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Jan 5, 2005 3:41 PM
Ten Years Ago, the Critics' Choice Awards Started with an Informal Lunch—and a Plan to be Hollywood's Next Great Awards Show.
1999: Steven Spielberg puts the Critics' Choice Awards on the Hollywood map when he comes to accept his Best Picture and Best Director awards for Saving Private Ryan.
1999: John Travolta accepts the first Alan J. Pakula Award for artistic excellence in films of social and political importance for his work in Primary Colors and A Civil Action.
2002: Russell Crowe flies from Australia to accept his third consecutive Critics' Choice Best Actor award, this time for A Beautiful Mind, and presents the 2001 Best Actress award to Sissy Spacek.
2004: Sean Penn skips the Golden Globe Awards, but makes a rare awards show appearance to present a Lifetime Achievement Award to Clint Eastwood and accept his own Critics' Choice award for Mystic River.
2004: Johnny Depp celebrates his Critics' Choice nomination for Best Actor just weeks before receiving an Oscar nomination for his role in the Bruckheimer-produced Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
2004: James Gandolfini opens the ninth annual Critics' Choice Awards.
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