29th Golden Globe Awards

The 29th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1971 films, were held on February 6, 1972.

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Actor - Drama

Gene Hackman – The French Connection

• Peter Finch – Sunday Bloody Sunday
• Malcolm McDowell – A Clockwork Orange
• Jack Nicholson – Carnal Knowledge
• George C. Scott – The Hospital

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy

Topol – Fiddler on the Roof

• Bud Cort – Harold and Maude
• Dean Jones – The Million Dollar Duck
• Walter Matthau – Kotch
• Gene Wilder – Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Best Actress - Drama

Jane Fonda – Klute

• Dyan Cannon – Such Good Friends
• Glenda Jackson – Mary, Queen of Scots
• Vanessa Redgrave – Mary, Queen of Scots
• Jessica Walter – Play Misty for Me

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy

Twiggy – The Boy Friend

• Sandy Duncan – Star Spangled Girl
• Ruth Gordon – Harold and Maude
• Angela Lansbury – Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• Elaine May – A New Leaf

Best Director

William Friedkin – The French Connection

• Peter Bogdanovich – The Last Picture Show
• Norman Jewison – Fiddler on the Roof
• Stanley Kubrick – A Clockwork Orange
• Robert Mulligan – Summer of '42

Best Film - Drama

The French Connection

• A Clockwork Orange
• The Last Picture Show
• Mary, Queen of Scots
• Summer of '42

Best Film - Musical or Comedy

Fiddler on the Roof

• The Boy Friend
• Kotch
• A New Leaf
• Plaza Suite

Best Foreign Film (English language)

Sunday Bloody Sunday • UK

• The African Elephant • UK
• Friends • UK
• The Go-Between • UK
• The Red Tent (Krasnaya palatka) • Italy/USSR
• The Raging Moon • UK

Best Foreign Film (Foreign language)

The Policeman (HaShoter Azulai) • Israel

• Claire's Knee (Le genou de Claire) • France
• The Conformist (Il conformista) • Italy
• Tchaikovsky (Chaykovskiy) • USSR
• To Die of Love (Mourir d'aimer) • France

Best Music, Original Score

"Shaft" – Isaac Hayes

• "The Andromeda Strain" – Gil Mellé
• "Le Mans" – Michel Legrand
• "Mary, Queen of Scots" – John Barry
• "Summer of '42" – Michel Legrand

Best Original Song

"Life Is What You Make It" – Kotch

• "Rain Falls Anywhere It Wants To" – The African Elephant
• "Something More" – Honky
• "Long Ago Tomorrow" – The Raging Moon
• "Theme from Shaft" – Shaft

Best Screenplay

The Hospital – Paddy Chayefsky

• The French Connection – Ernest Tidyman
• Klute – Andy and Dave Lewis
• Kotch – John Paxton
• Mary, Queen of Scots – John Hale

Best Supporting Actor

Ben Johnson – The Last Picture Show

• Tom Baker – Nicholas and Alexandra
• Art Garfunkel – Carnal Knowledge
• Paul Mann – Fiddler on the Roof
• Jan-Michael Vincent – Going Home

Best Supporting Actress

Ann-Margret – Carnal Knowledge

• Ellen Burstyn – The Last Picture Show
• Cloris Leachman – The Last Picture Show
• Diana Rigg – The Hospital
• Maureen Stapleton – Plaza Suite

Television

Best Actor - Drama Series

Robert Young – Marcus Welby, M.D.

• Raymond Burr – Ironside
• Mike Connors – Mannix
• William Conrad – Cannon
• Peter Falk – Columbo

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy Series

Carroll O'Connor - All in the Family

• Herschel Bernardi - Arnie
• Jack Klugman - The Odd Couple
• Dick Van Dyke - The New Dick Van Dyke Show
• Flip Wilson - The Flip Wilson Show

Best Actress - Drama Series

Patricia Neal – The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

• Lynda Day George – Mission: Impossible
• Peggy Lipton – The Mod Squad
• Denise Nicholas – Room 222
• Susan Saint James – McMillan & Wife

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy Series

Carol Burnett – The Carol Burnett Show

• Lucille Ball – Here's Lucy
• Shirley Jones – The Partridge Family
• Jean Stapleton – All in the Family
• Mary Tyler Moore – The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Best Series - Drama

Mannix

• Marcus Welby, M.D.
• Medical Center
• The Mod Squad
• O'Hara, U.S. Treasury

Best Series - Musical or Comedy

All in the Family

• The Carol Burnett Show
• The Flip Wilson Show
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• The Partridge Family

Best Supporting Actor

Edward Asner – The Mary Tyler Moore Show

• James Brolin – Marcus Welby, M.D.
• Harvey Korman – The Carol Burnett Show
• Rob Reiner – All in the Family
• Milburn Stone – Gunsmoke

Best Supporting Actress

Sue Ane Langdon – Arnie

• Amanda Blake – Gunsmoke
• Gail Fisher – Mannix
• Sally Struthers – All in the Family
• Lily Tomlin – Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In

Best Television Film

The Snow Goose

• Brian's Song
• Duel
• The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
• The Last Child

References

• IMdb 1972 Golden Globe Awards