The most important cultural events in the world in 2006
Prague - Overview of the most important events in world culture in 2006:
JANUARY
1. - The Greek city of Patras became the European City of Culture.
16. - The Golden Globe for Best American Dramatic Film was awarded to the film Brokeback Mountain in Los Angeles. It also won awards for direction for Ang Lee, screenplay, and original song. The best musical or comedy film was Walk the Line directed by James Mangold.
24. - The British Whitbread Prize for Literature was awarded to writer Hilary Spurling for the biography Matisse the Master.
27. - The whole world, especially Salzburg in Austria, commemorated the 250th anniversary of the birth of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
FEBRUARY
8. - At the American Grammy Awards, the Irish rock band U2 dominated, winning five trophies, including Best Album (How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb) and Song of the Year (Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own).
10. - The World Press Photo of the Year in Amsterdam was awarded to a picture of children's hands in starving Niger taken by Canadian photographer Finbarr O'Reilly working for Reuters.
18. - The Golden Bear, the main prize of the Berlinale International Film Festival, was awarded to the Bosnian film Grbavica.
MARCH
4. - American actor Tom Cruise received a Golden Raspberry anti-award for his performance in War of the Worlds. The absolute worst film of the previous year was chosen as Dirty Love.
7. - Malian "desert blues" singer Ali Farka Touré passed away at the age of 66.
5. - The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the awards. The Oscar for Best Picture was awarded to Crash directed by Paul Haggis, the Oscar for Best Director to Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain. The Best Actress award went to Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line), while the Best Actor was Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote). The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film was won by the South African film Tsotsi directed by Gavin Hood. Director Robert Altman received an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement.
13. - Rock rebels Black Sabbath, Sex Pistols, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Blondie, as well as jazz legend Miles Davis, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York.
27. - Polish writer Stanislaw Lem passed away at the age of 84 in Krakow.
APRIL
8. - The first-ever concert of the British rock band the Rolling Stones took place in China.
9. - The Pritzker Prize for Architecture was awarded to Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who has significantly contributed to the beautification of Brazilian megacity Sao Paulo over the past 50 years.
17. - The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service was jointly awarded to the newspapers The Times-Picayune from New Orleans and The Sun Herald from Biloxi for their reporting on the devastating path of Hurricane Katrina.
25. - The British-American film United 93 premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, depicting the terrorist attacks on the USA from September 11, 2001, on screen for the first time.
MAY
17. - The premiere of the film The Da Vinci Code directed by Ron Howard took place at the Cannes Film Festival.
21. - American pop queen Madonna launched her world tour Confessions On A Dance Floor in Los Angeles. She sparked outrage from the Anglican Church when she staged a "crucifixion" during the concert.
28. - The Golden Palm for Best Film at the Cannes Film Festival was awarded to the British film The Wind That Shakes the Barley directed by Ken Loach. The Grand Prix went to the film Flandres by French director Bruno Dumont.
JUNE
9. - British pop singer Robbie Williams kicked off the European leg of his world tour in Dublin, Ireland.
23. - American television and film producer Aaron Spelling passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 83.
JULY
2. - The Swedish film About Sara directed by Othman Karim won the main prize at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival.
7. - Syd Barrett of the band Pink Floyd passed away at the age of 60.
15. - The legendary techno music festival Love Parade returned to the Berlin scene after two years.
23. - The Salzburg Festival was inaugurated, dedicated to the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. A unique presentation of all 22 of Mozart's stage works began with the opera The Shepherd King.
AUGUST
4. - The premiere of Oliver Stone's film World Trade Center, depicting the dramatic situations following the terrorist attack on the USA from September 11, 2001, from the perspective of rescuers, took place in New York.
16. - The autobiographical novel by German writer Günter Grass, Beim Häuten der Zwiebel (When the Onion Peels), was published. Grass confessed a week prior that he was a member of the SS.
20. - American photographer Joe Rosenthal, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the photograph of soldiers raising the American flag on Iwo Jima during World War II, passed away at the age of 94.
24. - A more-than-100-ton statue of Pharaoh Ramses II was relocated from the busy Ramses Square in Cairo, where the 3200-year-old work had stood for fifty years, to the pyramids in Giza.
27. - The television series 24 and The Office won the main Emmy Awards for television production in the drama and comedy categories, respectively.
30. - Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel laureate in literature, passed away at the age of 94.
