The 60th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 27 August to 6 September 2003, at Venice Lido in Italy.
Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion was awarded to The Return by Andrey Zvyagintsev.
The festival opened with Anything Else by Woody Allen.
The following people were selected to confer the San Marco Prize for best film, the Special Director's Award, an Upstream Prize for Best Actor, and one for Best Actress:
The following films were nominated to compete for the Golden Lion of the 60th edition of the festival:
The following films were screened as Out of Competition:
A section of the official selection for feature films that stand out for their "innovative intent, creative originality or alternative cinematographic languages"
The following films were selected for the New Territories (Nuovi Territori) section:
The following films, whose length does not exceed 30 minutes, were selected for the short film competition:
The following feature films were selected to be screened In Competition for this section:
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection: