2003 Critics & Other Organizations Top 10 Lists (1 Viewer)

[teapot2001]

Well, he only gave Return of the King 3 and 1/2 stars. I thought The Man on the Train would have been his top movie.

~T

 

[teapot2001]

Kenneth Turan:
1. Documentaries of 2003
2. Mystic River
3. House of Sand and Fog
4. The Return of the King
5. The Triplets of Belleville
6. Lost in Translation
7. Dirty Pretty Things and Sweet Sixteen
8. The Station Agent and Shattered Glass
9. Cold Mountain
10. Nowhere in Africa

~T

 

[ZacharyTait]

Richard Roeper's Top 25

25. Open Range
24. The Cooler
23. Shattered Glass
22. The Last Samurai
21. American Splendor
20. The Fog of War
19. Better Luck Tomorrow
18. Matchstick Men
17. Owning Mahony
16. Magdalene Sisters
15. Kill Bill Volume One
14. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
13. Finding Nemo
12. Love Actually
11. Master and Commander
10. Seabiscuit
9. Monster
8. Whale Rider
7. The Station Agent
6. The Barbarian Invasions
5. Elephant
4. 21 Grams
3. Lost in Translation
2. Mystic River
1. In America

 

[Brian W.]

No Return Of The King. After all, he did say that May was better.

Never fear, Edwin. The Chicago Tribune's Michael Wilmington's Top Ten:

1. "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
2. "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"
3. "Mystic River"
4. "Seabiscuit"
5. "Chihwaseon"
6. "The Magdalene Sisters"
7. "City of God"
8. "Finding Nemo"
9. "Together"
10. "In America"

The Chicago Tribune's Mark Caro's:

1. "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
2. "City of God"
3. "Finding Nemo"
4. "Lost in Translation"
5. "Capturing the Friedmans"
6. "In America"
7. "American Splendor"
8. "The Fog of War"
9. "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"
10. "Bad Santa"

 

[ZacharyTait]

Time Magazine's Top 10 via Oscarwatch.com

Richard Corliss's list:
1) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2) Finding Nemo and The Triplets of Bellville
3) Master and Commander
4) City of God
5) Cold Mountain
6) All The Real Girls
7) Kill Bill Volume 1
8) The Fog of War
9) Divine Intervention
10) Pirates of the Caribbean

Worst: Mona Lisa Smile

Richard Schickel's list:
1) Mystic River
2) American Splendor
3) Finding Nemo
4) The Human Stain
5) Gloomy Sunday
6) Man on the Train
7) Seabiscuit
8) Veronic Guerin
9) House of Sand and Fog
10) The Barbarian Invasions

Worst: Cold Mountain

I'm glad to see Pirates on somebody's Top 10. It might be on mine.

I'm surprised to see the lack of Cold Mountain on Top 10 lists and critic's awards. Maybe the movie isn't Oscar material like Harvey and Co. want us to believe?

 

[ZacharyTait]

Seattle Film Critics:

Picture: American Splendor

Director: Sofia Coppola, Lost in Translation

Actor: Bill Murray, Lost in Translation

Actress: Hope Davis, American Splendor

Supporting Actor: Sean Astin, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Supporting Actress: Marcia Gay Harden, Mystic River

Original Screenplay: Lost in Translation

Adapted Screenplay: American Splendor

Cinematography: Lord of the Rings: ROTK

Animated: Triplets of Belleville

Foreign: The Man on the Train

Documentary: Capturing the Friedmans

 

[ZacharyTait]

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly Top 10

1 American Splendor
2 Capturing the Friedmans
3 School of Rock
4 Lily-4-Ever
5 Bend it Like Beckham
6 The Magdalene Sisters
7 A Mighty Wind
8 LOTR: The Return of the King
9 Thirteen
10 Kill Bill: Volume 1

Lisa Schwartzbaum of Entertainment Weekly Top Ten
1 LOTR: Return of the King
2 Mystic River
3 Lost in Translation
4 American Splendor
5 Finding Nemo
6 Master & Commander
7 The Fog of War
8 Kill Bill: Volume 1
9 The Man Without A Past
10 To Be and To Have

Jeff Wells of Moviepoopshoot.com Top Tem
1 21 Grams
2 Whale Rider
3 The Fog of War
4 House of Sand & Fog
5 Master & Commander
6 Elephant
7 American Splendor
8 Open Range
9 Revolution Will Not Be Televised
10 Mystic River

 

[Nick C.]

I'm surprised to see the lack of Cold Mountain on Top 10 lists and critic's awards. Maybe the movie isn't Oscar material like Harvey and Co. want us to believe?

CM's pulling only 62% at Rotten Tomatoes, but 100% in the Cream of the Crop. It's also holding relatively strong at 82% at Metacritic.

If the Golden Globes are any indication (and certainly not a small one) of impending Oscar success, Miramax should be pretty pleased with the strong showing, doubling ROTK's nominations total. As long as Harvey continues his marketing spending and the box office receipts are not a giant flop, CM should be assured an Oscar nod, after all, critical acclaim and film quality don't matter I'll leave it at that, as this post really belongs in the Oscar discussion thread

 

[Brian W.]

Is it my imagination, or are we seeing a HUGE variation in the critics' lists this year, particularly for their number one picks? It seems like in years past there's usually been one film that is chosen as number one by the majority of critics, but there just doesn't seem to be anything approaching a majority concensus this year. Maybe they're always like that.

 

[Brian W.]

