56th British Academy Film Awards (2003)

Best Film

	The Pianist - Roman Polanski, Robert Benmusso and Alain Sarde
	Chicago - Martin Richards
	Gangs of New York - Alberto Grimaldi and Harvey Weinstein
	The Hours - Scott Rudin and Robert Fox
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson

Best Direction

	Roman Polanski - The Pianist
	Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York
	Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
	Rob Marshall - Chicago
	Stephen Daldry - The Hours

Best Actor in a Leading Role

	Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York as William Cutting
	Adrien Brody - The Pianist as Władysław Szpilman
	Jack Nicholson - About Schmidt as Warren Schmidt
	Michael Caine - The Quiet American as Thomas Fowler
	Nicolas Cage - Adaptation as Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman

Best Actress in a Leading Role

	Nicole Kidman - The Hours as Virginia Woolf
	Halle Berry - Monster's Ball as Leticia Musgrove
	Meryl Streep - The Hours as Clarissa Vaughan
	Renée Zellweger - Chicago as Roxie Hart
	Salma Hayek - Frida as Frida Kahlo

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

	Christopher Walken - Catch Me If You Can as Frank Abagnale Sr.
	Alfred Molina - Frida as Diego Rivera
	Chris Cooper - Adaptation as John Laroche
	Ed Harris - The Hours as Richard Brown
	Paul Newman - Road to Perdition as John Rooney

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

	Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago as Velma Kelly
	Julianne Moore - The Hours as Laura Brown
	Meryl Streep - Adaptation as Susan Orlean
	Queen Latifah - Chicago as Matron "Mama" Morton
	Toni Collette - About a Boy as Fiona Brewer

Best Original Screenplay

	Talk to Her - Pedro Almodóvar
	Dirty Pretty Things - Steven Knight
	Gangs of New York - Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan
	The Magdalene Sisters - Peter Mullan
	Y tu mamá también - Carlos Cuarón and Alfonso Cuarón

Best Adapted Screenplay

	Adaptation - Charlie Kaufman
	About a Boy - Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz
	Catch Me If You Can - Jeff Nathanson
	The Hours - David Hare
	The Pianist - Ronald Harwood

Best Editing

	City of God - Daniel Rezende
	Chicago - Martin Walsh
	Gangs of New York - Thelma Schoonmaker
	The Hours - Peter Boyle
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Michael J. Horton

Best Cinematography

	Road to Perdition - Conrad Hall
	Chicago - Dion Beebe
	Gangs of New York - Michael Ballhaus
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Andrew Lesnie
	The Pianist - Paweł Edelman

Best Production Design

	Road to Perdition - Dennis Gassner
	Chicago - John Myhre
	Gangs of New York - Dante Ferretti
	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Stuart Craig
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Grant Major

Best Costume Design

	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor
	Catch Me If You Can - Mary Zophres
	Chicago - Colleen Atwood
	Frida - Julie Weiss
	Gangs of New York - Sandy Powell

Best Makeup and Hair

	Frida - Judy Chin, Beatrice De Alba, John E. Jackson and Regina Reyes
	Chicago - Jordan Samuel and Judi Cooper-Sealy
	Gangs of New York - Manlio Rocchetti and Aldo Signoretti
	The Hours - Ivana Primorac, Conor O'Sullivan and Jo Allen
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Peter Owen, Peter King and Richard Taylor

Best Special Visual Effects

	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke
	Gangs of New York - Bruce Steinheimer, Michael Owens, Ed Hirsh and Jon Alexander
	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Jim Mitchell, Nick Davis, John Richardson, Bill George and Nick Dudman
	Minority Report - Scott Farrar, Michael Lantieri, Nathan McGuinness and Henry LaBounta
	Spider-Man - John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier

Best Original Music

	The Hours - Philip Glass
	Catch Me If You Can - John Williams
	Chicago - Danny Elfman, John Kander and Fred Ebb
	Gangs of New York - Howard Shore, Robbie Robertson and The Edge
	The Pianist - Wojciech Kilar

Best Sound

	Chicago - Michael Minkler, Dominick Tavella, David Lee and Maurice Schell
	Gangs of New York - Tom Fleischman, Ivan Sharrock, Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Randy Thom, Dennis Leonard, John Midgley, Ray Merrin, Graham Daniel and Rick Kline
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Ethan Van der Ryn, David Farmer, Mike Hopkins, Hammond Peek, Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick and Michael Hedges
	The Pianist - Jean-Marie Blondel, Dean Humphreys and Gerard Hardy

Best Film Not in the English Language

	Talk to Her - Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar
	City of God - Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Mauricio Andrade Ramos and Fernando Meirelles
	Devdas - Bharat Shah and Sanjay Leela Bhansali
	The Warrior - Bertrand Faivre and Asif Kapadia
	Y tu mamá también - Jorge Vergara and Alfonso Cuarón

Outstanding British Film

	The Warrior - Bertrand Faivre and Asif Kapadia
	Bend It Like Beckham - Deepak Nayar and Gurinder Chadha
	Dirty Pretty Things - Tracey Seaward, Robert Jones and Stephen Frears
	The Hours - Scott Rudin, Robert Fox and Stephen Daldry
	The Magdalene Sisters - Frances Higson and Peter Mullan

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

	The Warrior - Asif Kapadia (Writer/Director)
	AKA - Duncan Roy (Writer/Director)
	Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry - Simon Bent (Writer)
	Lost in La Mancha - Lucy Darwin (Producer)

Best Short Film

	My Wrongs 8245-8249 & 117 - Mark Herbert and Chris Morris
	Bouncer - Natasha Carlish, Sophie Morgan, Michael Baig-Clifford and Geoff Thompson
	Candy Bar Kid - Benjamin Johns and Shan Khan
	Good Night - Yoav Factor and Sun-Young Chun
	The Most Beautiful Man in the World - Hugh Welchman and Alicia Duffy
	Rank - Andrew O'Connell, David Yates and Robbie McCallum

Best Short Animation

	Fish Never Sleep - Gaëlle Denis
	The ChubbChubbs! - Jacquie Barnbrook, Eric Armstrong and Jeff Wolverton
	The Dog Who Was a Cat Inside - Andrew Ruhemann, Siân Rees and Siri Melchoir
	Sap - Lucie Wenigerová and Hyun-Joo Kim
	Wedding Espresso - Jonathan Bairstow, Sandra Ensby and Lesley Glaister