If Angels in America is eligible, despite being a film for television, please add to my list as well.
Last Life in the Universe
The Return
Young Adam
Time of the Wolf
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
Elephant
American Splendor
Mystic River
The Cooler
All the Real Girls
Bad Santa
The Dreamers
Code 46
Northfork
Dogville
Down With Love
Crimson Gold
School of Rock
Coffee and Cigarettes
The Saddest Music in the World
Lost in Translation
Intolerable Cruelty
Swimming Pool
It’s All About Love
01 OLDBOY Park Chan-wook
02 THE BEST OF YOUTH Marco Tullio Giordana
03 AMERICAN SPLENDOR Shari Springer Berman
04 THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING Peter Jackson
05 LOST IN TRANSLATION Sofia Coppola
06 PIECES OF APRIL Peter Hedges
07 ZATOICHI Takeshi Kitano
08 KILL BILL: VOL. 1 Quentin Tarantino
09 MEMORIES OF MURDER Bong Joon-ho
10 ALL THE REAL GIRLS David Gordon Green
DOGVILLE
BAD SANTA
COFFEE & CIGARETTES
SCHOOL OF ROCK
THE STATION AGENT
THE COOLER
MATCHSTICK MEN
DOWN WITH LOVE
Tarnation
Elephant
Mystic River
Finding Nemo
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Touching the Void
Lost in Translation
Goodbye Lenin!
Dogville
School of Rock
The Fog of War
American Splendor
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Scary Movie 3
The Italian Job
Control
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
Tokyo Godfathers
Very good year under my terms, but a hard one for me to pick which one’s best.
@movieguide1: Is it OK if you please give -1 to the following movies:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Bad Boys II
and Cold Mountain
August Sun / Prasanna Vithanage
The Brown Bunny / Vincent Gallo
Café Lumière / Hou Hsiao-hsien
Games of Love and Chance / Abdellatif Kechiche
Goodbye, Dragon Inn / Tsai Ming-liang
Good Morning, Night / Marco Bellocchio
The Magic Gloves / Martín Rejtman
The Story of Marie and Julien / Jacques Rivette
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks / Wang Bing
Time of the Wolf / Michael Haneke
*My Top 45
1. Stuck on You
-Memories of Murder
-Basic
-Goodbye, Dragon Inn
-Mystic River
-The Brown Bunny
Le Temps du Loup, Michael Haneke
Histoire de Marie et Julien, Jacques Rivette
The Dreamers, Bernardo Bertolucci
Goodbye, Dragon Inn, Tsai Ming-liang
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Gore Verbinski
Finding Nemo, Andrew Stanton
1. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
2. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
3. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki)
4. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (Errol Morris)
5. La meglio gioventù / The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana)
6. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
7. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
8. Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom / Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (Ki-duk Kim)
9. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
10. House of Sand and Fog (Vadim Perelman)
11. Tiexi qu / Tie Xi Qui: West of the Tracks (Bing Wang)
12. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
13. American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini)
14. Salinui chueok / Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong)
15. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich)
16. Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott)
17. Bu san / Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Ming-liang Tsai)
18. Touching the Void (Kevin Macdonald)
19. Les invasions barbares / The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand)
20. Baadasssss! (Mario Van Peebles)
Hopefully you’re treating Tie Xi Qui: West of the Tracks as one film?
1. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Memories of Murder
Elephant
Mystic River
1. Goodbye Lenin (W. Becker)
Lost in translation (S. Coppola)
Dogville (Lars von Trier)
Anything Else (W. Allen)
Big Fish (T. Burton)
The dreamers (B. Bertolucci)
Matchstick Man (R. Scott)
Monster (P. Jenkins)
Mystic River (C. Estwood)
My life without me (Coixet)
Io non ho paura [aka I’m not scared] (G. Salvatores)
21 grams ( Iñárritu)
Love Actually (T. Curtis)
Duplex (D. DeVito)
Kill Bill vol. 1 (Q. Tarantino)
Kontroll (Antal)
Finding Nemo (Stanton, Unkrich)
Oldboy (Chan-wook)
il cuore altrove [aka incantato) (P. Avati)
Elephant (Gus von Sant)
Save the Green Planet!
Oldboy
Tiresia
Memories of Murder
Zatoichi
Last Life in the Universe
Crimson Gold
Goodbye Lenin!
Bright Future
Northfork
Best of Youth
Elephant
It’s All About Love
The Barbarian Invasions
Blind Shaft
All the Real Girls
Since Otar Left
The Dreamers
21 Grams
Reconstruction
The Saddest Music in the World
The Story of the Weeping Camel
Vozvrashcheniye
Cafe Lumiere
Bad Santa
Les Invasions barbares
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
Zatoichi
In This World
Lost in Translation
The Best of Youth
The Cooler
Elf
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
All the Real Girls
Last Life in the Universe
Add BAADASSSSSS! to my list too.
1. Kontroll (Nimród Antal)
All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)
Café Lumière (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
“Noël Noël” (Nicola Lemay)
Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff)
The Dreamers (Bertolucci)
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)
School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
Wow, missed a few. How do you folks research the lists? I go to Wikipedia’s Films of 2003 (for example) but the lists are not as complete as they could be. I’ve found no such list option at IMDb. Any suggestions?
