
• October 23 – Christopher Gable, dancer, actor
• November 13 – Edwige Feuillère, actress
• November 13 – Valerie Hobson, actress
• November 19 – Alan J. Pakula, producer, director, writer
• December 14 – Lew Grade, producer
• December 23 – David Manners, actor
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Other movies released
• American History X
• Antz
• The Avengers
• The Big Lebowski
• Blade
• Can’t Hardly Wait
• Celebrity
• Central do Brasil
• Chairman of the Board
• Dark City
• Dead Man on Campus
• Elizabeth
• Fallen
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Gods and Monsters
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
• Head On
• Human Remains
• Hurlyburly
• The Impostors
• Lost in Space
• The Mask of Zorro
• The Negotiator
• Pi
• Pleasantville
• The Prince of Egypt
• Rushmore
• Shakespeare in Love
• Six Days Seven Nights
• Small Soldiers
• Star Trek: Insurrection
• Stepmom
• Still Crazy
• The Thin Red Line
• U.S. Marshals
• Urban Legend
• Very Bad Things
• The Waterboy
• The Wedding Singer
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Categories: 1998 | 1998 films | Years in film
Events
• April 7 – Star Wars fans begin lining up at movie theaters in Westwood and Hollywood to buy tickets for Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace
• May 3 – A Durham, North Carolina woman named Jennifer Briggs changes her name to Obi-Wan Kenobi Briggs in honor of the Star Wars character. Ms. Briggs wins $1000 from a local radio station for changing her name.
[edit]
Top grossing films
Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 1999; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year. The top ten films of 1999 as of January 26, 2006 (U.S. and Canada), January 26, 2006 (UK) and January 26, 2006 (Australia) are as follows:

1999
Rank Title Studio Total Int’l
Box Office Gross U.S. & Canada
Box Office Gross United Kingdom
Box Office Gross Australia
Box Office Gross
1. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
20th Century Fox
$924,317,558 $431,088,301 £50,734,924 $38,828,310
2. The Sixth Sense
Buena Vista
$672,806,292 $293,506,292 £25,407,279 $29,298,667
3. Toy Story 2
Buena Vista
$485,015,179 $245,852,179 £43,294,228 $20,131,422
4. The Matrix
Warner Bros.
$460,379,930 $171,479,930 £16,918,842 $23,160,219
5. Tarzan
Buena Vista
$448,191,819 $171,091,819 £17,694,331 $11,399,994
6. The Mummy
Universal Pictures
$415,885,488 $155,385,488 £17,362,781 $18,107,396
7. Notting Hill
Universal Pictures
$363,889,678 $116,089,678 £30,403,825 $20,831,399
8. The World Is Not Enough
MGM
$361,832,400 $126,943,684 £28,367,515 $14,168,737
9. American Beauty
DreamWorks
$356,296,601 $130,096,601 £21,261,601 $19,016,237
10. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
New Line Cinema
$310,940,086 $206,040,086 £25,635,589 $22,380,168
International and U.S. & Canada combined box office gross figures are listed in U.S. dollars, British results in pounds sterling and Australian results in Australian dollars.

In total, six films released in 1999 grossed more than $400 million, reaching international blockbuster motion picture status.
For a complete list of 1999’s top-grossing films, follow these links:
• Worldwide: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1999&p=.htm
o U.S. & Canada: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1999&p=.htm
o United Kingdom: http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/statistics/boxoffice/
o Australia: http://www.moviemarshal.com/
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Awards
ACADEMY AWARDS:
Best Picture: American Beauty
Best Actor: Kevin Spacey – American Beauty
Best Actress: Hilary Swank – Boys Don’t Cry
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS:
Drama:
Best Picture: American Beauty
Best Actor: Denzel Washington – The Hurricane
Best Actress: Hilary Swank – Boys Don’t Cry
Musical or Comedy:
Best Picture: Toy Story 2
Best Actor: Jim Carrey – Man on the Moon
Best Actress: Janet McTeer – Tumbleweeds
BAFTA AWARDS:
Best Picture: American Beauty
Best Actor: Kevin Spacey – American Beauty
Best Actress: Annette Bening – American Beauty
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Births
[edit]
Deaths
• January 15 – Betty Box, film producer
• February 20 – Gene Siskel, film critic, Siskel and Ebert
• March 5 – Richard Kiley, actor
• March 7 – Stanley Kubrick, film director
• March 13 – Garson Kanin, writer/director
• April 14 – Ellen Corby, actress, Grandma Walton in “The Waltons”
• April 21 – Buddy Rogers, actor, husband of Mary Pickford
• April 28 – Rory Calhoun, actor
• May 2 – Oliver Reed, actor
• May 8 – Dirk Bogarde, actor/author
• May 21 – Vanessa Brown, actress
• June 11 – DeForest Kelley, actor best known for “Star Trek”
• June 29 – Allan Carr, movie producer
• July 1 – Sylvia Sidney, actress
• July 2 – Mario Puzo, writer/author, “The Godfather”
• August 4 – Victor Mature, actor
• September 9 – Ruth Roman, actress
• September 22 – George C Scott, Oscar winning actor
• November 3 – Ian Bannen, actor
• December 3 – Madeline Kahn, actress
• December 17 – Rex Allen, cowboy actor, singer
• December 19 – Desmond Llewelyn, actor, “Q” in James Bond films
• December 23 – Lois Hamilton, actress, artist, model
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Other movies released
• American Pie
• Being John Malkovich
• The Big Kahuna
• Blast from the Past
• Bowfinger
• Boys Don’t Cry
• The Cider House Rules
• Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
• Dick
• The Dogwalker
• Dudley Do-Right
• End of Days
• Entrapment
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Fantasia 2000
• Fight Club
• Forces of Nature
• Galaxy Quest
• Godzilla 2000 (Japan)
• Guinevere
• The Haunting
• The Hi-Line
• Inspector Gadget
• Magnolia
• Man on the Moon
• The Matrix
• Radiohead: Meeting People Is Easy (DVD Release)
• My Favorite Martian
• Never Been Kissed
• October Sky
• Office Space
• The Omega Code
• Payback
• Pokémon: The First Movie
• Pushing Tin
• Random Hearts
• She’s All That
• Simply Irresistible
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
• The Straight Story
• The Thomas Crown Affair
• Three Kings
• Three to Tango
• Trick
• Tube Tales
• Tumbleweeds
• Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
• Wakko’s Wish (direct-to-video)
• Wild Wild West
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Categories: 1999 films | 1999 | Years in film
This is a list of film-related events in 2000.
Related year entries:
List of years in film
• 1999 in film
• 2000 in film
• 2001 in film
List of years in home video
• 1999 in home video
• 2000 in home video
• 2001 in home video
List of years in television
• 1999 in television
• 2000 in television
• 2001 in television

Contents
[hide]
• 1 Events
• 2 Top grossing films
• 3 Awards
• 4 Births
• 5 Deaths
• 6 Other movies released

[edit]
Events
• February 9 — The Million Dollar Hotel, a film co-written by U2 lead singer Bono, premieres at the 50th Berlinale (Berlin Film Festival). The film stars Mel Gibson and Milla Jovovich, and is directed by Wim Wenders.
• November 18 — Michael Douglas marries Catherine Zeta-Jones.
• The latest Joel and Ethan Coen film, O Brother, Where Art Thou? was released to much criticial acclaim. The T-Bone Burnett produced soundtrack ignited an increased interest in traditional American folk and country music.
• Martial arts extravaganza Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon marks the first major American crossover success of an Asian action film, and becomes the highest-grossing subtitled film ever.
[edit]
Top grossing films
Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2000; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year. The top ten films of 2000 as of January 26, 2006 (U.S. and Canada), January 26, 2006 (UK) and January 26, 2006 (Australia) are as follows:

2000
Rank Title Studio U.S.
Box Office Gross
1. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Universal Pictures
$260,031,035
2. Cast Away
20th Century Fox
$233,630,478
3. Mission: Impossible II
Paramount Pictures
$215,397,309
4. Gladiator
DreamWorks
$187,670,866
5. What Women Want
Paramount Pictures
$182,805,123
6. The Perfect Storm
Warner Bros. Pictures
$182,618,434
7. Meet the Parents
Universal Pictures
$166,225,040
8. X-Men
20th Century Fox
$157,299,717
9. Scary Movie
Dimension Films
$156,997,084
10. What Lies Beneath
DreamWorks
$155,370,362
International and U.S. & Canada combined box office gross figures are listed in U.S. dollars, British results in pounds sterling and Australian results in Australian dollars.
In total, three films released in 2000 grossed more than $400 million, reaching international blockbuster motion picture status.
For a complete list of 2000’s top-grossing films, follow these links:
• Worldwide: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2006&p=.htm
o U.S. & Canada: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2006&p=.htm
o United Kingdom: http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/statistics/boxoffice/
o Australia: http://www.moviemarshal.com/
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Awards
ACADEMY AWARDS:
Best Picture: Gladiator
Best Actor: Russell Crowe – Gladiator
Best Actress: Julia Roberts – Erin Brockovich
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS:
Drama:
Best Picture: Gladiator
Best Actor: Tom Hanks – Cast Away
Best Actress: Julia Roberts – Erin Brockovich
Musical or Comedy:
Best Picture: Almost Famous
Best Actor: George Clooney – O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Best Actress: Renée Zellweger – Nurse Betty
BAFTA AWARDS:
Best Picture: Gladiator
Best Actor: Jamie Bell – Billy Elliot
Best Actress: Julia Roberts – Erin Brockovich
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Births
• August 30 – Talia Lanning, who later played one of the daughters of Peter Sellers in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
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Deaths
• January 10 – Sam Jaffe, 98, producer, studio executive, talent agent
• February 11 – Roger Vadim, 72, French movie director
• March 6 – John Colicos, 71, Canadian actor
• March 20 – Gene “Eugene” Andrusco, actor, singer
• March 27 – Ian Dury, 57, English musician and actor
• May 21 – Sir John Gielgud, 96, British actor
• May 25 – Nicholas Clay, 53, British actor
• June 29 – Vittorio Gassmann, 78, Italian actor
• July 1 – Walter Matthau, 79, American actor
• August 5 – Sir Alec Guinness, 86, British actor
• Loretta Young, actress
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Other movies released
• Almost Famous
• American Psycho
• Amores perros
• Battlefield Earth
• Bedazzled
• Billy Elliot
• Center Stage
• Charlie’s Angels
• Chocolat
• The Circle
• Coyote Ugly
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• The Cup
• Dancer in the Dark
• Walt Disney’s Dinosaur
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Erin Brockovich
• Final Destination
• For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story, starring Arturo Sandoval
• Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
• Memento
• Miss Congeniality
• The Patriot
• Pitch Black
• Quills
• Remember the Titans
• Requiem for a Dream
• Snatch
• The Road to El Dorado
• Thirteen Days
• Thomas and the Magic Railroad
• Titan A.E.
• Traffic
• U-571
• Unbreakable
• Up at the Villa
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Categories: 2000 | 2000 films | Years in film
2001 in film
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the 1968 science-fiction film and novel, see 2001: A Space Odyssey.
This is a list of film-related events in 2001.
Related year entries:
List of years in film
• 2000 in film
• 2001 in film
• 2002 in film
List of years in home video
• 2000 in home video
• 2001 in home video
• 2002 in home video
List of years in television
• 2000 in television
• 2001 in television
• 2002 in television

Contents
[hide]
• 1 Events
o 1.1 Academy Awards presentations
• 2 Top grossing films
• 3 Awards
• 4 Births
• 5 Deaths
• 6 Other movies released
o 6.1 0-9
o 6.2 A-B
o 6.3 C-F
o 6.4 G-J
o 6.5 K-O
o 6.6 P-R
o 6.7 S-T
o 6.8 U-Z

[edit]
Events
• August 8 – Actor Tom Cruise and actress Nicole Kidman get divorced.
• November 2 – Monsters, Inc. debuts with the best ticket sales ever for an animated film and the 6th best of all time.
[edit]
Academy Awards presentations
• The annual Academy Awards served out gongs for Best Actor in Gladiator to Russell Crowe.
• Ridley Scott’s Gladiator took the Academy Award for Best Picture.
• Best Supporting Actress and Actor were won by Marcia Gay Harden for Pollock and Benicio del Toro for their roles in Traffic which also won its director, Steven Soderbergh the Directing statue.
[edit]
Top grossing films
Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2001; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year. The top ten films of 2001 as of January 26, 2006 (U.S. and Canada), January 26, 2006 (UK) and January 26, 2006 (Australia) are as follows:

2001
Rank Title Studio Total Int’l
Box Office Gross U.S. & Canada
Box Office Gross United Kingdom
Box Office Gross Australia
Box Office Gross
1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Warner Bros.
$976,475,550 $317,575,550 £63,957,673 $41,610,399
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
New Line Cinema
$871,368,364 $314,776,170 £65,299,000 $46,192,563
3. Monsters, Inc.
Buena Vista
$525,366,597 £255,873,250 £37,264,502 $25,345,632
4. Shrek
DreamWorks
$484,409,218 $267,665,011 £28,856,683 $31,291,922
5. Ocean’s Eleven
Warner Bros.
$450,717,150 $183,417,150 £24,877,642 $22,234,443
6. Pearl Harbor
Buena Vista
$449,220,945 $198,542,554 £14,225,440 $18,773,788
7. The Mummy Returns
Universal Pictures
$433,019,785 $202,019,785 £20,323,326 $18,204,297
8. Jurassic Park III
Universal Pictures
$368,780,809 $181,171,875 £18,108,325 $10,654,035
9. Planet of the Apes
20th Century Fox
$362,211,740 $180,011,740 £16,850,987 $11,645,152
10. Hannibal
MGM
$351,692,268 $165,092,268 £21,422,605 $11,282,930
International and U.S. & Canada combined box office gross figures are listed in U.S. dollars, British results in pounds sterling and Australian results in Australian dollars.

In total, seven films released in 2001 grossed more than $400 million, reaching international blockbuster motion picture status.
For a complete list of 2001’s top-grossing films, follow these links:
• Worldwide: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2006&p=.htm
o U.S. & Canada: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2006&p=.htm
o United Kingdom: http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/statistics/boxoffice/
o Australia: http://www.moviemarshal.com/
[edit]
Awards
ACADEMY AWARDS:
Best Picture: A Beautiful Mind (Imagine Entertainment)
Best Actor: Denzel Washington – Training Day
Best Actress: Halle Berry – Monster’s Ball
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS:
Drama:
Best Picture: A Beautiful Mind
Best Actor: Russell Crowe – A Beautiful Mind
Best Actress: Sissy Spacek – In the Bedroom
Musical or Comedy:
Best Picture: Moulin Rouge!
Best Actor: Gene Hackman – The Royal Tenenbaums
Best Actress: Nicole Kidman – Moulin Rouge!
BAFTA AWARDS:
Best Picture: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Best Actor: Russell Crowe – A Beautiful Mind
Best Actress: Judi Dench – Iris
[edit]
Births
[edit]
Deaths
• January 29 – Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor
• February 7 – Dale Evans, actress
• February 12 – Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer
• February 19 – Stanley Kramer, 87, American movie director
• March 15 – Ann Sothern, actress
• April 2 – Jennifer Syme, entertainment industry employee
• April 15 – Joey Ramone, 49, singer/guitarist/songwriter
• June 21 – Carroll O’Connor, 76, actor
• June 28 – Jack Lemmon, 76, actor
• June 28 – Joan Sims, 71, actress
• August 25 – Aaliyah, 22, singer and actress
• September 3 – Pauline Kael, 82, movie critic
• October 28 – Grigori Chukhrai, Ukrainian film director
• December 10 – Ashok Kumar, 90, actor, India
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Other movies released
[edit]
0-9
• 3000 Miles to Graceland
[edit]
A-B
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
• Ali, starring Will Smith
• A Knight’s Tale
• All Over the Guy
• Along Came a Spider
• Amélie from Montmartre
• American Outlaws
• American Pie 2
• America’s Sweethearts
• Angel Eyes
• The Animal
• Antitrust
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire
• Baby Boy
• Bandits
• Behind Enemy Lines
• Black Knight
• Blow
• Bridget Jones’s Diary
• The Brothers
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C-F
• Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
• Cats & Dogs
• Charlotte Gray
• Corky Romano
• Crazy/Beautiful
• Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
• Domestic Disturbance
• Don’t Say a Word
• Donnie Darko
• Double Take
• Down to Earth, a remake of Heaven Can Wait
• Dr. Dolittle 2, starring Eddie Murphy
• Driven
• Elvira’s Haunted Hills
• Enemy at the Gates
• Evolution
• Exit Wounds
• The Fast and the Furious
• 15 Minutes
• Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
• Freddy Got Fingered
• From Hell
[edit]
G-J
• Get Over It
• The Glass House
• Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
• Gosford Park
• Hannibal
• Hardball
• Head Over Heals
• Heartbreakers
• Hearts in Atlantis
• Heist
• How High
• Green Day: International Supervideos (DVD Release)
• Iron Monkey
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
• Jeepers Creepers
• Jimmy Neutron
• Joe Dirt
• Joe Somebody, starring Tim Allen
• Josie and the Pussycats
• Joy Ride
[edit]
K-O
• Kate & Leopold, starring Meg Ryan
• Kiss of the Dragon
• Kingdom Come
• K-PAX, starring Kevin Spacey
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
• Last Castle
• Legally Blonde
• Life as a House
• The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
• Lovely & Amazing
• The Majestic, starring Jim Carrey
• Max Keeble’s Big Move
• Memento
• The Mexican, starring Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts
• Moulin Rouge!, starring Nicole Kidman
• The Musketeer
• Not Another Teen Movie
• Novocaine
• Nowhere in Africa, German language title: Nirgendwo in Afrika
• O
• Red Hot Chili Peppers: Off The Map (DVD Release)
• The One, starring Jennifer Aniston
• Original Sin
• Osmosis Jones
• Out Cold, starring Jason London & Lee Majors
• The Others, starring Nicole Kidman
[edit]
P-R
• The Pledge
• Pokemon 3
• The Princess Diaries, starring Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway
• Rat Race
• Recess: School’s Out
• Riding in Cars with Boys
• Rock Star
[edit]
S-T
• Save the Last Dance
• Saving Silverman
• Scary Movie 2
• Staind: MTV Unplugged (DVD Release)
• The Score
• See Spot Run
• Serendipity
• Shallow Hal
• The Shipping News
• Someone Like You
• Southern Comfort
• Spirited Away (July 20 – Japan)
• Spy Game
• Spy Kids
• Sugar and Spice
• Summer Catch
• Sweet November
• Swordfish
• The Tailor of Panama
• Thir13en Ghosts
• Tomcats
• Training Day
• Two Can Play that Game
[edit]
U-Z
• Uprising
• Valentine
• Vanilla Sky, starring Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and Penélope Cruz
• Waking Life
• The Wash
• The Wedding Planner, starring Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey
• What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
• Y tu mamá también
• Yeopgijeogin geunyeo (My Sassy Girl)
• Zoolander, starring Ben Stiller
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2002 in film
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
This is a list of film-related events in 2002.
Related year entries:
List of years in film
• 2001 in film
• 2002 in film
• 2003 in film
List of years in home video
• 2001 in home video
• 2002 in home video
• 2003 in home video
List of years in television
• 2001 in television
• 2002 in television
• 2003 in television

