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'''2003 in film''' is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country- and genre- specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts.

==Highest-grossing films==
{{see also|Lists of box office number-one films#2003}}
The top 10 films released in 2003 by worldwide gross are as follows:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2003/?ref_=bo_cso_table_1|title=2003 Worldwide Box Office |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|publisher=[[IMDb]]|access-date=March 7, 2020}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; margin:auto;"
|+ Highest-grossing films of 2003
|-
! Rank!! Title !! Distributor !! Worldwide gross
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 1
| ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]''
| [[New Line Cinema|New Line]]/[[Warner Bros. Pictures|Warner Bros]]
| $1,118,887,224
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 2
| ''[[Finding Nemo]]''
| [[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Buena Vista]]
| <!--Original 2003 gross only-->$871,014,978<ref>{{cite web |title=Finding Nemo (2003) |work=[[Box Office Mojo]]|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=findingnemo.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120831031932/https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=findingnemo.htm |archive-date=August 31, 2012}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 3
| ''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]''
| [[Warner Bros. Pictures|Warner Bros.]]
| $739,412,035
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 4
| ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl]]''
| [[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Buena Vista]]
| $654,264,015
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 5
| ''[[Bruce Almighty]]''
| [[Universal Pictures|Universal]] / [[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Buena Vista]]
| $484,592,874
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 6
| ''[[The Last Samurai]]''
| [[Warner Bros.]]
| $454,627,263
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 7
| ''[[Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines]]''
| [[Warner Bros.|Warner Bros]]. / [[Sony Pictures|Sony]] / [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]
| $433,371,112
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 8
| ''[[The Matrix Revolutions]]''
| [[Warner Bros.]]
| $427,343,298
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 9
| ''[[X2 (film)|X2]]''
| [[20th Century Fox]]
| $407,711,549
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 10
| ''[[Bad Boys II]]''
| [[Sony Pictures|Sony]] / [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]
| $273,339,556
|}

''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'' grossed more than $1.14&nbsp; billion, making it the highest-grossing film in 2003 worldwide and in North America and the [[List of highest-grossing films|second-highest-grossing film]] up to that time. It was also the second film to surpass the billion-dollar milestone after ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'' in 1997.

''[[Finding Nemo]]'' was the highest-grossing animated movie of all time until being overtaken by ''[[Shrek 2]]'' in 2004.

==Events==
* February 24: ''[[The Pianist (2002 film)|The Pianist]]'', directed by [[Roman Polanski]], wins 7 [[César Award]]s: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Music and Best Cinematography.
* June 12: [[Gregory Peck]] dies of [[bronchopneumonia]].
* June 29: [[Katharine Hepburn]] dies of [[cardiac arrest]].
* November 17: [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] sworn in as [[Governor of California]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Broder |first=John M. |date=2003-11-17 |title=Schwarzenegger Is Sworn In as Governor of California |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/17/national/schwarzenegger-is-sworn-in-as-governor-of-california.html |access-date=2024-06-24 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* December 22: Both of the movies from the [[Matrix trilogy|'' Matrix'' trilogy]] released in 2003 were shut out of [[visual effects]] [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] consideration by the Visual Effects Award Nominating Committee.
* December 31: The [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] mails nomination ballots in which it qualifies 254 films released in 2003 as eligible for [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] consideration.

===Award ceremonies===
* [[8th Empire Awards]]

==Awards==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"
|-
! rowspan="2" style="width:20px;"| Category/Organization !! rowspan="2" style="width:250px;"| [[9th Critics' Choice Awards]]<br> January 10, 2004 !! colspan="2" style="width:250px;"| [[61st Golden Globe Awards]]<br>January 25, 2004 !! rowspan="2" style="width:250px;"| [[57th British Academy Film Awards|57th BAFTA Awards]]<br>February 15, 2004 !! rowspan="2" style="width:250px;"|  [[Producers Guild of America Awards 2003|Producers]], [[56th Directors Guild of America Awards|Directors]], [[10th Screen Actors Guild Awards|Screen Actors]], and [[Writers Guild of America Awards 2003|Writers Guild Awards]]!! rowspan="2" style="width:250px;"| [[76th Academy Awards]]<br> February 29, 2004
|-
! width=200| Drama !! style="width:200px;"| Musical or Comedy
|-
| Best Film || colspan="2"| ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'' || ''[[Lost in Translation (film)|Lost in Translation]]'' ||colspan=3| ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]''
|-
| Best Director || colspan="3"| [[Peter Jackson]]<br />''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'' || [[Peter Weir]]<br />''[[Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World]]'' ||colspan=2| [[Peter Jackson]]<br />''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]''
|-
| Best Actor || colspan="2"| [[Sean Penn]]<br />''[[Mystic River (film)|Mystic River]]'' || colspan="2"| [[Bill Murray]]<br />''[[Lost in Translation (film)|Lost in Translation]]'' || [[Johnny Depp]]<br />''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl]]'' || [[Sean Penn]]<br />''[[Mystic River (film)|Mystic River]]''
|-
| Best Actress || colspan="2"| [[Charlize Theron]]<br />''[[Monster (2003 film)|Monster]]'' || [[Diane Keaton]]<br />''[[Something's Gotta Give (film)|Something's Gotta Give]]'' || [[Scarlett Johansson]]<br />''[[Lost in Translation (film)|Lost in Translation]]'' || colspan="2"| [[Charlize Theron]]<br />''[[Monster (2003 film)|Monster]]''
|-