Newsweek's Top Ten

1. American Splendor
2. Return of the King
3. Lost in Translation
4. Finding Nemo
5. School of Rock
6. Mystic River
7. Man on the Train
8. In America
9. Dirty Pretty Things
10. The Barbarian Invasions

But there's one big-budget epic that I don't think has been #1 on ANYONE'S list so far: Cold Mountain.

 

[ZacharyTait]

Brian W,

That list was posted on Page 2 of this thread.

The REAL Southeastern Film Critics Awards

Best Picture: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Best Director: Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Best Actor: Bill Murray, Lost In Translation

Best Actress: Naomi Watts, 21 Grams

Best Supporting Actor: Tim Robbins, Mystic River

Best Supporting Actress: Renee Zellweger, Cold Mountain

Best Original Screenplay: Lost in Translation

Best Adapted Screenplay: Mystic River

Best Foreign Language Film: City of God

Best Documentary: Capturing the Friedmans

Top Ten Films of the Year:
1) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2) Mystic River
3) Lost in Translation
4) Cold Mountain
5) The Station Agent
6) Finding Nemo
7) American Splendor
8) Seabiscuit
9) In America
10) House of Sand and Fog

 

[ZacharyTait]

NY Daily News Top 10 via Oscarwatch.com

Jack Matthews

1. "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King": The best fantasy movie experience since 1940's "The Thief of Bagdad," and one of the most deserved success stories in Hollywood history.

2. "21 Grams": Alejandro González Iñárritu's followup to "AmoresPerros" is a brilliantly conceived evocation of loss and spiritual crisis.

3. "Mystic River": The rare movie that's better than its source novel, featuring career performances from Sean Penn and Tim Robbins and providing further evidence of the cool storytelling style of Clint Eastwood.

4. "Winged Migration": This remarkable French documentary about the migratory behavior of birds puts wings on its audience and lets us see the world as they do.

5. "American Splendor": Combining actors with the characters they're playing was just one of the clever strokes of this biographical curio about blue-collar comic book author Harvey Pekar.

6. "The School of Rock": I was laughing so hard I forgot that I hate this kind of music.

7. "The Magdalene Sisters": An eye-opening social drama about Rome-sponsored morals prisons for Irish girls that were operating into the 1990s.

8. "Stuck on You": More inspired lunacy from the Farrelly brothers, about conjoined twins who like each other too much to consider separating.

9. "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World": The story is no "Mutiny on the Bounty" or "Captains Courageous," but it evokes greater period authenticity than any high seas adventure that has gone before.

10. "Bad Santa": Bah humbug indeed, this depraved comedy about a dissolute department store Santa and his felonious elf is more fun than a drunk puppy.

Jami Bernard

1. "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King": Peter Jackson's brilliant third installment of the trilogy evoked the magic the J.R.R. Tolkien books held for me throughout adolescence, the sense of living in another world where every step mattered terribly.

2. "In America": A poor Irish family struggles to get a foothold while their hearts thaw in Jim Sheridan's stunningly intimate labor of love.

3. "American Splendor": You've just gotta love the cranky comics folk hero Harvey Pekar as played so uncompromisingly by Paul Giamatti. The movie, like the comic book, elevates banality to an art.

4. "Triplets of Belleville": Seeing this inspired animated feature by Sylvain Chomet reminds me of the first time I saw Betty Boop join that Stygian "members only" club - it's surprising, funny, creepy and just so one-of-a-kind.

5. "Lost in Translation": Sofia Coppola concocts a mood that can only be called "sleep deprivation," with the help of Scarlett Johanssen and Bill Murray in this sushi out of water tale.

6. "To Be and To Have": This French documentary reveals the ineffable magic of a natural-born teacher on his students, and vice versa.

7. "21 Grams": Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu ("Amores Perros") does it again, weaving strands of people's lives and misery together to raise issues of fate, forgiveness and the debts the living owe the dead.

8. "Mystic River": Clint Eastwood in fine form telling a murder story that goes to the very roots of a tight-knit community. Plus, there's that powerhouse performance by Sean Penn.

9. "Winged Migration": What a technical achievement! This documentary follows flocks of birds on their annual flight patterns, with storm-tossed journeys every bit as riveting as the one in "Master and Commander."

10. "The Station Agent": A charmingly off-beat and life-affirming movie about a dwarf (Peter Dinklage) who, though reluctant, keeps getting drawn into the lives of the people near a deserted train depot.

I wish there were room on this list for "Thirteen," "School of Rock," "The Company," "The Fog of War," "Capturing the Friedmans," "Bad Santa" and "My Architect."

 

[Arman]

Here are the results of Village Voice's very fascinating and comprehensive (since I have'nt seen a lot of them , this is my most favorite among the best of 2003 lists/poll results so far. The winners in their Undistributed category are the ones I will be looking forward to next year 2004. Btw, I hate the Golden Globe's 2003 and am will probably ignore their selections this year )The Village Voice - Take 5: 5th Annual Voice critics' poll - 2003 :