Contents
[hide]
• 1 Events
• 2 Top grossing films
• 3 Awards
• 4 Births
• 5 Deaths
• 6 Wide-release movies
o 6.1 January-March
o 6.2 April-June
o 6.3 July-September
• 7 Other movies released

[edit]
Events
• May – The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski wins the “Palme d’Or” at the Cannes Film Festival.
• Amélie from Montmartre directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet wins the 2002 Cesar Award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Music, and Best Art Direction.
• December – Star Trek: Nemesis, the tenth film in the successful film franchise, opens to poor box office and lukewarm reviews. It is later announced that this film is expected to be the final Star Trek film for the foreseeable future.
[edit]
Top grossing films
Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2002; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year. The top ten films of 2002 as of January 23, 2006 (U.S. and Canada), January 15, 2006 (UK) and January 15, 2006 (Australia) are as follows:

2002
Rank Title Studio Total Int’l
Box Office Gross U.S. & Canada
Box Office Gross United Kingdom
Box Office Gross Australia
Box Office Gross
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
New Line Cinema
$926,287,400 $341,786,758 £57,062,828 $45,183,872
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Warner Bros.
$876,688,482 $261,988,482 £54,036,560 $37,009,842
3. Spider-Man
Sony Pictures Entertainment
$821,708,551 $403,706,375 £28,591,639 $30,465,531
4. Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
20th Century Fox
$649,398,328 $310,676,740 £37,235,880 $33,432,227
5. Men in Black II
Sony Pictures Entertainment
$441,818,803 $190,418,803 £22,018,371 $17,442,997
6. Die Another Day
MGM
$431,971,116 $160,942,139 £35,924,004 $18,525,540
7. Signs
Buena Vista
$408,247,917 $227,966,634 £16,084,656 $11,851,230
8. Ice Age
20th Century Fox
$382,687,405 $176,387,405 £14,856,581 $20,091,713
9. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
IFC Films
$368,744,044 $241,438,208 £13,441,558 $27,114,009
10. Minority Report
20th Century Fox
$358,372,926 $132,072,926 £20,245,815 $11,759,614
International and U.S. & Canada combined box office gross figures are listed in U.S. dollars, British results in pounds sterling and Australian results in Australian dollars.

In total, seven films released in 2002 grossed more than $400 million, reaching international blockbuster motion picture status.
For a complete list of 2002’s top-grossing films, follow these links:
• Worldwide: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2006&p=.htm
o U.S. & Canada: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2006&p=.htm
o United Kingdom: http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/statistics/boxoffice/
o Australia: http://www.moviemarshal.com/
[edit]
Awards
ACADEMY AWARDS:
Best Picture: Chicago
Best Actor: Adrien Brody – The Pianist
Best Actress: Nicole Kidman – The Hours
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS:
Drama:
Best Picture: The Hours
Best Actor: Jack Nicholson – About Schmidt
Best Actress: Nicole Kidman – The Hours
Musical or Comedy:
Best Picture: Chicago
Best Actor: Richard Gere – Chicago
Best Actress: Renee Zellweger – Chicago
BAFTA AWARDS:
Best Picture: The Pianist
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis – Gangs of New York
Best Actress: Nicole Kidman – The Hours
[edit]
Births
[edit]
Deaths
• January 13 – Ted Demme, 38, director
• February 15 – Kevin Smith, 38, television actor
• February 21 – John Thaw, 60, actor
• February 22 – Chuck Jones, 89, animator
• February 27 – Spike Milligan, 83, comedian
• March 27 – Milton Berle, 93, comedian
• March 27 – Dudley Moore, 66, actor/comedian
• March 27 – Billy Wilder, 95, filmmaker
• April 9 – John Agar, 81, actor
• April 16 – Robert Urich, 55, television actor
• April 22 – Linda Lovelace, 53, porn star (Deep Throat)
• June 5 – Dee Dee Ramone, 49, bassist/songwriter
• June 29 – Rosemary Clooney, 74, singer/actress
• July 5 – Katy Jurado, 78, Mexican actress
• July 6 – John Frankenheimer, 72, director
• July 9 – Rod Steiger, 77, actor
• July 23 – Leo McKern, 82, actor
• August 16 – Jeff Corey, 88, actor, television director
• August 18 – Dean Reisner, 83, screenwriter
• September 7 – Katrin Cartlidge, 41, actress
• September 11 – Kim Hunter, 79, actress
• September 14 LaWanda Page, 81, actress
• September 16 – James Gregory, 90, actor
• October 2 – Bruce Paltrow, 58, director
• October 10 – Teresa Graves, 54, actress
• October 25 – Richard Harris, 72, actor
• November 3 – Jonathan Harris, 87, television actor
• November 18 – James Coburn, 74, actor
• December 3 – Glenn Quinn, 32, television actor
• December 30 – Mary Brian, 96, actress
[edit]
Wide-release movies
In the film industry, a wide-release movie is a film that studios believe will appeal to a broad spectrum of the public and that shows in at least 600 theatres in the United States and Canada. The following films meet these criteria:

Dates given are U.S. and Canadian release dates.
[edit]
January-March
‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.
Month Day Title Studio Notable Cast/Crew
January
4
Impostor
Miramax
Gary Sinise, Madeline Stowe

11
Orange County
Paramount Pictures
Jack Black, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Kline, Colin Hanks, Schuyler Fisk

18
Snow Dogs
Buena Vista
Cuba Gooding Jr.

25
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Walt Disney Company
James Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris, Dagmara Dominczyk

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
20th Century Fox
Steve Oedekerk, Jennifer Tung

The Mothman Prophecies
Sony/Screen Gems
Richard Gere, Laura Linney

A Walk to Remember
Warner Bros.
Mandy Moore, Shane West

February
1
Birthday Girl
Miramax
Nicole Kidman, Vincent Cassel

Slackers
Sony
Jason Schwartzman, Devon Sawa, Jaime King

8
Big Fat Liar
Universal Studios
Paul Giamatti, Frankie Muniz, Amanda Bynes

Collateral Damage
Warner Brothers
Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Leguizamo, John Turturro

Rollerball
MGM
Rebecca Romijn, Chris Klein

15
Crossroads
Paramount Pictures
Britney Spears, Anson Mount, Zoe Saldana

Hart’s War
MGM
Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell

John Q
New Line Cinema
Denzel Washington

Return to Never Land
Buena Vista
Blayne Weaver (voice), Harriet Owen (voice)

Super Troopers
Fox Searchlight Pictures

22
Dragonfly
Universal Pictures
Kevin Costner, Susanna Thompson, Kathy Bates

The Queen of the Damned
Warner Bros.
Aaliyah, Stuart Townsend, Marguerite Moreau

March
1
40 Days and 40 Nights
Miramax
Josh Hartnett

We Were Soldiers
Paramount Pictures
Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear

8
All about the Benjamins
New Line Cinema
Ice Cube, Mike Epps

The Time Machine
DreamWorks
Guy Pearce, Mark Addy, Samantha Mumba

15
Ice Age
20th Century Fox
Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Chris Wedge

Resident Evil
Sony/Screen Gems
Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez

Showtime
Warner Bros.
Eddie Murphy, Robert De Niro

22
Blade II
New Line Cinema
Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman

E.T. (20th anniversary edition)
Universal Pictures
Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore

Sorority Boys
Buena Vista
Barry Watson, Michael Rosenbaum, Harland Williams

29
Clockstoppers
Paramount Pictures
Jesse Bradford, Paula Garcés, French Stewart

Death to Smoochy
Warner Bros.
Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener

Panic Room
Sony
Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto

The Rookie
Buena Vista
Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez

[edit]
April-June
‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.
Month Day Title Studio Notable Cast/Crew
April
5
Big Trouble
Buena Vista
Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Dennis Farina

High Crimes
20th Century Fox
Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, James Caviezel

National Lampoon’s Van Wilder
Artisan Pictures
Ryan Reynolds, Tara Reid, Kal Penn

12
Changing Lanes
Paramount Pictures
Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson

Frailty
Lions Gate Films
Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe

The Sweetest Thing
Sony
Cameron Diaz, Selma Blair, Christina Applegate

19
Murder by Numbers
Warner Bros.
Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling

My Big Fat Greek Wedding ‡
IFC Films
Nia Vardalos, John Corbett

The Scorpion King
Universal Pictures
The Rock, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kelly Hu

26
Jason X
New Line Cinema
Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, Lisa Ryder

Life or Something Like It
20th Century Fox
Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns

May
3
Deuces Wild
MGM
Stephen Dorff, Brad Renfro, Fairuza Balk

Hollywood Ending
DreamWorks
Woody Allen, Téa Leoni

Spider-Man
Sony
Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst

8
Unfaithful
20th Century Fox
Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez

10
The New Guy
Sony
DJ Qualls, Eliza Dushku, Zooey Deschanel

16
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
20th Century Fox
Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman

17
About a Boy
Universal Pictures
Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Grant, Rachel Weisz

24
Enough
Sony
Jennifer Lopez

Insomnia
Warner Bros.
Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
DreamWorks

31
The Sum of All Fears
Paramount Pictures
Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman

Undercover Brother
Universal Pictures
Eddie Griffin, Chris Kattan, Denise Richards

June
7
Bad Company
Buena Vista
Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Warner Bros.
Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, James Garner

14
The Bourne Identity
Universal Pictures
Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper

Scooby-Doo
Warner Bros.
Scott Innes (voice), Freddie Prinze, Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar

Windtalkers
MGM
Nicolas Cage, Christian Slater

21
Juwanna Mann
Warner Bros.
Miguel A. Nunez Jr, Vivica A. Fox

Lilo & Stitch
Buena Vista
Daveigh Chase (voice), Chris Sanders (voice), Tia Carrere (voice)
Minority Report
20th Century Fox
Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow

28
Hey Arnold!: The Movie
Paramount Pictures

Mr. Deeds
Sony
Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder

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July-September
‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.
Month Day Title Studio Notable Cast/Crew
July
3
Like Mike
20th Century Fox
Bow Wow, Brenda Song, Morris Chestnut

Men in Black II
Columbia Pictures
Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith

The Powerpuff Girls Movie
Warner Bros.
Cathy Cavadini (voice), Tara Strong (voice), Elizabeth Daily (voice)
12
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
MGM
Steve Irwin

Halloween: Resurrection
Miramax
Jamie Lee Curtis, Brad Loree, Busta Rhymes

Reign of Fire
Buena Vista
Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, Izabella Scorupco

Road to Perdition
DreamWorks
Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law

17
Eight Legged Freaks
Warner Bros.
David Arquette, Kari Wührer

19
K-19: The Widowmaker
Paramount Pictures
Harrison Ford

Stuart Little 2
Columbia Pictures
Michael J. Fox (voice), Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie

26
Austin Powers in Goldmember
New Line Cinema
Mike Myers, Beyoncé Knowles, Seth Green

The Country Bears
Buena Vista
Christopher Walken, Stephen Tobolowsky, Daryl Mitchell

August
2
Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat
Paramount Pictures
Martin Lawrence

The Master of Disguise
Columbia Pictures
Dana Carvey, James Brolin, Brent Spiner

Signs
Buena Vista
Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix

7
The Good Girl ‡
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tim Blake Nelson

Spy Kids 2: Island Of Lost Dreams
Dimension Films
Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega

9
Blood Work
Warner Bros.
Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston

XXX
TriStar Pictures
Vin Diesel

16
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Warner Bros.
Eddie Murphy

Blue Crush
Universal Pictures
Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez

Possession ‡
Focus Features
Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Northam, Gwyneth Paltrow

21
One Hour Photo ‡
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan

23
Serving Sara
Paramount Pictures
Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley

Simone
New Line Cinema
Al Pacino, Catherine Keener

Undisputed
Miramax
Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames

30
FeardotCom
Warner Bros.
Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea

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Other movies released
This section lists films which either did not achieve wide-release status in North America, or were not released in North America. Release dates refer to the North American release unless otherwise stated.
Title Release date Studio Other notes
101 Reykjavik
January 11
Menemsha Pictures
Victoria Abril

24 Hour Party People
August 9
MGM
Steve Coogan, Shirley Henderson, John Simm

All About Lily Chou-Chou
July 12
Cowboy Pictures
Shugo Oshinari

Atanarjuat
April 12
Lot 47

The Believer
May 17
IDP
Ryan Gosling

Bolivar Soy Yo
July 26
Venevision

The Cat’s Meow
April 12
Lions Gate Films
Eddie Izzard, Kirsten Dunst, Cary Elwes

Cinema Paradiso: The New Version
June 14
Miramax

CQ
May 24
MGM
Gérard Depardieu, Jason Schwartzman, Angela Lindvall

Crush
April 5
Sony Classics
Andie MacDowell

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
June 14
ThinkFilm
Jodie Foster, Emile Hirsch, Kieran Culkin

Dogtown and Z-Boys
April 26
Sony Classics

Elling
May 29
First Look Pictures

Enigma
April 19
Manhattan Pictures
Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet

Escaflowne: The Movie
January 25
Bandai
Maaya Sakamoto, Tomokazu Seki

Festival in Cannes
March 8
Paramount Classics
Anouk Aimée, Greta Scacchi, Maximilian Schell

The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest
June 28
20th Century Fox
Adam Garcia

Full Frontal
August 2
Miramax
David Duchovny, Julia Roberts, Mary McCormack

Gangster No. 1
June 14
IFC Films
Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany

Happy Times
July 26
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Zhang Yimou (director)

Harvard Man
May 17
Cowboy Pictures
Adrian Grenier, Sarah Michelle Gellar

How to Kill Your Neighbor’s Dog
February 22
Artistic License
Kenneth Branagh, Robin Wright Penn

Human Nature
April 12
Fine Line
Tim Robbins, Rhys Ifans, Patricia Arquette

The Isle
August 23
Empire Pictures
Kim Ki-duk (director)

Italian for Beginners
January 18
Miramax

The Kid Stays in the Picture
July 26
Focus Features

Kissing Jessica Stein
March 13
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Jennifer Westfeldt

Lan Yu
July 3
Strand

Late Marriage
May 17
Magnolia Pictures
Lior Ashkenazi

Lucía y el Sexo
July 12
Palm Pictures
Paz Vega

Maryam
February 22
Streetlight Films

Mean Machine
February 22
Paramount Pictures
Vinnie Jones, Jason Statham

Men with Brooms
March 8
Artisan Pictures
Paul Gross

Metropolis
January 25
Sony
Kei Kobayashi, Miyu Irino

Me Without You
July 5
IDP
Anna Friel, Michelle Williams

Monsoon Wedding
February 22
Focus Features

New Best Friend
April 12
Sony
Mia Kirshner, Meredith Monroe, Dominique Swain

The Piano Teacher
March 29
Kino
Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Magimel

Rain
April 26
IDP
Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki

Revolution OS
August 23
Seventh Art

Sade
April 26
Empire Pictures
Daniel Auteuil

The Salton Sea
April 26
Warner Bros.
Val Kilmer, Vincent D’Onofrio

Scotland, Pa.
February 8
Lot 47
Maura Tierney, Choi Min-sik, Christopher Walken

Scratch
March 1
Palm Pictures

Shiri
February 8
IDP
Han Suk-kyu, James LeGros, Kim Yoon-jin

The Singles Ward
February 1
Halestorm

Stolen Summer
March 22
Miramax

Sur Mes Lèvres
July 5
Magnolia Pictures
Vincent Cassel

Tadpole
July 19
Miramax
Sigourney Weaver, Bebe Neuwirth, Aaron Stanford

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
May 24
Sony Classics
Matthew McConaughey

Time of Favor
January 18
Kino
Aki Avni

Time Out
March 29
ThinkFilm

War Photographer
June 19
First Run

What Time Is It There?
January 11
Wellspring Media
Victoria Abril

Winged Migration
May 17
Mongrel Media

Yamakasi
January 18
Christal Films

Y tu Mamá También
March 15
IFC Films
Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna
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This is a list of film-related events in 2003.
Related year entries:
List of years in film
• 2002 in film
• 2003 in film
• 2004 in film
List of years in home video
• 2002 in home video
• 2003 in home video
• 2004 in home video
List of years in television
• 2002 in television
• 2003 in television
• 2004 in television

Contents
[hide]
• 1 Events
• 2 Top grossing films
• 3 Awards
• 4 Deaths
• 5 Wide-release movies
• 6 Other movies released

[edit]
Events
• February 24 – The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, wins 7 Cesar Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Music and Best Cinematography.
• November 17: Russell Crowe attended the London premiere of his movie Master and Commander. [1]
• November 17: Arnold Schwarzenegger sworn in as Governor of California.
• December 22: Both of the movies from the Matrix trilogy released in 2003 were shut out of visual effects Oscar consideration by the Visual Effects Award Nominating Committee.
• December 31 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences mails nomination ballots in which it qualifies 254 films released in 2003 as eligible for Oscar consideration.
[edit]
Top grossing films
Please note that these are the top grossing films that were first released in 2003; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year 2003.
Movies reaching blockbuster motion picture status were led by New Line’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which topped $1 billion in box office receipts worldwide. Other major films included Disney’s Finding Nemo. These are the worldwide top 10 grossing films as of June 3, 2004:
2003
Rank Title Studio Total Int’l
Box Office Gross U.S. & Canada
Box Office Gross United Kingdom
Box Office Gross Australia
Box Office Gross
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
New Line Cinema
$1,118,888,979 $377,027,325 £60,666,284 $49,161,709
2. Finding Nemo
Pixar/Walt Disney Pictures
$864,625,978 $339,714,978 £37,360,000 $36,915,521
3. The Matrix Reloaded
Warner Bros.
$738,599,701 £281,576,461 £33,420,000 $33,217,632
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Walt Disney Pictures
$653,913,918 $305,413,918 £28,170,000 $24,918,905
5. Bruce Almighty
Universal Pictures
$484,572,835 $242,829,261 £23,640,000 $20,397,703
6. The Last Samurai
Warner Bros.
$456,758,981 $111,127,263 £11,688,667 $12,409,243
7. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Warner Bros.
$433,371,112 $150,371,112 £18,789,175 $18,940,017
8. The Matrix Revolutions
Warner Bros.
$424,988,211 $139,313,948 £17,754,338 $17,927,972
9. X2: X-Men United
20th Century Fox
$406,449,694 $214,949,694 £20,500,928 $16,292,706
10. Bad Boys II
Columbia Pictures
$273,339,556 $138,608,444 £8,575,654 $10,519,208
International and U.S. & Canada combined box office gross figures are listed in U.S. dollars, British results in pounds sterling and Australian results in Australian dollars.