| Best Supporting Actor || colspan="3"| [[Tim Robbins]]<br />''[[Mystic River (film)|Mystic River]]'' || [[Bill Nighy]]<br />''[[Love Actually]]'' || colspan="2"| [[Tim Robbins]]<br />''[[Mystic River (film)|Mystic River]]''
|-
| Best Supporting Actress || colspan="6"| [[Renée Zellweger]]<br />''[[Cold Mountain (film)|Cold Mountain]]''
|-
| Best Screenplay, Adapted || rowspan="2"| [[Jim Sheridan]], [[Kirsten Sheridan]] and Naomi Sheridan<br />''[[In America (film)|In America]]'' || rowspan="2" colspan="2"| [[Sofia Coppola]]<br />''[[Lost in Translation (film)|Lost in Translation]]'' || [[Philippa Boyens]], [[Peter Jackson]] and [[Fran Walsh]]<br />''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'' ||[[Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini]]<br>''[[American Splendor (film)|American Splendor]]''|| [[Philippa Boyens]], [[Peter Jackson]] and [[Fran Walsh]]<br />''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]''
|-
| Best Screenplay, Original || [[Tom McCarthy (director)|Tom McCarthy]]<br />''[[The Station Agent]]'' ||colspan=2|[[Sofia Coppola]]<br />''[[Lost in Translation (film)|Lost in Translation]]''
|-
| Best Animated Film || ''[[Finding Nemo]]'' ||{{n/a}}||{{n/a}}||{{n/a}}||{{n/a}}|| ''[[Finding Nemo]]''
|-
| Best Original Score || colspan="3"| ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]''<br />[[Howard Shore]] || ''[[Cold Mountain (film)|Cold Mountain]]''<br />[[T-Bone Burnett]] and [[Gabriel Yared]] ||{{n/a}}|| ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]''<br />[[Howard Shore]]
|-
| Best Original Song || "A Mighty Wind"<br />''[[A Mighty Wind]]'' || colspan="2"| "[[Into the West (song)|Into the West]]"<br />''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'' ||{{n/a}}||{{n/a}}|| "[[Into the West (song)|Into the West]]"<br />''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]''
|-
| Best Foreign Language Film || ''[[The Barbarian Invasions]]'' || colspan="2"| ''[[Osama (film)|Osama]]'' || ''[[In This World]]'' ||{{n/a}}|| ''[[The Barbarian Invasions]]''
|}

== 2003 films ==
=== By country/region ===
* [[List of American films of 2003]]
* [[List of Argentine films of 2003]]
* [[List of Australian films of 2003]]
* [[List of Bangladeshi films of 2003]]
* [[List of British films of 2003]]
* [[List of Canadian films of 2003]]
* [[List of Chinese films of 2003]]
* [[List of French films of 2003]]
* [[List of Hong Kong films of 2003]]
* List of Indian films of 2003
** [[List of Indian Bengali films of 2003|List of Bengali films of 2003]]
** [[List of Hindi films of 2003]]
** [[List of Kannada films of 2003]]
** [[List of Malayalam films of 2003]]
** [[List of Marathi films of 2003]]
** [[List of Punjabi films of 2003]]
** [[List of Tamil films of 2003]]
** [[List of Telugu films of 2003]]
* [[List of Japanese films of 2003]]
* [[List of Mexican films of 2003]]
* [[List of Pakistani films of 2003]]
* [[List of Russian films of 2003]]
* [[List of South Korean films of 2003]]
* [[List of Spanish films of 2003]]

===By genre/medium===
* [[List of action films of the 2000s#2003|List of action films of 2003]]
* [[List of animated feature films of 2003]]
* [[List of avant-garde films of the 2000s|List of avant-garde films of 2003]]
* [[List of crime films of 2003]]
* [[List of comedy films of the 2000s#2003|List of comedy films of 2003]]
* [[List of drama films of the 2000s#2003|List of drama films of 2003]]
* [[List of horror films of 2003]]
* [[List of science fiction films of the 2000s#2003fc|List of science fiction films of 2003]]
* [[List of thriller films of the 2000s#2003|List of thriller films of 2003]]
* [[List of Western films of the 2000s|List of western films of 2003]]

==Births==
* January 2 – [[Cyrus Arnold]], American actor
* January 4 – [[Jaeden Martell]], American actor
* February 4 – [[Edvin Ryding]], Swedish actor
* February 6 - [[:sv:Fabian_Penje|Fabian Penje]], Swedish actor
* February 20
**[[Olivia Rodrigo]], American actress and singer
**[[William Gao]], English actor and singer
* March 1 – [[Yasmeen Fletcher]], American actress and musician
* March 3 – [[Thomas Barbusca]], American actor
* March 6 – [[Millicent Simmonds]], American actress
* March 12 – [[Malina Weissman]], American actress
* March 20 – [[Cooper Hoffman]], American actor
* April 3 – [[Elsie Fisher]], American actress
* April 9 – [[Lilia Buckingham]], American actress, author and dancer
* April 13 – [[Jean Paulo Campos]], Brazilian actor
* April 30 – [[Emily Carey]], English actress and model
* May 1 – [[Lizzy Greene]], American actress
* May 19
**[[Daiken Okudaira]], Japanese actor
**[[JoJo Siwa]], American singer, actress and YouTuber
* May 24 - [[Megan Stott]], American actress
* June 1
**[[Emjay Anthony]], American actor
**[[Shailyn Pierre-Dixon]], Canadian actress
* June 2 – [[Jeremy Ray Taylor]], American actor
* June 3 – [[Louis Partridge]], English actor
* June 16 – [[Anna Cathcart]], Canadian actress
* June 18 – [[Bailey Bass]], American actress
* June 29 – Alexys Nycole Sanchez, American actress
* July 1 – [[Storm Reid]], American actress
* July 9 – [[Marcel Ruiz (actor)|Marcel Ruiz]], Puerto Rican actor
* July 13
**[[Hannah Cheramy]], Canadian actress
**[[Wyatt Oleff]], American actor 
* August 18 – [[Max Charles]], American actor
* August 25 – [[Iñaki Godoy]], Mexican actor
* August 26 - [[Jake Ryan (American actor)|Jake Ryan]], American actor
* August 28
**[[Lexi Underwood]], American actress and singer
**[[Quvenzhané Wallis]], American actress
* August 30 – [[Yasmin Finney]], English actress
* September 3 – [[Jack Dylan Grazer]], American actor
* September 8 - [[Nicolas Cantu]], American actor
* September 18 – [[Aidan Gallagher]], American actor and musician
* September 24 – [[Joe Locke]], Manx actor
* September 25 – [[Bella Ramsey]], English actress
* September 26 – [[Sam Nivola]], English actor 
* October 27 - [[Gavin Lewis]], American actor
* November 7
**[[Lara McDonnell]], Irish actress
**[[Park Ji-hu]], South Korean actress
* December 22 – [[Joe Anders]], American-British actor<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bradley |first=Faye |date=May 10, 2025 |title=Meet Kate Winslet’s 21-year-old son, Joe Anders, who has scripted her Netflix directorial debut – the Titanic actress’ child with ex-husband Sam Mendes wrote forthcoming film Goodbye June |url=https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3309563/meet-kate-winslets-21-year-old-son-joe-anders-who-has-scripted-her-netflix-directorial-debut-titanic |website=[[South China Morning Post]]}}</ref>

==Deaths==
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:90%;"
|- style="background:#dae3e7; text-align:center;"
! Month !! Date !! Name !! Age !! Country !! Profession !! Notable films
|-
