Film year 2003
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Other events
Events
- As a contribution to improving the teaching of film skills in schools, the Federal Agency for Civic Education publishes its film canon with a total of 35 films.
- The world premiere of The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King will take place in New Zealand on December 1st . At the Academy Awards in the following year, this film received 11 awards. This will set the record held by Ben Hur and Titanic .
- July 17th: The actor Mario Adorf is awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit .
- November 17: Former actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is sworn in as governor of California .
- The winners of the Bravo Otto readers' poll 2003:
- Male movie stars category: Gold Orlando Bloom , Silver Elijah Wood , Bronze Daniel Radcliffe
- Female movie stars category: Gold Liv Tyler , Silver Emma Watson , Bronze Keira Knightley
Top 10 most successful films
In Germany
The ten most successful films at the German box office according to attendance (as of August 27, 2011):
| space | Movie title | Visitors |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Lord of the Rings III - The Return of the King | 10,432,470 |
| 2. | Find Nemo | 8,678,707 |
| 3. | Good bye Lenin! | 6,584,314 |
| 4th | pirates of the Caribbean | 6,309,858 |
| 5. | Matrix Reloaded | 4,773,455 |
| 6th | The miracle of Bern | 3,701,194 |
| 7th | Catch Me If You Can | 3,473,003 |
| 8th. | Johnny English - the spy who screwed it up | 3,460,771 |
| 9. | Bruce Almighty | 3,455,358 |
| 10. | Luther | 3,096,937 |
In the United States
The ten most successful films at the US box office by gross profit in US dollars (as of August 27, 2011):
| space | Movie title | revenue |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Lord of the Rings III - The Return of the King | $ 377,027,325 |
| 2. | Find Nemo | $ 339,714,978 |
| 3. | pirates of the Caribbean | $ 305,413,918 |
| 4th | Matrix Reloaded | $ 281,576,461 |
| 5. | Bruce Almighty | $ 242,829,261 |
| 6th | X-Men 2 | $ 214,949,694 |
| 7th | Buddy - The Christmas Elf | $ 173,398,518 |
| 8th. | Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines | $ 150,371,112 |
| 9. | Matrix Revolutions | $ 139,313,948 |
| 10. | Cheaper in dozens | $ 138,614,544 |
Worldwide
The ten most successful films worldwide by grossing in US dollars (as of August 27, 2011):
| space | Movie title | revenue |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Lord of the Rings III - The Return of the King | $ 1,119,110,941 |
| 2. | Find Nemo | $ 867,893,978 |
| 3. | Matrix Reloaded | $ 742,128,461 |
| 4th | pirates of the Caribbean | $ 654,264,015 |
| 5. | Bruce Almighty | $ 484,592,874 |
| 6th | Last samurai | $ 456,758,981 |
| 7th | Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines | $ 433,371,112 |
| 8th. | Matrix Revolutions | $ 427,343,298 |
| 9. | X-Men 2 | $ 407,711,549 |
| 10. | Bad Boys II | $ 273,339,556 |
Film awards
Berlinale
- Best Film: In This World (Director: Michael Winterbottom , Great Britain)
- Grand Jury Prize: Adaption - The Orchid Thief (Director: Spike Jonze , USA)
- Best Director: Patrice Chéreau for His Brother (France)
- Best Actor: Sam Rockwell for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (Director: George Clooney , USA)
- Best Actress: Meryl Streep , Nicole Kidman , Julianne Moore for The Hours (Director: Stephen Daldry , USA)
Complete list of award winners
Cannes
- Golden Palm: Elephant (Director: Gus Van Sant , USA)
- Grand Jury Prize: Uzak - Weit (Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan , Turkey)
- Best Actor: Muzaffer Özdemir and Mehmet Emin Toprak for Uzak - Weit
- Best Actress: Marie-Josée Croze for The Barbarian Invasions (Director: Denys Arcand , Canada)
Complete list of award winners
Venice
- Golden Lion: The Return (Director: Andrei Zvjagintsew , Russia)
- Big special prize from the jury: Le Cerf-volant (Director: Randa Chahal Sabag , Lebanon / France)
- Best Actor: Sean Penn for 21 grams (Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu , USA)
- Best leading actress: Katja Riemann for Rosenstrasse (Director: Margarethe von Trotta , Germany / Netherlands)
Complete list of award winners
European film award
- Best film: Good Bye, Lenin! (Director: Wolfgang Becker , Germany)
- Best director: Lars von Trier for Dogville
- Best Actor: Daniel Brühl for Good Bye, Lenin!