Worldwide, 52 films grossed more than $100 million, achieving blockbuster status, of those, 21 films grossed more than $200 million, nine films grossed more than $400 million, four films more than $600 million, three films more than $700 million, two films more than $800 million and one film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King passed $1.1 billion, becoming the second-highest grossing film in history.
For a complete list of 2003’s top-grossing films, follow this link:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2003&p=.htm
[edit]
Awards
ACADEMY AWARDS:
Best Picture: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Best Actor: Sean Penn – Mystic River
Best Actress: Charlize Theron – Monster
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS:
Drama:
Best Picture: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Best Actor: Sean Penn – Mystic River
Best Actress: Charlize Theron – Monster
Musical or Comedy:
Best Picture: Lost in Translation
Best Actor: Bill Murray – Lost in Translation
Best Actress: Diane Keaton – Something’s Gotta Give
BAFTA AWARDS:
Best Picture: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Best Actor: Bill Murray – Lost in Translation
Best Actress: Scarlett Johansson – Lost in Translation
[edit]
Deaths
• January 4 : Conrad Hall, Hollywood : cinematographer, a two-time Academy Award-winner
• January 8 : Ron Goodwin, British : film music composer and conductor
• January 11 : Maurice Pialat, French movie director
• January 11 : Anthony Havelock-Allan, British screenwriter
• January 12 : Maurice Gibb, of the Bee Gees, singer, composer, actor
• January 13 : Norman Panama, screenwriter and director
• January 18 : Richard Crenna, actor
• January 23 : Nell Carter, singer, actress
• January 25 : Robert Rockwell, actor
• January 29 : Peter Shaw, producer; husband of actress Angela Lansbury
• February 9 : Vera Hruba Ralston, actress
• February 18 : Jack Brodsky, movie : producer and publicist
• February 22 : Daniel Taradash, former president of AMPAS; Oscar-winning screenwriter of “From Here to Eternity”
• February 25 : Alberto Sordi, Italian comedy film legend
• March 3 : Horst Buchholz, German actor
• March 8 : Karen Morley, actress
• March 8 : Adam Faith, British singer and actor
• March 9 : Stan Brakhage, filmmaker
• March 12 : Lynne Thigpen, actor
• March 15 Dame Thora Hird, veteran British actress
• March 24 : Philip Yordan, screenwriter; won Oscar for “Broken Lance”
• March 31 : Michael Jeter, actor
• April 1 : Leslie Cheung, actor and singer
• April 2 : Michael Wayne, film producer; eldest son of John Wayne
• April 12 : Sydney Lassick, actor, best known playing asylum resident Cheswick in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• April 21 : Nina Simone, jazz singer, “High Priestess of Soul”
• April 26 : Peter Stone, Oscar-and-(3-time)Tony-winning writer
• April 27 : Elaine Steinbeck, actress
• May 3 : Suzy Parker, actress, model
• May 14 Dame Wendy Hiller, actress
• May 14 : Robert Stack, actor
• May 28 : Martha Scott, actress
• June 2 : Richard Cusack, 77, ad executive turned actor/screenwriter
• June 7 : Trevor Goddard, actor
• June 7 : Tony McAuley : BBC Northern Ireland broadcaster & film-maker associated with traditional Irish music and arts
• June 12 : Gregory Peck, actor
• June 15 : Hume Cronyn, actor
• June 29 : Katharine Hepburn, actress
• June 30 : Buddy Hackett, comic, actor
• July 1 : N!xau, Namibian actor
• July 6 : Buddy Ebsen, actor
• July 25 : John Schlesinger, director
• July 27 : Bob Hope, comedian, actor
• August 1 : Marie Trintignant, French actress and daughter of actor Jean-Louis Trintignant.
• August 2 : Don Estelle, actor
• August 9 : Gregory Hines, actor, dancer.
• August 30 : Charles Bronson, actor
• September 8 : Leni Riefenstahl, German filmmaker
• September 9 : Larry Hovis, actor, played Carter on “Hogan’s Heroes”
• September 10 : Harry Goz, cartoon voice actor.
• September 11 : John Ritter, American actor, played Jack Tripper on Three’s Company
• September 12 : Johnny Cash, American country singer
• September 16 : Erich Hallhuber, Bavarian actor.
• September 22 : Gordon Jump, American actor.
• September 27 : Donald O’Connor, entertainer, actor
• September 28 : Elia Kazan, director
• October 2 : Gunther Philipp, Austrian actor
• October 3 : William Steig, American : cartoonist and children’s author; creator of Shrek
• October 5 : Denis Quilley, British actor
• October 20 : Jack Elam, American actor, 84 years
• October 21 : Fred Berry, American actor,
• October 23 : Tony Capstick, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster
• November 4 : Ken Gampu, South African actor
• November 6 : Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (41 years)
• November 9 : Art Carney, The Honeymooners actor (85 years)
• November 11 : Robert Brown, actor, played M in the James Bond series
• November 12 : Jonathan Brandis, actor, reportedly suicide (27 years)
• November 12 : Penny Singleton, actress (95 years)
• November 13 : Kellie Waymire, actress (35 years)
• November 14 : Gene Anthony Ray, actor and dancer
• November 15 : Dorothy Loudon, actress
• November 18 : Michael Kamen, composer
• November 20 : Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (58 years)
• November 20 : Robert Addie, British actor (43 years)
• November 27 : Will Quadflieg, German actor
• December 3 : David Hemmings, actor
• December 12 : Keiko, orca of Reino Aventura and Free Willy fame (27 years)
• December 14 : Jeanne Crain, Oscar-nominated actress (78 years)
• December 17 : Ed Devereaux, Australian actor
• December 19 : Hope Lange, actress in Peyton Place
• December 27 Sir Alan Bates, British actor
• December 30 : Anita Mui, 40, Hong Kong actress
• December 30 : John Gregory Dunne, 71, screenwriter
[edit]
Wide-release movies
(Movies released in at least 600 North American theatres), ‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.
North American
Release Date Title Studio/Distributor North American
Box Office Gross Notable Cast/Crew
January 10
Just Married
20th Century Fox
$56,127,162 Ashton Kutcher, Brittany Murphy

January 17
Kangaroo Jack
Warner Brothers
$66,924,790 Jerry O’Connell, Anthony Anderson

January 17
National Security
Sony Pictures
$36,288,951 Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn

January 17
A Guy Thing
MGM
$15,545,431 Jason Lee, Julia Stiles, Selma Blair

January 24
Darkness Falls
Revolution Studios
$32,539,681 Chaney Kley, Emma Caulfield

January 31
The Recruit
Walt Disney Pictures
$52,802,140 Al Pacino, Colin Farrell

January 31
Final Destination 2
New Line Cinema
$46,961,214 A. J. Cook, Ali Larter

January 31
Biker Boyz
DreamWorks
$21,989,492 Laurence Fishburne, Orlando Jones, Kid Rock

February 7
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Paramount Pictures
$105,813,373 Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey

February 7
Shanghai Knights
Walt Disney Pictures
$60,476,872 Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Fann Wong

February 7
Deliver Us from Eva
Focus
$17,573,594 LL Cool J, Gabrielle Union

February 14
Daredevil
20th Century Fox
$102,543,518 Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Michael Clarke Duncan, Colin Farrell

February 14
The Jungle Book 2
Walt Disney Pictures
$47,901,582 Voice of Phil Collins, Haley Joel Osment

February 21
Old School
DreamWorks
$75,585,093 Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn

February 21
The Life of David Gale
Universal Studios
$19,955,598 Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet

February 21
Gods and Generals
Warner Brothers
$12,882,934
February 21
Dark Blue
United Artists
$9,245,932 Kurt Russell, Scott Speedman

February 28
Cradle 2 the Grave
Warner Bros.
$34,612,814 Jet Li, DMX, Kelly Hu

March 7
Bringing Down the House
Walt Disney Pictures
$132,716,677 Steve Martin, Queen Latifah

March 7
Tears of the Sun
Sony Pictures
$43,632,458 Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci

March 12
Bend It Like Beckham ‡
Fox Searchlight Pictures
$32,543,449 Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley

March 14
Agent Cody Banks
MGM
$47,810,938 Frankie Muñiz, Hilary Duff

March 14
The Hunted
Paramount Pictures
$34,244,097 Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro

March 14
Willard
New Line
$6,882,696 Crispin Glover, Laura Harring

March 21
Dreamcatcher
Warner Bros.
$33,700,070 Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee

March 21
View from the Top
Miramax
$15,614,000 Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Kelly Preston

March 21
Piglet’s Big Movie
Walt Disney Pictures
$23,103,423 Voice of John Fiedler, Jim Cummings

March 21
Boat Trip
Artisan
$8,600,126 Cuba Gooding Jr., Horatio Sanz, Vivica A. Fox

March 28
Head of State
DreamWorks
$38,111,412 Chris Rock, Bernie Mac

March 28
The Core
Paramount Pictures
$31,118,819 Christopher Shyer, Ray Galletti

March 28
Basic
Sony Pictures
$26,599,248 John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson

April 4
Phone Booth
20th Century Fox
$46,566,212 Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes

April 4
DysFunKtional Family
Miramax
$2,255,000 Theo Van de Sande

April 4
What a Girl Wants
Warner Bros.
$36,093,584 Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth

April 4
A Man Apart
New Line
$26,671,549 Alice Amter, Vin Diesel

April 11
Anger Management
Revolution Studios
$135,645,823 Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson

April 11
House of 1000 Corpses ‡
Lions Gate Films
$12,634,962 Sid Haig, Bill Moseley

April 16
Bulletproof Monk
MGM
$23,346,068 Chow Yun-Fat

April 11
A Mighty Wind ‡ Warner Bros.
$17,781,006 Bob Balaban, Christopher Guest

April 18
Holes
Walt Disney Pictures
$67,383,924 Shia LaBeouf, Sigourney Weaver

April 18
Malibu’s Most Wanted
Warner Bros.
$34,370,863 Jamie Kennedy, Anthony Anderson

April 25
Identity
Sony Pictures
$52,138,971 John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, Alfred Molina

April 25
Confidence
Lions Gate
$12,217,840 Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz

April 25
It Runs in the Family
MGM
$7,488,566 Michael Douglas, Rory Culkin

April 25
The Real Cancun
New Line
$3,816,594 Brittany Brown-Hart, Benjamin Fletcher

May 2
X2: X-Men United
20th Century Fox
$214,949,694 Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos

May 2
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
Walt Disney Pictures
$42,717,939 Hilary Duff

May 9
Daddy Day Care
Revolution Studios
$104,148,781 Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin

April 11
Down with Love ‡ 20th Century Fox
$20,305,251 Ewan McGregor, Renée Zellweger

May 15
The Matrix Reloaded
Warner Bros.
$281,576,461 Keanu Reeves, Lawrence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss

May 23
Bruce Almighty
Universal Studios
$242,829,261 Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman

May 23
The In-Laws
Warner Bros.
$20,453,431 Michael Douglas

May 30
Finding Nemo
Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar
$339,714,978 Voice of Albert Brooks, Geoffrey Rush

May 30
The Italian Job
Paramount Pictures
$106,128,601 Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron

May 30
Wrong Turn
20th Century Fox
$15,418,790 Eliza Dushku, Desmond Harrington

June 6
2 Fast 2 Furious
Universal Studios
$127,154,901 Paul Walker, Tyrese

June 13
Rugrats Go Wild!
Paramount Pictures
$39,402,572
June 13
Hollywood Homicide
Revolution Studios
$30,207,785
June 13
Dumb and Dumberer:
When Harry Met Lloyd
New Line
$26,214,846
June 20
The Hulk
Universal Studios
$132,177,234 Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly

June 20
Alex and Emma
Warner Bros.
$14,218,698 Kate Hudson, Luke Wilson

June 20
From Justin to Kelly
20th Century Fox
$4,928,883
June 27
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
Sony Pictures
$100,814,328
June 27
28 Days Later
Fox Searchlight
$45,064,915
July 2
Terminator 3:
Rise of the Machines
Warner Bros.
$150,371,112 Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken

July 2
Legally Blonde 2
Red, White and Blonde
MGM
$90,168,825 Reese Witherspoon

July 2
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
DreamWorks
$26,466,286
July 9
Pirates of the Caribbean:
The Curse of the Black Pearl
Walt Disney Pictures
$305,388,685* Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley

July 9
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
20th Century Fox
$66,465,204 Sean Connery

July 18
Bad Boys II
Sony Pictures
$138,608,444 Martin Lawrence, Will Smith

July 18
Johnny English
Universal Studios
$28,082,366 Rowan Atkinson

July 18
How to Deal
New Line
$14,144,112 Mandy Moore

July 25
Spy Kids 3D: Game Over
Dimension
$111,610,328
July 25
Lara Croft Tomb Raider:
The Cradle of Life
Paramount Pictures
$65,660,198 Angelina Jolie

July 25
Seabiscuit
Universal Studios
$120,211,436
August 1
American Wedding
Universal Studios
$104,492,461 Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Alyson Hannigan

August 1
Gigli
Revolution Studios
$6,068,735
August 6
Freaky Friday
Walt Disney Pictures
$110,042,380 Lindsay Lohan

August 8
Le Divorce ‡
Fox Searchlight Pictures
$9,081,057 Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts

August 8
S.W.A.T.
Sony Pictures
$116,934,650 Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell

August 15
Freddy vs. Jason
New Line
$82,556,855 Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger

August 15
Open Range
Walt Disney Pictures
$58,331,254
August 15
Uptown Girls
MGM
$37,095,657 Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning

August 15
Grind
Warner Bros.
$5,123,696
August 22
The Medallion
Screen Gems
$22,108,977 Jackie Chan

August 22
My Boss’s Daughter
Dimension
$15,550,605
August 22
Marci X
Paramount Pictures
$1,648,818 Lisa Kudrow, Damon Wayans

August 29
Jeepers Creepers II
United Artists
$35,623,801 Ray Wise, Jonathan Breck

September 5
Dickie Roberts:
Former Child Star
Paramount Pictures
$22,741,671 David Spade

September 5
The Order
20th Century Fox
$7,660,806
September 12
Cabin Fever
Lions Gate
$21,158,188
September 12
Lost in Translation ‡
Focus Features
$44,585,453 Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson

September 12
Matchstick Men
Warner Bros.
$36,886,006
September 12
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Sony Pictures
$56,292,921
September 19
Underworld
Screen Gems
$51,741,634 Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman

September 19
The Fighting Temptations
Paramount Pictures
$30,221,738 Cuba Gooding, Jr., Beyoncé Knowles, Jonathan Lynn (director)
September 19
Secondhand Lions
New Line
$41,988,596 Michael Caine, Haley Joel Osment

September 19
Cold Creek Manor
Walt Disney Pictures
$21,386,011 Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone

September 19
Anything Else
DreamWorks
$3,212,310
September 26
The Rundown
Universal Studios
$47,726,342 The Rock (Dwayne Johnson), Seann William Scott

September 26
Under the Tuscan Sun
Walt Disney Pictures
$43,610,723 Diane Lane, Sandra Oh

September 26
Duplex
Miramax
$9,692,135 Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore

October 3
The School of Rock
Paramount Pictures
$81,261,177 Jack Black

October 3
Out of Time
MGM
$41,088,845 Denzel Washington

October 8
Mystic River ‡
Warner Bros.
$90,135,191 Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Clint Eastwood (director)
October 10
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Miramax
$70,099,045 Uma Thurman, Quentin Tarantino (writer, director)
October 10
The House of the Dead
Artisan Entertainment
$10,249,719
October 10
Good Boy!
MGM
$37,667,746
October 10
Intolerable Cruelty
Universal Studios
$35,327,628 George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones

