2003 in film

<u>Musical or Comedy:

Best Picture: Lost in Translation

Best Actor: Bill Murray - Lost in Translation

Best Actress: Diane Keaton - Something's Gotta Give

<u>Other

Best Director: Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Best Foreign Language Film: Osama, Afghanistan / Netherlands / Japan / Ireland / Iran

BAFTA AWARDS:

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

Best Actor: Bill Murray - Lost in Translation

Best Actress: Scarlett Johansson - Lost in Translation

PALM D'OR (Cannes Film Festival):

Elephant, directed by Gus Van Sant, United States

GOLDEN LION (Venice Film Festival):

Vozvrashcheniye (The Return), directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia

GOLDEN BEAR (Berlin Film Festival):

In This World, directed by Michael Winterbottom, United Kingdom

[edit] Films released in 2003

#

• 2 Fast 2 Furious
• 21 Grams, starring Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro

A

• Agent Cody Banks
• Alex and Emma
• Alien (re-release, was originally released in 1979)
• American Splendor
• American Wedding
• Anger Management
• Anything Else

B

• Bad Boys II
• Bad Santa
• Basic
• The Best of Youth (La Meglio gioventù)
• Beyond Borders
• Beyond Re-Animator
• Big Fish
• Biker Boyz
• Blizzard
• Blueprint
• Bon Voyage
• Bright Young Things
• Bringing Down the House
• Brother Bear
• Bruce Almighty
• The Brown Bunny
• Bulletproof Monk

C

• Cabin Fever
• Calendar Girls, starring Helen Mirren and Julie Walters
• Carolina
• The Cat in the Hat
• Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
• Cheaper by the Dozen
• Code 46
• Coffee and Cigarettes
• Cold Creek Manor
• Cold Mountain
• The Company, starring Neve Campbell
• Confidence
• The Cooler, starring William H. Macy and Alec Baldwin
• The Core
• The Corporation
• Cradle 2 the Grave
• The Cunning Little Vixen, animated version of Leoš Janáček's opera by BBC -(film only mentioned in article)

D

• Daddy Day Care
• Daredevil
• Darkness Falls
• Deliver Us from Eva
• Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
• Le Divorce
• Dogville
• Down with Love
• Dreamcatcher
• The Dreamers
• Dumb & Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
• Duplex
• DysFunKtional Family

E

• Elephant - Palm d'Or award
• Elf

F

• Facing Windows
• Festival Express
• The Fighting Temptations
• Final Destination 2
• Finding Nemo - Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
• Flywheel
• Foolproof, starring Ryan Reynolds and Kristin Booth
• Freaky Friday
• Freddy vs. Jason
• From Justin to Kelly

G

• Gigli
• Girl with a Pearl Earring, starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth
• Gods and Generals
• Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
• Going for Broke
• Good Boy!
• Good Bye Lenin!, a German comedy, released internationally
• The Gospel of John, starring Henry Ian Cusick
• Gothika
• Grand Theft Parsons, starring Johnny Knoxville and Christina Applegate
• Grind
• A Guy Thing

H

• The Haunted Mansion
• Haute Tension (High Tension)
• Head of State
• Highwaymen
• Holes
• Hollywood Homicide
• Home Alone 4
• Honey
• House of 1000 Corpses
• House of Sand and Fog, starring Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley
• House of the Dead
• How to Deal
• How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
• The Hulk
• The Human Stain, starring Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman
• The Hunted

I

• I Am David
• I'm Not Scared
• Identity
• Imagining Argentina
• In the Cut, starring Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo
• The In-Laws (remake)
• Indigo
• Intermission
• Intolerable Cruelty
• Les Invasions barbares (Barbarian Invasions) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• It Runs in the Family
• The Italian Job

J

• Japanese Story
• Jeepers Creepers II
• Johnny English
• The Jungle Book 2
• Ju-on: The Grudge
• Just Married

K

• Kaena: The Prophecy
• Kal Ho Naa Ho
• Kangaroo Jack
• Kart Racer
• Kill Bill Vol. 1
• Kitchen Stories
• Koi... Mil Gaya
• Kontroll (Control)

