The 60th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 27 August to 6 September 2003.

[1][2][3] Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli was the Jury President of the main competition.

The festival opened with Woody Allen's Anything Else.

[4] Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Return was the Golden Lion winner.

The following people comprised the 2003 jury for the feature films of the main competition and the short films of the official selection:[5][6] Upstream (Controcorrente) The following people were selected to confer the San Marco Prize for best film, the Special Director's Award, an Upstream Prize for Best Actor, and one for Best Actress:[5][7] The following films were nominated to compete for the Golden Lion of the 60th edition of the festival:[8] The following films were screened as Out of Competition:[9] The following films, whose length does not exceed 30 minutes, were selected for the short film competition:[10] A section of the official selection for feature films that stand out for their "innovative intent, creative originality or alternative cinematographic languages"[11][12] The following films were selected for the New Territories (Nuovi Territori) section:[13][14][15][16][17][18] The following feature films were selected to be screened In Competition for this section:[19] The following Official Awards were conferred at the 60th edition:[7] The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[23]