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 ending Film Box office Openings
1 1 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)
2 8 January 2003 $9,084,170
3 15 January 2003 Catch Me If You Can $5,148,124 Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (#4)
4 22 January 2003 8 Mile $7,526,113 Analyze That (#6), The Quiet American (#7), Like Mike (#8)
5 29 January 2003 $4,264,954 Chicago (#2), I Spy (#5), About Schmidt preview (#19)
6 5 February 2003 Chicago $2,437,504 One Hour Photo (#3), Frailty (#17)
7 12 February 2003 $1,870,781 Star Trek: Nemesis (#2), About Schmidt (#7), Far from Heaven (#11), They (#13), City by the Sea (#17)
8 19 February 2003 Gangs of New York $2,814,649 Undercover Brother (#10), Talk to Her (#19)
9 26 February 2003 Just Married $2,944,361 The Hours (#3), Half Past Dead (#5), The Rules of Attraction (#12), Trapped (#17)
10 5 March 2003 Jackass: The Movie $2,018,645 The Recruit (#3), Swimming Upstream (#10), Solaris (#17)
11 12 March 2003 Maid in Manhattan $3,029,089 Final Destination 2 (#2), The Pianist (#9), Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (#13)
12 19 March 2003 $1,976,079 Antwone Fisher (#10), You Can't Stop the Murders (#13), City of God (#17), Knockaround Guys (#18)
13 26 March 2003 Daredevil $3,952,322 The Emperor's Club (#11), Dog Soldiers (#17), 24 Hour Party People (#18)
14 2 April 2003 Ned Kelly $3,439,557 Cradle 2 the Grave (#3)
15 9 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)
16 16 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)
17 23 April 2003 Anger Management $5,124,333 Ripley's Game (#17), The Magdalene Sisters (#18), Nowhere in Africa (#19)
18 30 April 2003 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days $3,722,949 X-Men 2 (#5)
19 7 May 2003 X-Men 2 $7,610,042 Russian Ark (#12), Anita and Me (#19)
20 14 May 2003 $3,480,612 Whale Rider (#2), National Security (#5), Alexandra's Project (#7)
21 21 May 2003 The Matrix Reloaded $14,553,522
22 28 May 2003 $7,468,147 Phone Booth (#2), The Life of David Gale (#6), Horseplay (#14), The Crime of Father Amaro (#15)
23 4 June 2003 $4,131,487 Basic (#3), Old School (#4), Secretary (#9), Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (#16), The Lizzie McGuire Movie (#20)
24 11 June 2003 2 Fast 2 Furious $7,419,656 The Four Feathers (#9), Igby Goes Down (#11), 25th Hour (#12)
25 18 June 2003 $2,866,045 Bulletproof Monk (#3), The Core (#4), A Man Apart (#5), White Oleander (#8)
26 25 June 2003 Bruce Almighty $6,523,891 Travelling Birds (#9)
27 2 July 2003 $4,803,887 Hulk (#2), Daddy Day Care (#3)
28 9 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)
29 16 July 2003 $4,939,410 The Real Cancun (#8), I Capture the Castle (#9), Auto Focus (#14)
30 23 July 2003 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines $9,231,811 The Good Thief (#12), Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (#20)
31 30 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)
32 6 August 2003 $2,291,756 Identity (#2), View from the Top (#5), Danny Deckchair (#6), Extreme Ops (#11), Wrong Turn (#12)
33 13 August 2003 American Pie: The Wedding $5,540,460 Friday After Next (#15)
34 20 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)
35 27 August 2003 The Italian Job $3,649,566 Buffalo Soldiers (#8), It Runs in the Family (#11)
36 3 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)
37 10 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)
38 17 September 2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl $6,962,449 Legally Blonde 2 (#3), American Splendor (#10), Together (#15)
39 24 September 2003 $4,983,581 Bad Boys II (#2), Freaky Friday (#5), Rugrats Go Wild (#6), Agent Cody Banks (#8)
40 1 October 2003 Finding Nemo $4,335,509 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (#3), The Wannabes (#9), Japanese Story (#10)
41 8 October 2003 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen $4,218,626 Matchstick Men (#9), Swimming Pool (#14)
42 15 October 2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl $1,805,456 Calendar Girls (#3), Gettin' Square (#9), Perfect Strangers (#15)
43 22 October 2003 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 $3,118,560 Head of State (#13)
44 29 October 2003 Intolerable Cruelty $2,661,924 Freddy vs. Jason (#3), Mambo Italiano (#7), Raising Victor Vargas (#19)
45 5 November 2003 $2,014,052 Runaway Jury (#3), The Medallion (#7), Holes (#10), Laurel Canyon (#15)
46 12 November 2003 The Matrix Revolutions $9,733,089 Le Divorce (#6)
47 19 November 2003 $3,586,349 Seabiscuit (#2), In the Cut (#4), Alien: The Director's Cut (#14), Spellbound (#15), The Honourable Wally Norman (#20)
48 26 November 2003 School of Rock $2,740,753 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (#3), Mystic River (#4), Uptown Girls (#6), Nicholas Nickleby (#19)
49 3 December 2003 S.W.A.T. $3,697,004 Elf (#3), Good Boy! (#10)
50 10 December 2003 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World $4,210,955 Cabin Fever (#8)
51 17 December 2003 Scary Movie 3 $4,102,664 Looney Tunes: Back in Action (#4), Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (#13)
52 24 December 2003 Peter Pan $2,520,855 The Spanish Apartment (#11), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Extended (#15)
53 31 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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