Top Ten of 2003

This list was made in early 2004, but posted on 17 April 2014 and backdated to 1 January 2004.

1. Lost in Translation dir. Sofia Coppola

2. Cidade de Deus (City of God) dir. Fernando Meirelles

3. Mystic River dir. Clint Eastwood

4. The Fog of War dir. Errol Morris

5. Whale Rider dir. Niki Caro

6. Capturing the Friedmans dir. Andrew Jarecki

7. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World dir. Peter Weir

8. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King dir. Peter Jackson

9. Les Triplettes de Belleville (The Triplets of Belleville) dir. Sylvain Chomet

10. Winged Migration dir. Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats, Jacques Perrin

All feature films seen from 2003 (based on US commercial release dates)

* review available on this site

+ from my collection
^ not released in the US

titles in bold received at least one Oscar nomination

21 Grams dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu

+28 Days Later... dir. Danny Boyle

American Splendor dir. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini

American Wedding dir. Jesse Dylan

Anger Management dir. Peter Segal

Anything Else dir. Woody Allen

L'Auberge Espagnol dir. Cedric Klapisch

Bad Santa dir. Terry Zwigoff

The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) dir. Denys Arcand

Bend It Like Beckham dir. Gurinder Chadha

Better Luck Tomorrow dir. Justin Lin

Big Fish dir. Tim Burton

Bruce Almighty dir. Tom Shadyac

Capturing the Friedmans dir. Andrew Jarecki

Casa de los Babys dir. John Sayles

City of God (Cidade de Deus) dir. Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund

Cold Mountain dir. Anthony Minghella

Confidence dir. James Foley

The Cooler dir. Wayne Kramer

Daredevil dir. Mark Steven Johnson

^Días de fútbol dir. David Serrano

Dirty Pretty Things dir. Stephen Frears

Dummy dir. Greg Pritikin

Elephant dir. Gus Van Sant

+Elf dir. Jon Favreau

Final Destination 2 dir. David R. Ellis

Finding Nemo dir. Andrew Stanton

The Fog of War dir. Errol Morris

Freddy vs. Jason dir. Ronny Yu

Girl with a Pearl Earring dir. Peter Webber

The Good Thief dir. Neil Jordan

House of Sand and Fog dir. Vadim Perelman

Hulk dir. Ang Lee

*Identity dir. James Mangold

In America dir. Jim Sheridan

In the Cut dir. Jane Campion

+Intolerable Cruelty dir. Joel Coen

+The Italian Job dir. F. Gary Gray

Just Married dir. Shawn Levy

+*Kill Bill: Volume 1 dir. Quentin Tarantino

*The Last Samurai dir. Edward Zwick

The Life of David Gale dir. Alan Parker

Lilja 4-ever dir. Lukas Moodyson

+*The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King dir. Peter Jackson

Lost in Translation dir. Sofia Coppola

*Love, Actually dir. Richard Curtis

Love Liza dir. Todd Louiso

Los Lunes al sol (Mondays in the Sun) dir. Fernando León de Aranoa

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World dir. Peter Weir

Matchstick Men dir. Ridley Scott

The Matrix Reloaded dir. Lana and Andy Wachowski

The Matrix Revolutions dir. Lana and Andy Wachowski

A Mighty Wind dir. Christopher Guest

Monster dir. Patty Jenkins

+My Life Without Me dir. Isabel Coixet

Mystic River dir. Clint Eastwood

Old School dir. Todd Phillips

+*Once Upon a Time in Mexico dir. Robert Rodriguez

Open Range dir. Kevin Costner
El Otro lado de la cama dir. Emilio Martínez Lázaro

Out of Time dir. Carl Franklin

Owning Mahowny dir. Richard Kwietniowski

Phone Booth dir. Joel Schumacher

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl dir. Gore Verbinski

The Recruit dir. Roger Donaldson

S.W.A.T. dir. Clark Johnson

School of Rock dir. Richard Linklater

Seabiscuit dir. Gary Ross

Shanghai Knights dir. David Dobkin

Shattered Glass dir. Billy Ray

Something's Gotta Give dir. Nancy Meyer

Stuck on You dir. Peter and Bobby Farrelly

Swimming Pool dir. Francois Ozon

Thirteen dir. Catherine Hardwicke

Touching the Void dir. Kevin MacDonald

The Triplets of Belleville (Les Triplette de Belleville) dir. Sylvain Chomet

Tupac: Resurrection dir. Lauren Lazin

Under the Tuscan Sun dir. Audrey Wells

Veronica Guerin dir. Joel Schumacher

*Whale Rider Niki Caro

Winged Migration dir. Jacuqes Perrin, Jacuqe Cluzaud, Miche Debats

X2 dir. Bryan Singer

XX/XY dir. Austin Chick