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American Film Institute’s Top 10 films of 2006

This year’s top 10, now the American Film Institute‘s seventh annual year end list includes some serious omissions and a good helping of comedic selections. Not included are downbeat dramas such as Todd Field’s Little Children and Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, The Queen or Mel Gibson’s newest endeavor, but Spike Lee’s Inside Man made a surprise entry on the list.

Eric Lavallée

Published on December 10, 2006

This year’s top 10, now the American Film Institute‘s seventh annual year end list includes some serious omissions and a good helping of comedic selections. Not included are downbeat dramas such as Todd Field’s Little Children and Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, the Queen or Mel Gibson’s newest endeavor, but Spike Lee’s Inside Man made a surprise entry on the list. Here is the complete top 10:

“Babel”
“Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan”
“The Devil Wears Prada”
“Dreamgirls”
“Half Nelson”
“Happy Feet”
“Inside Man”
“Letters From Iwo Jima”
“Little Miss Sunshine”
“United 93”

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).