| rowspan="23" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''[[Deaths in January 2003|January]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Royce D. Applegate]] || style="text-align:center;"| 63 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]''| ''[[Seabiscuit (film)|Seabiscuit]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Cyril Shaps]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Spy Who Loved Me (film)|The Spy Who Loved Me]]''| ''[[Erik the Viking]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''4'' || [[Conrad Hall]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| French Polynesia || style="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer || {{hlist|''[[American Beauty (1999 film)|American Beauty]]''| ''[[Cool Hand Luke]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Massimo Girotti]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Senso (film)|Senso]]''| ''[[Last Tango in Paris]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Ron Goodwin]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Composer || {{hlist|''[[Where Eagles Dare]]''| ''[[Frenzy (film)|Frenzy]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[Anthony Havelock-Allan]] || style="text-align:center;"| 98 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Producer || {{hlist|''[[Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)|Romeo and Juliet]]''| ''[[Great Expectations (1946 film)|Great Expectations]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[Maurice Pialat]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[À Nos Amours]]''| ''[[Under the Sun of Satan (film)|Under the Sun of Satan]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[Richard Simmons (actor)|Dick Simmons]] || style="text-align:center;"| 89 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Stuntman, Actor || {{hlist|''[[Rear Window]]''| ''[[Sergeant York (film)|Sergeant York]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Maurice Gibb]] || style="text-align:center;"| 53 || style="text-align:center;"| Isle of Man || style="text-align:center;"| Singer, Composer, Actor || {{hlist|''[[Saturday Night Fever]]''| ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film)|Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Norman Panama]] || style="text-align:center;"| 88 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter, Director || {{hlist|''[[White Christmas (film)|White Christmas]]''| ''[[The Court Jester]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Mel Bourne]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Production Designer || {{hlist|''[[The Fisher King (film)|The Fisher King]]''| ''[[The Natural (film)|The Natural]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Paul Monash]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter, Producer || {{hlist|''[[The Friends of Eddie Coyle]]''| ''[[The Front Page (1974 film)|The Front Page]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Donald O'Brien (actor)|Donald O'Brien]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| Ireland || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Grand Prix (1966 film)|Grand Prix]]''| ''[[Run, Man, Run]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Richard Crenna]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[First Blood]]''| ''[[The Sand Pebbles (film)|The Sand Pebbles]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[David Battley]] || style="text-align:center;"| 67 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory]]''| ''[[Krull (film)|Krull]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Nedra Volz]] || style="text-align:center;"| 94 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[10 (1979 film)|10]]''| ''[[Earth Girls Are Easy]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''21'' || [[John Grieve (actor)|John Grieve]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Eye of the Needle (film)|Eye of the Needle]]''| ''[[The Thirty Nine Steps (1978 film)|The Thirty Nine Steps]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Nell Carter]] || style="text-align:center;"| 54 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Grass Harp (film)|The Grass Harp]]''| ''[[Bebe's Kids]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Cliff Norton]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Harry and Tonto]]''| ''[[Kiss Me, Stupid]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Leopoldo Trieste]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[The Godfather Part II|The Godfather: Part II]]''| ''[[Cinema Paradiso]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Anthony Eisley]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Naked Kiss]]''| ''[[Star! (film)|Star!]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Mary Ellis]] || style="text-align:center;"| 105 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Singer, Actress || {{hlist|''[[Paris in Spring]]''| ''[[Fatal Lady]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''31'' || [[William Marlowe]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Cry Freedom]]''| ''[[The Heroes of Telemark]]''}}
|-
| rowspan="9" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''[[Deaths in February 2003|February]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Lana Clarkson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 40 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Scarface (1983 film)|Scarface]]''| ''[[Fast Times at Ridgemont High]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[Stephen Whittaker]] || style="text-align:center;"| 55 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Director || {{hlist|''[[To Sir, with Love]]''| ''[[The Keep (film)|The Keep]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Vera Hruba Ralston]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| Czech Republic || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Fighting Kentuckian]]''| ''[[Dakota (1945 film)|Dakota]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Robert Ivers]] || style="text-align:center;"| 68 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Voice Double || {{hlist|''[[Broken Lance]]''| ''[[A Kiss Before Dying (1956 film)|A Kiss Before Dying]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Stacy Keach Sr.]] || style="text-align:center;"| 88 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Pretty Woman]]''| ''[[Saturday the 14th]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || Jack Brodsky || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Producer || {{hlist|''[[Romancing the Stone]]''| ''[[Daddy Day Care]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[Daniel Taradash]] || style="text-align:center;"| 89 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[From Here to Eternity]]''| ''[[Hawaii (1966 film)|Hawaii]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Walter Scharf]] || style="text-align:center;"| 92 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Composer, Orchestrator || {{hlist|''[[Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory]]''| ''[[Winchester '73]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Alberto Sordi]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Screenwriter, Director || {{hlist|''[[The Great War (1959 film)|The Great War]]''| ''[[I Vitelloni]]''}}