L

• Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
• The Last Samurai
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde
• The Life of David Gale
• The Lizzie McGuire Movie
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, directed by Peter Jackson - Academy, Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards for Best Picture
• Lost in Translation, starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Love Actually
• Love Don't Cost a Thing
• Love Me If You Dare (Jeux d'enfants)
• Luther, starring Joseph Fiennes

M

• Malibu's Most Wanted
• A Man Apart
• Marci X
• Masked and Anonymous
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• Matchstick Men
• The Matrix Reloaded
• The Matrix Revolutions
• The Medallion
• A Mighty Wind
• The Missing
• Mona Lisa Smile
• Monsieur Ibrahim
• Monster, starring Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci
• The Mother
• My Boss's Daughter
• My Life Without Me, starring Sarah Polley
• Mystic River

N

• National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
• National Security
• Ned Kelly

O

• Old School
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico
• Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior
• Open Range
• Open Water
• The Order
• Osama - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Otets i syn (Father and Son)
• Out of Time

P

• Paycheck
• Peter Pan
• Piglet's Big Movie
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• Prey for Rock & Roll

R

• Radio
• The Real Cancun
• The Reckoning
• The Recruit
• Remember Me, My Love (Ricordati di me)
• Rugrats Go Wild!
• Runaway Jury
• The Rundown

S

• Scary Movie 3
• School of Rock
• Schultze Gets the Blues
• Seabiscuit
• Secondhand Lions
• Shanghai Knights
• Shattered Glass, starring Hayden Christensen
• Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
• Soldados de Salamina - Spanish film
• Something's Gotta Give
• Southlander, by Steven Hanft and Ross Harris; cast includes Rory Cochrane, Beck, and Beth Orton
• Spy Kids 3D: Game Over -(redirects to Spy Kids)
• The Station Agent, starring Peter Dinklage
• The Statement, starring Michael Caine
• Stuck on You
• S.W.A.T.
• Swimming Pool
• Swing, directed by Martin Guigui
• Sylvia

T

• Tears of the Sun
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• Timeline
• Tokyo Godfathers
• Touching the Void
• Les Triplettes de Belleville (The Triplets of Belleville)
• Tupac: Resurrection
• Twist

U

• Uncle Nino
• Under the Tuscan Sun
• Underworld
• Uptown Girls

V

• Veronica Guerin, starring Cate Blanchett
• View from the Top
• Vozvrashcheniye (The Return) - Golden Lion award

W

• Whale Rider, starring Keisha Castle-Hughes
• What a Girl Wants
• Willard
• Wonderful Days, Korean
• Wonderland, starring Val Kilmer
• Wrong Turn

