The 24th London Film Critics Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2003, were announced by the London Film Critics Circle on 11 February 2004.^[1][2][3]

Winners and nominees

Film of the Year

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

• Far from Heaven
• The Hours
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Mystic River

British Film of the Year

The Magdalene Sisters

• The Hours
• In This World
• The Mother
• Young Adam

Foreign Language Film of the Year

Good Bye Lenin! • Germany

• Spirited Away • Japan
• Swimming Pool • France/UK
• To Be and to Have • France
• The Triplets of Belleville • France

Director of the Year

Clint Eastwood - Mystic River

• Todd Haynes - Far from Heaven
• Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Andrew Stanton - Finding Nemo
• Peter Weir - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

British Director of the Year

Peter Mullan - The Magdalene Sisters

• Stephen Daldry - The Hours
• David MacKenzie - Young Adam
• Anthony Minghella - Cold Mountain
• Michael Winterbottom - In This World

Screenwriter of the Year

John Collee and Peter Weir - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

• Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini - American Splendor
• Charlie Kaufman - Adaptation.
• Todd Haynes - Far from Heaven
• Brian Helgeland - Mystic River

British Screenwriter of the Year

David Hare - The Hours

• Richard Curtis - Love Actually
• Peter Mullan - The Magdalene Sisters
• Hanif Kureshi - The Mother
• David MacKenzie - Young Adam

Actor of the Year

Sean Penn - Mystic River

• Nicolas Cage - Adaptation.
• Russell Crowe - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• Ed Harris - The Hours
• Bill Murray - Lost in Translation

Actress of the Year

Julianne Moore - Far from Heaven

• Holly Hunter - Thirteen
• Scarlett Johansson - Girl with a Pearl Earring
• Nicole Kidman - Cold Mountain
• Meryl Streep - Adaptation.

British Actor of the Year

Paul Bettany - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

• Paddy Considine - In America
• Daniel Craig - The Mother
• Jude Law - Cold Mountain
• Ewan McGregor - Young Adam

British Actress of the Year

Anne Reid - The Mother

• Helen Mirren - Calendar Girls
• Charlotte Rampling - Swimming Pool
• Tilda Swinton - Young Adam
• Julie Walters - Calendar Girls

British Supporting Actor of the Year

Bill Nighy - Love Actually

• John Alderton - Calendar Girls
• Stephen Dillane - The Hours
• Brendan Gleeson - Cold Mountain
• David Threlfall - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

British Supporting Actress of the Year

Emma Thompson - Love Actually

• Shirley Henderson - Intermission
• Emily Mortimer - Young Adam
• Eileen Walsh - The Magdalene Sisters
• Fenella Woolgar - Bright Young Things

British Newcomer of the Year

David MacKenzie - Young Adam

• Richard Curtis - Love Actually
• Romola Garai - I Capture the Castle
• Nora-Jane Noone - The Magdalene Sisters
• Jamie Sives - Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

Dilys Powell Award

• Tom Courtenay

External links

• London Critics Circle Film Awards at IMDB

References