Online Film Critics Society Awards 2003

7th OFCS Awards

January 5, 2004

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Best Film:
The Lord of the Rings:
The Return of the King

The 7th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring films made in 2003, were given on 5 January 2004.

Winners

Best Picture

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

• City of God
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1
• Lost in Translation
• Mystic River

Best Director

Peter Jackson – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

• Sofia Coppola – Lost in Translation
• Clint Eastwood – Mystic River
• Alejandro González Iñárritu – 21 Grams
• Quentin Tarantino – Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Best Actor

Bill Murray – Lost in Translation

• Johnny Depp – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• Paul Giamatti – American Splendor
• Ben Kingsley – House of Sand and Fog
• Sean Penn – Mystic River

Best Actress

Naomi Watts – 21 Grams

• Angela Bettis – May
• Scarlett Johansson – Lost in Translation
• Charlize Theron – Monster
• Uma Thurman – Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Best Supporting Actor

Peter Sarsgaard – Shattered Glass

• Sean Astin – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Alec Baldwin – The Cooler
• Tim Robbins – Mystic River
• Andy Serkis – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Best Supporting Actress

Shohreh Aghdashloo – House of Sand and Fog

• Maria Bello – The Cooler
• Patricia Clarkson – Pieces of April
• Holly Hunter – Thirteen
• Renée Zellweger – Cold Mountain

Best Original Screenplay

Lost in Translation – Sofia Coppola

• 21 Grams – Guillermo Arriaga
• In America – Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan and Naomi Sheridan
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1 – Quentin Tarantino
• The Station Agent – Tom McCarthy

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh

• American Splendor – Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
• Bubba Ho-Tep – Don Coscarelli
• Mystic River – Brian Helgeland
• Shattered Glass – Billy Ray

Best Foreign Language Film

City of God

• The Barbarian Invasions
• Irreversible
• The Man Without a Past
• The Triplets of Belleville

Best Documentary

Capturing the Friedmans

• The Fog of War
• Lost in La Mancha
• Spellbound
• Winged Migration

Best Animated Feature

Finding Nemo

• Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action
• Millennium Actress
• The Triplets of Belleville

Best Cinematography

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Andrew Lesnie

• Girl with a Pearl Earring – Eduardo Serra
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1 – Robert Richardson
• The Last Samurai – John Toll
• Winged Migration – Olli Barbé et al.

Best Original Score

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Howard Shore

• Kill Bill: Vol. 1 – RZA
• The Last Samurai – Hans Zimmer
• Lost in Translation – Brian Reitzell and Kevin Shields
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl – Klaus Badelt

Best Art Direction

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

• Down with Love
• Girl with a Pearl Earring
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Best Costume Design

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

• Down with Love
• Girl with a Pearl Earring
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Best Sound

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

• 28 Days Later
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Best Visual Effects

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

• Kill Bill: Vol. 1
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• X2

Breakthrough Filmmaker

Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini – American Splendor

• Niki Caro – Whale Rider
• Fernando Meirelles – City of God
• Billy Ray – Shattered Glass
• Peter Sollett – Raising Victor Vargas

Breakthrough Performer

Keisha Castle-Hughes – Whale Rider

• Peter Dinklage – The Station Agent
• Chiwetel Ejiofor – Dirty Pretty Things
• Keira Knightley – Bend It Like Beckham
• Cillian Murphy – 28 Days Later