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28th Golden Globes

1971 film and television award ceremony, on the 5th of February in Los Angeles, California, United States of America, honoring achievements in 1970 filmmaking and televisionmaking

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ2303715 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 28th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1970, were held on February 5, 1971.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “28th Golden Globes” as 1971 film and television award ceremony, on the 5th of February in Los Angeles, California, United States of America, honoring achievements in 1970 filmmaking and televisionmaking. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around 28th, Golden and Globes.

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—1970, 1971—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with 28th, Golden and Globes providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

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Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2303715. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1970 and 1971.

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This entry incorporates text from “28th Golden Globes” 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.