The 2003 AboutFilm
Film Awards

 

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The fun and festivities begin February 20, 2003 and end...sometime after that.

 

Best Picture

Adaptation
Adaptation
Columbia Pictures
Catch Me If You Can
Dreamworks Pictures
Chicago
Miramax Films

Punch-Drunk Love
Columbia Pictures

Y tu mamá también
IFC Films

 

Best Director

Steven Spielberg (Catch Me If You Can & Minority Report)

Rob Marshall (Chicago)

Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)

Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch-Drunk Love)

Alfonso Cuarón (Y tu mamá también)

 

Best Actor

Jack Nicholson (About Schmidt)

Nicolas Cage (Adaptation)

Leonardo DiCaprio (Catch Me If You Can)

Daniel Day Lewis (Gangs of New York)

Adrien Brody (The Pianist)

 

Best Actress

Renée Zellweger (Chicago)

Julianne Moore (Far from Heaven & The Hours)

Maggie Gyllenhaal (Secretary)

Diane Lane (Unfaithful)

Maribel Verdú (Y tu mamá también)

 

Best Supporting Actor

Nicholas Hoult (About a Boy)

Chris Cooper (Adaptation)

Christopher Walken (Catch Me If You Can)

Dennis Quaid (Far from Heaven)

Paul Newman (Road to Perdition)

 

Best Supporting Actress

Toni Collette (About a Boy; Changing Lanes; The Hours)

Kathy Bates (About Schmidt)

Meryl Streep (Adaptation & The Hours)

Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago)

Emily Watson (Punch-Drunk Love & Red Dragon)

 

Best Original Screenplay

Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine)

Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven)

Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch-Drunk Love)

Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her)

Alfonso Cuarón & Carlos Cuarón (Y tu mamá también)

 

Best Adapted Screenplay

Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz (About a Boy)

Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor (About Schmidt)

Charlie & Donald Kaufman (Adaptation)

Bill Condon (Chicago)

Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson
(The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)

 

Best Breakthrough/Debut - Filmmaker

Rob Marshall (director/choreographer)
Chicago

George Clooney (director)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Bill Paxton (director)
Frailty

Jennifer Westfeldt & Heather Juergensen (writers/producers)
& Charles Herman-Wurmfield
(director)
Kissing Jessica Stein

Alfonso Cuarón (writer/director/producer)
Y tu mamá también

 

Best Breakthrough/Debut - Actor

Nicholas Hoult (About a Boy)

Ryan Gosling (The Believer & Murder by Numbers)

Eminem (8 Mile)

Tyler Hoechlin (Road to Perdition)

Maggie Gyllenhaal (Secretary)

 

Best Ensemble

Adaptation

Chicago

The Hours

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Road to Perdition

Y tu mamá también

 

Best Foreign Language Film

Monsoon Wedding

Mostly Martha (aka Bella Martha)

Nine Queens (aka Nueve reinas)

The Piano Teacher (aka La Pianiste)

Talk to Her (aka Hable con ella)

Y tu mamá también

 

Best Documentary

Bowling for Columbine

The Endurance

Jackass: The Movie

The Kid Stays in the Picture

The Pinochet Case

Standing in the Shadows of Motown

War & Peace

 

Best Animated Film

Ice Age

Lilo & Stitch

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

Spirited Away

Treasure Planet

 

Best Cinematography

Janusz Kaminski (Catch Me If You Can & Minority Report)

Edward Lachman (Far from Heaven)

Andrew Lesnie (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)

Robert Elswit (Punch-Drunk Love)

Conrad L. Hall (Road to Perdition)

 

Best Editing

Eric Zumbrunnen (Adaptation)

Michael Kahn (Catch Me If You Can & Minority Report)

Martin Walsh (Chicago)

Dody Dorn (Insomnia)

Leslie Jones (Punch-Drunk Love)

 

Best Music

John Williams (Catch Me If You Can; Minority Report;
Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones)

John Kander (non-original music) &
Danny Elfman (original music)
(Chicago)

Eminem (8 Mile)

Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)

Thomas Newman & John M. Williams (Road to Perdition)

 

Best Special Effects

Adaptation (visual effects by Digital Domain)

Gangs of New York (visual effects by ILM)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (visual effects by Weta Digital, Ltd.)

Minority Report (visual effects by ILM, PDI & Black Box)

Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones (visual effects by ILM)

 

Best Production Design

(includes Art Direction and Set Decoration)

Chicago
(John Myhre, Andrew M. Stearn, Gordon Sim
)

Far from Heaven
(
Mark Friedberg, Peter Rogness, Ellen Christiansen)

Gangs of New York
(Dante Ferretti, Francesca LoSchiavo, Alessandro Alberti,
Maria-Teresa Barbasso, Dimitri Capuani, Robert Guerra,
Stefano Maria Ortolani, Nazzareno Piana, Luca Tranchino)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(Grant Major, Dan Hennah, Joe Bleakley, Philip Ivey,
Rob Outterside, Christian Rivers, Mark Robins, Alan Lee)

Minority Report
(Alex McDowell, Ramsey Avery, Leslie McDonald, Seth Reed, Anne Kuljian)

 

Best Costume Design

Deena Appel (Austin Powers in Goldmember)

Mary Zophres (Catch Me If You Can)

Colleen Atwood (Chicago)

Sandy Powell (Far from Heaven & Gangs of New York)

Ngila Dickson & Richard Taylor (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)

 

Best Ending

About Schmidt

Chicago

8 Mile

Frailty

Y tu mamá también

 

Biggest Disappointment

Gangs of New York

The Hours

Igby Goes Down

One Hour Photo

Signs

 

Pearls Before Swine

Nicole Kidman in The Birthday Girl

Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York

Ryan Gosling & Michael Pitt (the killers) in Murder by Numbers

George Clooney's ass in Solaris

Susan Sarandon in everything
(Igby Goes Down: Moonlight Mile; The Banger Sisters)

 

The Why? Award

Why...the last 20 minutes of Adaptation?

Why...did Kim Basinger go so in depth about her sex life to Eminem in that one line in 8 Mile?

Why...did My Big Fat Greek Wedding receive so much recognition?

Why...was Brett Ratner chosen to direct Red Dragon?

Why...Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones?

Why...all the unnecessary sequels (Santa Clause 2; Men in Black 2) and pointless remakes (Insomnia; Red Dragon)?

Why...aren't good movies released in small cities and regions, which get only the big, loud blockbusters?

 

 

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