The Hugo Awards for best science fiction works in 2003 were presented Saturday, September 4, 2004 at the 62nd World Science Fiction Convention, Noreascon 4, in Boston.

Best Novel: Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Novella: "The Cookie Monster" by Vernor Vinge

Best Novelette: "Legions in Time" by Michael Swanwick

Best Short Story: "A Study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman

Best Related Book: The Chesley Awards for Science Fiction and Fantasy Art: A Retrospective by John Grant, Elizabeth L. Humphrey, and Pamela D. Scoville

Best Dramatic Presentation, short form: Gollum’s Acceptance Speech at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards

Best Dramatic Presentation, long form:The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Best Professional Editor: Gardner Dozois

Best Professional Artist: Bob Eggleton

Best Semiprozine: Locus, Charles N. Brown, Jennifer A. Hall, and Kirsten Gong-Wong, eds.

Best Fanzine: Emerald City, Cheryl Morgan, ed.

Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford

Best Fan Artist: Frank Wu
 
 

 Other awards presented prior to the Hugo presentations:

John W. Campbell Award for New Writer: Jay Lake

Special Noreascon Four Committee Award: Erwin "Filthy Pierre" Strauss

First Fandom Hall of Fame Award: Robert Peterson & William L. Hamling (cowinners)

First Fandom Achievement Award: Edgar Rice Burroughs

E. Everett Evans 'Big Heart' Award: Erwin "Filthy Pierre" Strauss

Seiun Award (Japan):

• Best Translated long novel was Heaven's Reach by David Brin,Translated by Akinobu Sakai

• best Translated Short Story Hell is the "Absence of God" by Ted Chiang, Translated by Yoshimichi Furusawa