
	WAFCA Award
	...Best Film
	...Best Actor
	...Best Actress
	...Best Supporting Actor
	...Supporting Actress
	...Best Director
	...Screenplay, Original
	...Screenplay , Adapted
	...Screenplay, Adapted
	...Best Ensemble Cast



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Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards: 2003

WAFCA Award

Date:

19 December

Best Film


Winner:
	Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)
Other Nominees:
	Cidade de Deus (2002) Lost in Translation (2003) Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Mystic River (2003)

Best Actor


Winner:
	Lost in Translation (2003) - Bill Murray (I)
Other Nominees:
	Dirty Pretty Things (2002) - Chiwetel Ejiofor House of Sand and Fog (2003) - Ben Kingsley Mystic River (2003) - Sean Penn (I) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) - Johnny Depp

Best Actress


Winner:
	21 Grams (2003) - Naomi Watts
Other Nominees:
	Something's Gotta Give (2003) - Diane Keaton Thirteen (2003) - Evan Rachel Wood Veronica Guerin (2003) - Cate Blanchett Whale Rider (2002) - Keisha Castle-Hughes

Best Supporting Actor


Winner:
	21 Grams (2003) - Benicio Del Toro
Other Nominees:
	Cooler, The (2003) - Alec Baldwin Last Samurai, The (2003) - Ken Watanabe (I) Mystic River (2003) - Tim Robbins (I) Shattered Glass (2003) - Peter Sarsgaard

Best Supporting Actress


Winner:
	Human Stain, The (2003) - Anna Deavere Smith
Other Nominees:
	Cold Mountain (2003) - Renée Zellweger In America (2002) - Sarah Bolger (I) Swimming Pool (2003) - Ludivine Sagnier Thirteen (2003) - Holly Hunter

Best Director


Winner:
	Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) - Peter Jackson (I)
Other Nominees:
	Cidade de Deus (2002) - Fernando Meirelles (I); Kátia Lund Lost in Translation (2003) - Sofia Coppola Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) - Peter Weir Mystic River (2003) - Clint Eastwood

Best Screenplay, Original


Winner:
	Lost in Translation (2003) - Sofia Coppola
Other Nominees:
	21 Grams (2003) - Guillermo Arriaga (I) Dirty Pretty Things (2002) - Steven Knight Finding Nemo (2003) - Bob Peterson (III); David Reynolds (I); Andrew Stanton (I) Thirteen (2003) - Catherine Hardwicke; Nikki Reed (I)

Best Screenplay , Adapted


Nominees:
	Cidade de Deus (2002) - Bráulio Mantovani

Best Screenplay, Adapted


Winner:
	Mystic River (2003) - Brian Helgeland
Other Nominees:
	Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) - Peter Jackson (I); Frances Walsh; Philippa Boyens Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) - Peter Weir; John Collee Shattered Glass (2003) - Billy Ray (I)

Best Ensemble Cast


Winner:
	Love Actually (2003)
Other Nominees:
	Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Mighty Wind, A (2003) Mystic River (2003)