Online Film Critics Society Awards 2003

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7th OFCS Awards <br> <div style="padding-left: 15px"> January 5, 2004 </div>

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Best Film: <br> <big> The Lord of the Rings:<br>The Return of the King </big> </div> The 7th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring films made in 2003, were given on 5 January 2004.

Winners

Best Picture

'

• City of God
• '
• Lost in Translation
• Mystic River

Best Director

Peter Jackson – '

• Sofia Coppola – Lost in Translation
• Clint Eastwood – Mystic River
• Alejandro González Iñárritu – 21 Grams
• Quentin Tarantino – '

Best Actor

Bill Murray – Lost in Translation

• Johnny Depp – '
• 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 – '

Best Supporting Actor

Peter Sarsgaard – Shattered Glass

• Sean Astin – '
• Alec Baldwin – The Cooler
• Tim Robbins – Mystic River
• Andy Serkis – '

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
• ' – Quentin Tarantino
• The Station Agent – Tom McCarthy

Best Adapted Screenplay

' – 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

• '
• '
• Millennium Actress
• The Triplets of Belleville

Best Cinematography

' – Andrew Lesnie

• Girl with a Pearl Earring – Eduardo Serra
• ' – Robert Richardson
• The Last Samurai – John Toll
• Winged Migration – Olli Barbé et al.

Best Original Score

' – Howard Shore

• ' – RZA
• The Last Samurai – Hans Zimmer
• Lost in Translation – Brian Reitzell and Kevin Shields
• ' – Klaus Badelt

Best Art Direction

'

• Down with Love
• Girl with a Pearl Earring
• '
• '

Best Costume Design

'

• Down with Love
• Girl with a Pearl Earring
• '
• '

Best Sound

'

• 28 Days Later
• '
• '
• '

Best Visual Effects

'

• '
• '
• '
• 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

References