- Best Actress: Charlotte Rampling for Swimming Pool (Director: François Ozon , France / Great Britain)
Complete list of award winners
Oscar
- Best Picture: Chicago (Director: Rob Marshall , USA)
- Best director: Roman Polański for The Pianist
- Best Actor: Adrien Brody for The Pianist (Director: Roman Polański , France)
- Best Actress: Nicole Kidman for The Hours (Director: Stephen Daldry , USA)
- Best Foreign Language Film: Nowhere in Africa (Director: Caroline Link , Germany)
Complete list of award winners
Golden Globe Awards
- Best Film (Drama): The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity
- Best Picture (Comedy / Musical): Chicago
- Best Director: Martin Scorsese for Gangs of New York
- Best Actress (Drama): Nicole Kidman for The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity
- Best Actress (Comedy / Musical): Renée Zellweger for Chicago
- Best Actor (Drama): Jack Nicholson for About Schmidt
- Best Actor (Comedy / Musical): Richard Gere for Chicago
- Best supporting actress: Meryl Streep for adaptation - The Orchid Thief
- Best Supporting Actor: Chris Cooper for Adaptation.
- Best Foreign Film: Talk to Her (Director: Pedro Almodóvar )
Complete list of award winners
German film award
- Best film: Good Bye, Lenin! (Director: Wolfgang Becker , Germany)
- Best director: Wolfgang Becker for Good Bye, Lenin!
- Best Actor: Daniel Brühl for Good Bye, Lenin! and elephant heart (Director: Züli Aladağ , Germany)
- Best leading actress: Hannelore Elsner for My Last Film (Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel , Germany)
Complete list of award winners
César
- Best Film: The Pianist (Director: Roman Polański , France)
- Best director: Roman Polański for The Pianist
- Best Actor: Adrien Brody for The Pianist (Director: Roman Polański , France)
- Best Actress: Isabelle Carré for Claire - Se souvenir des belles choses (Director: Zabou Breitman , France)
- Best Foreign Film: Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore
Complete list of award winners
British Academy Film Award
- Best Film: The Pianist (Director: Roman Polański , France)
- Best director: Roman Polański for The Pianist
- Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis for Gangs of New York (Director: Martin Scorsese , USA)
- Best Actress: Nicole Kidman for The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity
- Best Non-English Language Film: Talk to Her by Pedro Almodóvar
Complete list of award winners
Bavarian film award
The 2002 Bavarian Film Prize was awarded on January 17, 2003.
- Best production: Bibi Blocksberg and The Flying Classroom
- Best actress: Marie Bäumer in The Old Monkey Fear
- Best actor: Axel Prahl in Half Stairs
- Best director: Andreas Dresen for Half Staircase
- Honorary award: Roman Polański
Sun Dance
- Grand Jury Prize: American Splendor (Directors: Shari Springer Berman , Robert Pulcini , USA)
- Best Director (Feature Film): Catherine Hardwicke for Thirteen
- Best Director (Documentary): Andrew Jarecki for Capturing the Friedmans
Complete list of award winners
New York Film Critics Circle Award
- Best Film: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by Peter Jackson
- Best director: Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation
- Best Actor: Bill Murray in Lost in Translation
- Best Actress: Hope Davis in American Splendor and The Secret Lives of Dentists
- Best Supporting Actor: Eugene Levy in A Mighty Wind
- Best Supporting Actress: Shohreh Aghdashloo in House of Sand and Fog
- Best Cinematography: Harris Savides for Elephant and Gerry
- Best foreign film: City of God by Fernando Meirelles
National Board of Review
- Best Film: Mystic River by Clint Eastwood
- Best Director: Edward Zwick for Last Samurai
- Best Actor: Sean Penn in Mystic River and 21 grams
- Best Actress: Diane Keaton in What Your Heart Desires
- Best Supporting Actor: Alec Baldwin in The Cooler
- Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Clarkson in Pieces of April - A Day with April Burns and Station Agent
- Best Acting Company: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by Peter Jackson
- Best Foreign Language Film: The Barbarian Invasion by Denys Arcand
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- Best film: American Splendor by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
- Best Director: Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Best Actor: Bill Murray in Lost in Translation
- Best leading actress: Naomi Watts in 21 grams
- Best Supporting Actor: Bill Nighy in AKA and Actually… Love
- Best Supporting Actress: Shohreh Aghdashloo in House of Sand and Fog
- Best Foreign Language Film: The Second Life of Monsieur Manesquier by Patrice Leconte
Jupiter
- Best film international: The Lord of the Rings: The Companions of Peter Jackson
- Best German film: What doesn't fit is made to fit by Peter Thorwarth
- Best director internationally: Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Companions
- Best German director: Tom Tykwer for Heaven
- Best Actor International: Will Smith in Ali
- Best German actor: Armin Rohde in 666 - Don't trust anyone you sleep with!
