<div style="float: right; font-size: smaller; background-color:#E6E6FA; padding: 12px; margin-left: 5em; margin-bottom: 2em; width: 180px" align="center"> **16th CFCA Awards** January 21, 2004 Best Film: ** The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ** The **16th [Chicago Film Critics Association](https://bliptext.com/articles/chicago-film-critics-association) Awards**, honoring the best in film for [2003](https://bliptext.com/articles/2003-in-film), were presented in 2004. The awards were originally going to be cancelled because the 2003 screener ban but when a judge ruled against it and the studios started to send out screeners again the awards were held after all. Peter Jackson's final part of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy "The Return of the King" and Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation" both won three awards.

Winners