Artist/Title Points Mentions
Best Film
1 Lost in Translation 447 41
2 Elephant 401 36
3 demonlover 279.9 27
4 Capturing the Friedmans 275.4 26
5 The Son 246.5 23
6 The Fog of War 235 22
7 American Splendor 234 22
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 234 21
9 Kill Bill Vol. 1 210.5 21
10 Unknown Pleasures 198.4 19
11 Mystic River 198 18
12 School of Rock 195 22
13 The Man Without a Past 168 16
14 To Be and to Have 162 16
15 Platform 161 12
16 Ten 156 17
17 Bus 174 153 14
18 Lilya 4-Ever 132 11
19 In America 127 10
20 Gerry 125.4 12
21 Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary 125 13
Spider 125 12
23 City of God 123 11
24 Irreversible 122 11
25 Spellbound 121 11
26 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 118 13
27 Dirty Pretty Things 102 11
28 Bad Santa 99 12
29 Friday Night 97 10
30 Love & Diane 90 9
31 Millennium Mambo 87 10
32 Japón 78.4 9
33 Sweet Sixteen 78 8
34 La Commune (Paris, 1871) 73 6
35 In My Skin 70 8
36 Raising Victor Vargas 68 8
37 Cowards Bend the Knee 65 6
Divine Intervention 65 8
39 Finding Nemo 63 7
40 21 Grams 62.4 6
In This World 62.4 6
42 28 Days Later 61.4 7
43 All the Real Girls 58 7
The Station Agent 58 6
45 The Magdalene Sisters 57 6
46 The Secret Lives of Dentists 56 7
The Triplets of Belleville 56 7
48 My Architect 55 5
Shattered Glass 55 5
50 Down With Love 53 5
51 Whale Rider 52 5
52 Waiting for Happiness 50 5
53 A Mighty Wind 45 4
54 The Good Thief 44 4
55 The Weather Underground 43 4
X2: X-Men United 43 5
57 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 41 4
58 Remembrance of Things to Come 39 4
59 The Company 38 5
60 Big Fish 37 4
Suddenly 37 4
62 Ichi the Killer 35 3
63 The Last Letter 34 3
64 The Eye 33 3
Stuck on You 33 3
66 Cold Mountain 32 5
Pistol Opera 32 3
68 Chihwaseon (Painted Fire) 31 3
69 Stevie 30 3
70 Medea 29.4 3
71 Masked & Anonymous 29 4
72 thirteen 28 3
Together 28 2
74 The Flower of Evil 26 2
75 Au Hasard Balthazar 25 2
Carnage 25 3
Looney Tunes: Back in Action 25 3
78 Decasia 23 2
Hukkle 23 3
Owning Mahowny 23 3
Russian Ark 23 2
Under the Skin of the City 23 2
83 In the Cut 22 3
84 An Injury to One 20.5 2
85 The Slaughter Rule 20 3
86 Camp 19 2
The Man on the Train 19 3
Porn Theatre 19 2
89 The Dancer Upstairs 18 2
Peter Pan 18 2
Swimming Pool 18 2
92 The Barbarian Invasions 16 2
Something's Gotta Give 16 2
94 Phone Booth 15 2
95 The Legend of Leigh Bowery 14 1
Marooned in Iraq 14 1
97 The Human Stain 13 1
98 Elf 12 1
In the Mirror of Maya Deren 12 1
Ticket to Jerusalem 12 1
101 Balseros 11 2
The Hunted 11 2
Zero Day 11 1
104 Autumn Spring 10 1
Bend it Like Beckham 10 1
Chaos 10 1
The Death of Klinghoffer 10 1
The Embalmer 10 1
Girl with a Pearl Earring 10 1
The Last Samurai 10 1
Madame Satã 10 1
Northfork 10 1
The Pianist 10 1
Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy, Working With Time 10 1
Yossi & Jagger 10 1
116 About Schmidt 9 1
Charlotte Sometimes 9 1
Freaky Friday 9 1
From the Other Side 9 1
The Guru 9 1
Intolerable Cruelty 9 1
Laurel Canyon 9 1
Matchstick Men 9 1
124 Gambling, Gods and LSD 8 1
The Hulk 8 1
Seaside 8 1
127 The Cuckoo 7 1
El Bonaerense 7 1
The Event 7 1
Horns and Halos 7 1
Stone Reader 7 1
Winged Migration 7 1
133 Buffalo Soldiers 6 1
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle 6 1
Open Range 6 1
Rana's Wedding 6 1
Respiro 6 1
September 11 6 1
Under the Tuscan Sun 6 1
140 House of Sand and Fog 5 1
The Missing 5 1
Party Monster 5 1
XX/XY 5 1

