Top Box Office in 2003


1	Finding Nemo (2003)
2	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
3	The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
4	Bruce Almighty (2003)
5	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
6	X2 (2003)
7	Chicago (2002)
8	Elf (2003)
9	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
10	Bad Boys II (2003)
11	The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
12	Anger Management (2003)
13	Bringing Down the House (2003)
14	Hulk (2003)
15	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Best Picture in 2003:
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Best Actor: Sean Penn, Mystic River
Best Actress: Charlize Theron, Monster
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1	Conrad L. Hall
2	Robert Stack
3	John Schlesinger
4	Gregory Peck
5	Katharine Hepburn
6	Hume Cronyn
7	Bob Hope
8	Buddy Ebsen
9	Leni Riefenstahl
10	Charles Bronson
11	John Ritter
12	Elia Kazan
13	Alan Bates
14	Art Carney
15	Donald O'Connor

Highest Rated in 2003


1	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
2	The Corporation (2003)
3	Meglio gioventù, La (2003)
4	Oldboy (2003)
5	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
6	The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
7	Finding Nemo (2003)
8	Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (2003)
9	"Angels in America" (2003)
10	Vozvrashcheniye (2003)
11	Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
12	Touching the Void (2003)
13	Big Fish (2003)
14	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
15	Lost in Translation (2003)

Editors picks for 2003


1	Shattered Glass (2003)
2	Osama (2003)
3	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
4	Triplettes de Belleville, Les (2003)
5	Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
6	The Station Agent (2003)
7	Dogville (2003)

Over 20 sequels were made, including such forgetful titles as Scary Movie 3, Dumb and Dumberer, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Legally Blonde 2, Charlie's Angels 2 and Bad Boys II.

Peter Jackson's The Return of the King, the final installment of the epic Lord of the Rings trilogy is released and the rest, well, is historical as it goes on to win every Academy Award it was nominated for, 11 in all, in 2004.

Ben Affleck's career took a direct hit with the release of three mega-flops - Gigli, Daredevil, and Paycheck.

While negotiations between Disney and Pixar flounder, Finding Nemo finds a huge audience, taking in over $330 million at the box office.

At the age of 13, Keisha Castle-Hughes becomes the youngest actress ever to be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award for her role in Whale Rider.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, featuring the sublime Johnny Depp, became the latest franchise for Disney, which quickly green-lit the next two installments.

Gus Van Sant wins best director at Cannes for Elephant, which also takes the Palme D'Or for Best Picture.

Quentin Tarantino returned to form in Kill Bill, Vol. 1, an homage to the martial arts and exploitation pics from the 1970s.

The final part of the Wachowski brothers' Matrix trilogy, The Matrix Revolutions opens, takes in over $200 million worldwide in five days and is generally considered a critical disappointment.

Christian Bale signs on to play Batman for the latest installment of the franchise, Batman Begins, to be directed by Chistopher Nolan (Memento).

April: "Himself" or "Herself" credits become an own section on the name filmography pages. This is an initial attempt at a longstanding project and much requested user feature to separate out appearances in documentaries, awards shows and behind-the-scenes features, which are cluttering up in many filmographies. For now this is triggered by the presence of the Documentary genre and tv-special keyword, but may become a managed data section internally at a later time.

July 30th: The v1.5 web additions system launches.

December 31st: IMDb covers 382,816 titles including TV-series and video games. The number of credit entries now is 7,605,000, including TV guest appearance credits. 9,015,545 data items submitted in 2003 alone.

George Clooney makes his directorial debut with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, written by Charlie Kaufman and shunned by audiences.

American Splendor won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, made many critics top ten lists and was anchored by Paul Giamatti's great star turn as the grumpy comic book artist Harvey Pekar.

Mystic River was a return to directorial form for Clint Eastwood and earned Sean Penn his first Oscar for his visceral lead performance.

Sofia Coppola's luminous Lost in Translation made a star of Scarlett Johansson and a Academy Award nominee of Bill Murray.

Seabiscuit galloped from best-selling book to the screen and made a suprising $120 million at the box office.

Charlize Theron shed her glamorous image to disappear into the role of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster; her perfomance would win her the Academy Award in 2004.

HBO continued to set the bar for innovative programming with the production of Angels in America, the Pulitzer-winning play brought to the small screen by Mike Nichols.

Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes Governor of California.