Best Supporting Actress 2003
by graveyardhang | created - 24 Oct 2019 | updated - 08 Jan 2023 | PublicEditing the Oscars! Best performances by an actress in a supporting role in a film released in the US in the year 2003.
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1. Thirteen (2003)
R | 100 min | Drama
A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.
Director: Catherine Hardwicke | Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Holly Hunter, Nikki Reed, Vanessa Hudgens
Votes: 97,998 | Gross: $4.60M
Holly Hunter as tender-hearted single mom and recovering alcoholic Melanie Freeland, terrified at her daughter’s pain and struggling to be strong in Catherine Hardwicke’s “Thirteen”.
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
Shohreh Aghdashloo as displaced, dissatisfied Iranian immigrant wife Nadereh ‘Nadi’ Behrani, pleading with her husband for honesty and compassion in Vadim Perelman’s “House of Sand and Fog”.
“I didn’t come to America to live and walk the streets like a filthy Arab! I came to America to LIVE!”
3. Monster (2003)
R | 109 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.
Director: Patty Jenkins | Stars: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee Tergesen
Votes: 161,785 | Gross: $34.47M
Christina Ricci as desperate and dependent serial killer-girlfriend Selby Wall in Patty Jenkins’ “Monster”.
“I wasn’t trying to fuck you! I just wanted to talk to you. And I thought that if I bought you some beer maybe you’d talk to me.”
4. 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
Patricia Clarkson as small-town painter and bereaved mother Olivia Harris in Tom McCarthy’s “The Station Agent”.
“Would you do me a favor and not look at me right now?”
5. 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
Sarah Bolger as thoughtful, video-chronicling Irish immigrant kid Christy Sullivan, striving to keep her family emotionally afloat in the wake of a devastating loss in Jim Sheridan’s “In America”.
“I talked to him every night… until I realized I was talking to myself.”
6. 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
Joan Cusack as high-strung but secretly fun prep school principal Rosalie ‘Roz’ Mullins in Richard Linklater’s “School of Rock”.
7. Cold Mountain (2003)
R | 154 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.
Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins
Votes: 156,059 | Gross: $95.64M
Renée Zellweger as Ruby Thewes in Anthony Minghella’s “Cold Mountain”.
8. The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
R | 114 min | Drama
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
Director: Peter Mullan | Stars: Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone, Anne-Marie Duff
Votes: 28,459 | Gross: $4.89M
Eileen Walsh as Harriet/Crispina in Peter Mullan’s “The Magdalene Sisters”.
9. Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Irregular migrants Okwe and Senay work at a posh London hotel and live in constant fear of deportation. One night Okwe stumbles across evidence of a bizarre murder, setting off a series of events that could lead to disaster or freedom.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo, Kriss Dosanjh
Votes: 44,087 | Gross: $8.11M
Audrey Tautou as strong-willed Turkish Muslim immigrant Senay Gelik, tested by a city trying to exploit her in Stephen Frears’ “Dirty Pretty Things”.
10. The Cooler (2003)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance
In an old school Las Vegas casino, its top gambling jinx breaks his curse when he falls in love, much to his boss' consternation.
Director: Wayne Kramer | Stars: William H. Macy, Maria Bello, Alec Baldwin, Shawn Hatosy
Votes: 35,503 | Gross: $8.24M
Maria Bello as Natalie Belisario in Wayne Kramer’s “The Cooler”.
11. Finding Nemo (2003)
G | 100 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home.
Directors: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich | Stars: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe
Votes: 1,113,217 | Gross: $380.84M
Ellen DeGeneres as endearingly forgetful and enthusiastically helpful blue tang fish Dory in Andrew Stanton’s “Finding Nemo”.
12. 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
13. Love Actually (2003)
R | 135 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
Director: Richard Curtis | Stars: Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney
Votes: 531,464 | Gross: $59.70M
14. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen
Votes: 1,193,587 | Gross: $70.10M
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