October 17
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
New Line
$80,571,655 Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker

October 17
Runaway Jury
20th Century Fox
$49,443,628 John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz

October 22
In the Cut ‡
Screen Gems
$4,750,602 Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo

October 24
Brother Bear ‡
Walt Disney Pictures
$82,256,636*
October 24
Scary Movie 3
Dimension
$110,003,217 Anna Faris, Charlie Sheen, Tim Stack

October 24
Radio
Sony Pictures
$52,333,738 Cuba Gooding, Jr., Ed Harris

October 24
Beyond Borders
Paramount Pictures
$4,430,101 Angelina Jolie

November 5
The Matrix Revolutions
Warner Bros.
$139,313,948 Keanu Reeves, Lawrence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss

November 7
Elf
New Line
$173,398,518 Will Ferrell, James Caan

November 7
Love Actually ‡
Universal Studios
$59,696,144 Bill Nighy, Gregor Fisher, Keira Knightley

November 14
Master and Commander:
The Far Side of the World
20th Century Fox
$93,927,920 Russell Crowe

November 14
Tupac: Resurrection
Paramount
$7,718,961
November 14
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Warner Bros.
$20,991,364 Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Heather Locklear, Steve Martin

November 21
The Cat in the Hat
Universal Studios
$101,149,285 Mike Myers, Spencer Breslin, Dakota Fanning, Kelly Preston

November 21
Gothika
Warner Bros.
$59,694,580 Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Penélope Cruz

November 26
The Haunted Mansion
Walt Disney Pictures
$75,847,266 Eddie Murphy

November 26
Bad Santa
Dimension
$60,060,328 Billy Bob Thornton

November 26
The Missing
Revolution Studios
$27,011,180 Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett

November 26
Timeline
Paramount Pictures
$19,052,570 Paul Walker, Frances O’Connor

December 5
The Last Samurai
Warner Bros.
$111,127,263 Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe

December 5
Honey
Universal Studios
$30,308,417 Jessica Alba, Lil’ Romeo, Mekhi Phifer

December 10
Big Fish‡
Sony Pictures
$66,809,693 Billy Crudup, Albert Finney, Ewan McGregor, Tim Burton (director)
December 12
Something’s Gotta Give
Sony Pictures
$124,728,738 Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves

December 12
Stuck on You
20th Century Fox
$33,832,741 Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear

December 12
Love Don’t Cost a Thing
Warner Bros.
$21,924,226 Nick Cannon, Christina Milian

December 17
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
New Line
$377,027,325 Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Liv Tyler, Peter Jackson (director)
December 19
Calendar Girls ‡ Buena Vista
$31,041,759 Helen Mirren, Julie Walters

December 19
Mona Lisa Smile
Sony Pictures
$63,860,942 Julia Roberts

December 24
Monster ‡
Newmarket Pictures
$34,469,210 Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci

December 25
Cheaper by the Dozen
20th Century Fox
$138,614,544 Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt

December 25
Cold Mountain
Miramax
$95,636,509 Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Renée Zellweger

December 25
Paycheck
Paramount Pictures
$53,790,451 Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman

December 25
Peter Pan
Universal Studios
$48,462,608 Jeremy Sumpter, Ludivine Sagnier, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Jason Isaacs, P. J. Hogan (director)
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Other movies released
• 21 Grams, starring Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro
• Alien (re-release, was originally released in 1979)
• Beyond Re-Animator
• Blizzard
• Blueprint (film)
• The Brown Bunny
• Calendar Girls, starring Helen Mirren and Julie Walters
• The Company, starring Neve Campbell
• The Cooler, starring William H. Macy and Alec Baldwin
• Divine Intervention
• Elephant
• Foolproof, starring Ryan Reynolds and Kristin Booth
• Girl with a Pearl Earring, starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth
• Godzilla Tokyo SOS
• Going for Broke
• Good bye, Lenin!, a German comedy, released internationally
• The Gospel of John, starring Henry Ian Cusick
• Grand Theft Parsons, starring Johnny Knoxville and Christina Applegate
• The Guru, starring Jimi Mistry and Heather Graham
• House of 1000 Corpses
• House of Sand and Fog, starring Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley
• The Human Stain, starring Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman
• In America
• In the Cut, starring Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo
• Kart Racer
• Les Invasions barbares (Barbarian Invasions) written and directed by Denys Arcand
• L’homme du train (The Man on the Train) – directed by Patrice Leconte, starring Jean Rochefort and Johnny Hallyday
• Lost in Translation, starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson
• Luther, starring Joseph Fiennes
• The Magdalene Sisters
• Millennium Actress (USA release date, was released in Japan in 2001)
• Monster, starring Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci
• My Life Without Me, starring Sarah Polley
• Prey for Rock & Roll
• Shattered Glass, starring Hayden Christensen
• Soldados de Salamina – Spanish film
• Southlander, by Steven Hanft and Ross Harris; cast includes Rory Cochrane, Beck, and Beth Orton
• Spider
• The Station Agent, starring Peter Dinklage
• The Statement, starring Michael Caine
• Swimming Pool
• Sylvia
• The Triplets of Belleville (originally released in France)
• Veronica Guerin, starring Cate Blanchett
• Whale Rider, starring Keisha Castle-Hughes
• Wonderful Days, Korean
• Wonderland, starring Val Kilmer
• Young Black Stallion
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2004 in film
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This is a list of film-related events in 2004.
Related year entries:
List of years in film
• 2003 in film
• 2004 in film
• 2005 in film
List of years in home video
• 2003 in home video
• 2004 in home video
• 2005 in home video
List of years in television
• 2003 in television
• 2004 in television
• 2005 in television

Contents
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• 1 Events
• 2 Top grossing films
• 3 Awards
• 4 Deaths
o 4.1 January-April
o 4.2 May-June
o 4.3 July
o 4.4 August-September
o 4.5 October-December
• 5 Wide-release movies
o 5.1 January – March
o 5.2 April-June
o 5.3 July-September
o 5.4 October-December
• 6 Other movies released
• 7 External links

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Events
Month Day Event
January
25
Golden Globe Awards: Major winners include The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Lost in Translation.

27
Academy Awards nominations announced, leading films are:
• 11: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• 10: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• 7: Cold Mountain
• 7: Seabiscuit
• 6: Mystic River
Keisha Castle-Hughes, at 13, becomes the youngest nominee ever for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
February
15
BAFTA Awards: Major winners include Scarlett Johansson, Best Actress and Bill Murray, Best Actor

22
Screen Actors Guild Awards: Charlize Theron, The Actor for Best Female Actor, Johnny Depp, The Actor for Best Male Actor, Tim Robbins, The Actor for Best Male Supporting Actor, Renée Zellweger, The Actor for Best Female Supporting Actor.
23
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King becomes the second film in history to gross more than $1 billion in worldwide box office receipts.
25
The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson’s major motion picture about the last days of Jesus’s life on Earth, opens huge in time for Lent.
28
Gigli dominates the Golden Raspberry Awards, walking away with 6 awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Actress (Jennifer Lopez), Worst Actor (Ben Affleck), Worst Director (Martin Brest), Worst Screenplay (Brest) and worst on-screen couple (Lopez and Affleck). Worst supporting acting awards went to actress Demi Moore for Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and actor Sylvester Stallone for Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over.

29
76th Academy Awards: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King wins picture and director awards as well as nine others for a total of 11 Academy Awards, a tie for the most ever won by a single film. Acting honors were as follows:
• Best Actor: Sean Penn for Mystic River
• Best Actress: Charlize Theron for Monster
• Best Supporting Actor: Tim Robbins for Mystic River
• Best Supporting Actress: Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain.

May
22
Fahrenheit 9/11, a controversial documentary by Michael Moore wins the top prize, the Palme d’Or, at the Cannes Film Festival.

June
27
Fahrenheit 9/11 breaks the record for highest opening-weekend earnings in the United States for a documentary, earning $23.9 million.
December
13
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominees for the 2005 Golden Globes awards with comedy Sideways garnering seven nominations and actor Jamie Foxx with three for his work in both film and television.
21
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces seven films are eligible for the Academy Award for Visual Effects:
• The Aviator
• The Day After Tomorrow
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• I, Robot
• Lemony Snicket’s a Series of Unfortunate Events
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
• Spider-Man 2

28
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces that 267 films released in 2004 are eligible for consideration of the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Top grossing films
Please note that these are the top grossing films that were first released in 2004; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year 2004.
The controversial film, The Passion of the Christ, helmed by Mel Gibson became the first blockbuster motion picture of 2004. Taking only eight days, Spider-Man 2 became the fastest film to reach $200 in North American gross box office sales while Shrek 2 and Fahrenheit 9/11 became the highest-grossing animated film and documentary in history, respectively. These are the top 10 grossing estimates:

2004
Rank Title Studio Total Int’l
Box Office Gross U.S. & Canada
Box Office Gross United Kingdom
Box Office Gross Australia
Box Office Gross
1. Shrek 2
DreamWorks
$920,665,658 $441,226,247 £48,100,000 $50,121,453
2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Warner Bros.
$789,791,069 $249,541,069 £46,080,000 $33,030,534
3. Spider-Man 2
Columbia Pictures
$783,964,497 $373,585,825 £26,720,000 $24,263,992
4. The Incredibles
Disney/Pixar
$631,436,092 $261,441,092 £32,270,000 $26,582,338
5. The Passion of the Christ
Newmarket Films
$611,899,420 $370,782,930 £11,080,000 $15,183,802
6. The Day After Tomorrow
20th Century Fox
$542,771,772 $186,740,799 £25,210,000 $20,138,137
7. Meet the Fockers
Universal Pictures
$515,291,929 $279,261,160 £28,549,465 $34,806,130
8. Troy
Warner Bros.
$497,378,256 $133,378,256 £18,001,854 $23,447,161
9. Shark Tale
DreamWorks
$363,530,196 $160,861,908 £22,820,000 $15,180,246
10. Ocean’s Twelve
Warner Bros.
$362,744,280 $125,544,280 £12,030,148 $15,584,836
International and U.S. & Canada combined box office gross figures are listed in U.S. dollars, UK results in Great Britain pounds and Australian results in Australian dollars.
So far worldwide, 51 films released in 2004 grossed more than $100 million, reaching blockbuster status. Of that group, 21 grossed more than $200 million, 13 more than $300 million, eight more than $400 million, six films grossed more than $500 million, five films grossed more than $600 million, three films more than $700 million and one film more than $900 million.
For a complete list of 2004’s top-grossing films, follow these links:
• Worldwide: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2004&p=.htm
o North America: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2004&p=.htm
o United Kingdom: http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/statistics/boxoffice/
o Australia: http://www.moviemarshal.com/boxoffice.html
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Awards
ACADEMY AWARDS:
Best Picture: Million Dollar Baby
Best Actor: Jamie Foxx – Ray
Best Actress: Hilary Swank – Million Dollar Baby
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS:
Drama:
Best Picture: The Aviator
Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio – The Aviator
Best Actress: Hilary Swank – Million Dollar Baby
Musical or Comedy:
Best Picture: Sideways
Best Actor: Jamie Foxx – Ray
Best Actress: Annette Bening – Being Julia
BAFTA AWARDS:
Best Picture: The Aviator
Best Actor: Jamie Foxx – Ray
Best Actress: Imelda Staunton – Vera Drake
[edit]
Deaths
Notable film celebrities who died in 2004 include actors Marlon Brando, Tony Randall, Ronald Reagan and Fay Wray.
A more complete list of notable deaths is as follows:
[edit]
January-April
Month Day Who Age Known as a
January
2
Etta Moten Barnett
102 actress
7
Ingrid Thulin
77 actress
14
Uta Hagen
84 actress
Ron O’Neal
66 actor
17
Ray Stark
88 producer
22
Ann Miller
80 actress and dancer
31
Suraiya
75 actress and singer
February
15
Jan Miner
86 actress
23
Vijay Anand
70 director
March
2
Mercedes McCambridge
85 Oscar-winning actress

3
Cecily Adams
39 actress
6
Frances Dee
96 actress
7
Paul Winfield
63 actor
9
Robert Pastorelli
49 actor
18
Guillermo Rivas
72 actor
26
Jan Sterling
82 actress
28
Peter Ustinov
82 actor
April
1
Carrie Snodgress
57 actress
5
Austin Willis
86 actor
17
Soundarya
32 actress
25
Feridun Karakaya
76 actor
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May-June
Month Day Who Age Known as a
May
3
Anthony Ainley
71 actor
9
Alan King
76 actor
14
Anna Lee
91 actress
16
Marika Rökk
90 actress
17
Tony Randall
84 actor
19
Mary Dresselhuys
97 actress
June
4
Nino Manfredi
83 actor
5
Ronald Reagan
93 actor
6
Necdet Mahfi Ayral
96 actor
Robert Lees
91 screenwriter
7
Donald Trumbull
95 special effects producer
14
Max Rosenberg
89 producer
26
Yash Johar
75 producer

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July
Month Day Who Age Known as a
July
1
Marlon Brando
80 actor
3
John Barron
83 actor
6
Eric Douglas
46 actor
8
Jean Lefebvre
84 actor
9
Isabel Sanford
86 actress
11
Dorothy Hart
82 actress
17
Pat Roach
67 actor
19
Irvin “Shorty” Yeaworth
78 director
21
Jerry Goldsmith
75 composer
23
Mehmood
72 actor
Serge Reggiani
82 actor
28
Sam Edwards
89 actor
Eugene Roche
75 actor
30
Andre Noble
25 actor
31
Laura Betti
70 actress
Virginia Grey
87 actress
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August-September
Month Day Who Age Known as a
August
3
Margo McLennan
66 actress
8
Dimitris Papamichael
70 actor
Fay Wray
96 actress
9
David Raksin
92 score composer
15
Neal Fredericks
35 cinematographer
18
Elmer Bernstein
82 composer
20
Maria Antonieta Pons
82 actress
22
Daniel Petrie
83 director
George Kirgo
78 screenwriter
26
Laura Branigan
47 soundtrack composer
27
Suzanne Kaaren
92 actress
William Pierson
78 actor
September
5
Fritha Goodey
31 actress
6
Elly Annie Schneider
90 actress
8
Frank Thomas
91 animator
14
Ove Sprogøe
84 actor
18
Russ Meyer
82 director
24
Tim Choate
49 actor
25
Marvin Davis
79 studio executive
30
Ignatius Wolfington
84 Actor
Gamini Fonseka
68 actor
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October-December
Month Day Who Age Known as a
October
3
Janet Leigh
77 actress
5
Rodney Dangerfield
82 actor
10
Christopher Reeve
52 actor
11
Gulshan Rai
80 producer and distributor
17
Julius Harris
81 actor
November
26
Philippe de Broca
71 director
29
John Drew Barrymore
72 actor
December
3
Maria Perschy
66 actress
22
Lucile Layton
101 actress
28
Jerry Orbach
69 actor
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Wide-release movies
In the film industry, a wide-release movie is a film that studios believe will appeal to a broad spectrum of the public and that shows in at least 600 theatres in the United States and Canada. The following films met these criteria in 2004:
[edit]
January – March
Dates given are for North American release dates.
‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.
Month Day Title Studio/Distributor Notable Cast/Crew
January
9
My Baby’s Daddy
Universal Studios
Michael Imperioli

Chasing Liberty
Warner Bros.
Mandy Moore, Mark Harmon

16
Along Came Polly
Universal Studios
Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Debra Messing, Alec Baldwin, Hank Azaria, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Teacher’s Pet
Walt Disney Pictures
Nathan Lane (voice), David Ogden Stiers (voice), Jerry Stiller
(voice)
Torque
Warner Bros.
Martin Henderson, Ice Cube, Monet Mazur

23
The Butterfly Effect
New Line
Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
DreamWorks SKG
Kate Bosworth, Josh Duhamel

30
The Big Bounce
Warner Bros./Shangri-La Entertainment
Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman

The Perfect Score
Paramount Pictures
Scarlett Johansson, Erika Christensen, Chris Evans

You Got Served
Screen Gems
Lil’ Kim

February
6
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
MGM
Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Queen Latifah

Catch That Kid
20th Century Fox
Kristen Stewart, Max Thieriot, Corbin Bleu, Jennifer Beals

Miracle
Touchstone Pictures/Walt Disney Pictures
Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson

13
50 First Dates
Columbia Pictures
Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, Sean Astin

20
Against the Ropes
Paramount Pictures
Meg Ryan, Omar Epps

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Walt Disney Pictures
Lindsay Lohan, Adam Garcia, Carol Kane

Eurotrip
DreamWorks SKG/Blue Sea Productions
Scott Mechlowicz, Michelle Trachtenberg, Lucy Lawless, Matt Damon, Joanna Lumley

Welcome to Mooseport
20th Century Fox
Gene Hackman, Ray Romano

25
The Passion of the Christ
Newmarket Films
Jim Caviezel, Mel Gibson (director)
27
Club Dread
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Jay Chandrasekhar, Bill Paxton

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Artisan Entertainment
Romola Garai, Diego Luna

Twisted
Paramount Pictures
Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia

March
5
Starsky & Hutch
Warner Brothers
Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg, Vince Vaughn

Hidalgo
Touchstone Pictures/Disney
Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif, Timothy Dalton

12
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
MGM
Frankie Muñiz, Anthony Anderson

Secret Window
Columbia Pictures
Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Charles S. Dutton, Timothy Hutton, Ving Rhames, Stephen King (screenwriter)

Spartan
Warner Bros.
Val Kilmer, William H. Macy, David Mamet (director)

19
Dawn of the Dead
Universal Pictures
Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Focus Features
Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood

Taking Lives
Warner Bros.
Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Gena Rowlands, Olivier Martinez

