- 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)
Film and TV Awards
Jan 16 63rd Golden Globes: Brokeback Mountain, Philip Seymour Hoffman, & Felicity Huffman win
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
Event of Interest
Feb 7 Uma Thurman is named a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France for outstanding achievement in the field of art and literature
Uma Thurman
Event of Interest
Feb 9 Al Michaels joins NBC's "Sunday Night Football" broadcast with John Madden
Al Michaels
John Madden
- Feb 9 56th Berlin International Film Festival: "Grbavica" wins the Golden Bear
- Feb 19 59th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "Brokeback Mountain" Best Film, Ang Lee Best Director
- Mar 1 Animated film "Ice Age: The Meltdown" directed by Carlos Saldanha with voices by Ray Romano and John Leguizamo premieres in Belgium
- Mar 3 37th NAACP Image Awards: "Crash" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
- Mar 4 26th Golden Raspberry Awards: Dirty Love wins
Music Awards
Mar 4 20th Soul Train Music Awards: Jamie Foxx, Destiny's Child & John Legend win
Jamie Foxx
John Legend
Film Awards
Mar 5 78th Academy Awards: "Crash", Philip Seymour Hoffman & Reese Witherspoon win
Reese Witherspoon
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Event of Interest
Mar 5 Nature documentary "Planet Earth" narrated by David Attenborough premieres on the BBC
David Attenborough
- May 7 52nd British Academy Television Awards: "Help" Best Comedy, "Doctor Who" Best Drama
- May 27 "Pan's Labyrinth" fantasy film on the Spanish Civil War written and directed by Guillermo del Toro debuts at Cannes
- May 28 59th Cannes Film Festival: "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" directed by Ken Loach wins the Palme d'Or
Film Premier
Jun 24 "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom, premieres at Disneyland - becomes fastest film to gross over 1 billion
- Jul 20 39th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
TV Show Appearance
Jul 20 During an appearance on "The Tonight Show", Colin Farrell is confronted by telephone sex worker Dessarae Bradford, who had been stalking the actor
Colin Farrell
- Jul 30 World's longest running music show "Top of the Pops" is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show aired for 42 years.
Event of Interest
Aug 8 Actor Sylvester Stallone and former heavyweight boxing contender Chuck Wepner settle law suit out of court for an undisclosed sum; Wepner claims he was the inspiration for the "Rocky" movies
Sylvester Stallone
Television Awards
Aug 27 58th Emmy Awards: 24, The Office, Kiefer Sutherland & Mariska Hargitay win
Mariska Hargitay
Film Premier
Sep 7 Sacha Baron Cohen's mockumentary "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" premieres at the Toronto Film Festival
Sacha Baron Cohen
- Sep 18 Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest, Hungary, one day after an audio tape was made public, in which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány admitted he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections.
Film Premier
Sep 26 Martin Scorsese's "The Departed", starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Mark Wahlberg, premieres in New York City (Best Picture 2007)
- Oct 3 American drama series "Friday Night Lights" starring Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton premieres on NBC
Television Debut
Oct 11 "30 Rock", starring Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, and Tracy Morgan, debuts on NBC
Tina Fey
Alec Baldwin
Television Premiere
Oct 11 US sitcom "30 Rock" created by and starring Tina Fey alongside Alec Baldwin and ensemble cast first premieres
Alec Baldwin
- Nov 14 "Casino Royale", 21st James Bond film premieres in London, starring Daniel Craig for the 1st time and Eva Green, premieres in London
Event of Interest
Dec 5 Audrey Hepburn's Givenchy little black dress from film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" auctioned for charity for record £467,200 ($923,187) at Christie's, London
Audrey Hepburn
Hubert de Givenchy