Best Performance
Artist/Title Points Mentions
1 Bill Murray, Lost in Translation 474 43
2 Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean:The Curse Of The Black Pearl 226 22
3 Jack Black, School of Rock 198 19
4 Naomi Watts, 21 Grams 164 16
5 Olivier Gourmet, The Son 154 15
6 Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dirty Pretty Things 148 14
7 Paul Giamatti, American Splendor 136 14
8 Ralph Fiennes, Spider 124 12
9 Charlize Theron, Monster 112 10
10 Zooey Deschanel, All the Real Girls 106 10
11 Scarlett Johansson, Lost in Translation 92 10
12 Billy Bob Thornton, Bad Santa 80 9
13 Sean Penn, Mystic River 78 8
14 Frances McDormand, Laurel Canyon 76 8
15 Oksana Akinshina, Lilya 4-Ever 72 8
16 Uma Thurman, Kill Bill Vol. 1 62 5
Lázaro Ramos, Madame Satã 62 6
Hope Davis, The Secret Lives of Dentists 62 6
19 Connie Nielsen, demonlover 58 6
20 Jamie Lee Curtis, Freaky Friday 56 6
Nick Nolte, The Good Thief 56 5
Marina de Van, In My Skin 56 5
Keisha Castle-Hughes, Whale Rider 56 6
24 Sean Penn, 21 Grams 52 5
Meg Ryan, In the Cut 52 5
Martin Compston, Sweet Sixteen 52 6
27 George Clooney, Intolerable Cruelty 46 4
28 Robert McNamara, The Fog of War 44 5
Charlotte Rampling, Swimming Pool 44 5
30 Diane Keaton, Something's Gotta Give 40 4
31 David Morse, The Slaughter Rule 38 4
Mania Akbari, Ten 38 4
33 Bruce Campbell, Bubba Ho-tep 36 3
34 Monica Bellucci, Irreversible 32 4
Markku Peltola, The Man Without a Past 32 3
36 Peter Dinklage, The Station Agent 30 3
37 Samantha Morton, In America 28 3
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Owning Mahowny 28 3
39 Javier Bardem, The Dancer Upstairs 26 3
40 Javier Bardem, Mondays in the Sun 24 2
41 Russell Crowe, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 22 2
42 Ewan McGregor, Big Fish 20 2
Valérie Lemercier, Friday Night 20 3
Scarlett Johansson, Girl with a Pearl Earring 20 2
Jennifer Connelly, House of Sand and Fog 20 2
Hayden Christensen, Shattered Glass 20 2
Evan Rachel Wood, thirteen 20 2
Georges Lopez, To Be and to Have 20 2
Crispin Glover, Willard 20 2
50 Matt Damon, Gerry 18 2
Ben Kingsley, House of Sand and Fog 18 2
52 Ewan McGregor, Down With Love 16 2
Lindsay Lohan, Freaky Friday 16 2
Shu Qi, Millennium Mambo 16 2
55 Nicole Kidman, Cold Mountain 14 1
Anthony Hopkins, The Human Stain 14 1
Toni Collette, Japanese Story 14 1
58 Choi Min-sik, Chihwaseon (Painted Fire) 12 1
Steadicam, Elephant 12 1
Will Ferrell, Elf 12 1
Elijah Wood, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 12 2
62 Paul Schneider, All the Real Girls 10 1
Martin Lawrence, Bad Boys II 10 1
Traudl Junge, Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary 10 1
Joaquin Phoenix, Buffalo Soldiers 10 1
The Friedman Family, Capturing the Friedmans 10 1
Rachida Brakni, Chaos 10 1
Audrey Tautou, Dirty Pretty Things 10 1
Ensemble, Elephant 10 1
Nathalie Baye, The Flower of Evil 10 1
Jack Plotnick, Girls Will Be Girls 10 1
Helena Bonham Carter, The Heart of Me 10 1
Catherine Samie, The Last Letter 10 1
Anne-Marie Duff, The Magdalene Sisters 10 1
Jean Rochefort, The Man on the Train 10 1
Christopher Guest, A Mighty Wind 10 1
Cate Blanchett, The Missing 10 1
James Woods, Northfork 10 1
Colin Farrell, Phone Booth 10 1
Victor Rasuk, Raising Victor Vargas 10 1
Valeria Golino, Respiro 10 1
Ryan Gosling, The Slaughter Rule 10 1
Matt Damon & Greg Kinnear, Stuck on You 10 1
Gwyneth Paltrow, Sylvia 10 1
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 10 1
Wu Qiong, Unknown Pleasures 10 1
87 Agnes Bruckner, Blue Car 8 1
Mrs. Friedman, Capturing the Friedmans 8 1
Kurt Russell, Dark Blue 8 1
Bugs Bunny, Looney Tunes: Back in Action 8 1
Sarah Polley, My Life Without Me 8 1
Makiko Esumi, Pistol Opera 8 1
93 Jude Law, Cold Mountain 6 1
Charles Busch, Die Mommie Die! 6 1
Albert Brooks, Finding Nemo 6 1
Casey Affleck, Gerry 6 1
Heather Graham, The Guru 6 1
Daffy Duck, Looney Tunes: Back in Action 6 1
Robert Duvall, Open Range 6 1
Gina Gershon, Prey for Rock & Roll 6 1
Rachel Weisz, The Shape of Things 6 1

