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The 21st Century Almanac · The 2000s

2003

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

American and coalition forces invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein amid 'shock and awe,' the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated on reentry killing all seven aboard, and the SARS outbreak alarmed a globalizing world.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the
Nobel · Literature
John Maxwell Coetzee (South Africa - Eng
World Series
No. 1 Song
1 50 Cent -In Da Club 2 R. Kelly- Igniti
Top TV
Academy · Actor

Major Events of 2003

4 events
Major Events of 2002Shuttle Expodes on ReentryUS Invades IraqBlackout in Northeast

Sports Highlights

Champions of 2003

Champions

MLB2003 World Series Florida Marlins win 4-2 against New York Yankees - Oct 18...Florida 3 at New York 2 - Oct 19...Florida 1 at New York 6 - Oct 21...New York 6 at Florida 1 - Oct 22...New York 0 at Florida 1 - Oct 23...New York 4 at Florida 6 - Oct 25...Florida 2 at New York 0
NFLSuper Bowl XXXVII Tampa Bay Buccaneers win 48-21 against the Oakland Raiders - Super Bowl Box Score: Tampa Bay...3 17 14 14-48 Oakland........3 0 6 12-21 Professional Golf Men's Majors winners - The Masters: Mike Weir... -7, margin of 2 (playoff) -
US OpenJim Furyk... -8 to par - British Open: Ben Curtis... -1 to par - PGA Championship: Shaun Micheel... -4 to par Women's Majors winners - Kraft Nabisco Championship: Patricia Meunier-Lebouc... 70-68-70-73--281 - US Women's Open: Hilary Lunke... -1 (PO) - McDonald's LPGA Championship: Annika Sörenstam - Weetabix Women's British Open: Annika Sörenstam

Top Music of 2003

The year on the charts

Top Songs

  1. 1 50 Cent -In Da Club 2 R. Kelly- Ignition 3 Sean Paul -Get Busy 4 Beyonce feat.- Jay-Z Crazy In Love 5 3 Doors Down -When I'm Gone 6 matchbox twenty-Unwell 7 Chingy Right- Thurr 8 Aaliyah -Miss You 9 Kid Rock feat. Sheryl Crow -Picture

Grammy Awards

Record of the Year
"Don't Know Why" - Norah Jones
Song of the Year
"Don't Know Why" - Norah Jones, writer Jessie Harris Album of Year: "Come Away With Me" - Norah Jones
Best New Artist
Norah Jones

Screen & Television

At the box office & on the air

Top Movies

  1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King New Line $1,119,929,521
  2. Finding Nemo Disney / Pixar $867,893,978[2]
  3. The Matrix Reloaded Warner Bros. $742,128,461
  4. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Disney $654,264,015
  5. Bruce Almighty Universal $484,592,874
  6. The Last Samurai Warner Bros. $456,758,981
  7. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Warner Bros. / Columbia $433,371,112
  8. The Matrix Revolutions Warner Bros. $427,343,298
  9. X2 Fox $407,711,549
  10. Bad Boys II Columbia $273,339,556

Academy Awards

Honoring 2003
Best Picture
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Best Director
Peter Jackson Best actor in a leading role: Sean Penn for Mystic River Best actress in a leading role: Charlize Theron for Monster Best actor in a supporting role: Tim Robbins for Mystic River Best actress in a supporting role: Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Peace
Shirin Ebadi (Iran) "for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children."
Physiology or Medicine
Paul Lauterbur & Sir Peter Mansfield "for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging" Economic Sciences: Robert F. Engle (USA) & Clive W. J. Granger (UK) "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatili
Chemistry
Peter Agre & Roderick MacKinnon "for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes"
Physics
Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov, Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg & Anthony James Leggett "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"
Literature
John Maxwell Coetzee (South Africa - English)

Pulitzer Prizes

Public Service
The Boston Globe National Reporting: Alan Miller & Kevin Sack, Los Angeles Times International Reporting: Kevin Sullivan & Mary Jordan, Washington Post Editorial Writing: Cornelia Grumman, Chicago Tribune Editorial Cartooning: David Horsey, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photography: Don Bartletti, Los Angeles Times Commentary: Colbert I. King, Washington Post Criticism: Stephen Hunter, Washington Post Feature Writing: Sonia Nazario, Los Angeles Times Beat Reporting: Diane K. Sugg, Baltimore Sun Explanatory Reporting: Staff, Wall Street Journal Investigative Reporting: Clifford J. Levy, New York Times Breaking News: Staff, Eagle-Tribune (Lawrence, MA)
Fiction
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Drama
Nilo Cruz, Anna In The Tropics Biography/Auto
biography
Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
History
Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
Poetry
Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel
General Nonfiction
Samantha Power, "A Problem From Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
Music
John Adams, On the Transmigration of Souls googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1429421741137-1'); }); (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); © 1996-2022