Annal:2003 MTV Movie Award for Best Movie
From AwardAnnals
Results of the MTV Awards in the year 2003. For a ranked list of films, try the honor roll.
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.
- 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 MTV-Movie nominee
- Score: 6.53
Rap star Eminem makes a strong movie debut in 8 Mile, an urban drama that makes a fairly standard plot fly through its gritty attention to detail. Jimmy Smith (Eminem), nicknamed B Rabbit, can’t pull himself together to take the next step with his career—or with his life. Angry about his alcoholic mother (Kim Basinger) and worried about his little sister, Rabbit lets out his feelings with twisting, clever raps admired by his friends, who keep pushing him to enter a weekly rap face-off. But Rabbit resists—until he meets a girl (Brittany Murphy) who might…
- 2003 MTV-Movie nominee
- Score: 6.53
With enough lively banter to keep its customers happy for years, Barbershop is a loose, lanky comedy with its heart—and its humor—in all the right places. Ice Cube plays Calvin, reluctant heir to his late father’s barbershop on Chicago’s South Side—a neighborhood institution that seems like a trap for a guy with bigger dreams. But Calvin is devoted to his employees and local customers, and when he makes an ill-considered deal with a loan shark (Keith David), the future of the barbershop hangs in the balance. There’s a goofy subplot involving a stolen cash…
- 2003 Saturn-Horror winner
- 2003 MTV-Movie nominee
- Score: 16.53
Disturbing images and a few good shocks don’t stop The Ring from being a hash of half-baked ideas. It’s the kind of frightfest you’ll watch to set a chilling mood or spook your susceptible friends, but when you try to sort it out, this well-mounted American remake (of the 1998 Japanese hit Ringu, based on Koji Suzuki’s popular novel) collapses into a heap of incoherent parts. The negligible plot follows a Seattle reporter (Naomi Watts) as she investigates the death of her niece, the victim of a mysterious videotape that, according to vague urban…