Best Supporting Performance
Artist/Title Points Mentions
1 Peter Sarsgaard, Shattered Glass 236 22
2 Hope Davis, American Splendor 144 15
3 Miranda Richardson, Spider 136 13
4 Eugene Levy, A Mighty Wind 127 11
5 Tim Robbins, Mystic River 104 11
6 Marcia Gay Harden, Mystic River 94 9
7 Melissa Leo, 21 Grams 88 8
Holly Hunter, thirteen 88 8
9 Joan Cusack, School of Rock 86 9
10 Altagracia Guzman, Raising Victor Vargas 80 8
11 Sarah Bolger, In America 76 9
Patricia Clarkson, The Station Agent 76 7
13 Renee Zellweger, Cold Mountain 72 7
Kevin Bacon, Mystic River 72 7
15 Ludivine Sagnier, Swimming Pool 68 7
16 Catherine O'Hara, A Mighty Wind 67 7
17 Geraldine McEwan, The Magdalene Sisters 60 6
Alison Lohman, Matchstick Men 60 6
19 Sonny Chiba, Kill Bill Vol. 1 58 6
Bobby Cannavale, The Station Agent 58 6
21 David Hyde Pierce, Down With Love 56 6
22 Benicio Del Toro, 21 Grams 54 5
Emma Bolger, In America 54 6
Fred Willard, A Mighty Wind 54 5
25 Laura Linney, Mystic River 52 5
26 Judah Friedlander, American Splendor 50 5
27 Djimon Hounsou, In America 48 5
28 Sean Astin, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 46 4
Amin Maher, Ten 46 4
30 Lucy Liu, Kill Bill Vol. 1 42 4
31 Chloe Sevigny, demonlover 40 4
32 Jacqueline Kim, Charlotte Sometimes 34 3
Magdalena Flores, Japón 34 3
34 Gina Gershon, demonlover 32 4
Chiaki Kuriyama, Kill Bill Vol. 1 32 4
Judith Ivey, What Alice Found 32 3
37 Mark Ruffalo, In the Cut 30 3
John Hurt, Owning Mahowny 30 3
Daniel Craig, Sylvia 30 3
40 Jennifer Jason Leigh, In the Cut 28 3
41 Judy Marte, Raising Victor Vargas 26 2
42 Margaret Colin, Blue Car 24 2
43 Olympia Dukakis, The Event 22 2
Nick Nolte, The Hulk 22 2
Chris Cooper, Seabiscuit 22 2
Blythe Danner, Sylvia 22 2
47 Marie-Josée Croze, The Barbarian Invasions 20 2
Alec Baldwin, The Cooler 20 2
Charles Berling, demonlover 20 2
Peter Dinklage, Elf 20 2
Shohreh Aghdashloo, House of Sand and Fog 20 2
Kevin Bacon, In the Cut 20 2
Nora-Jane Noone, The Magdalene Sisters 20 2
Jason Isaacs, Peter Pan 20 2
55 Maria Bello, The Cooler 18 2
Anna Faris, Lost in Translation 18 2
Christina Ricci, Monster 18 2
58 Suzanne Flon, The Flower of Evil 16 2
Andy Serkis (plus CGI), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 16 2
Kati Outinen, The Man Without a Past 16 2
61 Albert Finney, Big Fish 14 1
John Robinson, Elephant 14 2
Tadanobu Asano, Ichi the Killer 14 1
Paul Bettany, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 14 1
Annette Bening, Open Range 14 1
Seth Green, Party Monster 14 1
Morgan Marinne, The Son 14 1
68 James Urbaniak, American Splendor 12 1
Ossie Davis, Bubba Ho-tep 12 1
Ellen DeGeneres, Finding Nemo 12 1
Wentworth Miller, The Human Stain 12 1
Holly Hunter, Levity 12 1
Ian McKellen, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 12 1
John Goodman, Masked & Anonymous 12 1
Jack Kao, Millennium Mambo 12 1
Geoffrey Rush, Pirates of the Caribbean:The Curse Of The Black Pearl 12 1
Nikki Reed, thirteen 12 1
78 Charlotte Gainsbourg, 21 Grams 10 1
Cleveland, American Splendor 10 1
Vanessa Martinez, Casa de los Babys 10 1
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cold Mountain 10 1
Sergi López, Dirty Pretty Things 10 1
Adrian Lester, Dust 10 1
Thomas Chabrol, The Flower of Evil 10 1
Essie Davis, Girl with a Pearl Earring 10 1
Marisa Tomei, The Guru 10 1
Ron Eldard, House of Sand and Fog 10 1
Irwin Keyes, Intolerable Cruelty 10 1
Artyom Bogucharsky, Lilya 4-Ever 10 1
Steve Martin, Looney Tunes: Back in Action 10 1
Yutaka Tadokoro, Lost in Translation 10 1
Alan Rickman, Love Actually 10 1
Gloria Foster, The Matrix Reloaded 10 1
Anna Faris, May 10 1
Jane Lynch, A Mighty Wind 10 1
Ed Begley Jr., A Mighty Wind 10 1
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mona Lisa Smile 10 1
Laurence Fishburne, Mystic River 10 1
Will Ferrell, Old School 10 1
Johnny Depp, Once Upon a Time in Mexico 10 1
Michael Jeter, Open Range 10 1
Jacques Nolot, Porn Theatre 10 1
Timothy Olyphant, The Safety of Objects 10 1
Elizabeth Banks, Seabiscuit 10 1
Michelle Williams, The Station Agent 10 1
Beatriz Thibaudin, Suddenly 10 1
The Bald Lady, Ten 10 1
Zhao Tao, Unknown Pleasures 10 1
Famke Janssen, X2: X-Men United 10 1
Brian Cox, X2: X-Men United 10 1
111 Hope Davis, About Schmidt 8 1
Tony Cox, Bad Santa 8 1
Chiara Mastroianni, Carnage 8 1
Zooey Deschanel, Elf 8 1
Miranda Otto, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 8 1
Vince Vaughn, Old School 8 1
Vittoria Scognamiglio, Porn Theatre 8 1
Jean-Marie Lamour, Swimming Pool 8 1
119 Parker Posey, The Event 6 1
Errol Morris, The Fog of War 6 1
Albert Dupontel, Irreversible 6 1
Tom Aldredge, Intolerable Cruelty 6 1
Stephen Fry, Le Divorce 6 1
Bill Nighy, Love Actually 6 1
Johnny Hallyday, The Man on the Train 6 1
Ruben Blades, Once Upon a Time in Mexico 6 1
Paprika Steen, Open Hearts 6 1
Eva Mendes, Out of Time 6 1
Kids, School of Rock 6 1
Bulle Ogier, Seaside 6 1
Rawiri Paratene, Whale Rider 6 1

