Annal:2003 Hugo Award for Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
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Results of the Hugo Award in the year 2003. For a ranked list of films, try an honor roll:
- Hugo Award for Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
- Speculative Fiction films
- Speculative Fiction directors.
The Lord of the Rings: Part 2. The Two Towers
- 2003 Hugo-Video winner
- 2003 MTV-Movie winner
- 2003 Saturn-Fantasy winner
- 2003 BAFTA-Children nominee
- 2003 BAFTA-Film nominee
- 2003 Golden Globe-Drama nominee
- 2003 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 54.53
Frodo Baggins and the Fellowship continue their quest to destroy the One Ring and stand against the evil of the dark lord Sauron. The Fellowship has divided and now find themselves taking different paths to defeating Sauron and his allies. Their destinies now lie at two towers—Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupted wizard Saruman waits and Sauron’s fortress at Baraddur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Part 2 of Harry Potter
- 2003 BAFTA-Children nominee
- 2003 Hugo-Video nominee
- 2003 Saturn-Fantasy nominee
- Score: 18.53
The next installment in the Harry Potter series finds young wizard Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and his friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) facing new challenges during their second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as they try to uncover a dark force that is terrorizing the school.
- 2003 Saturn-Sci-Fi winner
- 2003 Hugo-Video nominee
- Score: 16.53
Set in the chillingly possible future of 2054, Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report is arguably the most intelligently provocative sci-fi thriller since Blade Runner. Like Ridley Scott’s “future noir” classic, Spielberg’s gritty vision was freely adapted from a story by Philip K. Dick, with its central premise of “Precrime” law enforcement, totally reliant on three isolated human “precogs” capable (due to drug-related mutation) of envisioning murders before they’re committed. As Precrime’s confident captain, Tom Cruise preempts these killings like a…
- 2003 Hugo-Video nominee
- 2003 MTV-Movie nominee
- 2003 Saturn-Fantasy nominee
- Score: 18.53
Directed by Sam Raimi, Spider-Man centers on student Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) who, after being bitten by a genetically-altered spider, gains superhuman strength and the spider-like ability to cling to any surface. He vows to use his abilities to fight crime, coming to understand the words of his beloved Uncle Ben: “With great power comes great responsibility.”
- 2003 Oscar-Animation winner
- 2003 Saturn-Animated winner
- 2003 Hugo-Video nominee
- Score: 26.53
The highest grossing film in Japanese box-office history (more than $234 million), Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (Sen To Chihiro Kamikakushi) is a dazzling film that reasserts the power of drawn animation to create fantasy worlds. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and Lewis Carroll’s Alice, Chihiro (voice by Daveigh Chase—Lilo in Disney’s Lilo & Stitch) plunges into an alternate reality. On the way to their new home, the petulant adolescent and her parents find what they think is a deserted amusement park. Her parents stuff themselves…