|-
| rowspan="13" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''[[Deaths in March 2003|March]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Horst Buchholz]] || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"|Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Magnificent Seven]]''| ''[[Life is Beautiful]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Adam Faith]] || style="text-align:center;"| 62 || style="text-align:center;"|UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Singer || {{hlist|''[[McVicar (film)|McVicar]]''| ''[[Stardust (1974 film)|Stardust]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Karen Morley]] || style="text-align:center;"| 93 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Gabriel Over the White House]]''|''[[Scarface (1932 film)|Scarface]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Lynne Thigpen]] || style="text-align:center;"| 54 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Warriors (film)|The Warriors]]''| ''[[Anger Management (film)|Anger Management]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Thora Hird]] || style="text-align:center;"| 91 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[One Good Turn (1955 film)|One Good Turn]]''| ''[[The Quatermass Xperiment]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Christiane Schmidtmer]] || style="text-align:center;"| 63 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Ship of Fools (film)|Ship of Fools]]''| ''[[The Big Doll House]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Lars Passgård]] || style="text-align:center;"| 62 || style="text-align:center;"| Sweden || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Through a Glass Darkly (film)|Through a Glass Darkly]]''| ''[[The Fuller Report]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[Naomi Chance]] || style="text-align:center;"| 73 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Trials of Oscar Wilde]]''| ''[[The Gambler and the Lady]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Rick Zumwalt]] || style="text-align:center;"| 51 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Batman Returns]]''| ''[[Over the Top (1987 film)|Over the Top]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Philip Yordan]] || style="text-align:center;"| 88 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[The Harder They Fall (1956 film)|The Harder They Fall]]''| ''[[El Cid (film)|El Cid]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Paul Zindel]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Runaway Train (film)|Runaway Train]]''| ''[[Mame (film)|Mame]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Michael Jeter]] || style="text-align:center;"| 50 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Green Mile (film)|The Green Mile]]''| ''[[Jurassic Park III]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''31'' || [[Anne Gwynne]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[House of Frankenstein (1944 film)|House of Frankenstein]]''| ''[[Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome]]''}}
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| rowspan="14" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''[[Deaths in April 2003|April]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Jean-Yves Escoffier]] || style="text-align:center;"| 52 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer || {{hlist|''[[Good Will Hunting]]''| ''[[Nurse Betty]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Michael Wayne]] || style="text-align:center;"| 68 || style="text-align:center;"|US || style="text-align:center;"| Producer || {{hlist|''[[McLintock!]]''| ''[[The Green Berets (film)|The Green Berets]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''4'' || [[Anthony Caruso (actor)|Anthony Caruso]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Asphalt Jungle]]''| ''[[Sylvia (1965 film)|Sylvia]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[David Greene (director)|David Greene]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Godspell (film)|Godspell]]''| ''[[Gray Lady Down]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Kathie Browne]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Man's Favorite Sport?]]''| ''[[Cinderfella]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Bing Russell]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"|US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Suicide Battalion]]''| ''[[Ride a Violent Mile]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Vera Zorina]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Follow the Boys (1944 film)|Follow the Boys]]''| ''[[Louisiana Purchase (film)|Louisiana Purchase]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Sydney Lassick]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"|US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]''| ''[[Carrie (1976 film)|Carrie]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Graham Jarvis]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Misery (film)|Misery]]''| ''[[Silkwood]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[Andrea King]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Ride the Pink Horse]]''| ''[[Dial 1119]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Jesse Nilsson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 25 || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Skulls (film)|The Skulls]]''| ''[[Model Behavior]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Peter Stone (writer)|Peter Stone]] || style="text-align:center;"| 73 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Charade (1963 film)|Charade]]''| ''[[The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film)|The Taking of Pelham One Two Three]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Ciccio Ingrassia]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[War Italian Style]]''| ''[[Kaos (film)|Kaos]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || Jim Connors || style="text-align:center;"| 56 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Stuntman || {{hlist|''[[Hook (film)|Hook]]''| ''[[Demolition Man (film)|Demolition Man]]''}}