Best Director
Artist/Title Points
1 Gus Van Sant, Elephant 12
2 Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 8
3 Sofia Coppola, Lost in Translation 6
4 Olivier Assayas, demonlover 4
Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill Vol. 1 4
Clint Eastwood, Mystic River 4
Jia Zhangke, Unknown Pleasures 4
8 Alejandro González Iñárritu, 21 Grams 3
Gus Van Sant, Gerry 3
Gaspar Noé, Irreversible 3
Jia Zhangke, Platform 3
12 Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini, American Splendor 2
Peter Watkins, La Commune (Paris, 1871) 2
Errol Morris, The Fog of War 2
Takashi Miike, Ichi the Killer 2
Lukas Moodysson, Lilya 4-Ever 2
Peter Weir, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, The Son 2
David Cronenberg, Spider 2
20 Fernando Meirelles, City of God 1
Guy Maddin, Cowards Bend the Knee 1
Stephen Frears, Dirty Pretty Things 1
Guy Maddin, Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary 1
The Pang Brothers, The Eye 1
Neil Jordan, The Good Thief 1
Michael Winterbottom, In This World 1
Aki Kaurismäki, The Man Without a Past 1
Richard Linklater, School of Rock 1
Abbas Kiarostami, Ten 1
Catherine Hardwicke, thirteen 1
Chen Kaige, Together 1
Rakhshan Bani Etemad, Under the Skin of the City 1

Best Screenplay
Artist/Title Points
1 Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini, American Splendor 9
2 Olivier Assayas, demonlover 7
3 Bráulio Mantovani, City of God 4
Jim Sheridan & Naomi Sheridan & Kirsten Sheridan, In America 4
Sofia Coppola, Lost in Translation 4
6 David Gordon Green, All the Real Girls 3
Aki Kaurismäki, The Man Without a Past 3
Craig Lucas, The Secret Lives of Dentists 3
Patrick McGrath, Spider 3
10 Alex Garland, 28 Days Later 2
Steve Knight, Dirty Pretty Things 2
Eve Ahlert & Dennis Drake, Down With Love 2
Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill Vol. 1 2
Peter Mullan, The Magdalene Sisters 2
Brian Helgeland, Mystic River 2
Larry Cohen, Phone Booth 2
Jacques Nolot, Porn Theatre 2
Paul Laverty, Sweet Sixteen 2
Catherine Hardwicke & Nikki Reed, thirteen 2
20 John Requa & Glenn Ficarra, Bad Santa 1
Denys Arcand, The Barbarian Invasions 1
Agathe Bluysen and Peter Watkins, La Commune (Paris, 1871) 1
Chantal Akerman, From the Other Side 1
Casey Affleck & Matt Damon & Gus Van Sant, Gerry 1
Carlos Reygadas, Japón 1
Véronique Aubouy and Frederick Wiseman, The Last Letter 1
Sergei Petrov & Rene Fontaine, Masked & Anonymous 1
Peter Weir & John Collee, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 1
Christopher Guest & Eugene Levy, A Mighty Wind 1
Jia Zhangke, Platform 1
Peter Sollett, Raising Victor Vargas 1
Mike White, School of Rock 1
Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly, Stuck on You 1
François Ozon and Emmanuèle Bernheim, Swimming Pool 1
Niki Caro, Whale Rider 1

Best First Film
Artist/Title Points
1 Raising Victor Vargas 10.3
2 The Triplets of Belleville 8
3 Japón 6.3
4 In My Skin 6
5 Capturing the Friedmans 5
Shattered Glass 5
7 Love & Diane 3
8 American Splendor 2
The Dancer Upstairs 2
My Architect 2
Spellbound 2
12 City of Ghosts 1.5
13 The Station Agent 1.3
14 The Backyard 1
Blue Car 1
Bolivia 1
Camp 1
Carnage 1
City of God 1
Girl with a Pearl Earring 1
The Holy Land 1
Hukkle 1
An Injury to One 1
Melvin Goes to Dinner 1
Monster 1
The Slaughter Rule 1
thirteen 1
XX/XY 1
Zero Day 1
30 Suddenly 0.5

Best Documentary
Artist/Title Points
1 The Fog of War 15.8
2 Capturing the Friedmans 13.3
3 To Be and to Have 10
4 Bus 174 8.8
5 Love & Diane 7
Spellbound 7
7 An Injury to One 5
8 My Architect 3
9 Lost in La Mancha 2
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 2
Stone Reader 2
12 The Legend of Leigh Bowery 1
Remembrance of Things to Come 1
The Same River Twice 1
The Weather Underground 1

Best Cinematography
Artist/Title Points
1 Harris Savides, Elephant 15.5
2 Lance Acord, Lost in Translation 10
3 Robert Richardson, Kill Bill Vol. 1 6
4 Harris Savides, Gerry 4.5
5 Agnès Godard, Friday Night 4
Russell Boyd, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 4
7 Chris Menges, The Good Thief 3
Benoît Debie and Gaspar Noé, Irreversible 3
Timo Salminen, The Man Without a Past 3
10 Rodrigo Prieto, 21 Grams 2
Denis Lenoir, demonlover 2
Eduardo Serra, Girl with a Pearl Earring 2
Andrew Lesnie, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2
Mark Li Ping-bin, Millennium Mambo 2
Tilman Büttner, Russian Ark 2
16 Ghislain Cloquet, Au Hasard Balthazar 1
César Charlone, City of God 1
Paul Suderman, Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary 1
Roger Deakins, House of Sand and Fog 1
Caleb Deschanel, The Hunted 1
Declan Quinn, In America 1
Dion Beebe, In the Cut 1
Diego Martínez Vignatti, Japón 1
John Toll, The Last Samurai 1
Walter Carvalho, Madame Satã 1
M. David Mullen, Northfork 1
Robb Moss, The Same River Twice 1
Hossein Djafarian, Under the Skin of the City 1
Yu Lik-wai, Unknown Pleasures 1

