The 17th Joseph Plateau Awards, given on 7 May 2004, honored the best Belgian filmmaking of 2003.

Erik Van Looy's De Zaak Alzheimer (a.k.a. The Alzheimer Case or The Memory of a Killer) won five awards: Best Film, Actor (Decleir), Director (Van Looy), Screenplay and the Box Office Award. dEUS' singer Tom Barman's film Any Way the Wind Blows won two awards.^[1]

• Best Actor:
  • Jan Decleir - De Zaak Alzheimer^[1]
• Best Actress:
  • Natali Broods - Any Way the Wind Blows^[1]
• Best Composer:
  • Tom Barman - Any Way the Wind Blows^[1]
• Best Director:
  • Erik Van Looy - De Zaak Alzheimer^[1]
• Best Film:
  • De Zaak Alzheimer^[1]
• Best Screenplay:
  • De Zaak Alzheimer - Carl Joos and Erik Van Looy^[1]
• Best Short Film:
  • Mayra^[1]
• Box office award:
  • De Zaak Alzheimer