DK's Best Achievements in Cinema - 2003


Best Director
Andrew Jarecki    Capturing the Friedmans
Chan-wook Park    Oldboy
Peter Jackson    LOTR: The Return of the King
Also worth mentioning
Christoffer Boe    Reconstruction
Isabel Coixet    My Life without me
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu    21 Grams
Terry Zwigoff    Bad Santa
Ki-duk Kim    Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

Best Actor
Min-sik Choi    Oldboy
Philip Seymour Hoffman    Owning Mahowny
Ben Kingsley    House of Sand and Fog
Billy Bob Thornton    Bad Santa
Benicio Del Toro    21 Grams
Sean Penn    21 Grams
Mystic River
Paul Giamatti    American Splendor
Nikolaj Lie Kaas    Reconstruction
Tom Wilkinson    Normal
Also worth mentioning
Alec Baldwin    The Cooler
William H. Macy    The Cooler
Jack Nicholson    Something's gotta Give
Moni Moshonov    Gift from Above
James Woods    This Girl's Life
Jan Decleir    The Memory of a Killer

Best Cinematography
Andrew Lesnie    LOTR: The Return of the King
Manuel Alberto Claro    Reconstruction
Also worth mentioning
Roger Deakins    House of Sand and Fog
Rodrigo Prieto,
Fortunato Procopio
   21 Grams
John Toll    The Last Samurai
Jim Whitaker    The Cooler
M. David Mullen    Northfork
Walter Carvalho    Carandiru
Robert McLachlan    Willard

Best Score
Howard Shore    LOTR: The Return of the King
Andrea Morricone    Capturing the Friedmans
Mark Isham    The Cooler
Yeong-wook Jo    Oldboy
Alex Parker,
Jake Parker
   The Life of David Gale
Dong-jun Lee    Save the Green Planet
Danny Elfman    Big Fish /
Hulk
Hans Zimmer    The Last Samurai
Also worth mentioning
Gustavo Santaolalla    21 Grams
James Horner    House of Sand and Fog
Shirley Walker    Willard
Thomas Knak    Reconstruction
Asaf Amdurski    Nina's Tragedies

Best Production Design
LOTR: The Return of the King
The Cat in the Hat
Oldboy
Best Picture
Capturing the Friedmans
Oldboy
My Life without me
Bad Santa
Also worth mentioning
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
The Cooler
Reconstruction
21 Grams
The United States of Leland

Best Actress
Charlize Theron    Monster
Jessica Lange    Normal
Also worth mentioning
Naomi Watts    21 Grams
Jennifer Connelly    House of Sand and Fog
Sarah Polley    My Life without me
Kate Winslet    The Life of David Gale
Maria Bonnevie    Reconstruction
Maria Bello    The Cooler
Diane Keaton    Something's gotta Give

Best Makeup
LOTR: The Return of the King
Also worth mentioning
The Cat in the Hat
Monster

Best Visual Effects
LOTR: The Return of the King
Finding Nemo
Hulk
Also worth mentioning
The Matrix Revolutions
The Cat in the Hat

Best Editing
Peter Brandt,
Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
   Reconstruction

Best Sound Editing
LOTR: The Return of the King
Also worth mentioning
The Haunted Mansion
Reconstruction

Best Writing
Jo-yun Hwang,
Chun-hyeong Lim,
Joon-hyung Lim,
Chan-wook Park,
Garon Tsuchiya
   Oldboy
Charles Randolph    The Life of David Gale
Also worth mentioning
Christoffer Boe,
Mogens Rukov
   Reconstruction
Isabel Coixet    My Life without me
Glenn Ficarra,
John Requa
   Bad Santa
Guillermo Arriaga    21 Grams

Best Steadicam
Larry McConkey    Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Leading movies:
None

Movies that were considered (147):
1-Ichi | 2 Fast 2 Furious | 9 Souls | 11:14 | 21 Grams | A Certain Kind of Death | A Mighty Wind | A Tale of Two Sisters | Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer | American Splendor | American Wedding | Anger Management | Anything Else | Arena Concerto (Ennio Morricone) | August Underground's Mordum | Bad Santa | Being Ron Jeremy | Big Fish | Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi | Boundin' | Bright Future | Bruce Almighty | Capturing the Friedmans | Carandiru | Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin | Cirque du Soleil: Varekai | Code 46 | Coral Reef Adventure | Daredevil | Dead End | Dogville | Doppelherz | Dorm Daze | Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd | Duplex | Elephant | Elf | Fallo! | Final Destination 2 | Finding Nemo | Freaky Friday | Freddy vs. Jason | Gift from Above | Girls will be Girls | Godforsaken | Goldfish Memory | Gothika | Harvie Krumpet | Holes | Hollywood Homicide | House of Sand and Fog | How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days | Hulk | Identity | If you were me | In the Cut | Intolerable Cruelty | It Runs in the Family | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | Killing Words | Kontroll | Last Life in the Universe | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | LOTR: The Return of the King | Lost in Translation | Love Actually | Love Object | Luck | Matchstick Men | Melvin goes to Dinner | Memories of Murder | Monsieur Ibrahim | Monster | Monster Man | My Life without me | My Name is Modesty | Mystic River | Nina's Tragedies | Normal | Northfork | Oldboy | Old School | Overnight | Owning Mahowny | Party Monster | Pauly Shore is Dead | Paycheck | Pieces of April | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Principles of Lust | Reconstruction | Remember Me, My Love | Rhinoceros Eyes | Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story | Runaway Jury | Save the Green Planet | Secondhand Lions | Something's gotta Give | Song for a Raggy Boy | Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring | Step into Liquid | Stuck on you | S.W.A.T. | Switchblade Romance | Sweet Sex and Love | Tears of the Sun | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | The Brown Bunny | The Cat in the Hat | The Cooler | The Delicate Art of Parking | The Dreamers | The Event | The Far Side of the Moon | The Green Butchers | The Haunted Mansion | The Hebrew Hammer | The I Inside | The In-Laws | The Italian Job | The Last Samuari | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | The Life of David Gale | The Making of "Carlito's Way" | The Man with the Smallest Penis in Existence and the Electron Microscope Technician Who Loved Him | The Matrix Reloaded | The Matrix Revolutions | The Memory of a Killer | The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story | The Praying Mantis | The Quest | The Recruit | The Room | The Shape of Things | The Snow Walker | The Station Agent | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre | The United States of Leland | The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill | Thirteen | This Girl's Life | Touching the Void | Twentynine Palms | Underworld | Willard | Wonderland | Wrong Turn | X2.


Special Awards

Best Ensemble Cast: The United States of Leland, My Life without me, Bad Santa.
Most Promising Young Actor: Brett Kelly for Bad Santa.

Best Trailer: Capturing the Friedmans.
Best Documentary: Capturing the Friedmans.

The Trier Lifetime Achievement Award for Pretentiousness: Lars von Trier for Dogville.
Special Award for Presentations of Gimmicks as Art: Lars von Trier for Dogville.
"I used this Plot Twice before and it Worked, Why not Use it again?" Award: Lars von Trier for Dogville.
Worst Excuse for a Sequel: The Matrix Reloaded.
Worst Narration: Daredevil.
Most Shameless Rip-off: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
Worst Script: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Freddy vs. Jason.
Worst Horror: Wrong Turn, Freddy vs. Jason.
Worst Visual Effects: Freddy vs. Jason.
Worst Romantic Comedy: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.