Best Undistributed Film
Artist/Title Points
1 Goodbye Dragon Inn 27
2 Bright Leaves 12
Los Angeles Plays Itself 12
4 Turning Gate 11
5 The Brown Bunny 10
6 Good Morning, Night 8
7 The Five Obstructions 7
8 Ken Park 6
Raja 6
10 A Thousand Months 5
11 Battle Royale 4
Blissfully Yours 4
Dallas 362 4
Ford Transit 4
Funny Ha Ha 4
Pornography 4
Pulse 4
Save the Green Planet 4
Story of Marie and Julien 4
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance 4
The Uncertainty Principle 4
22 Come and Go 3
Deep Breath 3
Gozu 3
Harmful Insect 3
Memories of Murder 3
No Rest for the Brave 3
Ong-Bak Muay, Thai Warrior 3
Star Spangled to Death 3
Tiexi District: West of the Tracks 3
Vibrator 3
32 Abjad 2
At Five in the Afternoon 2
Dying at Grace 2
Elle est des notres (For She's a Jolly Good Fellow) 2
The Fifth Reaction 2
Flowers of Shanghai 2
Gambling, Gods and LSD 2
Guardian of the Frontier 2
Happy Here and Now 2
Jealousy Is My Middle Name 2
Jesus, You Know 2
Last Life in the Universe 2
The Living World 2
The Mudge Boy 2
Oporto of My Childhood 2
PTU 2
Salt 2
See You Off to the Edge of Town 2
Struggle 2
That Day (Ce jour-là) 2
Tribute 2
Uniform 2
Visitor Q 2
Wild Berries 2
56 Camel(s) 1
66 Seasons 1
Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Street 1
All Tomorrow's Parties 1
Ana y los otros 1
Aro Tolbukhin: In the Mind of a Killer 1
Baader 1
Barking Dogs Don't Bite 1
Battle Royale II 1
Be My Star 1
Birch Tree Meadow 1
Blessing Bell 1
Brief Crossing 1
Bright Young Things 1
Bungalow 1
A Certain Kind of Death 1
Changes 1
Charisma 1
Christmas in August 1
Coffee Time 1
The Confession 1
Cotton Candy 1
Crazy 1
Cry Woman 1
Dark Water 1
Daylight Moon 1
Deep Breath 1
Diva Dolorosa 1
Doing Time 1
Don's Plum 1
Eat Sleep No Women 1
Eliana, Eliana 1
Everybody Loves Alice 1
Everyone's Got One 1
Fastpitch 1
Fate 1
Fear X 1
The First Night (La Primera Noche) 1
Flowers of September 1
Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection 1
Freedom (Laisve) 1
Fuse 1
Game Over: Kasparov Vs. the Machine 1
The Gift 1
Gloria 1
Go Further 1
Goff in the Desert 1
A Good Lawyer's Wife 1
Graveyard of Honor 1
The Great Pumpkin 1
Grimm 1
The Grudge 1
Historias Mínimas 1
Hitler's Hat 1
Hoover Street Revival 1
The Hours of the Day 1
I Love Your Work 1
In the Bathtub of the World 1
The Inner Tour 1
Internal Affairs 1
Joy of Madness 1
Ju-On (The Grudge) 1
Juha 1
Jylama 1
Kairat 1
Khroustaliov, My Car! 1
King of the Ants 1
The Kite 1
Koktebel 1
Kopps 1
Kwik Stop 1
La Captive 1
La Vie Nouvelle 1
The Last Just Man 1
Last Scene 1
The Last Train 1
Le Fleuve 1
Les Diables 1
Letters in the Wind 1
Let's Get Frank 1
La Libertad 1
Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc's Adventure in Plastic 1
Losses To Be Expected 1
Love Torn in Dream 1
Low Heights 1
L'Outremangeur 1
Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women 1
Molly & Mobarak 1
Monday Morning 1
Monrak Transistor 1
Mutter 1
My Mother's Smile 1
My Beautiful Girl, Mari 1
My Beautiful Days (24) 1
The Naked Proof 1
The Nest 1
Nightfall 1
Nine Souls 1
No One's Ark 1
Nothing 1
Oasis 1
Olga's Chignon 1
One Day in August 1
One Evening After the War 1
One Fine Spring Day 1
The Orphan of Anyang 1
The Other America 1
Our Times 1
Out 1
Paradox Lake 1
A Peck in the Cheek 1
A Piece of Sky 1
Playing "In the Company of Men" 1
The Poor and Hungry 1
Purple Butterfly 1
Rated X: A Journey Through Porn 1
Resurrection of the Little Match Girl 1
The Road 1
Road 181 1
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick 1
Seance 1
Senorita Extraviada 1
Shadow Kill 1
Sicilia! 1
Silence Between Two Thoughts 1
The Skywalk Is Gone 1
A Snake of June 1
Son Frère 1
State of the Nation: Austria in Six Chapters 1
A Tender Place 1
The Tesseract 1
They Say 1
This Filthy Earth 1
This Girl's Life 1
This Little Life 1
Ticket to Jerusalem 1
The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia 1
Ultima Thule 1
Vagabond 1
A Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors 1
The Virgin of Lust 1
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town 1
The Wild Dogs 1
The Wilgus Stories 1
Zmani 1

 

[Scott Weinberg]

Hey guys. We're taking a new approach to our awards over at HBS this year, and I thought I'd share our 2003 Bitchslap Nominees with you guys. It didn't seem worthy of its own specific thread, but I figured y'all might get a kick out of 'em.

