Top 10's of 2003

Open Hearts

28 Days Later
The Lawless Heart
Lilya 4-ever
Morvern Callar
The Navigators
The Triplets of Belleville
Open Hearts
The Station Agent
Winged Migration
Lost in Translation
Whale Rider
Pieces of April

HONORABLE MENTIONS: The Event, Bubba Ho-Tep, Thirteen, In this World, Irreversible, Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Intacto

Notable for Good Visuals: The Sea, Down with Love

(in alphabetical order)

All the Real Girls
Lilja 4-Ever
Marion Bridge
Melvin Goes to Dinner
My Life Without Me
O. T.: Our Town (d)
Safety of Objects
Spellbound (d)
Swimming Pool
Take Care of My Cat

The Secret Lives of Dentists

1. The Secret Lives of Dentists
2. Mystic River
3. The Triplets of Belleville
4. Girl with a Pearl Earring
5. The Station Agent
6. Thirteen
7. Open Hearts
8. In My Skin/Irreversible
9. Bus 174/In... Mirror of Maya Deren
10. Ten

HONORABLE MENTIONS: The Man Without a Past, Bend it Like Beckham, The Magdalene Sisters, City of God, The Fog of War, Gerry, Amen, Cremaster 3, Divine Intervention, Love and Diane

(in alphabetical order)

All the Real Girls
Lilja 4-Ever
Lost in Translation
Marion Bridge
Open Hearts
Raising Victor Vargas
The Safety of Objects
The Station Agent
Take Care of My Cat
Ten
This Little Life

Also Deserving: Demonlover, The Man Without a Past, Shattered Glass
Documentaries: Love & Diane, O.T.: Our Town, Spellbound
Best Chlotrudis Non-Eligible Film: X2 - X-Men United

Marion Bridge

Marooned in Iraq

1. Dancer Upstairs
2. Dirty Pretty Things
3. LOTR: Return of the King
4. Rivers & Tides
5. Whale Rider
6. Pieces of April
7. The Station Agent
8. Triplets of Belleville
9. Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
10. Winged Migration

Pieces of April

The Man on the Train

(in alphabetical order)
American Splendor
Barbarian Invasions
Divine Intervention
Friday Night
Ju-On: The Grudge
Lilja 4-Ever
Lost in Translation
Morvern Callar
Station Agent
Triplets of Belleville

Divine Intervention

28 Days Later

28 Days Later
American Splendor
Bad Santa
Bus 174
Godzilla Mothra King Ghidorah!
Kill Bill: Volume 1
Lord Of The Rings: Return of The King
Lost In Translation
Mystic River
Pirates of the Caribbean
School of Rock
Station Agent
Swimming Pool

Runner-Ups: The Animation Show, Bubba Ho-Tep, Holes, Hulk, Intacto, Japon, Spider, Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Outer Space, Versus, Weather Underground, X-2: X-Men United
Most Disappointing Films of the Year:
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Gothika, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Matrix 2+3

1 - The Barbarian Invasions
2 - My Architect: a Son's Journey
3 - Elephant
4 - The Station Agent
5 - Spellbound
6 - Autumn Spring
7 - Nosey Parker
8 - Man on the Train
9 - Pieces of April
10 - Bend it Like Beckham

1 - Lost in Translation
2 - American Splendor
3 - Raising Victor Vargas
4 - The Station Agent
5 - The Triplets of Belleville
6 - Spellbound
7 - Morvern Callar
8 - Lilja 4-Ever
9 - Lawless Heart
10 - Dracula: Pages of a Virgin's Diary

Non-Indie Honorable Mention: The School of Rock

(in alphabetical order)
All The Real Girls
Confidence
Divine Intervention
Laurel Canyon
Lost In Translation
The Man on the Train
Owning Mahowny
The Pianist
Th Quiet American
Spellbound
Ten

1. The Dancer Upstairs
2. The Station Agent
3. The Triplets of Belleville
4. Lost in Translation
5. The Pianist
6. Owning Mahowney
7. Amen
8. Stone Reader
9. Love, Liza
10. Lilja 4-Ever

(in alphabetical order)
All the Real Girls
American Splendor
Camp
City of God
In America
Lost in Translation
Safety of Objects
The Secret Life of Dentists
Swimming Pool
The Triplets of Belleville

Documentary: Spellbound

The Safety of Objects

Gerry

1. Gerry
2. The Quiet American
3. Speedo
4. On Guard!
5. The Weather Underground
6. Capturing the Friedmans
7. Shattered Glass
8. Sweet Sixteen
9. To Be and To Have
10. Lost in Translation 

Ten
Marion Bridge
Open Hearts
O.T. our town
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Northfork
Winged Migration
Intolerable Cruelty
The Quiet American
Spider

And my Guilty Pleasure Of The Year: Freaky Friday

1. Morvern Callar
2. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
3. 28 Days Later...
4. Holes
5. House of Sand and Fog
6. Russian Ark
7. In America
8. Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary
9. Nowhere in Africa
10. Cold Mountain

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Hulk, 21 Grams, X2: X-Men United, All the Real Girls

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. Elephant
3. Kill Bill Vol. 1
4. Peter Pan
5. Lost in Translation
6. The Man Without a Past
7. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
8. Big Fish
9. Raising Victor Vargas
10. X2: X-Men United

Lost in Translation
American Splendor
25th Hour
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Spellbound
In America
The Barbarian Invasions
All the Real Girls
Good Thief
Lawless Heart

All the real girls

American Splendor
  

American Splendor
Bus 174
Mondays in the Sun
My Life Without Me
O.T.: Our Town
Pieces of April
The Secret Lives of Dentists
Spellbound
The Station Agent
Tupperware!