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1st Lumière Awards

1996, 29 January French film awards ceremony

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ2412443 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1st Lumière Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Lumières, was held on 29 January 1996. It was presented at the time as the Lumières de Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Isabella Rossellini. La Haine won two awards including Best Film and Best Director.

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The public source identifies “1st Lumière Awards” as 1996, 29 January French film awards ceremony. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Lumière, Awards and January.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Lumière, Awards and January providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2412443. Authority coordinates are 48.857, 2.352. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “1st Lumière 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.