26
Jersey Girl
Miramax
Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, George Carlin, Jason Biggs, Kevin Smith (director)

The Ladykillers
Touchstone Pictures
Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (directors, producers, screenwriters)
Never Die Alone
Fox Searchlight Pictures
David Arquette, DMX

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Warner Bros.
Matthew Lillard, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr., Linda Cardellini, Seth Green

[edit]
April-June
Dates given are for North American release dates.
Month Day Title Studio/Distributor Notable Cast/Crew
April
2
Hellboy
Revolution Studios
Ron Perlman, David Hyde Pierce, John Hurt, Guillermo del Toro (director)
Home on the Range
Walt Disney Pictures
Judi Dench (voice), Roseanne Barr (voice), Jennifer Tilly (voice), Cuba Gooding Jr. (voice), Randy Quaid
(voice), Steve Buscemi (voice)

The Prince & Me
Paramount Pictures/Lions Gate
Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, Miranda Richardson

Walking Tall
MGM
The Rock (Dwayne Johnson), Johnny Knoxville

7
Johnson Family Vacation
20th Century Fox
Cedric the Entertainer, Vanessa Williams, Bow Wow, Solange Knowles, Shannon Elizabeth

9
The Whole Ten Yards
Warner Bros.
Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Natasha Henstridge, Amanda Peet

The Alamo
Touchstone
Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric

The Girl Next Door
20th Century Fox
James Remar

Ella Enchanted
Miramax
Anne Hathaway, Vivica A. Fox

16
Connie and Carla
Universal/Spyglass Entertainment
Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny, Debbie Reynolds

Kill Bill Vol. 2
Miramax
Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Vivica A. Fox, Lucy Liu, Quentin Tarantino (director)
The Punisher
Lions Gate
Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos

21
Man on Fire
20th Century Fox/Regency Pictures
Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken

23
13 Going on 30
Columbia Pictures
Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo

30
Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius
Bobby Jones Films LLC
Jim Caviezel, Claire Forlani

Envy
Columbia Pictures/DreamWorks SKG
Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Christopher Walken, Barry Levinson (director)

Godsend
Lions Gate
Greg Kinnear, Robert De Niro, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos

Laws of Attraction
New Line
Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Moore, Nora Dunn, Frances Fisher, Parker Posey

Mean Girls
Paramount Pictures
Lindsay Lohan, Tina Fey

May
7
Van Helsing
Universal Pictures
Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh

New York Minute
Warner Bros.
Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Eugene Levy, Andy Richter, Andrea Martin

14
Troy
Warner Bros.
Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Peter O’Toole

Breakin’ All the Rules
Screen Gems
Jamie Foxx, Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union, Peter MacNicol, Jennifer Esposito

19
Shrek 2
DreamWorks SKG
Mike Myers (voice), Eddie Murphy (voice), Cameron Diaz (voice), Antonio Banderas (voice), Jennifer Saunders (voice), John Cleese (voice), Julie Andrews (voice), Larry King (voice), Rupert Everett (voice)

28
The Day After Tomorrow
20th Century Fox
Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Perry King

Raising Helen
Touchstone Pictures
Kate Hudson, Joan Cusack, Paris Hilton

Soul Plane
MGM
Tom Arnold, Kevin Hart, Method Man, Snoop Dogg, K.D. Aubert, D.L. Hughley, Mo’Nique Imes-Jackson

June
4
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Warner Bros.
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman

11
The Chronicles of Riddick
Universal Pictures
Vin Diesel, Judi Dench, Colm Feore

Garfield: The Movie
20th Century Fox
Bill Murray (voice), Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Stephen Tobolowsky

Napoleon Dynamite ‡
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Jon Heder, Jared Hess (director)

The Stepford Wives
Paramount Pictures/DreamWorks SKG
Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken, Faith Hill, Bette Midler, Glenn Close

16
Around the World in 80 Days
Walt Disney Pictures
Jackie Chan, Rob Schneider, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Luke Wilson, Kathy Bates, John Cleese, Johnny Knoxville, Jim Broadbent, Richard Branson

18
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
20th Century Fox
Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor, Ben Stiller

The Terminal
DreamWorks SKG
Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Steven Spielberg (director)

23
Fahrenheit 9/11
Lions Gate/IFC Films
Michael Moore, George W. Bush

White Chicks
Columbia Pictures
Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans (director)

25
The Notebook
New Line
Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands, James Garner

Two Brothers
Universal Pictures
Guy Pearce, Freddie Highmore, Jean-Jacques Annaud (director)

30
Spider-Man 2
Columbia Pictures
Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris, Sam Raimi (director)
‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.
[edit]
July-September
Dates given are for North American release dates.
Month Day Title Studio/Distributor Notable Cast/Crew
July
7
King Arthur
Touchstone Pictures
Clive Owen, Keira Knightley, Ioan Gruffudd, Jerry Bruckheimer (producer)
9
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
DreamWorks SKG
Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Vince Vaughn, Paul Rudd, Jack Black

Sleepover
MGM
Alexa Vega, Mika Boorem, Jane Lynch, Sam Huntington

16
I, Robot
20th Century Fox
Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan

A Cinderella Story
Warner Bros.
Hilary Duff, Jennifer Coolidge, Chad Michael Murray

23
The Bourne Supremacy
Universal Pictures
Matt Damon

Catwoman
Warner Bros.
Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Sharon Stone

28
Garden State ‡
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard

30
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
New Line
John Cho, Kal Penn, Danny Leiner (director)

The Manchurian Candidate
Paramount Pictures
Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber

Thunderbirds
Universal Pictures
Brady Corbet, Bill Paxton, Ben Kingsley

The Village
Buena Vista
William Hurt, Adrien Brody, Joaquin Phoenix, Sigourney Weaver, M. Night Shyamalan (director)
August
6
Collateral
DreamWorks SKG/Paramount Pictures
Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo

Little Black Book
Revolution Studios
Brittany Murphy, Ron Livingston, Holly Hunter, Kathy Bates

Open Water ‡
Lions Gate
Chris Kentis (director)

11
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Walt Disney Pictures
Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews

13
Alien vs. Predator
20th Century Fox
Lance Henriksen

Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie
Warner Bros.
Dan Green, Wayne Grayson, Amy Birnbaum, Eric Stuart (voices)

20
Benji Off the Leash
Mulberry Square

Exorcist: The Beginning
Warner Bros.
Stellan Skarsgård, Izabella Scorupco, James D’Arcy, Alan Ford, Ben Cross

Without a Paddle
Paramount Pictures
Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Dax Shepard, Burt Reynolds

27
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
Screen Gems
Johnny Messner, KaDee Strickland, Matthew Marsden

Hero
Miramax
Jet Li, Zhang Ziyi, Quentin Tarantino (presented)
SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2
Triumph Films
Jon Voight

Suspect Zero
Paramount Pictures
Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, Carrie-Anne Moss

September
1
Vanity Fair
Focus Features
Reese Witherspoon

3
Wicker Park
MGM
Josh Hartnett, Rose Byrne, Matthew Lillard

Paparazzi
20th Century Fox
Cole Hauser, Larry Cedar, Tom Sizemore

The Cookout
Lions Gate
Danny Glover, Queen Latifah

10
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Screen Gems
Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr

Cellular
New Line
Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham, William H. Macy

17
Mr. 3000
Touchstone Pictures
Bernie Mac

National Lampoon’s Gold Diggers
P & A Releasing
Will Friedle,

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Paramount Pictures
Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Gambon

Wimbledon
Universal Pictures/Dimension
Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany

24
First Daughter
20th Century Fox
Katie Holmes

The Forgotten
Revolution Studios
Julianne Moore, Alfre Woodard

Shaun of the Dead ‡ Rogue Pictures
Simon Pegg, Dylan Moran, Nick Frost

‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.
[edit]
October-December
Dates given are for North American release dates.
Month Day Title Studio/Distributor Notable Cast/Crew
October
1
I Heart Huckabees ‡
Fox Searchlight
Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman, Jude Law, Lily Tomlin, Naomi Watts

Ladder 49
Touchstone
Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta

Shark Tale
DreamWorks
Will Smith (voice), Robert De Niro (voice), Angelina Jolie (voice), Jack Black (voice)
6
Taxi
20th Century Fox
Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon, Gisele Bundchen

8
Friday Night Lights
Universal Studios
Billy Bob Thornton

Raise Your Voice
New Line
Hilary Duff

15
Team America: World Police
Paramount Pictures
Alec Baldwin, Trey Parker and Matt Stone (producers and directors)
Shall We Dance
Miramax
Jennifer Lopez, Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon

22
The Grudge
Columbia Pictures
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr

Sideways ‡
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh

Surviving Christmas
Columbia Pictures
Ben Affleck, Christina Applegate, James Gandolfini

29
Ray
Universal Pictures
Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington

Saw
Lions Gate Films
Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell

November
5
The Incredibles
Pixar
Craig T. Nelson (voice), Holly Hunter (voice), Samuel L. Jackson (voice), John Ratzenberger (voice), Jason Lee (voice)

Alfie
Paramount Pictures
Jude Law, Omar Epps, Nia Long

10
The Polar Express
Warner Bros.
Tom Hanks, Daryl Sabara (voice)
12
After the Sunset
New Line
Pierce Brosnan, Selma Hayek, Woody Harrelson, Don Cheadle, Naomie Harris

The Edge of Reason ‡
Universal Pictures
Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant

Finding Neverland ‡
Miramax
Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Dustin Hoffman

Seed of Chucky
Focus Features
Brad Dourif (voice), Jennifer Tilly, Billy Boyd (voice)
19
National Treasure
Walt Disney Pictures
Nicolas Cage, Jon Voight, Diane Kruger, Christopher Plummer, Sean Bean, Jon Turteltaub (director)

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
Paramount Pictures
Tom Kenny (voice), Stephen Hillenburg (director & writer), Clancy Brown (voice)
24
Alexander
Warner Bros.
Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Oliver Stone (director)

Christmas with the Kranks
Revolution Studios/Columbia Pictures
Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd

December
3
Closer ‡
Columbia Pictures
Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Clive Owen

House of Flying Daggers ‡
Sony Pictures Classics
Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi, Yimou Zhang (director)

8
Blade: Trinity
New Line
Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Jessica Biel, Parker Posey, Dominic Purcell, Triple H (Paul Levesque)

10
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou ‡ Touchstone Pictures
Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Michael Gambon, Jeff Goldblum

Ocean’s Twelve
Warner Bros.
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Julia Roberts

15
Million Dollar Baby ‡
Warner Bros.
Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman

17
The Aviator ‡
Miramax
Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Gwen Stefani

Flight of the Phoenix
20th Century Fox
Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Tyrese Gibson

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Paramount Pictures
Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Emily Browning, Liam Aiken

Spanglish
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni, Paz Vega, Cloris Leachman

22
Hotel Rwanda ‡
United Artists
Don Cheadle, Sophe Okenedo

Meet the Fockers
Universal Pictures
Ben Stiller, Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, Blythe Danner, Barbra Streisand

The Phantom of the Opera ‡
Warner Bros.
Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver

25
Darkness
Dimension Studios
Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, Giancarlo Giannini

Fat Albert
20th Century Fox
Kyla Pratt

29
In Good Company ‡
Universal Pictures
Dennis Quaid, Scarlett Johansson, Topher Grace, Selma Blair

‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.
[edit]
Other movies released
Release dates:
• “IMAX”: Release to IMAX theaters
Film Date Studio Other notes
A Day Without a Mexican
May 14

America’s Heart and Soul

Around the Bend
October 8
Warner Independent Pictures
Michael Caine, Christopher Walken

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

Baadasssss!
May 28

Bad Education
March 19
Originally released in Spain

Beauty Shop

Before Sunset
February 10
Originally release at the Berlin International Film Festival
Being Julia
October 15
Limited USA release
Birth
October 29
Limited USA release
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
June 4
Limited USA release
The Blue Butterfly

Bon Voyage
Originally released in France

Bright Young Things
August 20
Limited USA release
Brother to Brother

The Burial Society

Callas Forever
Originally released in France

Carolina

The Clearing

Clifford’s Really Big Movie

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Code 46
Originally released in UK

Coffee and Cigarettes

Control Room

The Corporation

Criminal
Limited USA release
Danny Deckchair

Darkness

Days of Being Wild
Re-release, was released in 1991

De-Lovely

Deathwatch

Decoys

Dhoom

A Dirty Shame

Dogville

Donnie Darko
Re-release
The Door in the Floor

The Dreamers

The Eliminator

Enduring Love

Eulogy

Fade to Black

Father and Son

Facing Windows
Originally released in Italy

Festival Express

The Final Cut

Formula 17

The Football Factory

Forbidden Forest

Four Shades of Brown
Originally released in Sweden

Fracture

Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed

Going the Distance

Grand Theft Parsons

Hair Show

Head in the Clouds

Helter Skelter

Highwaymen

A Home at the End of the World

House of D

Howl’s Moving Castle
November 20 – Japan

The Hunting of the President

I am David

I’m Not Scared
Originally released in Italy

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

Imagining Argentina

Infernal Affairs

Innocence: Ghost in the Shell

Intermission

Jandek on Corwood

Japanese Story

Jeux d’enfants (Love Me If You Dare)
Ju-on: The Grudge

Kaena: The Prophecy
Originally released in France

Kekexili: Mountain Patrol
Originally released in China

Kinsey

Kitchen Stories
Originally released in Norway

The Last Road Trip: Paris to Dakar

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

The Last Shot

A Love Song for Bobby Long

The Machinist

Maria Full of Grace

Mean Creek

La Meglio gioventù
The Best of Youth outside of Italy

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

Modigliani

Monsieur Ibrahim

The Mother

The Motorcycle Diaries

NASCAR 3D

Ned Kelly

Noel

Omagh

Osama

The Reckoning

Remember Me, My Love

Riding Giants

Riding the Bullet

Sacred Planet

Saved!

The Sea Inside

Secret Things

Shaolin Soccer
Originally released in Hong Kong

Shaun of the Dead

She Hate Me

Showboy

Skeleton Man

Silver City

A Slipping-Down Life

Speak

Stage Beauty

Stateside

Straight-Jacket

Super Size Me

Swing

Taegukgi
Originally released in South Korea

Tokyo Godfathers
Originally released in Japan

Touch of Pink

Touching the Void

Twist

Tying the Knot

The United States of Leland

Undertow

Valentín

Vozvrashcheniye (The Return) 6 February
Kino International
Originally released in Russia

Watermarks

Warriors of Heaven and Earth

We Don’t Live Here Anymore

When Will I Be Loved

With All Deliberate Speed

Woman Thou Art Loosed

The Woodsman

The Yes Men

Young Adam

Zhou Yu’s Train

[edit]
External links
• Box Office Mojo: ‘Passion of the Christ,’ ‘Fahrenheit 9/11′ Tops in 2004
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This is a list of film-related events in 2005.
Related year entries:
List of years in film
• 2004 in film
• 2005 in film
• 2006 in film
List of years in home video
• 2004 in home video
• 2005 in home video
• 2006 in home video
List of years in television
• 2004 in television
• 2005 in television
• 2006 in television

Contents
[hide]
• 1 Event timeline
• 2 Top grossing films
• 3 Awards
• 4 Notable Deaths
• 5 Wide-release movies
o 5.1 January-March
o 5.2 April-June
o 5.3 July-September
o 5.4 October-December
• 6 Other movies released
• 7 External links

[edit]
Event timeline
Month Day Event
January
6
The Directors Guild of America nominates directors Martin Scorsese (The Aviator), Marc Forster (Finding Neverland), Taylor Hackford (Ray), Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby) and Alexander Payne (Sideways) for its Directors Guild Awards.

8
The National Society of Film Critics awards go to Million Dollar Baby (film), Zhang Yimou (director, for: House of Flying Daggers), Imelda Staunton and Hilary Swank (tied for best actress), Jamie Foxx (actor), Thomas Haden Church (supporting actor) and Virginia Madsen (supporting actress).
9
The People’s Choice Awards go to Fahrenheit 9/11 (favorite motion picture), Passion of the Christ for favorite drama, and Shrek 2 (favorite comedy, animated film, sequel, animated character: Eddie Murphy as “donkey”, and movie villain: Jennifer Saunders as “Fairy Godmother”).

16
Golden Globes awards film winners included three for The Aviator (Picture-Drama, Actor and Score), two for Sideways (Picture-comedy and Screenplay), two for Million Dollar Baby (Director and Actress), and two for Closer (Supporting Actor and Supporting actress for Clive Owen and Natalie Portman).

22
The Producers Guild of America picks The Aviator as its choice for best picture of 2004.
24
The Golden Raspberry Awards picks for worst film achievement in 2004 had Catwoman leading with seven nominations, Alexander, Fahrenheit 9/11 and White Chicks each with five and four nominations for Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2.

25
The Academy Awards picks for best film achievement in 2004 had The Aviator leading nominations with 11, followed by Million Dollar Baby and Finding Neverland with seven, Ray with six, and Sideways with five.

February
2
Pierce Brosnan officially announces that he will be resigning from the role of James Bond.

12
BAFTA Awards: Major winners include Imelda Staunton, Best Actress, Jamie Foxx, Best Actor and The Aviator, Best Film.

26
Catwoman and Fahrenheit 9/11 dominate the Golden Raspberry Awards, walking away with 4 awards each. Four special awards were also handed out to comemorate the Razzies’ 25th aniversary. Arnold Schwarzenegger was named the biggest loser of the previous 25 years, Battlefield Earth, Gigli, and From Justin to Kelly collected the worst film awards.
29
77th Academy Awards: Million Dollar Baby wins the awards for Best Picture and Best Director. Acting honors were as follows:
• Best Actor: Jamie Foxx for Ray
• Best Actress: Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby
• Best Supporting Actor: Morgan Freeman for Million Dollar Baby
• Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett for The Aviator.

