Events in Film & TV
- Jan 9 11th Critics' Choice Movie Awards: Brokeback Mountain wins Best Film
Film and TV Awards
Jan 10 32nd People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Sandra Bullock win (Motion Picture) and Ray Romano & Jennifer Garner win (TV)
Golden Globes
Jan 16 63rd Golden Globes: Brokeback Mountain, Philip Seymour Hoffman, & Felicity Huffman win

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Felicity Huffman
Film Release
Jan 20 TV movie "High School Musical" released starring Zac Efron and Vanessa Hugdens, becomes Disney Channel's most successful TV movie

Ashley Tisdale
- Jan 29 22nd Sundance Film Festival: "Quinceanera", directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
Event of Interest
Jan 29 US 39-cent stamp is released featuring Hattie McDaniel in the dress she wore in 1940 when she became the 1st African-American actress to accept an Academy Award

Hattie McDaniel
Weddings in Film & TV
- Jan 2 NBC correspondent Chip Reid weds Nina Block in Hawaii
Wedding of Interest
Jan 13 "The Diary of Anne Frank" actress Shelley Winters (85) weds Gerry DeFord a few hours before her death

Shelley Winters
Wedding of Interest
Jan 22 Princess of Rock and Roll Lisa Marie Presley (37) weds American guitarist and producer Michael Lockwood (44) at Kyoto, Japan

Lisa Marie Presley
Deaths in Film & TV
Shelley Winters
Jan 14 Shelley Winters [Schrift], American actress (Lolita, A Place in the Sun, A Patch of Blue & Poseidon Adventure), dies of heart failure at 85

Shelley Winters
- Jan 14 Henri Colpi, French film editor and director (b. 1921)
- Jan 19 Anthony "Tony" Franciosa [Papaleo], American actor (Career, Ben-Hur, Jeff-Name of the Game), dies at 77
- Jan 24 Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers and actor (The Five Heartbeats), dies of pneumonia and complications from a stroke at 91
- Jan 24 Chris Penn, American actor (The Wild Life), dies at 40
- Jan 26 Len Carlson, Canadian actor (b. 1937)
- Jan 28 Henry McGee, British actor and comedian (No, That's Me Over Here!, The Benny Hill Show), dies at 77
- Jan 29 Nam June Paik, Korean video artist (Medium is the Medium; hommage à john cage), dies at 73
- Jan 31 Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (The Red Shoes) and ballerina, dies at 80