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Encyclopedia > American Film Institute Awards 2006

The AFI Awards 2006 honored the best 10 Movies and 10 Television Programs of the year. The American Film Institute (AFI) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act. ... 2006 (MMVI), a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Movies

Babel
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Devil Wears Prada, The
Dreamgirls
Half Nelson
Happy Feet
Inside Man
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
United 93 Babel is a 2006 dramatic film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. ... The Devil Wears Prada is a comedy-drama film, the screen adaptation of Lauren Weisbergers 2003 novel of the same name. ... Dreamgirls is a 2006 American musical film jointly produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures. ... Half Nelson is an American film which premiered in competition at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, and was released theatrically on August 11, 2006. ... Happy Feet is a 2006 Australian-produced computer-animated comedy-drama film, directed by George Miller. ... Inside Man is a 2006 crime-drama film starring Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster, and directed by Spike Lee. ... Letters from Iwo Jima (formerly titled Red Sun, Black Sand) is a 2006 war film directed by Clint Eastwood and scheduled for a Japanese release on December 9, 2006 and in limited release in the United States on December 20. ... This article or section contains a plot summary that may be overly long, confusing, or ambiguous. ... United 93 (formerly named Flight 93) is a 2006 critically acclaimed and award-winning docudrama written and directed by Paul Greengrass that chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was skyjacked during the September 11, 2001 attacks. ...


Television programs

24
Battlestar Galactica
Dexter
Elizabeth I
Friday Night Lights
Heroes
Office, The
South Park
West Wing, The
Wire, The 24 (twenty four) is a current U.S. television action/drama series, produced by the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide. ... Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction television series created by Ronald D. Moore that first aired on October 18, 2004 in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Sky One (in HD), and January 14, 2005 in North America on the Sci Fi Channel. ... Dexter is a Showtime original television series starring Michael C. Hall as serial killer Dexter Morgan, who works as a forensics analyst (specializing in bloodstain pattern analysis) for the Miami-Dade Police Department. ... Image:Helen duke. ... Friday Night Lights is a television drama airing on NBC. The series debuted on October 3rd, 2006[1]and airs on Tuesday nights. ... Heroes is an American drama television series, created by Tim Kring, which premiered on NBC on September 25, 2006. ... The Office is an Emmy Award-winning American television comedy that debuted on NBC as a midseason replacement on March 24, 2005. ... South Park is a Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning American animated television series about four fourth grade school boys who live in the small town of South Park, Colorado. ... The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast from 1999 to 2006. ... The Wire is an American television drama set and produced in Baltimore, Maryland. ...


Documentaries

Blindsight (Audience Award)

Preceded by
AFI Awards 2005
American Film Institute Awards
2006
Succeeded by
AFI Awards 2007


 
 

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