This is a list of films which placed number-one at the box office in Australia during 2003. Amounts are in Australian dollars. This article transitions from weekend end date to week end date, thus accounting for the additional week (a total of 53). Also included are the positions at the box office other films opened at. Quite a number of these are films from the previous year due to normal Australian film distribution delays.
Number-one films †This implies the highest-grossing movie of the year. # Week ending Film Box office Openings 1 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers $19,597,818 The Tuxedo (#5), Treasure Planet (#6), Two Weeks Notice (#7), Adaptation (#10), Frida (#12), Bowling for Columbine (#13), The Hot Chick (#14), Mostly Martha (#18), The Master of Disguise (#20) 2 $9,084,170 3 Catch Me If You Can $5,148,124 Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (#4) 4 8 Mile $7,526,113 Analyze That (#6), The Quiet American (#7), Like Mike (#8) 5 $4,264,954 Chicago (#2), I Spy (#5), About Schmidt preview (#19) 6 Chicago $2,437,504 One Hour Photo (#3), Frailty (#17) 7 $1,870,781 Star Trek: Nemesis (#2), About Schmidt (#7), Far from Heaven (#11), They (#13), City by the Sea (#17) 8 Gangs of New York $2,814,649 Undercover Brother (#10), Talk to Her (#19) 9 Just Married $2,944,361 The Hours (#3), Half Past Dead (#5), The Rules of Attraction (#12), Trapped (#17) 10 Jackass: The Movie $2,018,645 The Recruit (#3), Swimming Upstream (#10), Solaris (#17) 11 Maid in Manhattan $3,029,089 Final Destination 2 (#2), The Pianist (#9), Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (#13) 12 $1,976,079 Antwone Fisher (#10), You Can't Stop the Murders (#13), City of God (#17), Knockaround Guys (#18) 13 Daredevil $3,952,322 The Emperor's Club (#11), Dog Soldiers (#17), 24 Hour Party People (#18) 14 Ned Kelly $3,439,557 Cradle 2 the Grave (#3) 15 $1,960,158 Bringing Down the House (#2), Dreamcatcher (#3), What a Girl Wants (#4), Punch-Drunk Love (#10), Read My Lips (#18) 16 Johnny English $3,980,373 Fat Pizza (#2), Shanghai Knights (#3), The Jungle Book 2 (#7), Kangaroo Jack (#8), The Wild Thornberrys Movie (#9), All or Nothing (#20) 17 Anger Management $5,124,333 Ripley's Game (#17), The Magdalene Sisters (#18), Nowhere in Africa (#19) 18 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days $3,722,949 X-Men 2 (#5) 19 X-Men 2 $7,610,042 Russian Ark (#12), Anita and Me (#19) 20 $3,480,612 Whale Rider (#2), National Security (#5), Alexandra's Project (#7) 21 The Matrix Reloaded $14,553,522 22 $7,468,147 Phone Booth (#2), The Life of David Gale (#6), Horseplay (#14), The Crime of Father Amaro (#15) 23 $4,131,487 Basic (#3), Old School (#4), Secretary (#9), Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (#16), The Lizzie McGuire Movie (#20) 24 2 Fast 2 Furious $7,419,656 The Four Feathers (#9), Igby Goes Down (#11), 25th Hour (#12) 25 $2,866,045 Bulletproof Monk (#3), The Core (#4), A Man Apart (#5), White Oleander (#8) 26 Bruce Almighty $6,523,891 Travelling Birds (#9) 27 $4,803,887 Hulk (#2), Daddy Day Care (#3) 28 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle $8,786,213 Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (#6), The Dancer Upstairs (#11), Help! I'm a Fish (#16) 29 $4,939,410 The Real Cancun (#8), I Capture the Castle (#9), Auto Focus (#14) 30 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines $9,231,811 The Good Thief (#12), Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (#20) 31 $3,964,697 Bad Eggs (#3), Confidence (#5), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (#7), Malibu's Most Wanted (#8), Biker Boyz (#10), A Mighty Wind (#14) 32 $2,291,756 Identity (#2), View from the Top (#5), Danny Deckchair (#6), Extreme Ops (#11), Wrong Turn (#12) 33 American Pie: The Wedding $5,540,460 Friday After Next (#15) 34 $3,115,507 Down with Love (#2), Tears of the Sun (#3), Take Away (#7), The Night We Called It a Day (#8), Narc (#11), Cypher (#15) 35 The Italian Job $3,649,566 Buffalo Soldiers (#8), It Runs in the Family (#11) 36 Finding Nemo $9,757,350 The In-Laws (#4), Darkness Falls (#5), The Rage in Placid Lake (#10), Man on the Train (#13) 37 $7,318,444 28 Days Later (#3), Hollywood Homicide (#4), Titanic 3D: Ghosts of the Abyss (#10), My Little Eye (#15), Undead (#18) 38 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl $6,962,449 Legally Blonde 2 (#3), American Splendor (#10), Together (#15) 39 $4,983,581 Bad Boys II (#2), Freaky Friday (#5), Rugrats Go Wild (#6), Agent Cody Banks (#8) 40 Finding Nemo $4,335,509 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (#3), The Wannabes (#9), Japanese Story (#10) 41 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen $4,218,626 Matchstick Men (#9), Swimming Pool (#14) 42 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl $1,805,456 Calendar Girls (#3), Gettin' Square (#9), Perfect Strangers (#15) 43 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 $3,118,560 Head of State (#13) 44 Intolerable Cruelty $2,661,924 Freddy vs. Jason (#3), Mambo Italiano (#7), Raising Victor Vargas (#19) 45 $2,014,052 Runaway Jury (#3), The Medallion (#7), Holes (#10), Laurel Canyon (#15) 46 The Matrix Revolutions $9,733,089 Le Divorce (#6) 47 $3,586,349 Seabiscuit (#2), In the Cut (#4), Alien: The Director's Cut (#14), Spellbound (#15), The Honourable Wally Norman (#20) 48 School of Rock $2,740,753 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (#3), Mystic River (#4), Uptown Girls (#6), Nicholas Nickleby (#19) 49 S.W.A.T. $3,697,004 Elf (#3), Good Boy! (#10) 50 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World $4,210,955 Cabin Fever (#8) 51 Scary Movie 3 $4,102,664 Looney Tunes: Back in Action (#4), Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (#13) 52 Peter Pan $2,520,855 The Spanish Apartment (#11), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Extended (#15) 53 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King † $18,985,415 Love Actually (#2), Brother Bear (#3), Lost in Translation (#9), Good Bye, Lenin! (#13), Bright Young Things (#15), Dogville (#17)
See also List of Australian films – Australian films by year 2003 in film
References Urban Cinefile – Box Office