Including any big foreign and animated films:

Feature Films:

03/17 - Thank You For Smoking, Fox Searchlight

04/07 - Lucky You, Warner Bros.
04/28 - Water, Fox Searchlight
04/28 - Flight 93, Universal
04/28 - Art School Confidential, Universal

05/19 - The Da Vinci Code, Sony

06/16 - The Lake House, Warner Bros.
06/30 - The Devil Wears Prada, 20th Century Fox

07/07 - Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest, Disney
07/21 - Lady in the Water, Warner Bros.
07/28 - Miami Vice, Universal

08/04 - Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Sony
08/11 - The Visiting, Warner Bros.
08/25 - "Untitled IDT Entertainment Project", 20th Century Fox
08/xx - World Trade Center, Paramount

09/22 - Running with Scissors, Sony
09/29 - Children of Men, Universal

10/13 - Marie Antoinette, Sony

11/10 - Stanger than Fiction, Sony

12/15 - Pursuit of Happyness, Sony
12/22 - Dreamgirls, Dreamworks
12/22 - The Good Sheperd, Universal

xx/xx - All the King's Men, Sony
xx/xx - Apocalypto, Disney
xx/xx - The Assassination of Jesse james by the Coward Robert Ford, Warner Bros.
xx/xx - The Black Dahlia, Universal
xx/xx - The Departed, Warner Bros.
xx/xx - Babel, Paramount
xx/xx - Flags of our Fathers, Dreamworks
xx/xx - The Fountain, Warner Bros.
xx/xx - The Good German, Warner Bros.
xx/xx - A Good Year, 20th Century Fox
xx/xx - Holiday, Sony
xx/xx - Inglorious Bastards, Weinstein Co.
xx/xx - The Last King of Scotland, Fox Searchlight
xx/xx - The Last Kiss, Dreamworks
xx/xx - Truth, Justice, and the American Way, Focus
xx/xx - Margaret, Fox Searchlight
xx/xx - Notes On A Scandal, Fox Searchlight
xx/xx - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Dreamworks
xx/xx - Pathfinder, 20th Century Fox
xx/xx - Piece of My Heart, Paramount
xx/xx - Zodiac, Paramount

Animated Films:
02/10 - Curious George, Universal
02/24 - Doogal, Weinstein Co.
03/31 - Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
05/19 - Over the Hedge, Dreamworks
06/09 - Cars, Disney
07/21 - Monster House, Sony
08/04 - The Ant Bully, Warner Bros.
09/29 - Open Season, Sony
10/06 - Barnyard, Paramount
11/03 - Flushed Away, Dreamworks
11/17 - Happy Feet, Warner Bros.
12/xx - Meet the Robinsons, Disney

Any info on Paris, Je T'aime (Or wahtever, i dun speak french sry)?

That;s been my most anticipated for like 3 years

The Fountain was pushed back to 06 i believe...should be good.

Oh wait, this is the Award forum. So these should probably Award hopefuls? In that case, I dunno...those two might still qualify.

I put Fountain up there... Paris... I'm not sure.

Zodiac
Truth Justice and The American Way
Eastwood's 2 war films
The Departed

Good stuff! I'll add it. I'll also add Clint's 2nd movie when there are details released. I don't think it's going to hit in 2006.

Oh man, Eastwood with Flags is once again going to own Scorsece with his The Departed. I feel kind've sorry for him, this'll be the second time in a row where he's simply picked the complete wrong year to run for it .

What'll this be, 0 for 8 now?

If it's Clint and Martin again, Martin will win this time, even if Flags wins.

The Departed may be one of the first high-profile honest-to-god remakes to be nominated for Best Picture.

Although an August release date makes it a longer shot.

How will Martin win? Eastwood is looking to dominate come 2007, especially for directing in this movie. If anything I think theres a better chance of Eastwood taking director, while Martin will have the higher-profile movie, huge stars getting quite a B.O. and sweeping acting awards, which could = Best Picture, but no Director.

I shouldn't have to explain this to you. Disagree if you want to, but you know the reasoning. *IF* they are running against each other, Scorsese will win. Scorsese is a long shot for a nom though with a remake that opens in August.

And all I can say is THANK GOD. There was a time when Scorsese directed films and not Oscar bait.


And the simple fact that he won all over the 2005 awards should give you pause.