May
20
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith reaches a record high at the box offices on opening day with $50 million on 9,400 screens at 3,661 theaters worldwide, edging out Spider-Man 2’s top opening day record of $40.4 million and Shrek 2’s top single day record of $44.8 million.

22
The Golden Palm in the 58th Edition of the Cannes Film Festival is awarded to L’enfant, directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The Grand Prix is awarded to Broken Flowers by Jim Jarmusch, while the prize for best director is awarded to Michael Haneke for Caché .

June
21
The American Film Institute holds its 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes. The greatest movie quote is “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” from Gone with the Wind.

August
11
Roger Ebert publishes the list of his most hated films, distilled down from reviews he has written which date back to the 1960s. The list includes 2005 releases such as Constantine, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, and A Lot Like Love.

October
14
It is announced that Daniel Craig will be the new James Bond in the forthcoming Casino Royale.

December
10
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association gives its awards for the most outstanding motion pictures of 2005. Brokeback Mountain won best picture and best director for Ang Lee. Capote won best actor for Philip Seymour Hoffman. Best actress went to Vera Farmiga for Down to the Bone. [1]

11
The Boston Society of Film Critics gives its awards for the most outstanding motion pictures of 2005. Brokeback Mountain won best picture and best director for Ang Lee. Capote won best actor for Philip Seymour Hoffman. Best actress went to Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line. [2]

The American Film Institute gives its picks for the ten most outstanding motion pictures of 2005, which are Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Good Night, and Good Luck., A History of Violence, King Kong, Munich, The Squid and the Whale, and Syriana.[3]

12
The New York Film Critics Circle gives its awards for the most outstanding motion pictures of 2005. Brokeback Mountain won best picture, best director for Ang Lee and best actor for Heath Ledger. Best actress went to Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line. [4]

13
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominations for the Golden Globe Awards included Brokeback Mountain, The Constant Gardener, Good Night, and Good Luck, A History of Violence, and Match Point for best drama film. [5]

[edit]
Top grossing films
Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2005; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year. The top ten of 2005 as of February 21, 2006 (U.S. and Canada), February 19, 2006 (UK) and February 19, 2006 (Australia) are as follows:

2005
Rank Title Studio Total Int’l
Box Office Gross U.S. & Canada
Box Office Gross United Kingdom
Box Office Gross Australia
Box Office Gross
1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Warner Bros.
$887,116,995 $288,116,995 £48,589,753 $35,213,300
2. Star Wars Episode III:
Revenge of the Sith
20th Century Fox
$848,797,674 $380,270,577 £39,188,065 $35,188,506
3. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Walt Disney Pictures
$662,963,777 $287,265,777 £43,641,024 $34,801,112
4. War of the Worlds
Paramount Pictures
$591,409,726 $234,280,354 £30,367,791 $21,402,771
5. King Kong
Universal Pictures
$542,681,518 $216,356,215 £29,669,572 $21,377,176
6. Madagascar
DreamWorks
$527,890,631 $193,595,521 £22,326,031 $25,205,885
7. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
20th Century Fox
$477,671,954 $186,336,279 £13,473,963 $20,176,228
8. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Warner Bros.
$473,425,317 $206,459,076 £37,354,584 $24,114,598
9. Batman Begins
Warner Bros.
$371,853,783 $205,343,774 £16,179,376 $15,460,610
10. Hitch
Columbia Pictures
$368,100,420 $179,495,555 £16,170,807 $13,790,387
International and U.S. & Canada combined box office gross figures are listed in U.S. dollars, British results in pounds sterling and Australian results in Australian dollars.

So far worldwide, eight films released in 2005 grossed more than $400 million, reaching international blockbuster motion picture status.
By the end of June, despite the releases of several long-anticipated big-budget films, the US box-office was entering the 20th week of a slump in which film attendance was lower than the comparable week in 2004. This was blamed by most analysts on the rise of ticket prices, gasoline prices and internet piracy.
For a complete list of 2005’s top-grossing films, follow these links:
• Worldwide: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2005&p=.htm
o U.S. & Canada: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2005&p=.htm
o United Kingdom: http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/statistics/boxoffice/
o Australia: http://www.moviemarshal.com/boxoffice3.html
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Awards
ACADEMY AWARDS:
Best Picture:
Best Actor:
Best Actress:
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS:
Drama:
Best Picture: Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote
Best Actress: Felicity Huffman – Transamerica
Musical or Comedy:
Best Picture: Walk the Line
Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix – Walk the Line
Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line
BAFTA AWARDS:
Best Picture: Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote
Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line
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Notable Deaths
Month Day Name Age Occupation/Accolades
January
9
Gonazalo Gavira
79 Oscar-winning sound effects technician

10
Erwin Hillier
93 Cinematographer

11
Thelma White
94 Actress

12
Amrish Puri
72 Actor

Sal Pacino
82 Actor

14
Ofelia Guilmain
83 Actress

15
Ruth Warrick
88 Actress

Dan Lee
35 Animator

17
Virginia Mayo
84 Actress

18
Lamont Bentley
31 Actor

21
Parveen Babi
49 Actress

22
Patsy Rowlands
71 Actress

23
Mutsuko Sakura
83 Actress

26
Rudi Falkenhagen
71 Actor

29
Karen Lancaume
32 Actress

Ephraim Kishon
80 Screenwriter, director

February
1
John Vernon
72 Actor

4
Ossie Davis
87 Actor

10
Arthur Miller
89 Screenwriter

Humbert Balsan
50 Producer

11
Stan Richards
74 Actor

Raymond Hermantier
81 Actor

12
Brian Kelly
73 Actor, Producer

14
Otto Plaschkes
75 Producer

Martin Perels
44 Actor

16
Gerry Wolff
84 Actor

William Gibson
82 Producer

Nicole DeHuff
31 Actress

17
Dan O’Herlihy
85 Actor

Peter Foy
79 Special effects Producer

19
Kihachi Okamoto
82 Director
20
Sandra Dee
62 Actress

22
Simone Simon
94 Actress

Lee Eun Ju
24 Actress

March
4
Guylaine St. Onge
39 Actress

5
Morris Engel
86 Director
6
Teresa Wright
86 Actress

7
Debra Hill
54 Screenwriter, Producer

John Box
85 Production designer, four-time Oscar winner

22
Gemini Ganesan
84 Actor

23
David Kossoff
85 Actor

April
16
Kay Walsh
90 Actress

19
George Pan Cosmatos
64 Director

Ruth Hussey
93 Actress

23
John Mills
97 Actor

26
Maria Schell
79 Actress

May
5
Elisabeth Fraser
85 Actress

June MacCloy
95 Actress

16
June Lang
90 Actress

17
Frank Gorshin
72 Actor

21
Subodh Mukherjee
84 Filmmaker
25
Ismail Merchant
68 Producer

Sunil Dutt
75 Actor

26
Eddie Albert
97 Actor

June
6
Anne Bancroft
73 Actress

8
Ed Bishop
72 Actor

25
John Fiedler
80 Actor

July
2
Ernest Lehman
89 Screenwriter

4
June Haver
79 Actress

11
Frances Langford
92 Actress

17
Geraldine Fitzgerald
91 Actress

Gavin Lambert
80 Screenwriter

19
Edward Bunker
71 Actor

20
James Doohan
85 Actor

August
8
Barbara Bel Geddes
82 Actress

9
Dorris Bowdon
90 Actress

Matthew McGrory
32 Actor

11
James Booth
77 Actor

16
Joe Ranft
45 Actor

23
Brock Peters
78 Actor

25
Terence Morgan
83 Actor

28
Jacques Dufilho
91 Actor

31
Michael Sheard
65 Actor

September
2
Bob Denver
70 Actor

3
Ekkehard Schall
75 Actor

14
Robert Wise
91 Director

16
Constance Moore
85 Actress

18
Joel Hirschhorn
67 Songwriter

Richard Cunha
84 Director

23
Lord Brabourne
80 Producer

25
Don Adams
82 Actor

27
Jerry Juhl
67 Screenwriter

October
11
Jan Holden
74 Actress

15
Mildred Shay
94 Actress

23
William Hootkins
57 Actor

29
Lloyd Bochner
81 Actor

November
3
Geoffrey Keen
89 Actor

4
Sheree North
72 Actress

11
Moustapha Akkad
75 Producer

23
Constance Cummings
95 Actress

24
Pat Morita
73 Actor

28
Marc Lawrence
95 Actor

29
Wendie Jo Sperber
47 Actress

30
Jean Parker
90 Actress

December
1
Mary Hayley Bell
94 Actress

4
Gregg Hoffman
42 Producer

7
Adrian Biddle
53 Cinematographer

Annette Vadim
72 Actress

10
Richard Pryor
65 Actor

16
John Spencer
58 Actor

26
Vincent Schiavelli
57 Actor

[edit]
Wide-release movies
In the film industry, a wide-release movie is a film that studios believe will appeal to a broad spectrum of the public and that shows in at least 600 theatres in the United States and Canada. The following films meet these criteria:

Dates given are U.S. and Canadian release dates.
[edit]
January-March
‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.
Month Day Title Studio Notable Cast/Crew
January
7
White Noise
Universal Pictures
Michael Keaton

14
Coach Carter
Paramount Pictures
Samuel L. Jackson

Elektra
20th Century Fox
Jennifer Garner, Terence Stamp, Goran Visnjic

Racing Stripes
Warner Bros.
Dustin Hoffman, Snoop Dogg, Mandy Moore

19
Assault on Precinct 13
Focus Features
Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne

21
Are We There Yet?
Columbia Pictures
Ice Cube, Nia Long

28
Alone in the Dark
Lions Gate
Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff

Indigo
Emissary Productions

Hide and Seek
20th Century Fox
Robert DeNiro, Dakota Fanning

February
4
Boogeyman
Screen Gems
Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel, Lucy Lawless

The Wedding Date
Universal Pictures
Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney

11
Hitch
Columbia Pictures
Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James

Pooh’s Heffalump Movie
Walt Disney Pictures
Jim Cummings (voice), John Fiedler (voice)

18
Because of Winn-Dixie
20th Century Fox
Jeff Daniels, Dave Matthews, Eva Marie Saint

Constantine
Warner Bros.
Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz

Son of the Mask
New Line
Jamie Kennedy, Alan Cumming, Bob Hoskins

25
Cursed
Dimension Films
Christina Ricci, Skeet Ulrich, Shannon Elizabeth

Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Lions Gate
Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris, Madea

Man of the House
Columbia Pictures
Tommy Lee Jones, Cedric the Entertainer

March
4
Be Cool
MGM
John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Danny DeVito

The Jacket
Warner Independent Pictures
Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley

The Pacifier
Spyglass Entertainment
Vin Diesel

11
Hostage
Miramax
Bruce Willis, Jonathan Tucker

The Passion Recut
Newmarket

Robots
20th Century Fox
Ewan McGregor (voice), Robin Williams (voice), Halle Berry (voice)
The Upside of Anger ‡ New Line
Kevin Costner, Joan Allen

18
Ice Princess
Walt Disney Pictures
Michelle Trachtenberg, Joan Cusack, Kim Cattrall

The Ring Two
DreamWorks
Naomi Watts, David Dorfman, Simon Baker

24
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Warner Bros.
Sandra Bullock

25
Guess Who
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher, Zoe Saldana

30
Beauty Shop
MGM
Queen Latifah, Alicia Silverstone, Ice Cube

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April-June
‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.
Month Day Title Studio Notable Cast/Crew
April
1
Sin City
Dimension Films
Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Nick Stahl, Rutger Hauer, Benicio Del Toro, Rosario Dawson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Brittany Murphy, Frank Miller (director), Robert Rodriguez (director), Quentin Tarantino (guest director)
8
Fever Pitch
20th Century Fox
Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon

Kung Fu Hustle ‡
Sony Pictures Classics
Stephen Chow, Yuen Wah

Sahara
Paramount Pictures
Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, Penélope Cruz

15
The Amityville Horror
MGM
Ryan Reynolds

22
The Interpreter
Universal Pictures
Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener

King’s Ransom
New Line
Anthony Anderson, Jay Mohr, Regina Hall

A Lot Like Love
Touchstone Pictures
Ashton Kutcher, Amanda Peet, Kal Penn

29
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Touchstone Pictures
Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def

XXX: State of the Union
Revolution Studios
Ice Cube, Samuel L. Jackson, Willem Dafoe

May
6
Crash
Lions Gate
Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton

House of Wax
Warner Bros.
Elisha Cuthbert, Paris Hilton, Chad Michael Murray

Kingdom of Heaven
20th Century Fox
Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, Ridley Scott (director)

13
Kicking and Screaming
Universal Pictures
Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall

Mindhunters
Dimension Films
Val Kilmer, Christian Slater, LL Cool J

Monster-in-Law
New Line
Jennifer Lopez, Jane Fonda

Danny the Dog (Unleashed) Focus Features
Jet Li, Morgan Freeman

19
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
20th Century Fox
Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Samuel L. Jackson

27
The Longest Yard
Paramount Pictures
Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds

Madagascar
DreamWorks
Ben Stiller (voice), Chris Rock (voice), David Schwimmer (voice), Jada Pinkett Smith (voice)

June
1
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Warner Bros.
Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera

3
Cinderella Man
Universal Pictures
Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti

Lords of Dogtown
Sony Pictures
Heath Ledger, Emile Hirsch, John Robinson, Johnny Knoxville, Eric West

10
The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl
Dimension Films
David Arquette, Robert Rodríguez

High Tension
Lions Gate
Cecile de France

The Honeymooners
Paramount Pictures
Cedric the Entertainer

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
20th Century Fox
Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn

15
Batman Begins
Warner Bros.
Christian Bale, Katie Holmes, Ken Watanabe, Michael Caine

17
The Perfect Man
Universal Pictures
Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear

22
Herbie: Fully Loaded
Walt Disney Pictures
Lindsay Lohan, Michael Keaton, Breckin Meyer

24
Bewitched
Screen Gems
Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Jason Schwartzman

Land of the Dead
Universal Pictures
Simon Baker, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, George A. Romero (director)

March of the Penguins ‡
Warner Independent Productions
Morgan Freeman (narrator)

29
War of the Worlds
Paramount Pictures
Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, Steven Spielberg (director)

[edit]
July-September
‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.
Month Day Title Studio Notable Cast/Crew
July
1
Rebound
20th Century Fox
Martin Lawrence, Breckin Meyer

8
Dark Water
Buena Vista
Jennifer Connelly

Fantastic Four
20th Century Fox
Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans, Julian McMahon

15
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Warner Bros.
Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham Carter

Wedding Crashers
New Line
Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn

22
Bad News Bears
Paramount Pictures
Billy Bob Thornton

The Devil’s Rejects
Lions Gate
Rob Zombie (director)

Hustle & Flow
Paramount Pictures
Anthony Anderson, Taryn Manning

The Island
DreamWorks
Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Sean Bean

29
Must Love Dogs
Warner Bros.
Diane Lane, Dermot Mulroney, John Cusack

Sky High
Buena Vista
Kurt Russell, Kelly Preston, Michael Angarano, Kevin McDonald, Dave Foley

Stealth
Columbia Pictures
Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx

August
5
The Dukes of Hazzard
Warner Bros.
Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson, Burt Reynolds, Willie Nelson

12
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Columbia Pictures
Rob Schneider, Eddie Griffin

Four Brothers
Paramount Pictures
Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Darnell Gibson, André 3000

The Skeleton Key
Universal Pictures
Kate Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard, Gena Rowlands

The Great Raid
Miramax
Benjamin Bratt, James Franco

17
Supercross
20th Century Fox
Daryl Hannah, Mike Vogel, Robert Patrick

19
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Universal Pictures
Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd

Red Eye
Dreamworks
Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy

Valiant
Walt Disney Pictures
animated; voices of: Ewan McGregor, Tim Curry, Jim Broadbent

26
The Brothers Grimm
Dimension Films
Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Terry Gilliam (director)

The Cave
Screen Gems
Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut, Eddie Cibrian

Undiscovered
Lions Gate
Ashlee Simpson, Carrie Fisher, Shannyn Sossamon

31
The Constant Gardener
Focus Features
Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz

September
2
The Transporter 2
20th Century Fox
Jason Statham, Amber Valletta, Louis Leterrier (director)

Underclassman
Miramax Films
Nick Cannon, Cheech Marin, Roselyn Sanchez

A Sound of Thunder
Warner Brothers
Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack, Edward Burns

9
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Sony Pictures
Laura Linney, Campbell Scott, Shohreh Aghdashloo

The Man
New Line
Samuel L. Jackson, Eugene Levy

An Unfinished Life ‡ Miramax
Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Lopez

16
Corpse Bride ‡
Warner Bros.
Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter (voices)

Cry Wolf
Focus Features
Lindy Booth, Jon Bon Jovi, Jared Padalecki

Just Like Heaven
Dreamworks
Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo

Lord of War
Lions Gate
Nicolas Cage, Ethan Hawke, Monica Bellucci, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan, Jeffrey Wright, Donald Sutherland

23
Flightplan
Buena Vista Pictures
Jodie Foster, Sean Bean, Peter Sarsgaard, Marlene Lawston

A History of Violence ‡
New Line
Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, Maria Bello

Oliver Twist ‡
Universal Pictures
Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Adam Baldwin

Roll Bounce
Fox Searchlight
Bow Wow, Chi McBride, Meagan Good

30
Capote ‡
Sony Pictures Classics
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener

The Greatest Game Ever Played
Buena Vista
Shia LaBeouf, Bill Paxton (director)
Into the Blue
MGM
Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Ashley Scott

Serenity
Universal Pictures
Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Adam Baldwin

[edit]
October-December
‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.
Month Day Title Studio Notable Cast/Crew
October
5
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
DreamWorks
Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter (voices)

7
The Gospel
Screen Gems
Boris Kodjoe, Clifton Powell, Yolanda Adams

In Her Shoes
20th Century Fox
Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine

