Runner-up: The Good Thief
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Best Sidekick or Tertiary Character
All the Real Girls (Bust-Ass)
Better Luck Tomorrow (Virgil)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Sands)
Best Soundtrack
Runners-up: Matchstick Men (so much Sinatra...)
Bend It Like Beckham (Hindu pop)
The Good Thief (North African techno and Bono covering Sinatra)
Intolerable Cruelty (The most Simon & Garfunkel, covers and otherwise, since The Graduate)
Masked & Anonymous (A flawed film but an excellent soundtrack by Bob Dylan, including a superb rendition of Dixie)
Triplets of Belleville (Benoit Charest and Sylvain Chomet swing like nobody’s business)
A Mighty Wind (Absolutely deadpan folk goofiness)
Owning Mahowny (Impossible-to-find ambient soundtrack by The Insects)
Master & Commander (For knowing that it didn’t need much of a soundtrack and leaving out music for three-fourths of its runtime, and for its use of Boccherini’s “Procession of the Night Watch in Madrid”)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (Wild combination of Japanese pop, Nancy Sinatra, Ennio Morricone-style wackiness, Zamfir on the pan flute, original punk by the 5,6,7,8’s, and a Latin cover of that “Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” song, or whatever it’s called.)
Best Swearing
Bad Santa
Best Voice
Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation & Girl with a Pearl Earring
Zooey Deschanel in All the Real Girls
Page one of "2003 'Nighty' Awards."
Runners-up: Marshall Bell for Northfork (The guy with the ark)
Geoffrey Rush for Pirates of the Caribbean
Nicholas Cage for Matchstick Men
Johnny Depp for Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Sands) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl – (Capt. Jack Sparrow)
Charlize Theron for Monster (Aileen Wuornos)
Hottest Mom
Runners-up: Big Fish - Jessica Lange
Kill Bill: Volume 1 – Uma Thurman
All the Real Girls – Patricia Clarkson
Better Luck Tomorrow - Mom in the parking lot
Once Upon a Time in Mexico – Salma Hayek
Manliest Act
When the samurai, armed only with swords, charge into withering machine gun fire in The Last Samurai, because sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
Most Gruesome Wound
Runners-up: The guy getting cut in half in Kill Bill: Volume 1
The severed foot in Kill Bill: Volume 1
Once Upon a Time in Mexico – tie for General Marquez and Sands (Johnny Depp)
Most Laughs
Runners-up: American Splendor
Lost in Translation
Kill Bill: Volume 1
Triplets of Belleville
Bad Santa
Best Movie in Which People Speaking English Should Be Speaking Something Else
Runners-up: Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch)
Finding Nemo (Bubble-talk)
Lord of the Rings (I dunno, Common Tongue?)
The Dancer Upstairs, because not only should EVERY character be speaking Spanish, but EVERY actor is a native Spanish speaker!
Best Movie to Feature a Dwarf
Runner-up: Lord of the Rings
Bad Santa (because Tony Cox is a REAL dwarf)
Best Character Name
Runners-up: The Bride
Sonja Fatale (or was it Sofia Fatale?)
Bill
Orlando Bloom
Bust-Ass in All the Real Girls