Clint Eastwood has produced two very great personal drama stories in the last few years. Flags of our Fathers is a big war epic. It's not like all of Eastwood's past directing gigs have been golden. It's not like the Academy is going to recognize every Eastwood film until the end of time.

Do NOT make me remind you of Blood Work, Space Cowboys and that PAUL WALKER is the lead.

The Good German is another.

Piece of my Heart could be the next singer biopic. Don't know when it's scheduled, though.

Thats why I think he could walk away with just director, simply for his job. With the movie being nothing extrodinary, just his work doing it is, it could succumb the BP to Martin and his very big acting-wise and B.O.-wise Departed.

And yes, if it isn't Oscar-bait, and an actual fun movie, I'll be happy as hell even if it does mean nothing Oscar-wise. Bring back the awesome-ness.

For the sake of answering the thread title, I agree with kypade; Paris, je t'aime is definitely the most "interesting sounding" film I've heard of set for 06.

Basically, 20 filmmakers get 5 minutes of freedom to film what Paris, City of Love means to them. Then it is all tied together in some sort of narrative to make sense.

Directed by:
Gus Van Sant
Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run)
Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries)
Alexander Payne
Vincenzo Natali (Cube)
Richard LaGravenese (A Decade Under The Influence)
Jean-Luc Godard
Christopher Doyle (cinematagrapher for some huge stuff, inc Hero, 2046, Rabbit Proof Fence, Three Extremes, The White Countess etc etc)
This Guy
Alfonso Cuarón
Wes Craven
Isabel Coixet (My Life Without Me)
Coen Bros
Sylvain Chomet (Triplets of Belleville)
And More

Starring:
Steve Buscemi
Juliette Binoche
Willem Dafoe
Natalie Portman
Nick Nolte
About 500 names I don't recognize
It used to have Orlando Bloon, Gael Garcia, Johnny Depp and some other big names attached, too...dunno what happend there.

Here's the full plot summary from IMDb (long but worth reading):



It honestly sounds too good to be true.

For this thread it is.

It couldn't be nominated in foreign. There's also not a single director.

So it has no chances for anything major.

So I won't list it

heh...I know. But at that point I was just saying what was interesting. :o

Also, have you always yoused smilies? It seems like recently I've seen a bunch, but before the other day I never saw any...:o:O

Not sure about the studio, but Running With Scissors with Annette Benning and Gwyneth Paltrow. Could be Bening's year.

I forgot about A Prairie Home Companion. Could be Robert Altman's last film.

Personally, I'm very interested in The Lady from Shanghai, directed by Wong Kar-Wai and starring Nicole Kidman, if it's released in 2006. Nicole's other project, Fur, with director Steven Shainberg (Secretary), looks quite interesting too.

Are they R rated???

No rating yet.

Charlie Wilson's War

Not sure if this will make it for 2006, but with names like Tom Hanks and Aaron Sorkin attached, it's definitely one to keep an eye on. It's said to be Hanks' followup to The Da vinci Code.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0472062/

How About Mel Gibson's Apocalypto?

Wow... seriously?

I will update the others later.

Where did you hear that The Departed was opening in Aug? Filming was just completed on The Departed in Sept and Scorsese usually takes about a year to edit his films. GONY took over a year to edit. It's unlikely TD will be completed in time for an Aug release most reports have the film opening at the end of 2006.

IMDB.

Who is usually pretty good with release dates.

Also at Wikipedia... although the information likely comes from the same source. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Departed

(IMDB seems to be dead atm)

If the film opens in August that gives him like 10 months to edit the film... just the same amount of time that it took to edit The Aviator before it started screenings in November of 2004.

I have no doubt that Gangs of New York took forever to edit, in fact, to me, it looks like they never finished.

I find IMDB to be unreliable. I've followed production on The Departed from the beginning and no where has an Aug release date been mentioned.BTW The Aviator finished production at the beginning of Nov 2003 with first screenings at the end of Nov 2004 so that is over a year from the end of production to first screening. Scorsese usually takes a year or more to edit his films. As for GONY it won the ACE eddie, one of the oldest industry awards as the best edited dramatic film of the year so I guess some people appreciated the time and care that was taken editing the film.

Did you also get the information that The Departed is from WB/Miramax from IMBD? If so that information is also incorrect.TD is a Warner Bros film from Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's Plan B production company.