X

• X2: X-Men United

Y

• The Yes Men
• Young Adam
• Young Black Stallion

Z

• Zatoichi (The Blind Swordsman)
• Zhou Yu's Train

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• January 4 : Conrad Hall, Hollywood : cinematographer, a two-time Academy Award-winner
• January 8 : Ron Goodwin, British : film music composer and conductor
• January 11 : Maurice Pialat, French movie director
• January 11 : Anthony Havelock-Allan, British screenwriter
• January 12 : Maurice Gibb, of the Bee Gees, singer, composer, actor
• January 13 : Norman Panama, screenwriter and director
• January 18 : Richard Crenna, actor
• January 23 : Nell Carter, singer, actress
• January 25 : Robert Rockwell, actor
• January 29 : Peter Shaw, producer; husband of actress Angela Lansbury
• February 9 : Vera Hruba Ralston, actress
• February 18 : Jack Brodsky, movie : producer and publicist
• February 22 : Daniel Taradash, former president of AMPAS; Oscar-winning screenwriter of "From Here to Eternity"
• February 25 : Alberto Sordi, Italian comedy film legend
• March 3 : Horst Buchholz, German actor
• March 8 : Karen Morley, actress
• March 8 : Adam Faith, British singer and actor
• March 9 : Stan Brakhage, filmmaker
• March 12 : Lynne Thigpen, actor
• March 15 Dame Thora Hird, veteran British actress
• March 24 : Philip Yordan, screenwriter; won Oscar for "Broken Lance"
• March 31 : Michael Jeter, actor
• April 1 : Leslie Cheung, actor and singer
• April 2 : Michael Wayne, film producer; eldest son of John Wayne
• April 12 : Sydney Lassick, actor, best known playing asylum resident Cheswick in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• April 21 : Nina Simone, jazz singer, "High Priestess of Soul"
• April 26 : Peter Stone, Oscar-and-(3-time)Tony-winning writer
• April 27 : Elaine Steinbeck, actress
• May 3 : Suzy Parker, actress, model
• May 14 Dame Wendy Hiller, actress
• May 14 : Robert Stack, actor
• May 15 : June Carter Cash, American country singer, wife of Johnny Cash
• May 28 : Martha Scott, actress
• June 2 : Richard Cusack, 77, ad executive turned actor/screenwriter
• June 7 : Trevor Goddard, actor
• June 7 : Tony McAuley : BBC Northern Ireland broadcaster & film-maker associated with traditional Irish music and arts
• June 12 : Gregory Peck, actor
• June 15 : Hume Cronyn, actor
• June 29 : Katharine Hepburn, actress
• June 30 : Buddy Hackett, comic, actor
• July 1 : N!xau, Namibian actor
• July 6 : Buddy Ebsen, actor
• July 25 : John Schlesinger, director
• July 27 : Bob Hope, comedian, actor
• August 1 : Marie Trintignant, French actress and daughter of actor Jean-Louis Trintignant.
• August 2 : Don Estelle, actor
• August 9 : Gregory Hines, actor, dancer.
• August 30 : Charles Bronson, actor
• September 8 : Leni Riefenstahl, German filmmaker
• September 9 : Larry Hovis, actor, played Carter on "Hogan's Heroes"
• September 10 : Harry Goz, cartoon voice actor.
• September 11 : John Ritter, American actor, played Jack Tripper on Three's Company
• September 12 : Johnny Cash, American country singer, husband of June Carter Cash
• September 16 : Erich Hallhuber, Bavarian actor.
• September 22 : Gordon Jump, American actor.
• September 27 : Donald O'Connor, entertainer, actor
• September 28 : Elia Kazan, director
• October 2 : Gunther Philipp, Austrian actor
• October 3 : William Steig, American : cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek
• October 5 : Denis Quilley, British actor
• October 20 : Jack Elam, American actor, 84 years
• October 21 : Fred Berry, American actor,
• October 23 : Tony Capstick, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster
• November 4 : Ken Gampu, South African actor
• November 6 : Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (41 years)
• November 9 : Art Carney, The Honeymooners actor (85 years)
• November 11 : Robert Brown, actor, played M in the James Bond series
• November 12 : Jonathan Brandis, actor, reportedly suicide (27 years)
• November 12 : Penny Singleton, actress (95 years)
• November 13 : Kellie Waymire, actress (35 years)
• November 14 : Gene Anthony Ray, actor and dancer
• November 15 : Dorothy Loudon, actress
• November 18 : Michael Kamen, composer
• November 20 : Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (58 years)
• November 20 : Robert Addie, British actor (43 years)
• November 27 : Will Quadflieg, German actor
• December 3 : David Hemmings, actor
• December 12 : Keiko, orca of Reino Aventura and Free Willy fame (27 years)
• December 14 : Jeanne Crain, Oscar-nominated actress (78 years)
• December 17 : Ed Devereaux, Australian actor
• December 19 : Hope Lange, actress in Peyton Place
• December 27 Sir Alan Bates, British actor
• December 30 : Anita Mui, 40, Hong Kong actress
• December 30 : John Gregory Dunne, 71, screenwriter

[edit] Wide-release movies

(Movies released in at least 600 North American theatres), ‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release.