Best Actor 2003
by graveyardhang | created - 24 Oct 2019 | updated - 4 months ago | PublicEditing the Oscars! Best performances by an actor in a leading role in a film released in the US in the year 2003.
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1. Lost in Translation (2003)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.
Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris
Votes: 488,832 | Gross: $44.59M
Bill Murray as displaced and alienated actor Bob Harris in Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation”.
2. House of Sand and Fog (2003)
R | 126 min | Crime, Drama
An abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her house's new owners.
Director: Vadim Perelman | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard, Frances Fisher
Votes: 72,590 | Gross: $13.01M
Ben Kingsley as exiled Iranian Colonel Massoud Amir Behrani, forced to live a humiliating new life in America in Vadim Perelman’s “House of Sand and Fog”.
“Do not feel bad. Americans they do not deserve what they have.“
3. Mystic River (2003)
R | 138 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The tragic murder of a 19-year-old girl reunites three childhood friends still living in Boston--the victim's gangster father, a detective, and the disturbed man they both suspect of killing her.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Emmy Rossum
Votes: 485,781 | Gross: $90.14M
Sean Penn as intimidating, prejudiced Boston crime king Jimmy Markum in Clint Eastwood’s “Mystic River”.
“Is that my daughter in there!?”
4. School of Rock (2003)
PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Music
After being kicked out of his rock band, Dewey Finn becomes a substitute teacher of an uptight elementary private school, only to try and turn his class into a rock band.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Jack Black, Mike White, Joan Cusack, Adam Pascal
Votes: 330,797 | Gross: $81.26M
Jack Black as failed rock star-turned-substitute teacher Dewey Finn/Mr. S (Ned Schneebly) in Richard Linklater’s “School of Rock”.
5. American Splendor (2003)
R | 101 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Shari Springer Berman, Harvey Pekar, Chris Ambrose
Votes: 52,356 | Gross: $6.00M
Paul Giamatti as observant and wittily grumpy comic book writer Harvey Pekar in Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s “American Splendor”.
6. The Station Agent (2003)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
Director: Tom McCarthy | Stars: Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale, Paul Benjamin
Votes: 73,392 | Gross: $5.74M
Peter Dinklage as solitary, willfully anti-social train enthusiast Finbar McBride in Tom McCarthy’s “The Station Agent”.
7. In America (2002)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
A family of Irish immigrants adjust to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Paddy Considine, Samantha Morton, Djimon Hounsou, Sarah Bolger
Votes: 44,275 | Gross: $15.54M
Paddy Considine as struggling actor and Irish immigrant Johnny Sullivan, nursing a secret grief in Jim Sheridan’s “In America”.
8. Elf (2003)
PG | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn't know he exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas spirit.
Director: Jon Favreau | Stars: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart, Zooey Deschanel
Votes: 310,775 | Gross: $173.40M
Will Ferrell as eternally enthusiastic and humorously childlike Buddy the Elf in Jon Favreau’s “Elf”.
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
PG-13 | 201 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom
Votes: 1,978,831 | Gross: $377.85M
10. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.
Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley
Votes: 1,210,203 | Gross: $305.41M
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