|-
| rowspan="10" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''[[Deaths in May 2003|May]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Suzy Parker]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Kiss Them for Me (film)|Kiss Them for Me]]''| ''[[The Best of Everything (1959 film)|The Best of Everything]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Jocelyn Herbert]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Production Designer || {{hlist|''[[if....]]''| ''[[The Hotel New Hampshire (film)|The Hotel New Hampshire]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Carmen Filpi]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"|US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Ed Wood (film)|Ed Wood]]''| ''[[Beetlejuice]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Bernard Spear]] || style="text-align:center;"| 83 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (film)|Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]''| ''[[The Man Who Cried]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Wendy Hiller]] || style="text-align:center;"| 90 || style="text-align:center;"|UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Elephant Man (1980 film)|The Elephant Man]]''| ''[[A Man for All Seasons (1966 film)|A Man for All Seasons]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Robert Stack]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"|US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Written on the Wind]]''| ''[[Airplane!]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Rachel Kempson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 92 || style="text-align:center;"|UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Out of Africa (film)|Out of Africa]]''| ''[[Tom Jones (1963 film)|Tom Jones]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Martha Scott]] || style="text-align:center;"| 90 || style="text-align:center;"|US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]''| ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Marc Zuber]] || style="text-align:center;"| 59 || style="text-align:center;"| India || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]''| ''[[Navy SEALs (film)|Navy SEALs]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Haskell Boggs]] || style="text-align:center;"| 94 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer || {{hlist|''[[The Bellboy]]''| ''[[Teacher's Pet (1958 film)|Teacher's Pet]]''}}
|-
| rowspan="17" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''[[Deaths in June 2003|June]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Richard Cusack]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Fugitive (1993 film)|The Fugitive]]''| ''[[High Fidelity (film)|High Fidelity]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[John Jympson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Film Editor || {{hlist|''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]''| ''[[Little Shop of Horrors (film)|Little Shop of Horrors]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[Trevor Goddard]] || style="text-align:center;"| 40 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Mortal Kombat (1995 film)|Mortal Kombat]]''|''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[William Marshall (actor)|William Marshall]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Blacula]]''| ''[[Twilight's Last Gleaming]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Gregory Peck]] || style="text-align:center;"| 87 || style="text-align:center;" | US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Producer || {{hlist|''[[To Kill a Mockingbird (film)|To Kill a Mockingbird]]''| ''[[Roman Holiday]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Hume Cronyn]] || style="text-align:center;"| 90 || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Shadow of a Doubt]]''| ''[[Cocoon (film)|Cocoon]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Philip Stone]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Shining (film)|The Shining]]''| ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Carlos Rivas (actor)|Carlos Rivas]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The King and I (1956 film)|The King and I]]''| ''[[True Grit (1969 film)|True Grit]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Fielder Cook]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life]]''| ''[[Prudence and the Pill]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''21'' || [[George Axelrod]] || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)|Breakfast at Tiffany's]]''| ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)|The Manchurian Candidate]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''21'' || [[Leon Uris]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Battle Cry (film)|Battle Cry]]''| ''[[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)|Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Barbara Weeks (film actress)|Barbara Weeks]] || style="text-align:center;"| 89 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Rusty Rides Alone]]''| ''[[The Violent Years]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[David Newman (screenwriter)|David Newman]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Bonnie and Clyde (film)|Bonnie and Clyde]]''| ''[[Superman (1978 film)|Superman]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Rod Amateau]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Hook, Line & Sinker (1969 film)|Hook, Line & Sinker]]''| ''[[Where Does It Hurt?]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Katharine Hepburn]] || style="text-align:center;"| 96 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Philadelphia Story (film)|The Philadelphia Story]]''| ''[[On Golden Pond (1981 film)|On Golden Pond]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Buddy Hackett]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]''| ''[[The Little Mermaid (1989 film)|The Little  Mermaid]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Constance Smith]] || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| Ireland || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Impulse (1954 film)|Impulse]]''| ''[[Treasure of the Golden Condor]]''}}