- Best actress international: Halle Berry in Monster's Ball
- Best German actress: Alexandra Maria Lara in What doesn't fit is made to fit
Further film prizes and awards
- AFI Life Achievement Award : Robert De Niro
- Amanda : Kitchen Stories by Bent Hamer (Best Norwegian Film), The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity by Stephen Daldry (Best Foreign Film)
- American Society of Cinematographers Award : John Schwartzman for Seabiscuit - With the Will to Success
- Australian Film Institute Award : Japanese Story by Sue Brooks (Best Australian Film), The Lord of the Rings (The Two Towers) by Peter Jackson (Best Foreign Film)
- Bodil : Open Hearts by Susanne Bier
- Bohemian Lion : Sex in Brno by Vladimír Morávek
- British Independent Film Awards : Dirty Little Tricks (Best British Film) and City of God (Best Foreign Film)
- Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival : Cypher by Vincenzo Natali
- Chlotrudis Awards : Heaven So Far From Todd Haynes
- Copenhagen International Film Festival : Song for a Raggy Boy by Aisling Walsh
- David di Donatello : The Window Opposite (Best Italian Film) and The Pianist (Best Foreign Film)
- Directors Guild of America Award : Rob Marshall for Chicago , Martin Scorsese (life's work)
- Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Douglas Wolfsperger for Bellaria - As long as we live!
- Evening Standard British Film Award : Little Dirty Tricks by Stephen Frears
- Festival du cinéma nordique : Nói Albínói by Dagur Kári
- Genie Award : Ararat by Atom Egoyan
- Guild Film Award : A Swallow Makes the Summer by Christian Carion (Gold Foreign Film), Good Bye, Lenin! by Wolfgang Becker (gold German film), Kick it like Beckham by Gurinder Chadha (silver foreign film), Solino by Fatih Akin (silver German film)
- GoEast : The Key to Defining Dwarfs or Lemuel Gulliver's Last Journey by Martin Šulík
- Golden Calf : The Twins
- Golden Prometheus : shot afraid of Dito Tsintsadze
- Goya 2003 : Mondays in the Sun by Fernando León de Aranoa
- Guldbagge : Lilja 4-ever by Lukas Moodysson
- Hong Kong Film Awards : Infernal Affairs by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak
- Independent Spirit Awards 2003 : So Far From Heaven by Todd Haynes (Best Film) and Y Tu Mamá También - Lust for Life by Alfonso Cuarón
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival : The window across from Ferzan Özpetek
- Konrad Wolf Prize : Abbas Kiarostami
- Louis Delluc Prize : Trilogy: Après la vie by Lucas Belvaux
- MTV Movie Awards : The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by Peter Jackson
- Nastro d'Argento : I'm not afraid of Gabriele Salvatores and The Pianist by Roman Polański
- National Society of Film Critics Award : The Pianist by Roman Polanski
- Political Film Society Award for Democracy : Shattered Glass by Billy Ray
- Political Film Society Award for Peace : Sandstorm by Jag Mundhra
- Political Film Society Award for Human Rights : The Merciless Sisters of Peter Mullan
- Polish Film Prize : The Pianist by Roman Polański
- German Film Critics' Prize : Lights by Hans-Christian Schmid
- Premio Ariel : The Temptation of Padre Amara by Carlos Carrera (Best Mexican Film), The Last Train by Diego Arsuaga (Best Latin American Film)
- Prix Lumières : The representative of Costa-Gavras
- Robert : Open Hearts by Susanne Bier (Best Danish Film), The Fabulous World of Amélie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Best Foreign Film excluding the USA), Gosford Park by Robert Altman (Best American Film)
- San Sebastián International Film Festival : shot afraid of Dito Tsintsadze (Golden Shell)
