title: Online Film Critics Society Awards 2003
text: # 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
  