# List of 2003 box office number-one films in Australia

This is a list of films which placed number-one at the box office in Australia during 2003. Amounts are in Australian dollars. This article transitions from weekend end date to week end date, thus accounting for the additional week (a total of 53). Also included are the positions at the box office other films opened at. Quite a number of these are films from the previous year due to normal Australian film distribution delays.

## Number-one films

| † | This implies the highest-grossing movie of the year. |
| # | Week ending | Film | Box office | Openings |
| 1 | 1 January 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | $19,597,818 | The Tuxedo (#5), Treasure Planet (#6), Two Weeks Notice (#7), Adaptation (#10), Frida (#12), Bowling for Columbine (#13), The Hot Chick (#14), Mostly Martha (#18), The Master of Disguise (#20) |
| 2 | 8 January 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | $9,084,170 | |
| 3 | 15 January 2003 | Catch Me If You Can | $5,148,124 | Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (#4) |
| 4 | 22 January 2003 | 8 Mile | $7,526,113 | Analyze That (#6), The Quiet American (#7), Like Mike (#8) |
| 5 | 29 January 2003 | 8 Mile | $4,264,954 | Chicago (#2), I Spy (#5), About Schmidt preview (#19) |
| 6 | 5 February 2003 | Chicago | $2,437,504 | One Hour Photo (#3), Frailty (#17) |
| 7 | 12 February 2003 | Chicago | $1,870,781 | Star Trek: Nemesis (#2), About Schmidt (#7), Far from Heaven (#11), They (#13), City by the Sea (#17) |
| 8 | 19 February 2003 | Gangs of New York | $2,814,649 | Undercover Brother (#10), Talk to Her (#19) |
| 9 | 26 February 2003 | Just Married | $2,944,361 | The Hours (#3), Half Past Dead (#5), The Rules of Attraction (#12), Trapped (#17) |
| 10 | 5 March 2003 | Jackass: The Movie | $2,018,645 | The Recruit (#3), Swimming Upstream (#10), Solaris (#17) |
| 11 | 12 March 2003 | Maid in Manhattan | $3,029,089 | Final Destination 2 (#2), The Pianist (#9), Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (#13) |
| 12 | 19 March 2003 | Maid in Manhattan | $1,976,079 | Antwone Fisher (#10), You Can't Stop the Murders (#13), City of God (#17), Knockaround Guys (#18) |
| 13 | 26 March 2003 | Daredevil | $3,952,322 | The Emperor's Club (#11), Dog Soldiers (#17), 24 Hour Party People (#18) |
| 14 | 2 April 2003 | Ned Kelly | $3,439,557 | Cradle 2 the Grave (#3) |
| 15 | 9 April 2003 | Ned Kelly | $1,960,158 | Bringing Down the House (#2), Dreamcatcher (#3), What a Girl Wants (#4), Punch-Drunk Love (#10), Read My Lips (#18) |
| 16 | 16 April 2003 | Johnny English | $3,980,373 | Fat Pizza (#2), Shanghai Knights (#3), The Jungle Book 2 (#7), Kangaroo Jack (#8), The Wild Thornberrys Movie (#9), All or Nothing (#20) |
| 17 | 23 April 2003 | Anger Management | $5,124,333 | Ripley's Game (#17), The Magdalene Sisters (#18), Nowhere in Africa (#19) |
| 18 | 30 April 2003 | How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days | $3,722,949 | X-Men 2 (#5) |
| 19 | 7 May 2003 | X-Men 2 | $7,610,042 | Russian Ark (#12), Anita and Me (#19) |
| 20 | 14 May 2003 | X-Men 2 | $3,480,612 | Whale Rider (#2), National Security (#5), Alexandra's Project (#7) |
| 21 | 21 May 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded | $14,553,522 | |
| 22 | 28 May 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded | $7,468,147 | Phone Booth (#2), The Life of David Gale (#6), Horseplay (#14), The Crime of Father Amaro (#15) |
| 23 | 4 June 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded | $4,131,487 | Basic (#3), Old School (#4), Secretary (#9), Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (#16), The Lizzie McGuire Movie (#20) |
| 24 | 11 June 2003 | 2 Fast 2 Furious | $7,419,656 | The Four Feathers (#9), Igby Goes Down (#11), 25th Hour (#12) |
| 25 | 18 June 2003 | 2 Fast 2 Furious | $2,866,045 | Bulletproof Monk (#3), The Core (#4), A Man Apart (#5), White Oleander (#8) |
| 26 | 25 June 2003 | Bruce Almighty | $6,523,891 | Travelling Birds (#9) |