31. - The award for Best Music Video was won by American pop-punk quartet Panic! at the Disco at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York.
- Norwegian police recovered the famous paintings The Scream and Madonna by painter Edvard Munch, which had been stolen from a museum two years earlier.
SEPTEMBER
9. - The Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival was awarded to the film San-sia Chao-žen (Still Life) by Chinese director Jia Zhangke. American director David Lynch received the Golden Lion for contributions to world cinema.
15. - Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci passed away at the age of 77.
26. - Twenty-one watercolors and two sketches attributed to former Nazi leader Adolf Hitler were auctioned in Lostwithiel, England, for £115,000.
30. - The Golden Shell at the San Sebastián Film Festival in Spain was shared by the films Half Moon by Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi and Mon fils a moi (My Son to Me) by French filmmaker Martial Fougeron.
OCTOBER
10. - The Booker Prize for Best English-Language Work was awarded to Indian writer Kiran Desai for the saga The Inheritance of Loss.
12. - The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk.
21. - The first edition of the Rome Film Festival was won by the Russian film Playing the Victim by Kirill Serebrennikov.
NOVEMBER
1. - American writer William Styron passed away at the age of 81.
2. - An anonymous collector paid the highest amount for a painting in history at an auction in New York, buying "No.5, 1948" by American painter Jackson Pollock for $140 million.
- The European MTV Award ceremony took place in Copenhagen. The award for Best Male Artist went to American singer Justin Timberlake, for Best Female Artist to Christina Aguilera, for Best Group to British Depeche Mode, and for Best Album to Red Hot Chilli Peppers (Stadium Arcadium).
9. - The new central synagogue in Munich opened at the same location where Adolf Hitler had it demolished in 1938.
14. - Queen Elizabeth II, Daniel Craig, and other stars and thousands of fans of agent 007 gathered in London for the world premiere of the 21st James Bond film Casino Royale.
20. - American director Robert Altman passed away at the age of 81.
23. - French actor Philippe Noiret passed away at the age of 76.
30. - The Cervantes Prize, the highest literary award in the Spanish-speaking world, was awarded to Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda for his lifetime achievement.
DECEMBER
2. - The German film The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) won the award for Best European Film of 2006 in Warsaw. The most awards were received by Pedro Almodóvar’s film Volver.
JANUARY
1. - The Greek city of Patras became the European City of Culture.
16. - The Golden Globe for Best American Dramatic Film was awarded to the film Brokeback Mountain in Los Angeles. It also won awards for direction for Ang Lee, screenplay, and original song. The best musical or comedy film was Walk the Line directed by James Mangold.
24. - The British Whitbread Prize for Literature was awarded to writer Hilary Spurling for the biography Matisse the Master.
27. - The whole world, especially Salzburg in Austria, commemorated the 250th anniversary of the birth of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
FEBRUARY
8. - At the American Grammy Awards, the Irish rock band U2 dominated, winning five trophies, including Best Album (How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb) and Song of the Year (Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own).
10. - The World Press Photo of the Year in Amsterdam was awarded to a picture of children's hands in starving Niger taken by Canadian photographer Finbarr O'Reilly working for Reuters.
18. - The Golden Bear, the main prize of the Berlinale International Film Festival, was awarded to the Bosnian film Grbavica.
MARCH
4. - American actor Tom Cruise received a Golden Raspberry anti-award for his performance in War of the Worlds. The absolute worst film of the previous year was chosen as Dirty Love.
7. - Malian "desert blues" singer Ali Farka Touré passed away at the age of 66.
5. - The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the awards. The Oscar for Best Picture was awarded to Crash directed by Paul Haggis, the Oscar for Best Director to Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain. The Best Actress award went to Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line), while the Best Actor was Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote). The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film was won by the South African film Tsotsi directed by Gavin Hood. Director Robert Altman received an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement.
13. - Rock rebels Black Sabbath, Sex Pistols, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Blondie, as well as jazz legend Miles Davis, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York.
27. - Polish writer Stanislaw Lem passed away at the age of 84 in Krakow.
APRIL
8. - The first-ever concert of the British rock band the Rolling Stones took place in China.
9. - The Pritzker Prize for Architecture was awarded to Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who has significantly contributed to the beautification of Brazilian megacity Sao Paulo over the past 50 years.
17. - The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service was jointly awarded to the newspapers The Times-Picayune from New Orleans and The Sun Herald from Biloxi for their reporting on the devastating path of Hurricane Katrina.
