# 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.

## Winners
### 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