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| rowspan="11" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''[[Deaths in July 2003|July]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Buddy Ebsen]] || style="text-align:center;"| 95 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Dancer || {{hlist|''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)|Breakfast at Tiffany's]]''| ''[[Born to Dance]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[Elisabeth Welch]] || style="text-align:center;"| 99 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]''| ''[[Revenge of the Pink Panther]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Marjorie Fowler]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Film Editor || {{hlist|''[[Doctor Dolittle (1967 film)|Doctor Dolittle]]''| ''[[Conquest of the Planet of the Apes]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Elliott Marks]] || style="text-align:center;"| 61 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Still Photographer || {{hlist|''[[Annie (1982 film)|Annie]]''| ''[[Rocky]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''21'' || [[Robert F. Blumofe]] || style="text-align:center;"| 93 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Producer, Executive || {{hlist|''[[Bound for Glory (1976 film)|Bound for Glory]]''| ''[[Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film)|Yours, Mine and Ours]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Sheila Bromley]] || style="text-align:center;"| 91 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Idol of the Crowds]]''| ''[[Women in the Wind]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[John Schlesinger]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Midnight Cowboy]]''| ''[[Marathon Man (film)|Marathon Man]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Karin Booth]] || style="text-align:center;"| 87 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Cripple Creek (film)|Cripple Creek]]''| ''[[Juke Box Rhythm]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Bob Hope]] || style="text-align:center;"| 100 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Paleface (1948 film)|The Paleface]]''| ''[[Road to Morocco]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Marian Carr]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Kiss Me Deadly]]''| ''[[Nightmare (1956 film)|Nightmare]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''31'' || [[Frederick Coffin]] || style="text-align:center;"| 60 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Wayne's World (film)|Wayne's World]]''| ''[[Hard to Kill]]''}}
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| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''[[Deaths in August 2003|August]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Don Estelle]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Santa Claus: The Movie]]''| ''[[A Private Function]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Larry Taylor (actor)|Larry Taylor]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Stuntman || {{hlist|''[[Zulu (1964 film)|Zulu]]''| ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Gregory Hines]] || style="text-align:center;"| 57 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Dancer || {{hlist|''[[The Cotton Club (film)|The Cotton Club]]''| ''[[Running Scared (1986 film)|Running Scared]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''10'' || [[Jacques Deray]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Borsalino (film)|Borsalino]]''| ''[[Three Men to Kill]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Charles Bronson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Great Escape (film)|The Great Escape]]''| ''[[Death Wish (1974 film)|Death Wish]]''}}
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| rowspan="18" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''[[Deaths in September 2003|September]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Jack Smight]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Harper (film)|Harper]]''| ''[[Airport 1975]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[David King-Wood]] || style="text-align:center;"| 89 || style="text-align:center;"| Iran || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Quatermass Xperiment]]''| ''[[Private's Progress]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''4'' || [[Ben Aris]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Plague of the Zombies]]''| ''[[If....]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Louise Platt]] || style="text-align:center;"| 88 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Stagecoach (1939 film)|Stagecoach]]''| ''[[Forgotten Girls]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Leni Riefenstahl]] || style="text-align:center;"| 101 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Olympia (1938 film)|Olympia]]''| ''[[Tiefland (film)|Tiefland]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[John Ritter]] || style="text-align:center;"| 54 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Problem Child (1990 film)|Problem Child]]''| ''[[Sling Blade]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Johnny Cash]] || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Singer, Actor || {{hlist|''[[Five Minutes to Live]]''| ''[[A Gunfight]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Jerry Fleck]] || style="text-align:center;"| 55 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Production Manager || {{hlist|''[[Edward Scissorhands]]''| ''[[Beetlejuice]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Sheb Wooley]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Hoosiers (film)|Hoosiers]]''| ''[[The Outlaw Josey Wales]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Tom Busby]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Dirty Dozen]]''| ''[[The War Lover]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''21'' || [[Pamela Gordon (actress)|Pamela Gordon]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Weird Science (film)|Weird Science]]''| ''[[Poltergeist II: The Other Side]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[Gordon Jump]] || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Conquest of the Planet of the Apes]]''| ''[[Making the Grade (1984 film)|Making the Grade]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Lyle Bettger]] || style="text-align:center;"| 88 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Greatest Show on Earth (film)|The Greatest Show on Earth]]''| ''[[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)|Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Herb Gardner]] || style="text-align:center;"| 68 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[A Thousand Clowns]]''| ''[[I'm Not Rappaport (film)|I'm Not Rappaport]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[George Plimpton]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Good Will Hunting]]''| ''[[Reds (film)|Reds]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Fay Helm]] || style="text-align:center;"| 94 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Phantom Lady (film)|Phantom Lady]]''| ''[[Dangerous Intruder]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Donald O'Connor]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Dancer || {{hlist|''[[Singin' in the Rain]]''| ''[[There's No Business Like Show Business (film)|There's No Business Like Show Business]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Elia Kazan]] || style="text-align:center;"| 94 || style="text-align:center;"| Turkey || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]''| ''[[On the Waterfront]]''}}
