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1976 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

annual US media awards ceremony

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ4577246 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 42nd New York Film Critics Circle Awards, 30 January 1977, honored the best filmmaking of 1976.

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“1976 New York Film Critics Circle Awards” enters the record as annual US media awards ceremony. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what York, Film and Critics can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around York, Film and Critics.
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“1976 New York Film Critics Circle Awards” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, York, Film and Critics provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4577246. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1977 and 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “1976 New York Film Critics Circle 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.