Online Film Critics Society Awards 2003



 7th OFCS Awards  January 5, 2004

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.

Best Picture
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
 * City of God
 * Kill Bill: Volume 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: Volume 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: Volume 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: Volume 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: Volume 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: Volume 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: Volume 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: Volume 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: Volume 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: Volume 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