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| rowspan="11" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''[[Deaths in October 2003|October]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Julie Parrish]] || style="text-align:center;"| 62 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Nutty Professor (1963 film)|The Nutty Professor]]''| ''[[Fireball 500]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Florence Stanley]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]''| ''[[Bulworth]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Denis Quilley]] || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[King David (film)|King David]]''| ''[[Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)|Murder on the Orient Express]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Ruth Hall (actress)|Ruth Hall]] || style="text-align:center;"| 92 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Man from Monterey]]''| ''[[Local Boy Makes Good]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''10'' || [[Victoria Horne]] || style="text-align:center;"| 91 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Harvey (1950 film)|Harvey]]''| ''[[The Ghost and Mrs. Muir]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Janice Rule]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Invitation to a Gunfighter]]''| ''[[The Ambushers (film)|The Ambushers]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Bernard Schwartz (producer)|Bernard Schwartz]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Producer || {{hlist|''[[Coal Miner's Daughter (film)|Coal Miner's Daughter]]''| ''[[St. Elmo's Fire (film)|St. Elmo's Fire]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[David Lodge (actor)|David Lodge]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)|A Shot in the Dark]]''| ''[[The Return of the Pink Panther]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Guy Rolfe]] || style="text-align:center;"| 91 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Ivanhoe (1952 film)|Ivanhoe]]''| ''[[The Fall of the Roman Empire (film)|The Fall of the Roman Empire]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Jack Elam]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Cannonball Run]]''| ''[[Once Upon a Time in the West]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || Steve Yaconelli || style="text-align:center;"| 62 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer || {{hlist|''[[The Karate Kid Part III]]''| ''[[Blue Sky (1994 film)|Blue Sky]]''}}
|-
| rowspan="20" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''[[Deaths in November 2003|November]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Bob Grant (actor)|Bob Grant]] || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[On the Buses (film)|On the Buses]]''| ''[[Mutiny on the Buses]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Frederick Brown (sound editor)|Fred J. Brown]] || style="text-align:center;"| 68 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Sound Engineer || {{hlist|''[[The Exorcist (film)|The Exorcist]]''| ''[[First Blood]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Art Carney]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Harry and Tonto]]''| ''[[The Late Show (film)|The Late Show]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[Robert Brown (British actor)|Robert Brown]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Octopussy]]''| ''[[Licence to Kill]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Jonathan Brandis]] || style="text-align:center;"| 27 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter]]''| ''[[Ladybugs (film)|Ladybugs]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Whitfield Cook]] || style="text-align:center;"| 94 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Stage Fright (1950 film)|Stage Fright]]''| ''[[Strangers on a Train (film)|Strangers on a Train]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Kay E. Kuter]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Sabrina (1954 film)|Sabrina]]''| ''[[The Last Starfighter]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Penny Singleton]] || style="text-align:center;"| 95 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Blondie (1938 film)|Blondie]]''| ''[[Jetsons: The Movie]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Gene Anthony Ray]] || style="text-align:center;"| 41 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Fame (1980 film)|Fame]]''| ''[[Austin Powers in Goldmember]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[David Holt (American actor)|David Holt]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Pride of the Yankees]]''| ''[[Battleground (film)|Battleground]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Dorothy Loudon]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (film)|Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]]''| ''[[Garbo Talks]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Albert Nozaki]] || style="text-align:center;"| 91 || style="text-align:center;"| Japan || style="text-align:center;"| Art Director || {{hlist|''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]''| ''[[The War of the Worlds (1953 film)|The War of the Worlds]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[Michael Kamen]] || style="text-align:center;"| 55 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Composer || {{hlist|''[[Die Hard]]''| ''[[Mr. Holland's Opus]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Robert Addie]] || style="text-align:center;"| 87 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]]''| ''[[Another Country (1984 film)|Another Country]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Patricia Burke]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Lisbon Story (1946 film)|Lisbon Story]]''| ''[[Forbidden (1949 film)|Forbidden]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''24'' || [[Michael Small]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Composer || {{hlist|''[[Klute]]''| ''[[Marathon Man (film)|Marathon Man]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Gordon Reid (actor)|Gordon Reid]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Leon the Pig Farmer]]''| ''[[The Others (2001 film)|The Others]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Norman Burton]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Planet of the Apes (1968 film)|Planet of the Apes]]''| ''[[The Towering Inferno]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Edmund Hartmann]] || style="text-align:center;"| 92 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[The Lemon Drop Kid]]''| ''[[The Caddy]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Earl Bellamy]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Munster, Go Home!]]''| ''[[Walking Tall Part 2]]''}}
