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1981 FAMAS Awards

1981 Filipino film award ceremony for achievements in film in 1980

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ4632931 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 30th Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards Night was held in 1981 in the Philippines. The event recognized outstanding achievements of the different films for the year 1980.

Awards

Major awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1981 FAMAS Awards” as 1981 Filipino film award ceremony for achievements in film in 1980. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around FAMAS, Awards and Filipino.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with FAMAS, Awards and Filipino providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4632931. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1981 and 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “1981 FAMAS Awards” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.