- Satellite Awards : In America (Best Picture / Drama) and Lost in Translation (Best Picture / Comedy-Musical)
- Screen Actors Guild Awards : Daniel Day-Lewis for Gangs of New York and Renée Zellweger for Chicago ; Lifetime Achievement Award: Clint Eastwood
- Toronto International Film Festival : Zatoichi - The Blind Samurai by Takeshi Kitano (Audience Award)
- Vancouver International Film Festival : Kamchatka by Marcelo Piñeyro
- Writers Guild of America Award : Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore (Best Original Screenplay), The Hours by David Hare (Best Adapted Screenplay)
Birthdays
- April 16: Alina Foley , American actress and voice actress
- May 1: Lizzy Greene , American actress
- December 22: Neel Sethi , American child actor
deceased
January to March
January
- January 1: Royce D. Applegate , American actor (born 1939)
- January 4: Conrad L. Hall , American cameraman (* 1926)
- January 5: Massimo Girotti , Italian actor (* 1918)
- January 11th: Maurice Pialat , French director (* 1925)
- January 12: Kinji Fukasaku , Japanese director (* 1930)
- January 17: Richard Crenna , American actor (* 1926)
- January 20: Nedra Volz , American actress (* 1908)
- January 22nd: Werner Dissel , German actor (* 1912)
- January 22nd: Bill Mauldin , American cartoonist and actor (* 1921)
February
- February 2: João César Monteiro , Portuguese director (* 1934)
- February 4: Archie Savage , American dancer and actor (born 1914)
- February 8: Alice Treff , German actress (* 1906)
- February 22nd: Daniel Taradash , American screenwriter and director (* 1913)
- February 24: Walter Scharf , American composer (* 1910)
- February 24: Alberto Sordi , Italian actor (* 1920)
March
- March 2: Fred Freiberger , American screenwriter and producer (* 1915)
- March 3: Horst Buchholz , German actor (* 1933)
- March 4: Sébastien Japrisot , French writer and screenwriter (* 1931)
- March 7th: Manfred Durniok , German producer (* 1934)
- March 8: Karen Morley , American actress (* 1909)
- March 9: Dsidra Ritenbergs , Latvian actress and director (* 1928)
- March 10: Marina Ladynina , Soviet-Russian actress (* 1908)
- March 12: Lynne Thigpen , American actress (* 1948)
- March 19: Émile Genest , Canadian actor and comedian (* 1921)
- March 19: Rick Zumwalt , American actor (* 1951)
- March 24: Philip Yordan , American screenwriter (* 1914)
- March 27: Daniel Ceccaldi , French actor (* 1927)
- March 30th: Michael Jeter , American actor (* 1952)
- March 31: Anne Gwynne , American actress (* 1918)
April to June
April
- April 4: Gerda Gmelin , German actress and theater director (* 1919)
- April 7th: David Greene , British director, screenwriter and producer (born 1921)
- April 17th: Hilde Sessak , German actress (* 1915)
- April 22nd: Andrea King , American actress (* 1919)
May
- May 3: Suzy Parker , American actress (born 1932)
- May 6: Tito García , Spanish actor (* 1931)
- May 14: Wendy Hiller , British actress (born 1912)
- May 14: Robert Stack , American actor (born 1919)
- May 23: Jean Yanne , French actor (* 1933)
- May 24th: Rachel Kempson , British actress (born 1910)
- May 28: Friedrich W. Bauschulte , German actor and voice actor (* 1923)
- May 28: Martha Scott , American actress (* 1912)
- May 30: Günter Pfitzmann , German actor (* 1924)
June
- June 4th: Maria Singer , Austrian actress (* 1914)
- June 12: Gregory Peck , American actor (born 1916)
- June 15: Hume Cronyn , Canadian actor (born 1911)
- June 20: Fielder Cook , American film director and producer (* 1923)
- June 21: George Axelrod , American director and screenwriter (* 1922)