| 27 | 2 July 2003 | Bruce Almighty | $4,803,887 | Hulk (#2), Daddy Day Care (#3) |
| 28 | 9 July 2003 | Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle | $8,786,213 | Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (#6), The Dancer Upstairs (#11), Help! I'm a Fish (#16) |
| 29 | 16 July 2003 | Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle | $4,939,410 | The Real Cancun (#8), I Capture the Castle (#9), Auto Focus (#14) |
| 30 | 23 July 2003 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | $9,231,811 | The Good Thief (#12), Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (#20) |
| 31 | 30 July 2003 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | $3,964,697 | Bad Eggs (#3), Confidence (#5), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (#7), Malibu's Most Wanted (#8), Biker Boyz (#10), A Mighty Wind (#14) |
| 32 | 6 August 2003 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | $2,291,756 | Identity (#2), View from the Top (#5), Danny Deckchair (#6), Extreme Ops (#11), Wrong Turn (#12) |
| 33 | 13 August 2003 | American Pie: The Wedding | $5,540,460 | Friday After Next (#15) |
| 34 | 20 August 2003 | American Pie: The Wedding | $3,115,507 | Down with Love (#2), Tears of the Sun (#3), Take Away (#7), The Night We Called It a Day (#8), Narc (#11), Cypher (#15) |
| 35 | 27 August 2003 | The Italian Job | $3,649,566 | Buffalo Soldiers (#8), It Runs in the Family (#11) |
| 36 | 3 September 2003 | Finding Nemo | $9,757,350 | The In-Laws (#4), Darkness Falls (#5), The Rage in Placid Lake (#10), Man on the Train (#13) |
| 37 | 10 September 2003 | Finding Nemo | $7,318,444 | 28 Days Later (#3), Hollywood Homicide (#4), Titanic 3D: Ghosts of the Abyss (#10), My Little Eye (#15), Undead (#18) |
| 38 | 17 September 2003 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | $6,962,449 | Legally Blonde 2 (#3), American Splendor (#10), Together (#15) |
| 39 | 24 September 2003 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | $4,983,581 | Bad Boys II (#2), Freaky Friday (#5), Rugrats Go Wild (#6), Agent Cody Banks (#8) |
| 40 | 1 October 2003 | Finding Nemo | $4,335,509 | Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (#3), The Wannabes (#9), Japanese Story (#10) |
| 41 | 8 October 2003 | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | $4,218,626 | Matchstick Men (#9), Swimming Pool (#14) |
| 42 | 15 October 2003 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | $1,805,456 | Calendar Girls (#3), Gettin' Square (#9), Perfect Strangers (#15) |
| 43 | 22 October 2003 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | $3,118,560 | Head of State (#13) |
| 44 | 29 October 2003 | Intolerable Cruelty | $2,661,924 | Freddy vs. Jason (#3), Mambo Italiano (#7), Raising Victor Vargas (#19) |
| 45 | 5 November 2003 | Intolerable Cruelty | $2,014,052 | Runaway Jury (#3), The Medallion (#7), Holes (#10), Laurel Canyon (#15) |
| 46 | 12 November 2003 | The Matrix Revolutions | $9,733,089 | Le Divorce (#6) |
| 47 | 19 November 2003 | The Matrix Revolutions | $3,586,349 | Seabiscuit (#2), In the Cut (#4), Alien: The Director's Cut (#14), Spellbound (#15), The Honourable Wally Norman (#20) |
| 48 | 26 November 2003 | School of Rock | $2,740,753 | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (#3), Mystic River (#4), Uptown Girls (#6), Nicholas Nickleby (#19) |
| 49 | 3 December 2003 | S.W.A.T. | $3,697,004 | Elf (#3), Good Boy! (#10) |
| 50 | 10 December 2003 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | $4,210,955 | Cabin Fever (#8) |
| 51 | 17 December 2003 | Scary Movie 3 | $4,102,664 | Looney Tunes: Back in Action (#4), Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (#13) |
| 52 | 24 December 2003 | Peter Pan | $2,520,855 | The Spanish Apartment (#11), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Extended (#15) |
| 53 | 31 December 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King † | $18,985,415 | Love Actually (#2), Brother Bear (#3), Lost in Translation (#9), Good Bye, Lenin! (#13), Bright Young Things (#15), Dogville (#17) |