List of 2003 box office number-one films in Australia

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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.

#Week endingFilmBox officeOpenings
11 January 2003 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)
28 January 2003$9,084,170
315 January 2003 Catch Me If You Can $5,148,124 Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (#4)
422 January 2003 8 Mile $7,526,113 Analyze That (#6), The Quiet American (#7), Like Mike (#8)
529 January 2003$4,264,954 Chicago (#2), I Spy (#5), About Schmidt preview (#19)
65 February 2003 Chicago $2,437,504 One Hour Photo (#3), Frailty (#17)
712 February 2003$1,870,781 Star Trek: Nemesis (#2), About Schmidt (#7), Far from Heaven (#11), They (#13), City by the Sea (#17)
819 February 2003 Gangs of New York $2,814,649 Undercover Brother (#10), Talk to Her (#19)
926 February 2003 Just Married $2,944,361 The Hours (#3), Half Past Dead (#5), The Rules of Attraction (#12), Trapped (#17)
105 March 2003 Jackass: The Movie $2,018,645 The Recruit (#3), Swimming Upstream (#10), Solaris (#17)
1112 March 2003 Maid in Manhattan $3,029,089 Final Destination 2 (#2), The Pianist (#9), Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (#13)
1219 March 2003$1,976,079 Antwone Fisher (#10), You Can't Stop the Murders (#13), City of God (#17), Knockaround Guys (#18)
1326 March 2003 Daredevil $3,952,322 The Emperor's Club (#11), Dog Soldiers (#17), 24 Hour Party People (#18)
142 April 2003 Ned Kelly $3,439,557 Cradle 2 the Grave (#3)
159 April 2003$1,960,158 Bringing Down the House (#2), Dreamcatcher (#3), What a Girl Wants (#4), Punch-Drunk Love (#10), Read My Lips (#18)
1616 April 2003 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)
1723 April 2003 Anger Management $5,124,333 Ripley's Game (#17), The Magdalene Sisters (#18), Nowhere in Africa (#19)
1830 April 2003 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days $3,722,949 X-Men 2 (#5)
197 May 2003 X-Men 2 $7,610,042 Russian Ark (#12), Anita and Me (#19)
2014 May 2003$3,480,612 Whale Rider (#2), National Security (#5), Alexandra's Project (#7)
2121 May 2003 The Matrix Reloaded $14,553,522
2228 May 2003$7,468,147 Phone Booth (#2), The Life of David Gale (#6), Horseplay (#14), The Crime of Father Amaro (#15)
234 June 2003$4,131,487 Basic (#3), Old School (#4), Secretary (#9), Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (#16), The Lizzie McGuire Movie (#20)
2411 June 2003 2 Fast 2 Furious $7,419,656 The Four Feathers (#9), Igby Goes Down (#11), 25th Hour (#12)
2518 June 2003$2,866,045 Bulletproof Monk (#3), The Core (#4), A Man Apart (#5), White Oleander (#8)
2625 June 2003 Bruce Almighty $6,523,891 Travelling Birds (#9)
272 July 2003$4,803,887 Hulk (#2), Daddy Day Care (#3)
289 July 2003 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)
2916 July 2003$4,939,410 The Real Cancun (#8), I Capture the Castle (#9), Auto Focus (#14)
3023 July 2003 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines $9,231,811 The Good Thief (#12), Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (#20)
3130 July 2003$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)
326 August 2003$2,291,756 Identity (#2), View from the Top (#5), Danny Deckchair (#6), Extreme Ops (#11), Wrong Turn (#12)
3313 August 2003 American Pie: The Wedding $5,540,460 Friday After Next (#15)
3420 August 2003$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)
3527 August 2003 The Italian Job $3,649,566 Buffalo Soldiers (#8), It Runs in the Family (#11)
363 September 2003 Finding Nemo $9,757,350 The In-Laws (#4), Darkness Falls (#5), The Rage in Placid Lake (#10), Man on the Train (#13)
3710 September 2003$7,318,444 28 Days Later (#3), Hollywood Homicide (#4), Titanic 3D: Ghosts of the Abyss (#10), My Little Eye (#15), Undead (#18)
3817 September 2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl $6,962,449 Legally Blonde 2 (#3), American Splendor (#10), Together (#15)
3924 September 2003$4,983,581 Bad Boys II (#2), Freaky Friday (#5), Rugrats Go Wild (#6), Agent Cody Banks (#8)
401 October 2003Finding Nemo$4,335,509 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (#3), The Wannabes (#9), Japanese Story (#10)
418 October 2003 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen $4,218,626 Matchstick Men (#9), Swimming Pool (#14)
4215 October 2003Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl$1,805,456 Calendar Girls (#3), Gettin' Square (#9), Perfect Strangers (#15)
4322 October 2003 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 $3,118,560 Head of State (#13)
4429 October 2003 Intolerable Cruelty $2,661,924 Freddy vs. Jason (#3), Mambo Italiano (#7), Raising Victor Vargas (#19)
455 November 2003$2,014,052 Runaway Jury (#3), The Medallion (#7), Holes (#10), Laurel Canyon (#15)
4612 November 2003 The Matrix Revolutions $9,733,089 Le Divorce (#6)
4719 November 2003$3,586,349 Seabiscuit (#2), In the Cut (#4), Alien: The Director's Cut (#14), Spellbound (#15), The Honourable Wally Norman (#20)
4826 November 2003 School of Rock $2,740,753 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (#3), Mystic River (#4), Uptown Girls (#6), Nicholas Nickleby (#19)
493 December 2003 S.W.A.T. $3,697,004 Elf (#3), Good Boy! (#10)
5010 December 2003 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World $4,210,955 Cabin Fever (#8)
5117 December 2003 Scary Movie 3 $4,102,664 Looney Tunes: Back in Action (#4), Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (#13)
5224 December 2003 Peter Pan $2,520,855 The Spanish Apartment (#11), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Extended (#15)
5331 December 2003 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)

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