|-
| rowspan="20" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|  '''[[Deaths in December 2003|December]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Suzanne Cloutier]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Actress, Producer || {{hlist|''[[Othello (1952 film)|Othello]]''| ''[[Doctor in the House (film)|Doctor in the House]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Ellen Drew]] || style="text-align:center;"| 88 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Man from Colorado]]''| ''[[The Baron of Arizona]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[David Hemmings]] || style="text-align:center;"| 62 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Blow-Up]]''| ''[[Gladiator (2000 film)|Gladiator]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[Robert R. Benton]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Set Decorator || {{hlist|''[[Top Gun]]''| ''[[White Men Can't Jump]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''10'' || [[Sean McClory]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| Ireland || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]''| ''[[The Quiet Man]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Jeanne Crain]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[State Fair (1945 film)|State Fair]]''| ''[[Leave Her to Heaven]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Madlyn Rhue]] || style="text-align:center;"| 68 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]''| ''[[A Majority of One]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Alan Tilvern]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]''| ''[[Superman (1978 film)|Superman]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Hope Lange]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Best of Everything (film)|The Best of Everything]]''| ''[[Peyton Place (film)|Peyton Place]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Les Tremayne]] || style="text-align:center;"| 90 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The War of the Worlds (1953 film)|The War of the Worlds]]''| ''[[North by Northwest]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[Rose Hill (actress)|Rose Hill]] || style="text-align:center;"| 89 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)|A Shot in the Dark]]''| ''[[House of Whipcord]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Alan Bates]] || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Women in Love (film)|Women in Love]]''| ''[[The Fixer (1968 film)|The Fixer]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Earl Hindman]] || style="text-align:center;"| 61 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Three Men and a Baby]]''| ''[[Silverado (film)|Silverado]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''29'' || [[Bob Monkhouse]] || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Thunderbirds Are Go]]''| ''[[Carry On Sergeant]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[John Gregory Dunne]] || style="text-align:center;"| 71 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[A Star is Born (1976 film)|A Star is Born]]''| ''[[Up Close and Personal (film)|Up Close and Personal]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Anita Mui]] || style="text-align:center;"| 40 || style="text-align:center;"| Hong Kong || style="text-align:center;"| Actress, Singer || {{hlist|''[[Rumble in the Bronx]]''| ''[[Drunken Master II]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''30'' || [[Patricia Roc]] || style="text-align:center;"| 88 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Canyon Passage]]''| ''[[The Brothers (1947 film)|The Brothers]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''31'' || Peter Donen || style="text-align:center;"| 50 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Visual Effects Artist || {{hlist|''[[L.A. Confidential (film)|L.A. Confidential]]''| ''[[The Bourne Identity (2002 film)|The Bourne Identity]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''31'' || [[Paula Raymond]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Crisis (1950 film)|Crisis]]''| ''[[The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms]]''}}
|}

== Film debuts ==
{{Column list|
*[[Jonathan Bennett (actor)|Jonathan Bennett]] – ''Season of Youth''
*[[P.J. Byrne]] – ''[[Bruce Almighty]]''
*[[Rob Corddry]] – ''[[Old School (2003 film)|Old School]]''
*[[Benedict Cumberbatch]] – ''[[To Kill a King (film)|To Kill a King]]''
*[[Zac Efron]] – ''[[Melinda's World]]''
*[[Matthew Goode]] – ''[[South from Granada (film)|South from Granada]]''
*[[Josh Hutcherson]] – ''[[American Splendor (film)|American Splendor]]''
*[[Zoe Kazan]] – ''Swordswallowers and Thin Men''
*[[Anna Kendrick]] – ''[[Camp (2003 film)|Camp]]''
*[[Alyson Stoner]] – ''[[Cheaper by the Dozen (2003 film)|Cheaper by the Dozen]]''
*[[Danny McBride]] – ''[[All the Real Girls]]''
*[[Chris O'Dowd]] – ''[[Conspiracy of Silence (2003 film)|Conspiracy of Silence]]''
*[[Chris Pratt]] – ''The Extreme Team''
*[[Nikki Reed]] – ''[[Thirteen (2003 film)|Thirteen]]''
*[[Rob Riggle]] – ''Pushing Tom''
*[[Britt Robertson]] – ''The Ghost Club''
*[[John Robinson (American actor)|John Robinson]] – ''[[Elephant (2003 film)|Elephant]]''
*[[Mike Vogel]] – ''[[Grind (2003 film)|Grind]]''
*[[Kristen Wiig]] – ''[[Melvin Goes to Dinner]]''
*[[Kelly Clarkson]] – ''[[From Justin to Kelly]]''
}}

==References==
<references />

==External links==
*[https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,short&release_date=2003-01-01,2003-12-31&adult=include&sort=num_votes,desc List of 2003 films] at [[IMDb]]
* [https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2003/?grossesOption=calendarGrosses 2003 Domestic Grosses] at [[Box Office Mojo]]
*[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2003-01-01,2003-12-31&adult=include List of 2003 deaths] at [[IMDb]]
* [https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?birth_date=2003-01-01,2003-12-31&adult=include List of 2003 births] at [[IMDb]]

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