Two for the Money
Universal Pictures
Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey, Rene Russo

Waiting…
Lions Gate
Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, Justin Long

14
Domino
New Line
Keira Knightley, Christopher Walken, Mickey Rourke

Elizabethtown
DreamWorks
Kirsten Dunst, Orlando Bloom, Susan Sarandon

The Fog
Revolution Studios
Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair

21
Doom
Universal Pictures
Karl Urban, The Rock, Rosamund Pike

Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
DreamWorks
Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Kris Kristofferson

Kids in America
Slowhand Cinema
Gregory Smith

North Country
Warner Bros.
Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand

Stay
20th Century Fox
Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling

28
The Legend of Zorro
Columbia Pictures
Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Prime
Universal Pictures
Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman

Saw II
Lions Gate Films
Donnie Wahlberg

The Weather Man
Paramount Pictures
Nicolas Cage, Hope Davis, Michael Caine

November
4
Chicken Little
Walt Disney Pictures
Zach Braff, Joan Cusack, Steve Zahn (voices)

Jarhead
Universal Pictures
Jake Gyllenhaal, Lucas Black, Jamie Foxx

Good Night, and Good Luck ‡
Warner Independent
George Clooney

9
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Paramount Pictures
Joy Bryant, Terrence Howard

11
Derailed
The Weinstein Co.
Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston

Pride and Prejudice ‡
Focus Features
Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen

Zathura
Columbia Pictures

18
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Warner Bros.
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Ralph Fiennes

Walk the Line
20th Century Fox
Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon

23
The Ice Harvest
Focus Features
John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen

In the Mix
Lions Gate
Usher, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Chazz Palminteri

Just Friends
New Line
Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris

Rent
Columbia Pictures
Rosario Dawson

Syriana ‡
Warner Bros.
George Clooney, Michelle Monaghan, Matt Damon

Yours, Mine and Ours
Paramount Pictures
Dennis Quaid, Rene Russo

December
2
Æon Flux
Paramount Pictures
Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Karyn Kusama (director)

9
Brokeback Mountain ‡ Paramount Pictures
Ang Lee (director), Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Walt Disney Pictures
Tilda Swinton, Liam Neeson (voice)
Memoirs of a Geisha ‡ Sony
Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li

14
King Kong
Universal Pictures
Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Peter Jackson (director)

16
The Family Stone
20th Century Fox
Diane Keaton, Sarah Jessica Parker

Hoodwinked ‡
Weinstein Co.
Anne Hathaway (voice), Glenn Close (voice), Jim Belushi (voice), Xzibit (voice), Andy Dick (voice), Patrick Warburton (voice)
The Producers ‡
Universal Pictures
Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman

21
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
20th Century Fox
Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Hilary Duff

Fun with Dick and Jane
Columbia Pictures
Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin

23
Munich ‡
DreamWorks
Eric Bana, Geoffrey Rush, Steven Spielberg (director)

The Ringer
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Johnny Knoxville, Katherine Heigl

25
Casanova ‡
Buena Vista
Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons

The New World ‡
New Line
Colin Farrell, Q’Orianka Kilcher, Christian Bale, Christopher Plummer

Rumor Has It
Warner Bros.
Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner

Wolf Creek
Weinstein Co.
John Jarratt, Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath

30
The Matador ‡
Weinstein Co.
Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis

[edit]
Other movies released
This section lists films which either did not achieve wide-release status in North America, or were not released in North America. Release dates refer to the North American release unless otherwise stated.
Title Release date Studio Other notes
2046
5 August
Sony Pictures Classics
Wong Kar-wai (director), Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Zhang Ziyi

Aliens of the Deep
January 28 IMAX Walt Disney Pictures
James Cameron (director)

Appleseed
January 14
Geneon
Shinji Aramaki (director)

The Aristocrats
July 29
ThinkFilm
Paul Provenza (director)

The Ballad of Jack and Rose
March 25
IFC Films
Daniel Day-Lewis, Catherine Keener

The Baxter
August 26
IFC Films
Michael Showalter, Elizabeth Banks

Bee Season
November 11
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Richard Gere, Juliette Binoche

Bigger Than the Sky
February 18
MGM
John Corbett, Amy Smart, Sean Astin

Breakfast on Pluto
November 16
Sony Pictures Classics
Liam Neeson, Cillian Murphy

Bride and Prejudice
February 11
Miramax
Aishwarya Rai

Broken Flowers
August 5
Focus Features
Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone

Caché
December 23
Sony Pictures Classics
Michael Haneke (director), Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Annie Girardot

The Chorus
January 14
Miramax
Gérard Jugnot

The Chumscrubber
January 14
Newmarket films
Carrie-Anne Moss, Jamie Bell

Control
April 22
ThinkFilm
Nimród Antal (director)

Creep
January 28 (UK)
Lions Gate Films
Franka Potente, (no North American theatrical release)
Daltry Calhoun
September 23
Miramax
Johnny Knoxville, Ed Harris, Maria Bello

D.E.B.S.
March 25
Screen Gems
Jordana Brewster, Meagan Good, Devon Aoki

Der Untergang (Downfall) February 18
Newmarket Films
Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara

Dirty Love
September 23
First Look Pictures
Jenny McCarthy

Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
May 20
Morgan Creek International
Paul Schrader (director), Stellan Skarsgård, Gabriel Mann

Duma
September 30
Warner Bros.
Hope Davis, Campbell Scott

First Descent
December 2
Universal Pictures

The Game of Their Lives
April 22
IFC Films
Gerard Butler, Wes Bentley

Hating Alison Ashley
17 March
Universal Pictures
Delta Goodrem

Howl’s Moving Castle
10 June
Buena Vista
Hayao Miyazaki (director)

Inside Deep Throat
February 11
Universal Pictures
Dennis Hopper (narrator)

Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang
October 21
Warner Bros.
Val Kilmer, Robert Downey Jr.

Layer Cake
May 13
Sony Pictures Classics
Daniel Craig

The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse
June 3 (UK)
United International Pictures
(no North American theatrical release)
L’Enfant
May 17
Sony Pictures Classics
Won the Golden Palm. Directed by Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne

The Libertine
November 25
Weinstein Co.
Johnny Depp, John Malkovich, Samantha Morton

Look at Me
April 1
Sony Pictures Classics
Agnès Jaoui

Match Point
December 28
DreamWorks
Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Woody Allen (director)
Me and You and Everyone We Know
June 17
IFC Films
Miranda July (writer, director), John Hawkes

Melinda and Melinda
March 18
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Woody Allen (director)

MirrorMask
September 30
Jim Henson Company
Jason Barry, Rob Brydon

Mondovino
March 23
ThinkFilm
Jonathan Nossiter (director)

Mrs. Henderson Presents
December 9
Weinstein Company
Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins

Nobody Knows
February 4
IFC Films
Hirokazu Koreeda (director)

Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior
February 11
Magnolia Pictures
Tony Jaa

Proof
September 16
Miramax Films
Gwyneth Paltrow, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anthony Hopkins

Salaam Namaste
September 9
Yash Raj
Saif Ali Khan

Schultze Gets the Blues
February 18
Paramount Classics
Horst Krause

Shopgirl
October 21
Buena Vista
Steve Martin, Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman

Smile
April 8
Dark Forest LLC
Sean Astin, Linda Hamilton

The Squid and the Whale
October 5
The Samuel Goldwyn Company
Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg

Steamboy
March 18
Toho
Anna Paquin (voice), Alfred Molina (voice), Patrick Stewart (voice), Katsuhiro Ôtomo (director)
Travellers and Magicians
January 7
Zeitgeist Films
Khyentse Norbu (director)

Thumbsucker
September 16
Sony Pictures
Keanu Reeves, Tilda Swinton

Turtles Can Fly
February 18
IFC Films
Bahman Ghobadi (director)

Uncle Nino
February 11
Lange Releasing
Joe Mantegna, Trevor Morgan

Where the Truth Lies
October 14
ThinkFilm
Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth

The World’s Fastest Indian
December 7
Magnolia Pictures
Anthony Hopkins

The Year of the Yao
April 29
Fine Line Features
Shaquille O’Neal, Yao Ming

[edit]
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2006 in film
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Contents
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• 1 Event timeline
o 1.1 Timeline of future events
• 2 Top grossing films
• 3 Notable Deaths
• 4 Wide-release movies
o 4.1 January-February
• 5 Other movies released
• 6 Films scheduled to be released in 2006
o 6.1 By release date
 6.1.1 March-June
 6.1.2 July-September
 6.1.3 October-December
o 6.2 Unannounced release date
 6.2.1 #-D
 6.2.2 E-K
 6.2.3 L-R
 6.2.4 S-Z
• 7 Sources

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Event timeline
Notable events concerning the film industry in 2006.
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, Cinderella Man, 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.

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 primarly independent films. Brokeback Mountain lead 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”.
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Timeline of future events
Notable events concerning film industry scheduled to happen in 2006.
Month Day Event
March
5
The winners of the Academy Awards are scheduled to be announced.
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Top grossing films
Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2006; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year. The top ten of 2006 as of February 26, 2006 (U.S. and Canada), February 19, 2006 (UK) and February 19, 2006 (Australia) are as follows:

2006
Rank Title Studio Total Int’l
Box Office Gross U.S. & Canada
Box Office Gross United Kingdom
Box Office Gross Australia
Box Office Gross
1. Big Momma’s House 2
20th Century Fox
$101,304,467 $65,679,000 £5,241,161 $5,074,618
2. Nanny McPhee
Universal Pictures
$88,407,213 $42,596,000 £16,490,034 $8,228,954
3. Underworld: Evolution
Screen Gems
$81,991,204 $61,412,000 £2,875,957 $5,263,061
4. The Pink Panther
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Columbia Pictures
$66,807,569 $61,046,000 March 17 debut March 9 debut
5. Final Destination 3
New Line
$54,475,533 $44,799,000 £5,240,912 May 11 debut
6. Hostel
Lions Gate
$47,551,778 $47,326,473 April 21 debut February 23 debut

7. When a Stranger Calls
Screen Gems
$45,657,000 $45,657,000 May 12 debut April 27 debut
8. Eight Below
Walt Disney Pictures
$45,055,000 $45,055,000 April 28 debut April 20 debut
9. Curious George
Universal Pictures
$43,139,000 $43,139,000 October 13 debut No release scheduled
10. Glory Road
Paramount Pictures
$41,767,205 $41,767,205 No release scheduled May 4 debut
International and U.S. & Canada combined box office gross figures are listed in U.S. dollars, British results in pounds sterling and Australian results in Australian dollars.
So far worldwide, no films released in 2006 grossed more than $400 million, reaching international blockbuster motion picture status.
For a complete list of 2006’s top-grossing films, follow these links:
• Worldwide: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2006&p=.htm
o U.S. & Canada: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2006&p=.htm
o United Kingdom: http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/statistics/boxoffice/
o Australia: http://www.moviemarshal.com/
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Notable Deaths
Month Day Name Age Cinematic Notability
January
1
Mapita Cortés
75 Actress

2
Osa Massen
91 Actress

14
Henri Colpi
84 Film editor

Shelley Winters
85 Actress

19
Anthony Franciosa
77 Actor

24
Fayard Nicholas
91 Tap dancer

Chris Penn
40 Actor

31
Moira Shearer
80 Actress

February
18
Richard Bright
68 Actor

24
Don Knotts
81 Actor

25
Darren McGavin
83 Actor

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Wide-release movies
In the film industry, a wide-release movie is a film that studios believe will appeal to a broad spectrum of the public and that shows in at least 600 theatres in the United States and Canada. The following films meet these criteria:

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January-February
‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.
Month Day Title Studio Notable Cast/Crew
January
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 Films
Jay Hernandez

13
Glory Road
Touchstone Pictures
Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Jon Voight

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
Jungle Films
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 Pictures
Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury

February
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 Pictures
voices of: Will Ferrell, Drew Barrymore, David Cross, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright, Dick Van Dyke

Final Destination 3
New Line Cinema
Ryan Merriman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Firewall
Warner Bros.
Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen

The Pink Panther
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Columbia Pictures
Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Beyoncé Knowles

17
Date Movie
20th Century Fox
Alyson Hannigan, Jennifer Coolidge

Eight Below
Walt Disney Pictures
Paul Walker, Jason Biggs

Freedomland
Revolution Studios
Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore

24
Doogal
The Weinstein Co.
Jim Broadbent, Ian McKellen, Bill Nighy

Madea’s Family Reunion
Lions Gate Films
Tyler Perry

Running Scared
New Line Cinema
Paul Walker

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Other movies released
This section lists films which either did not achieve wide-release status in North America, or were not released in North America. Release dates refer to the North American release unless otherwise stated.
Title Release date Studio Other notes
Bubble
January 27
Magnolia Pictures
Steven Soderbergh (director)

Fateless
January 6
ThinkFilm

A Good Woman
February 3
Lions Gate Films
Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson

Looking for Comedy
in the Muslim World
January 20
Warner Independent Pictures
Albert Brooks

Manderlay
January 27
IFC Films
Bryce Dallas Howard, Willem Dafoe, Danny Glover

Night Watch
February 17
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Konstantin Khabensky

Premium
20 January
Palm-Star Entertainment
Zoe Saldana, Hill Harper, Eva Pigford

R-Point
January 13
Tartan Pictures

Revolver
26 January
Redbus
Guy Ritchie (director), Jason Statham, Ray Liotta

The Strange Case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
February 1
Fantastical Cinema
Tony Todd, Tracy Scoggins

Rang De Basanti
January 27
Sony Pictures
Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, R. Madhavan

Tlatelolco: Mexico 68
10 February
Green Dog Films
John Leguizamo, Ryan Phillippe

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
January 27
Picturehouse
Steve Coogan

Why We Fight
January 20
Sony Pictures Classics

Zinda
January 13
Eros Pictures
Sanjay Dutt, John Abraham

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Films scheduled to be released in 2006

This article or section contains information about one or more scheduled or expected future films.
It may contain information of a speculative nature and the content may change dramatically as the film’s release approaches and more information becomes available.
The following are two lists:
• The first is a list of movies sorted by their release date
• The second is a list of movies with no entered release date
• This list is based on U.S. and Canadian release dates. If you are seeking release date information for a different country, check the appropriate page in that film’s IMDB entry.
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By release date
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March-June
Release dates:
• “LR”: Limited release in select cities
• “WR”: Wide-release to theaters
• “IMAX”: Release to IMAX theaters

March
Film Date Studio Other notes
16 Blocks
March 3 WR
Warner Bros.
Bruce Willis, Mos Def

Aquamarine
March 3 WR
20th Century Fox
Sara Paxton, Emma Roberts

Ultraviolet
March 3 WR
Screen Gems
Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund

Deep Sea 3D
March 3
IMAX Johhny Depp (Narrator)

Merry Christmas
March 3 LR
Sony Pictures Classics
Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann

Ask the Dust
March 10 WR
Paramount Pictures
Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek

Failure to Launch
March 10 WR
Paramount Pictures
Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Bates

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
March 10 LR
Palm Pictures
Asia Argento, Jimmy Bennett, Dylan and Cole Sprouse

The Hills Have Eyes
March 10 WR
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Vinessa Shaw, Kathleen Quinlan, Aaron Stanford

The Shaggy Dog
March 10 WR
Walt Disney Pictures
Tim Allen, Kristin Davis, Danny Glover

Temporada de patos
March 10 LR
Warner Independent Pictures

Don’t Come Knocking
March 17 LR
Sony Pictures Classics
Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Eva Marie Saint

Find Me Guilty
March 17 LR
Freestyle Releasing
Vin Diesel

She’s the Man
March 17 WR
DreamWorks
Amanda Bynes

Thank You for Smoking
March 17 LR
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Katie Holmes

V for Vendetta
March 17 WR
Warner Bros.
Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea

American Gun
22 March LR IFC Films
Donald Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Marcia Gay Harden, Linda Cardellini, Nikki Reed, Arlen Escarpeta, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Schuyler Fisk, Tony Goldwyn, Melissa Leo

L’Enfant
March 24 LR
Sony Pictures Classics

Inside Man
March 24 WR
Universal Pictures
Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster

Stay Alive
March 24 WR
Buena Vista
Frankie Muniz, Adam Goldberg, Samaire Armstrong, Sophia Bush

ATL
March 31 WR
Warner Bros.

Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction
March 31 WR
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, Charlotte Rampling

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
March 31 WR
20th Century Fox
Ray Romano (voice), John Leguizamo (voice), Denis Leary (voice), Queen Latifah (voice), Seann William Scott (voice), Josh Peck (voice), Jay Leno (voice)

Lucky Number Slevin
March 31 WR
The Weinstein Co.
Josh Hartnett, Lucy Liu, Ben Kingsley

Slither
March 31 WR
Universal Pictures
Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker

April
Film Date Studio Other notes
The Benchwarmers
April 7 WR Revolution Studios
Rob Schneider, David Spade, Jon Lovitz

Lucky You
April 7 WR Warner Bros.
Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore

Phat Girlz
April 7 WR Fox Searchlight Pictures
Mo’Nique Imes-Jackson

Take the Lead
April 7 WR New Line Cinema
Antonio Banderas

Kinky Boots
April 14 LR
Miramax Films
Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor

La mujer de mi hermano
April 14 LR
Lions Gate Films
Bárbara Mori, Manolo Cardona, Bruno Bichir

The Notorious Bettie Page
April 14 LR
Picturehouse
Gretchen Mol, Christian Bauer, Jared Harris

Scary Movie 4
April 14 WR
The Weinstein Co.
Anna Faris

The Wild
April 14 WR
Walt Disney Pictures
Kiefer Sutherland, William Shatner, Greg Cipes, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo, Richard Kind, James Belushi (voices)

American Dreamz
April 21 WR
Universal Pictures
Hugh Grant, Mandy Moore, Dennis Quaid

Hoot
April 21 WR
New Line Cinema
Logan Lerman, Brie Larson, Luke Wilson

The Sentinel
April 21 WR
20th Century Fox
Michael Douglas, Kim Basinger

Silent Hill
April 21 WR
Tri-Star Pictures
Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean

Stick It
April 21 WR
Buena Vista
Jeff Bridges, Missy Peregrym, Vanessa Lengies

Akeelah and the Bee
April 28 WR
Lions Gate Films
Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett

Art School Confidential
April 28 LR
United Artists
Max Minghella, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Anjelica Huston, Joel Moore

Flight 93
April 28 WR
Universal Pictures

R.V.
April 28 WR
Columbia Pictures
Robin Williams, Cheryl Hines, Kristin Chenoweth

Waist Deep
April 28 WR
Focus Features
Tyrese Gibson, The Game, Larenz Tate

May
Film Date Studio Other notes
Airborn
May 5 WR Universal Pictures
Stephen Sommers (director)

In the Land of Women
May 5 LR Warner Independent Pictures
Meg Ryan

Mission: Impossible III
May 5 WR Paramount Pictures
Tom Cruise, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Michelle Monaghan, Philip Seymour Hoffman

The Proposition
May 5 LR First Look Pictures
Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
May 5 LR Tartan Pictures
Park Chan-wook (director)

Goal!
May 12 WR Walt Disney Pictures
Kuno Becker, Marcel Iureş

Just My Luck
May 12 WR 20th Century Fox
Lindsay Lohan

Poseidon
May 12 WR Warner Bros.
Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Emmy Rossum

The Da Vinci Code
May 19 WR Columbia Pictures
Tom Hanks, Ian McKellen, Audrey Tautou

Over the Hedge
May 19 WR Paramount Pictures
Bruce Willis (voice), Garry Shandling (voice), Steve Carell (voice), William Shatner (voice), Avril Lavigne (voice), Wanda Sykes (voice)

See No Evil
May 19 WR Lions Gate Films
Glen Jacobs

Confetti
May 26 LR
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Martin Freeman, Jessica Stevenson, Jimmy Carr

Little Man
May 26 WR Revolution Studios
Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans

X-Men 3
May 26 WR 20th Century Fox
Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Kelsey Grammer

June
Film Date Studio Other notes
The Break-Up
June 2 WR Universal Pictures
Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn

Nacho Libre
June 2 WR Paramount Pictures
Jack Black, Jared Hess (director)

The Omen 666
June 6 WR 20th Century Fox
Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles

Cars
June 9 WR Pixar/Walt Disney Pictures
Paul Newman (voice), Owen Wilson (voice), Larry the Cable Guy (voice)

A Prairie Home Companion
June 9 WR Sandcastle 5 Productions
Lindsay Lohan, Meryl Streep, Robin Williams

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
June 16 WR Universal Pictures
Lucas Black, Bow Wow

The Lake House
June 16 WR Warner Bros.
Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock

Pathfinder
June 16 WR 20th Century Fox
Karl Urban

Mustang Sally
18 June
New Line
Elizabeth Daily, Mark Parrish

Click
June 23 WR Columbia Pictures
Adam Sandler, Christopher Walken

Garfield 2
June 23 WR 20th Century Fox
Breckin Meyer

Strangers With Candy
June 28 LR
Paramount Pictures
Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Matthew Broderick, Dan Hedaya, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ian Holm, Todd Oldham, Sarah Jessica Parker

The Devil Wears Prada
June 30 WR 20th Century Fox
Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci

Superman Returns
June 30 WR Warner Bros.
Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth

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July-September
Release dates:
• “LR”: Limited release in select cities
• “WR”: Wide-release to theaters
• “IMAX”: Release to IMAX theaters
July
Film Date Studio Other notes
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
July 7 WR Walt Disney Pictures
Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley

A Scanner Darkly
July 7 LR Warner Independent Pictures
Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder

Pulse
July 14 WR Dimension Films
Kristen Bell, Christina Milian

Super Ex-Girlfriend
July 14 WR 20th Century Fox
Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris

You, Me and Dupree
July 14 WR Universal Pictures
Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon

Lady in the Water
July 21 WR Warner Bros.
Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard

Monster House
July 21 WR TriStar Pictures

Flicka
July 28 WR 20th Century Fox
Alison Lohman, Daniel Pino, Dallas Roberts

Miami Vice
July 28 WR Universal Pictures
Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li

August
Film Date Studio Other notes
The Ant Bully
August 4 WR Warner Bros.
Paul Giamatti, Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage

Talladega Nights
August 4 WR TriStar Pictures
Will Ferrell

Accepted
August 11 WR
Universal Pictures
Justin Long, Blake Lively

September
August 11 WR
Paramount Pictures
Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena, Maggie Gyllenhaal

The Visiting
August 11 WR
Warner Bros.
Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam

Zoom
August 11 WR
Columbia Pictures
Tim Allen, Courteney Cox

Clerks 2
August 18
Weinstein Co.
Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith

Snakes on a Plane
August 18 WR
New Line Cinema
Samuel L. Jackson, Nathan Phillips, Benjamin McKenzie

Stormbreaker
August 18 WR
The Weinstein Co.
Alex Pettyfer, Alicia Silverstone, Ewan McGregor

DOA: Dead or Alive
August 25 WR
Dimension Films
Devon Aoki, Jaime Pressly, Kevin Nash, Brian J. White

How to Eat Fried Worms
August 25 WR
New Line Cinema

Idlewild
August 25
Universal Pictures/HBO Films
China Anderson, Macy Gray, Terrence Howard, Patti LaBelle, Ving Rhames, Cicely Tyson, Ben Vereen

Yankee Irving
August 25 WR
20th Century Fox

September
Film Date Studio Other notes
Awake
September 1 WR Weinstein Co.
Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Lena Olin, Terrence Howard and Sam Robards

The Return
September 1
Rogue Pictures
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Peter O’Brien, Sam Shepard

Goal! 2
September 1
Walt Disney Pictures
Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Anna Friel

The Covenant
September 8 WR Screen Gems
Toby Hemingway

Gridiron Gang
September 15 WR
Columbia Pictures
The Rock

The Worst Day Ever
18 September LR Hidden Mission Entertainment

For Your Consideration
September 22 LR
Warner Independent Pictures
Christopher Guest, Ricky Gervais, Harry Shearer

Grind House
September 22 WR
The Weinstein Co.
Quentin Tarantino (director), Robert Rodriguez (director)

Jackass 2
September 22 WR
Paramount Pictures
Johnny Knoxville, Chris Pontius, Bam Margera, Preston Lacy, Ryan Dunn, Brandon DiCamillo, Dave England, Steve-O, Jason Acuna

Zodiac
September 22 WR
Warner Bros.
David Fincher (director), Robert Downey Jr., Jake Gyllenhaal, Anthony Edwards

The Children of Men
September 29 WR
Universal Pictures
Clive Owen

Open Season
September 29 WR
Columbia Pictures
Martin Lawrence (voice), Ashton Kutcher (voice)

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October-December
Release dates:
• “LR”: Limited release in select cities
• “WR”: Wide-release to theaters
• “IMAX”: Release to IMAX theaters
October
Film Date Studio Other notes
Babel
October 6 LR Paramount Classics
Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett

Barnyard
October 6 WR Paramount Pictures
Kevin James (voice), Courteney Cox (voice)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
October 6 WR New Line Cinema
Andrew Bryniarski, Jordana Brewster

The Black Dahlia
October 13 WR Universal Pictures
Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart

Infamous
October 13 LR Warner Independent Pictures
Sandra Bullock, Toby Jones, Daniel Craig

Marie-Antoinette
October 13 WR Columbia Pictures
Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Steve Coogan

Sunshine
October 13 WR 20th Century Fox
Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Cillian Murphy

The Grudge 2
October 20 WR Columbia Pictures
Sarah Michelle Gellar

Saw III
October 27 WR Lions Gate Films

Dramarama
30 October LR Warner Bros.

Evil Behind You
October 31 LR Warner Bros.

November
Film Date Studio Other notes
Across The Universe
November 3 WR Julie Taymor (director)

Flushed Away
November 3 WR DreamWorks
Hugh Jackman (voice), Kate Winslet (voice)

The Santa Clause 3
November 3 WR Walt Disney Pictures
Tim Allen, Martin Short

The Legend of Lucy Keyes
November 4 LR Moody Independent
Julie Delpy

Conversations with Other Women
November 8 LR Helena Bonham Carter, Aaron Eckhart

Dallas
November 10 WR 20th Century Fox

Stranger Than Fiction
November 10 WR Columbia Pictures
Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman

Casino Royale
November 17 WR Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Ludger Pistor

Happy Feet
November 17 WR Warner Bros.
Elijah Wood, Brittany Murphy, Robin Williams

The Painted Veil
November 17 LR Warner Independent Pictures
Edward Norton, Naomi Watts

Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny
November 17 WR New Line Cinema
Jack Black, Kyle Gass

Let’s Go to Prison
November 22 WR Universal Pictures

December
Film Date Studio Other notes
Holiday
December 8 WR
Columbia Pictures
Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law

Eragon
December 15 WR
20th Century Fox
Sienna Guillory, Djimon Hounsou, Jeremy Irons

Meet the Robinsons
December 15 WR
Walt Disney Pictures

Pursuit of Happyness
December 15 WR
Columbia Pictures
Will Smith, Thandie Newton

The Breed
December 15 LR
Michelle Rodriguez, Oliver Hudson, Taryn Manning, Hill Harper

Charlotte’s Web
December 20 WR
Paramount Pictures
Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts (voice)

Dreamgirls
December 22
DreamWorks
Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, Danny Glover

Evan Almighty
December 22 WR
Universal Pictures
Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman

The Good Shepherd
December 22 WR
Universal Pictures
Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie, Matt Damon

Night at the Museum
December 22 WR
20th Century Fox
Ben Stiller

Arthur and the Minimoys
December 25 WR
EuropaCorp
Luc Besson (director), Freddie Highmore voice, Madonna voice, David Bowie voice, Snoop Dogg voice

Car Babes
December 26
Ben Savage

Allen
December 29 WR
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Imagine Entertainment
animated, voices of Donald Sutherland, Chris Klein, Damain Chapa, Anna Faris, Denis Leary, Nikki Cox, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Michael McKean, Joe Pesci, Charlie Sheen and Steve Martin

The 11th Aggression
December 31 LR
Elias Castillo, Steve Furedy

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Unannounced release date
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#-D
#
• 1001 Nights – starring Jeffrey Wright
• 30 Days of Night
• 300 – starring Gerard Butler, Michael Fassbender, Lena Headey, Deke Richards, Rodrigo Santoro, Dylan Smith (actor), David Wenham, Dominic West
• 88 Minutes – starring Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Amy Brenneman, Leelee Sobieski, Benjamin McKenzie, Deborah Kara Unger, William Forsythe, Neal McDonough, Brendan Fletcher
A
• Alice – October 2006 WR – starring Sarah Michelle Gellar
• Alien Autopsy – starring Bill Pullman and Harry Dean Stanton
• All the Invisible Children – John Woo (director), Ridley Scott (director), Stefano Veneruso (director), Katia Lund (director), Mehdi Charef (director) and Emir Kusturica (director)
• All the King’s Men
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The Movie
• Astérix et les Vikings
• August Rush – starring Freddie Highmore, Liv Tyler, Robin Williams
• Autopsy – starring Kelli Garner
B
• Becoming Jane – Anne Hathaway, Maggie Smith
• The Berkeley Connection – starring Jennifer Connelly, Robert Duvall, Dustin Hoffman
• Big Bug Man – animated, starring voices of: Brendan Fraser, Marlon Brando
• Black Christmas – November 2006
• The Black Widow – starring Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Aaron Eckhart
• The Brazilian Job – Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Jason Statham, Seth Green, Mos Def
C
• Caffeine – starring Andrew Ableson, Callum Blue
• Cat Tale – animated, vocies of Sean Astin, David Cross, Alan Cumming, Elisha Cuthbert, R. Lee Ermey, Billy Idol, Wayne Knight, Jerry O’Connell, Catherine O’Hara, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Richards, Rip Torn, Stanley Tucci, Fred Willard
• Chromophobia – Clive Carter, Ben Chaplin, Penélope Cruz, Ralph Fiennes
• The Cleaner – starring Cedric the Entertainer
• Colour Me Kubrick – John Malkovich
• Coming Out – starring Alan Cumming, Gavin Henson, Catherine Zeta-Jones
• A Cool Breeze on the Underground – Nick Stahl
• Cougars – Christopher Gorham, Sharon Stone
• The Crowded Room – Joel Schumacher (director)
D
• The Darkroom – Shawn Pyfrom, Lucy Lawless
• The Darwin Awards – Joseph Fiennes, Winona Ryder, David Arquette, Chris Penn
• Deadwood Park – October 2006
• Delgo – animated voices of Anne Bancroft, Val Kilmer, Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Chris Kattan, Louis Gossett Jr., Eric Idle, Kelly Ripa, Michael Clarke Duncan, Malcolm McDowell
• The Departed – December 29, 2006 – Warner Bros. – [[Leonardo
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• Edison – Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes
• Even Money – Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, Kelsey Grammer, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker
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• Flags of Our Fathers – DreamWorks – Clint Eastwood (director), Paul Haggis (Screenwriter), Jamie Bell
• The Fountain – Warner Bros. – Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz
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• Gray Matters – Heather Graham, Thomas Cavanagh, Molly Shannon, Alan Cumming, Sissy Spacek
• The Great Debaters – Harpo Films\Miramax – Denzel Washington (director), Suzan-Lori Parks and Robert Eisele (screenwriters)
• The Guardian – Touchstone Pictures – Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Sela Ward
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• Half-Life – Jennifer Phang (writer & director)
• Halloween: Retribution – August 2006 – Heather Bowen
• Hannibal – Columbia Pictures – Vin Diesel (director and actor)
• Happily N’Ever After – animated voices of Sigourney Weaver, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr., George Carlin
• The Heartbreak Kide – DreamWorks – Bobby Farrelly/Peter Farrelly (directors), Jason Bateman
• Henry’s List of Wrongs – New Line
• High Rise
• Highlander: The Source – Lions Gate – Adrian Paul
• Hollywood Dreams – Karen Black, Justin Kirk, Melissa Leo
• Hollywoodland – Focus Features – Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck, Diane Lane, Bob Hoskins
• Hot Fuzz – Working Title Films
• Hui Buh – Das Schlossgespenst – Michael Herbig
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• The Ice at the Bottom of the World – New Line – Charlize Theron
• Inkheart – December 2006
• Isolated
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• Jadesoturi
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• Klimt – John Malkovich
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• The Last Kiss – Actors: Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Rachel Bilson
• The Last Unicorn – Christopher Lee, Mia Farrow, Rene Auberjonois
• Little Athens – June 2005
• A Little Trip to Heaven – Forest Whitaker, Julia Stiles, Peter Coyote
• Lovewrecked – Amanda Bynes, Chris Carmack, Fred Willard, Lance Bass
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• Madness – Fiona Horne
• The Man from London – Tilda Swinton
• Material Girls – Martha Coolidge (director), Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff, Anjelica Huston, Brent Spiner, Lukas Haas
• Matti
• Mortal Kombat: Devastation
• Mrs. Harris – John Patrick Amedori, Annette Bening, Ellen Burstyn, Brett Butler
• The Mountains (anime) – Japan on December 29 and U.S. January 5, 2007
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• Nail Polish – Alexandra Lydon
• Neverwas – Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen, William Hurt
• Niagara Motel – Tom Barnett, Craig Ferguson, Kevin Pollak
• Night of the Living Dead 3-D – March 17
• Night Skies – Jason Connery, A.J. Cook, Ashley Peldon
• The Night Watchman – Keanu Reeves
• Nobel Son – Alan Rickman, Ted Danson, Danny DeVito, Bill Pullman
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• Outward Blonde – Hilary Duff
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• Perfect Stranger – Revolution Studios – Halle Berry, Bruce Willis
• Population 436 – Columbia Pictures – Fred Durst
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• Romance & Cigarettes – United Artists – John Turturro (director), James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Mandy Moore, Mary-Louise Parker, Eddie Izzard
• Room 6 – Jerry O’Connell
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• School for Scoundrels – October 2006
• Scoop – BBC Films – Woody Allen (director), Romola Garai, Jody Halse, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Ian McShane, James Nesbitt, Colin Salmon
• The Secret Life of Bees – Focus Features – Dakota Fanning
• Sicko – September 2006 – Weinstein Company
• Simon Says – Crispin Glover
• Sin City 2 – Weinstein Company – Frank Miller/Robert Rodriguez (director), Jessica Alba, Devon Aoki, Rosario Dawson, Jaime King, Brittany Murphy, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke
• Soul Searchers – Billy Drago
• Southland Tales – Universal Pictures – The Rock, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Miranda Richardson, Kevin Smith, Curtis Armstrong, Bai Ling, Nora Dunn, Janeane Garofalo, Christopher Lambert, Jon Lovitz, Mandy Moore, Cheri Oteri, Amy Poehler, Will Sasso, Justin Timberlake
• Starter for Ten – Picturehouse – Benedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy, Catherine Tate
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• Tideland – Terry Gilliam (director), Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Tilly
• Toto – Gael García Bernal
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• Valley of Flowers
• Van Wilder 2: Rise of the Taj – Kal Penn
• Voyeur – Phil Austin
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• Whitepaddy – Sherilyn Fenn, Lisa Bonet, Karen Black, Hill Harper
• The Wicker Man – Warner Bros. – Neil LaBute (director), Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn
• The Woods – United Artists – Colleen Williams
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• Zombies – Screen Gems – Scout Taylor-Compton, Chloe Moretz, Geoffrey Lewis
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Sources
• Box Office Mojo film release schedule
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