--- title: 'The Darwin Awards (2006)' type: 'film' director: 'Finn Taylor' released: '2006-01-01' runtime_minutes: 94 genres: - 'Romance' - 'Comedy' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-darwin-awards-2006' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428446/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Darwin Awards (2006) 2006 · 94 min · Romance, Comedy · United States ## Synopsis The Darwin Awards is a 2006 American adventure comedy film based on the website of the same name written and directed by Finn Taylor, the film premiered January 25, 2006, at the Sundance Film Festival. The film features Joseph Fiennes, Winona Ryder, David Arquette, Juliette Lewis, Wilmer Valderrama, Chris Penn, Julianna Margulies, Robin Tunney, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Brad Hunt, Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman and Metallica. This was Penn's last film appearance before his death on January 24, 2006, the day before the film's premiere, and Ryder's first feature film since 2002. The film includes several full and partial re-enactments of "Darwin Awards", the earliest of which were fictitious, most notably the debunked JATO Rocket Car story. ## Credits - **Director:** [Finn Taylor](https://cinepixo.com/people/finn-taylor) - **Screenplay:** [Finn Taylor](https://cinepixo.com/people/finn-taylor) - **Original Music Composer:** [David Kitay](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-kitay) - **Producer:** [Frank Capra III](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-capra-iii), [Jason Blum](https://cinepixo.com/people/jason-blum) - **Director of Photography:** [Hiro Narita](https://cinepixo.com/people/hiro-narita) ## Cast - [Robin Tunney](https://cinepixo.com/people/robin-tunney) - [Lawrence Ferlinghetti](https://cinepixo.com/people/lawrence-ferlinghetti) - [Lukas Haas](https://cinepixo.com/people/lukas-haas) - [Adam Savage](https://cinepixo.com/people/adam-savage) - [Metallica](https://cinepixo.com/people/metallica) - [Richmond Arquette](https://cinepixo.com/people/richmond-arquette) - [Kevin Dunn](https://cinepixo.com/people/kevin-dunn) - [Nora Dunn](https://cinepixo.com/people/nora-dunn) - [Alessandro Nivola](https://cinepixo.com/people/alessandro-nivola) - [Tim Blake Nelson](https://cinepixo.com/people/tim-blake-nelson) - [David Arquette](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-arquette) - [Joseph Fiennes](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-fiennes) - [Judah Friedlander](https://cinepixo.com/people/judah-friedlander) - [Winona Ryder](https://cinepixo.com/people/winona-ryder) - [Tom Hollander](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-hollander) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: http://www.darwinawards.com Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-darwin-awards-2006 Film facts: Wikidata (Q615461); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.