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35th Golden Globes

1978 film and television award ceremony, on the 28th of January in Los Angeles, California, United States of America, honoring achievements in 1977 filmmaking and televisionmaking

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ63298 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 35th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1977, were held on January 28, 1978.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “35th Golden Globes” is 1978 film and television award ceremony, on the 28th of January in Los Angeles, California, United States of America, honoring achievements in 1977 filmmaking and televisionmaking. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through 35th, Golden and Globes, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1977, 1978—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, 35th, Golden and Globes is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “1978 film and television award ceremony, on the 28th of January in Los Angeles, California, United States of America, honoring achievements in 1977 filmmaking and televisionmaking” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q63298. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1977 and 1978.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “35th 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.