 

[Brian W.]

The New York Times critics weigh in.

Elvis Mitchell's Top Ten:

1.'PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN'
2. '21 GRAMS'
3. 'THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE'
4. 'ELEPHANT'
5. 'CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS'
6. 'LOST IN TRANSLATION'
7. 'RAISING VICTOR VARGAS'
8. 'AMERICAN SPLENDOR'
9. 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING'
10. 'THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY'

A.O. Scott's:

1. 'MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD'
2. 'MYSTIC RIVER'
3. 'THE SON'
4. 'SPELLBOUND'
5. 'THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS'
6. 'THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST'
7. 'THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE'
8. 'FINDING NEMO'
9. 'BUS 174'
10. 'A MIGHTY WIND'

Stephen Holden's:

1. 'ANGELS IN AMERICA'
2. 'MYSTIC RIVER'
3. 'THE FOG OF WAR'
4. 'CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS'
5. 'LOST IN TRANSLATION'
6. 'HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG'
7. 'THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS'
8. 'AMERICAN SPLENDOR'
9. 'THIRTEEN'
10. 'CITY OF GOD'

 

[Stevan Lay]

I thought I'd share our 2003 Bitchslap Nominees with you guys

Thanks for the link, Scott.

By the way Mr. Weinberg, are you aware that your comments had made the DVD (region 4) cover of the movie Confidence. Only reason why I hired it out was because of your recommendation on the cover

 

[Stevan Lay]

James Berardinelli's Top Ten (ReelViews)

1. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. Lost in Translation
3. 21 Grams
4. Lilya 4-Ever
5. He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
6. House of Sand and Fog
7. Mystic River
8. Irreversible
9. The Last Samurai
10. Finding Nemo[/list=1]
    Honorable Mention: The Fog of War, Thirteen, Capturing the Friedmans, Dirty Pretty Things, Identity.

 

[Scott Weinberg]

Whew. Never let it be said that I won't work hard on my own birthday. After much tabulating and calculating, I'm very proud to offer the 2003 Online Film Critics Society Award Nominations:

Best Picture

City of God (Producers: Mauricio Andrade Ramos & Andrea Barata Ribeiro)

Kill Bill: Volume 1 (Producer: Lawrence Bender)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Producers: Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne & Fran Walsh)

Lost in Translation (Producers: Sofia Coppola & Ross Katz)

Mystic River (Producers: Clint Eastwood, Judie Hoyt & Robert Lorenz)


Best Director

Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation

Clint Eastwood- Mystic River

Alejandro González Iñárritu - 21 Grams

Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill: Volume 1


Best Actor

Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Paul Giamatti - American Splendor

Ben Kingsley - House of Sand and Fog

Bill Murray - Lost in Translation

Sean Penn - Mystic River


Best Actress


Angela Bettis - May

Scarlett Johannson - Lost in Translation

Charlize Theron - Monster

Uma Thurman - Kill Bill: Volume 1

Naomi Watts - 21 Grams


Best Supporting Actor


Sean Astin - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Alec Baldwin - The Cooler

Tim Robbins - Mystic River

Peter Sarsgaard - Shattered Glass

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

Renee Zellweger - Cold Mountain


Best Original Screenplay


Guillermo Arriaga - 21 Grams

Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation

Thomas McCarthy - The Station Agent

Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan & Naomi Sheridan - In America

Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill: Volume 1


Best Adapted Screenplay


Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini - American Splendor

Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Don Coscarelli - Bubba Ho-tep

Brian Helgeland - Mystic River

Billy Ray - Shattered Glass


Best Cinematography


Andrew Lesnie - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Robert Richardson - Kill Bill: Volume 1

Eduardo Serra - Girl with a Pearl Earring

John Toll - The Last Samurai

Olli Barbé, Michel Benjamin, Sylvie Carcedo-Dreujou, Laurent Charbonnier, Luc Drion, Laurent Fleutot, Philippe Garguil, Dominique Gentil, Bernard Lutic, Thierry Machado, Stéphane Martin, Fabrice Moindrot, Ernst Sasse, Michel Terrasse & Thierry Thomas - Winged Migration


Best Original Score


Klaus Badelt - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Brian Reitzell & Kevin Shields - Lost in Translation

RZA - Kill Bill: Volume 1

Howard Shore - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Hans Zimmer - The Last Samurai


Best Documentary


Capturing the Friedmans

The Fog of War

Lost In La Mancha

Spellbound

Winged Migration


Best Foreign Language Film


The Barbarian Invasions

City of God

Irreversible

The Man Without a Past

The Triplets of Belleville


Breakthrough Filmmaker


Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini - American Splendor

Niki Caro - Whale Rider

Fernando Meirelles - City of God

Billy Ray - Shattered Glass

Peter Sollett - Raising Victor Vargas


Breakthrough Performance


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


Best Animated Feature


Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

Finding Nemo

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Millennium Actress

The Triplets of Belleville


Best Visual Effects


Kill Bill: Volume 1

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

X2: X-Men United


Best Art Direction


Down with Love

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Kill Bill: Volume 1

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World


Best Costume Design


Down with Love

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Kill Bill: Volume 1

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl


Best Sound


28 Days Later

Kill Bill: Volume 1

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

 

[ZacharyTait]

Scott,

I'm curious as to how close either or both of the Matrix movies came to getting a nomination in anything. I thought for sure that the OFCS would be the organization most likely to show the sequels some love.

 

[Nick C.]

Berardinelli's top 10

oopsies, Steven posted 'em already