The 2003 Critics Consensus Award Winners
Three years, three Lord of the Rings movies, zero CCA awards for Best Picture. From the bottom up, it likely looked like this would be The Return of the King's year, though despite a Best Director win for Peter Jackson, it was Lost in Translation that proved the critics' favourite movie of 2003. That makes Sofia Coppola the first female director to win the top award and, even more outrageously, the first woman to win multiple Critics Consensus Awards for a single frame. Check out the nominations here, and the award winners below.
Best Picture
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola and Ross Katz)
Best Director
Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Charlize Theron (Monster)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Bill Murray (Lost in Translation)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Patricia Clarkson (Pieces of April)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Peter Sarsgaard (Shattered Glass)
Best Original Screenplay
Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (American Splendour)
Best Cinematography
Harris Savides (Elephant)
Best Music
Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
Best Ensemble Cast
Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney, Sean Penn and Tim Robbins (Mystic River)
Best Documentary
Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling)
Best Foreign Language Film
City of God (Mauricio Andrade Ramos, Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Katia Lund and Fernando Meirelles)
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