2003: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Morvern Callar (dir: Lynne Ramsay; US release date)

2. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (dir: Peter Weir)

3. Millennium Mambo (dir: Hou Hsiao-Hsien; US Release Date)

4. Elephant (dir: Gus Van Sant)

5. The Son (dir: Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)

6. Millennium Actress (dir: Satoshi Kon)

7. Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (dir: Quentin Tarantino)

8. Memories of Murder (dir: Bong Joon Ho)

9. Mystic River (dir: Clint Eastwood)

10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (dir: Peter Jackson)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): 28 Days Later... (dir: Danny Boyle), All the Real Girls (dir: David Gordon Greene), American Splendor (dir: Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini), The Company (dir: Robert Altman), Down with Love (dir: Peyton Reed), The Fog of War (dir: Errol Morris), Gerry (dir: Gus Van Sant), In America (dir: Jim Sheridan), Lilya 4-ever (dir: Lukas Moodysson), Lost in Translation (dir: Sofia Coppola), School of Rock (dir: Richard Linklater), The Station Agent (dir: Tom McCarthy), Swimming Pool (dir: Francois Ozon) and The Triplets of Belleville (dir: Sylvain Chomet)

Best Film of the Year: Morvern Callar
Directors: Lynne Ramsay Producers: Robyn Slovo, Charles Pattinson, George Faber
US Distributor: Palm Pictures

Best Director:
Lynne Ramsay, Morvern Callar
2. Gus Van Sant, Elephant AND Gerry
3. Peter Weir, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
4. Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, The Son
5. Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Millenium Mambo

Best Actor:
Jack Black, School of Rock
2. Ralph Fiennes, Spider
3. Bill Murray, Lost in Translation
4. Olivier Gourmet, The Son
5. George Clooney, Intolerable Cruelty

Best Actress:
Oksana Akinshina, Lilya 4-ever
2. Charlize Theron, Monster
3. Samantha Morton, In America AND Morvern Callar
4. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Intolerable Cruelty
5. Zooey Deschanel, All the Real Girls

Best Supporting Actor:
Peter Sarsgaard, Shattered Glass
2. Kevin Bacon, Mystic River
3. Benicio Del Toro, 21 Grams
4. Bobby Cannavale, The Station Agent
5. Djimon Hounsou, In America

Best Supporting Actress:
Catherine O’Hara, A Mighty Wind
2. Karen Black, House of 1000 Corpses
3. Ludivine Sagnier, Swimming Pool
4. Scarlett Johansson, Lost in Translation
5. Marcia Gay Harden, Mystic River

Best Original Screenplay:
Memories of Murder — Bong Joon Ho, Kim Kwang-rim and Shim Sung-bo
2. School of Rock — Mike White
3. In America — Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan and Kirsten Sheridan
4. The Company — Neve Campbell and Barbara Turner
5. Millennium Actress — Satoshi Kon and Sadayuki Murai

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World – Peter Weir and John Collee
2. Morvern Callar — Lynne Ramsay and Liana Dognini
3. Mystic River – Brian Helgeland
4. Girl with a Pearl Earring – Olivia Hetreed
5. American Splendor – Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
 

Best Cinematography:
Elephant – Harris Savides
2. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 – Robert Richardson
3. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World – Russell Boyd
4. Morvern Callar – Alwin Kuchler
5. 28 Days Later… – Anthony Dod Mantle

Best Original Score:
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World — Iva Davies, Christopher Gordon, Richard Tognetti
2. The Fog of War – Philip Glass
3. Lost in Translation – Kevin Shields
4. 28 Days Later ... – John Murphy
5. Girl with a Pearl Earring – Alexandre Desplat

Best Film Editing:
Morvern Callar — Lucia Zucchetti
2. Kill Bill, Vol. 1 – Sally Menke
3. City of God — Daniel Rezende
4. Lost in Translation – Sarah Flack
5. Down with Love — Larry Bock

Best Production Design:
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 – David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, Yohei Taneda and Yoshihito Akatsuka
2. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World – William Sandell and Robert Gould
3. Down with Love — Andrew Laws and Don Diers
4. 28 Days Later … – Mark Tildesley and Fanny Taylor
5. The Dancer Upstairs –  Pierre-Francois Limbosch and Laura Musso

Best Costume Design:
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl — Penny Rose
2. Kill Bill, Vol. 1 — Alexander AD, Kumiko Ogawa, Catherine Thomas and Mark Zunino
3. Girl with a Pearl Earring — Dien van Straalen
4. Master and Commander: The Far Sid of the World — Wendy Stites
5. Down with Love — Daniel Orlandi

Best Visual Effects
Kill Bill, Vol. 1
2. The Matrix Revolutions
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Best Sound
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2. 28 Days Later…
3. City of God

Best Makeup
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2. 28 Days Later…
3. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Best Documentary Feature:
Errol Morris, The Fog of War

Best Animated Feature:
Satoshi Kon, Millennium Actress

Best Limited Series:
Mike Nichols, Tony Kushner, and Celia D. Costas, Angels in America

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Mystic River

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Tom McCarthy, The Station Agent

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Clint Eastwood; in alphabetical order): Kevin Bacon (pictured), Cameron Bowen, Spencer Treat Clark, Laurence Fishburne (pictured), Tom Guiry, Marcia Gay Harden, Jason Kelly, Laura Linney, Connor Paolo, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Emmy Rossum

Best First Feature: Michelle Williams and Peter Dinklage (pictured) in Tom McCarthy’s The Station Agent

RECAP

W I N S :

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World — 3, Morvern Callar — 3,
Kill Bill, Vol. 1 — 2, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl — 2, Angels in America — 1, Elephant — 1, Fog of War — 1, Lilya 4-ever — 1, Memories of Murder — 1, A Mighty Wind — 1, Millennium Actress — 1, Mystic River — 1, School of Rock — 1, Shattered Glass — 1, The Station Agent — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World — 9,
Kill Bill, Vol. 1 — 6, Morvern Callar — 6, 28 Days Later — 5, Mystic River — 5, Down with Love — 3, Elephant — 3, The Girl with the Pearl Earring — 3, In America — 3, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King — 2, Lost in Translation — 3, Millennium Actress — 3, The Son — 3, City of God — 2, The Fog of War — 2, Intolerable Cruelty — 2, Memories of Murder — 2, Millennium Mambo — 2, The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl — 2, School of Rock — 2, The Station Agent — 2

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