25. - The British-American film United 93 premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, depicting the terrorist attacks on the USA from September 11, 2001, on screen for the first time.
MAY
17. - The premiere of the film The Da Vinci Code directed by Ron Howard took place at the Cannes Film Festival.
21. - American pop queen Madonna launched her world tour Confessions On A Dance Floor in Los Angeles. She sparked outrage from the Anglican Church when she staged a "crucifixion" during the concert.
28. - The Golden Palm for Best Film at the Cannes Film Festival was awarded to the British film The Wind That Shakes the Barley directed by Ken Loach. The Grand Prix went to the film Flandres by French director Bruno Dumont.
JUNE
9. - British pop singer Robbie Williams kicked off the European leg of his world tour in Dublin, Ireland.
23. - American television and film producer Aaron Spelling passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 83.
JULY
2. - The Swedish film About Sara directed by Othman Karim won the main prize at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival.
7. - Syd Barrett of the band Pink Floyd passed away at the age of 60.
15. - The legendary techno music festival Love Parade returned to the Berlin scene after two years.
23. - The Salzburg Festival was inaugurated, dedicated to the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. A unique presentation of all 22 of Mozart's stage works began with the opera The Shepherd King.
AUGUST
4. - The premiere of Oliver Stone's film World Trade Center, depicting the dramatic situations following the terrorist attack on the USA from September 11, 2001, from the perspective of rescuers, took place in New York.
16. - The autobiographical novel by German writer Günter Grass, Beim Häuten der Zwiebel (When the Onion Peels), was published. Grass confessed a week prior that he was a member of the SS.
20. - American photographer Joe Rosenthal, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the photograph of soldiers raising the American flag on Iwo Jima during World War II, passed away at the age of 94.
24. - A more-than-100-ton statue of Pharaoh Ramses II was relocated from the busy Ramses Square in Cairo, where the 3200-year-old work had stood for fifty years, to the pyramids in Giza.
27. - The television series 24 and The Office won the main Emmy Awards for television production in the drama and comedy categories, respectively.
30. - Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel laureate in literature, passed away at the age of 94.
31. - The award for Best Music Video was won by American pop-punk quartet Panic! at the Disco at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York.
- Norwegian police recovered the famous paintings The Scream and Madonna by painter Edvard Munch, which had been stolen from a museum two years earlier.
SEPTEMBER
9. - The Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival was awarded to the film San-sia Chao-žen (Still Life) by Chinese director Jia Zhangke. American director David Lynch received the Golden Lion for contributions to world cinema.
15. - Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci passed away at the age of 77.
26. - Twenty-one watercolors and two sketches attributed to former Nazi leader Adolf Hitler were auctioned in Lostwithiel, England, for £115,000.
30. - The Golden Shell at the San Sebastián Film Festival in Spain was shared by the films Half Moon by Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi and Mon fils a moi (My Son to Me) by French filmmaker Martial Fougeron.
OCTOBER
10. - The Booker Prize for Best English-Language Work was awarded to Indian writer Kiran Desai for the saga The Inheritance of Loss.
12. - The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk.
21. - The first edition of the Rome Film Festival was won by the Russian film Playing the Victim by Kirill Serebrennikov.
NOVEMBER
1. - American writer William Styron passed away at the age of 81.
2. - An anonymous collector paid the highest amount for a painting in history at an auction in New York, buying "No.5, 1948" by American painter Jackson Pollock for $140 million.
- The European MTV Award ceremony took place in Copenhagen. The award for Best Male Artist went to American singer Justin Timberlake, for Best Female Artist to Christina Aguilera, for Best Group to British Depeche Mode, and for Best Album to Red Hot Chilli Peppers (Stadium Arcadium).
9. - The new central synagogue in Munich opened at the same location where Adolf Hitler had it demolished in 1938.
14. - Queen Elizabeth II, Daniel Craig, and other stars and thousands of fans of agent 007 gathered in London for the world premiere of the 21st James Bond film Casino Royale.
20. - American director Robert Altman passed away at the age of 81.
23. - French actor Philippe Noiret passed away at the age of 76.
30. - The Cervantes Prize, the highest literary award in the Spanish-speaking world, was awarded to Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda for his lifetime achievement.
DECEMBER
2. - The German film The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) won the award for Best European Film of 2006 in Warsaw. The most awards were received by Pedro Almodóvar’s film Volver.
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