Favorites of 2006 (that I watched in 06)

Volver - Almodovar
Little Miss Sunshine - Dayton & Faris
Children of Men - Cuaron
Marie Antoinette - Coppola
The Departed - Coppola
Notes on a Scandal - Eyre
The Queen - Frears
The Last King of Scotland - Macdonald
The Fountain - Aronofsky
Half Nelson - Fleck