- June 27: Walter Hugo Khouri , Brazilian director, screenwriter and producer (* 1929)
- June 29th: Katharine Hepburn , American actress (* 1907)
- June 30th: Buddy Hackett , American actor (* 1924)
July to September
July
- July 6: Buddy Ebsen , American actor (* 1908)
- July 14th: Leela Chitnis , Indian actress (* 1909)
- July 15: Alexander Walker , British film critic (* 1930)
- July 21: Walter M. Jefferies , American production designer (* 1921)
- July 25: John Schlesinger , British director (born 1926)
- July 27: Bob Hope , American comedian (* 1903)
- July 27: Frank Inn , American animal trainer (* 1916)
- July 31: Muscha , German director and video artist (* 1951)
August
- August 1: Marie Trintignant , French actress (* 1962)
- August 9: Gregory Hines , American dancer and actor (born 1946)
- August 10: Jacques Deray , French director (* 1929)
- August 22nd: Imperio Argentina , Spanish actress (* 1906)
- August 29: Michel Constantin , French actor (* 1924)
- August 30: Charles Bronson , American actor (born 1921)
September
- September 1: Rand Brooks , American actor (born 1918)
- September 1: Jack Smight , American director (born 1925)
- September 3: Ute Mora , German actress (* 1945)
- September 6th: Louise Platt , American actress (* 1915)
- September 8: Leni Riefenstahl , German director (* 1902)
- September 11th: Dorothy Fay , American actress (* 1915)
- September 11th: John Ritter , American actor (* 1948)
- September 17: Erich Hallhuber , German actor and voice actor (* 1951)
- September 20: Gordon Mitchell , American actor (born 1923)
- September 27: Donald O'Connor , American actor (born 1925)
- September 28: Elia Kazan , American director (* 1909)
October to December
October
- October 2: Gunther Philipp , Austrian actor (* 1918)
- October 5th: Denis Quilley , British actor (born 1927)
- October 9: Ruth Hall , American actress (* 1910)
- October 10: Victoria Horne , American actress (born 1911)
- October 20: Jack Elam , American actor (* 1920)
- October 26: Elem Klimow , Russian director (* 1933)
November
- November 5: Hans Heinrich , German director and film editor (* 1911)
- November 9: Art Carney , American actor (born 1918)
- November 11: Robert Brown , British actor (born 1921)
- November 12th: Jonathan Brandis , American actor (* 1976)
- November 13: Kellie Waymire , American actress (* 1967)
- November 15: David Holt , American actor (born 1927)
- November 18: Michael Kamen , American composer (* 1948)
- November 19: Gillian Barge , British actress (born 1940)
- November 20: Robert Addie , British actor (* 1960)
- November 27: Will Quadflieg , German actor (* 1914)
- November 29th: Donald O'Brien , Italian-French actor (born 1930)
- November 30th: Earl Bellamy , American director (born 1917)
December
- December 1: Carl Schenkel , Swiss director (* 1948)
- December 3: Ellen Drew , American actress (* 1915)
- December 7th: Barta Barri , Hungarian-Spanish actor (* 1911)
- December 14th: Jeanne Crain , American actress (* 1925)
- December 16: Siegfried Hold , German cameraman (* 1931)
- December 19: Hope Lange , American actress (* 1931)
- December 27: Alan Bates , British actor (born 1934)
- December 27: Ying Ruocheng , Chinese actor (* 1929)
- December 28: Helen Kleeb , American actress (* 1907)
- December 29th: Earl Hindman , American actor (born 1942)
Web links
Commons : Film Year 2003 - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ The most successful films in Germany 2003 on insidekino.com, accessed on August 27, 2011
- ^ Box Office United States , accessed August 27, 2011
- ↑ Box Office Worldwide , accessed August 27, 2011