Anyway, please add to these overlooked films to my list:
Stuck on You (Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly)
Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir)
@ Elvis is King
Well, I go to my IMDb account, then to ratings history and select the release year I need. It’s really simple.
Weeping Camel – please add that to my list, tks
@ Jonas Sigalis.
That only gives me a list of films I have already rated, no? How about a list of ALL films from a given year?
1. Sharasojyu (Kawase N.)
2. Saraband (I. Bergman)
3. Mystic River (C. Eastwood)
4. Mang jing (Li Yang)
5. Zatôichi (Kitano T.)
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (P. Jackson)
7. The Soul of a Man (W. Wenders)
8. Una preciosa puesta de sol (Álvaro del Amo)
9. Vozvrashchenie (A. Zvyagintsev)
10.Salmer fra kjøkkenet (Bent Hamer)
11.Buongiorno, notte (M. Bellocchio)
12.Finding Nemo (A. Stanton & L. Unkrich)
13.Panj é asr (S. Makhmalbaf)
14.Harvie Krumpet (A. Elliot)
@ Elvis is King
When you just click on 2003 at any film’s page on IMDb and that will give you the list of the most popular films made in 2003. When on the right you’ll also be able to check the highest rated and most voted films of that year. As well as the most popular films in the box office. Hope that helps.
Or just type 2003 on Google and one of the first pages that come up is the same one on IMDb about the specific year.
1. The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo / USA)
21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu / USA)
Bu jian “The Missing” (Lee Kang-sheng / Taiwan)
Bu san “Good Bye, Dragon Inn” (Ming-liang Tsai / Taiwan)
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (McG / USA)
Dogville (Lars von Trier / Denmark, Sweden, UK, USA, Germany, Finland, Netherlands, France, Norway)
Elephant (Gus Van Sant / USA)
Goff in der Wüste “Goff in the Desert” (Heinz Emigholz / Germany)
Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu “Gozu” (Takashi Miike / Japan)
Histoire de Marie et Julien “The Story of Marie and Julien” (Jacques Rivette / France, Italy)
Identity Kills (Sören Voigt / Germany)
L’esquive (Abdellatif Kechiche / France)
Les égarés “Strayed” (André Téchiné / France, UK)
Lichter “Flickering Lights” (Hans-Christian Schmid / Germany)
My Life Without Me (Isabel Coixet / Spain, Canada)
Raja (Jacques Doillon / Morocco, France)
Schussangst “Gun-shy” (Dito Tsintsadze / Germany)
Son frère “His Brother” (Patrice Chéreau / France)
The Company (Robert Altman / USA, Germany)
The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy / USA)
Wonderful Days (Moon-saeng Kim / South Korea)
What is the year we “officially” give to The Lord of the Rings? It can’t be denied its place.
I also give a nod to Elephant, The House of Sand and Fog, Mystic River, Histoire de Marie et Julian, The Dreamers, Sarabande, Lost in Translation, 21 Grams, and American Splendor.
I’ll also admit a personal love for Diane Keaton in Something’s Gotta Give. Why no love for Master and Commander? That was a fun ride. Not Finding Nemo, tho – hate that fish.
@Jonas Silgalis
Thanks, very helpful!
@Christopher Sepesy
I would assume we date The Lord of the Rings as:
The Fellowship of the Ring -2001
The Two Towers 2002
The Return of the king 2003
1. Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (Tarantino)
A Mighy Wind (Guest)
Finding Nemo (Stanton)
Lost In Translation (Coppola)
The Matrix Reloaded (Wachowski)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Jackson)
The Barbarian Invasions (Arcand)
The Fog of War (Morris)
The Company (Altman)
School of Rock (Linklater)
Love, Actually (Curtis)
Down With Love (Reed)
The Triplets of Belleville (Chomet)
X2: X-Men United (Singer)
The Shape of Things (LaBute)
And, if it counts, Angels In America (Nichols)
I REALLY need to see Dogville.
In that all 3 LOTR films were done at once – unlike, say, The Godfather films, or even series’ like Harry Potter – I count the three as one big film. The Academy and many other groups apparently viewed it this way, too, and lavished the much deserved praise at the end of the installments.
It is a monumental and unique undertaking and it deserves a superior spot on any fields of praise.
I love LOTR and agree that it deserves much praise. I can’t agree that it counts as one film rather than three. It’s not so rare anymore to make multiple films back to back. The two Kill Bills and the last two Harry Potter’s were done this way. Unfortunately, so were the Matrix sequels and the last two Twilights. Still, all were released as separate films and were structured to begin and end individually within the larger series.
American Splendor
Capturing the Friedmans
A Mighty Wind
Monster
Harvie Krumpet
Dogville
Lost in Translation
Love Actually
School of Rock
The Dreamers
Finding Nemo
Down With Love
Please add to my list
Angels in America
Thirteen
Seabiscuit
Bright Young Things
Calendar Girls
Johnny English
wpqx
1. Kill Bill Vol. 1
2. Dogville
3. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
4. Angels in America
5. Elephant
6. The Saddest Music in the World
7. Memories of Murder
8. Finding Nemo
9. The Best of Youth
10. Big Fish
11. Tarnation
12. 21 Grams
That’s it for now.