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38th NSFC Awards<br> <div style="padding-left: 15px"> January 3, 2004 </div>
Best Film: <br> <big> American Splendor </big> </div>
The 38th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 2004, honored the best in film for 2003.
1. American Splendor<br> 2. Mystic River<br> 3. Lost in Translation
1. Clint Eastwood – Mystic River<br> 2. Peter Jackson – '<br> 3. Sofia Coppola – Lost in Translation
1. Bill Murray – Lost in Translation<br> 2. Sean Penn – Mystic River<br> 3. Paul Giamatti – American Splendor
1. Charlize Theron – Monster<br> 2. Hope Davis – American Splendor and The Secret Lives of Dentists<br> 3. Naomi Watts – 21 Grams
1. Peter Sarsgaard – Shattered Glass<br> 2. Tim Robbins – Mystic River<br> 3. Alec Baldwin – The Cooler
1. Patricia Clarkson – Pieces of April and The Station Agent<br> 2. Maria Bello – The Cooler<br> 3. Shohreh Aghdashloo – House of Sand and Fog
1. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini – American Splendor<br> 2. Brian Helgeland – Mystic River<br> 3. Craig Lucas – The Secret Lives of Dentists
1. Russell Boyd – '<br> 2. Lance Acord – Lost in Translation<br> 3. Harris Savides – Elephant
1. The Man Without a Past (Mies vailla menneisyyttä)<br> 2. The Triplets of Belleville (Les triplettes de Belleville)<br> 3. Unknown Pleasures (Rèn xiÃÂo yáo)
1. To Be and to Have (ÃÂtre et avoir)<br> 2. The Fog of War<br> 3. Spellbound