29th Golden Globe Awards

29th Golden Globe Awards
29th Golden Globe Awards
Date	February 6, 1972
	← 28th; Golden Globes; 30th →;

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

Winners and nominees[]

Gene Hackman, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama winner

Jane Fonda, Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama winner

Chaim Topol, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy winner

Ed Asner, Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film winner

Film[]

Best Motion Picture
Drama	Comedy or Musical
The French Connection A Clockwork Orange The Last Picture Show Mary, Queen of Scots Summer of '42	Fiddler on the Roof The Boy Friend Kotch A New Leaf Plaza Suite
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama
Actor	Actress
*Gene Hackman – The French Connection* as Det. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle** Peter Finch – Sunday Bloody Sunday as Daniel Hirsh Malcolm McDowell – A Clockwork Orange as Alex DeLarge Jack Nicholson – Carnal Knowledge as Jonathan Fuerst George C. Scott – The Hospital as Dr. Herbert Bock	*Jane Fonda – Klute* as Bree Daniels** Dyan Cannon – Such Good Friends as Julie Messinger Glenda Jackson – Mary, Queen of Scots as Queen Elizabeth I Vanessa Redgrave – Mary, Queen of Scots as Mary, Queen of Scots Jessica Walter – Play Misty for Me as Evelyn Draper
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Actor	Actress
*Topol – Fiddler on the Roof* as Tevye** Bud Cort – Harold and Maude as Harold Chasen Dean Jones – The Million Dollar Duck as Professor Dooley Walter Matthau – Kotch as Joseph P. Kotcher Gene Wilder – Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory as Willy Wonka	*Twiggy – The Boy Friend* as Polly Browne** Sandy Duncan – Star Spangled Girl as Amy Cooper Ruth Gordon – Harold and Maude as Maude Chardin Angela Lansbury – Bedknobs and Broomsticks as Eglantine Price Elaine May – A New Leaf as Henrietta Lowell
Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Comedy or Musical
Supporting Actor	Supporting Actress
*Ben Johnson – The Last Picture Show* as Sam the Lion** Tom Baker – Nicholas and Alexandra as Rasputin Art Garfunkel – Carnal Knowledge as Sandy Paul Mann – Fiddler on the Roof as Lazar Wolf Jan-Michael Vincent – Going Home as Jimmy Graham	*Ann-Margret – Carnal Knowledge* as Bobbie** Ellen Burstyn – The Last Picture Show as Lois Farrow Cloris Leachman – The Last Picture Show as Ruth Popper Diana Rigg – The Hospital as Barbara Drummond Maureen Stapleton – Plaza Suite as Karen Nash
Other
Best Director	Best Screenplay
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	The Hospital – Paddy Chayefsky The French Connection – Ernest Tidyman Klute – Andy and Dave Lewis Kotch – John Paxton Mary, Queen of Scots – John Hale
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Shaft – Isaac Hayes The Andromeda Strain – Gil Mellé Le Mans – Michel Legrand Mary, Queen of Scots – John Barry Summer of '42 – Michel Legrand	"Life Is What You Make It" (Marvin Hamlisch, Johnny Mercer) – Kotch "Long Ago Tomorrow" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – The Raging Moon "Rain Falls Anywhere It Wants To" (Laurence Rosenthal, Alan and Marilyn Bergman) – The African Elephant "Something More" (Quincy Jones) – Honky "Theme from Shaft" (Isaac Hayes) – Shaft
Best Foreign Film (English Language)	Best Foreign Film (Foreign Language)
Sunday Bloody Sunday (United Kingdom) The African Elephant (United Kingdom) Friends (United Kingdom) The Go-Between (United Kingdom) The Red Tent (Italy/USSR) The Raging Moon (United Kingdom)	The Policeman (Israel) Claire's Knee (France) The Conformist (Italy) Tchaikovsky (USSR) To Die of Love (France)
New Star of the Year – Actor	New Star of the Year – Actress
*Desi Arnaz Jr. – Red Sky at Morning* as William "Steenie" Stenopolous** Tom Baker – Nicholas and Alexandra as Rasputin Timothy Bottoms – Johnny Got His Gun as Joe Bonham Gary Grimes – Summer of '42 as Hermie Richard Roundtree – Shaft as John Shaft John Sarno – The Seven Minutes as Jerry Griffith	*Twiggy – The Boy Friend* as Polly Browne** Sandy Duncan – The Million Dollar Duck as Katie Dooley Cybill Shepherd – The Last Picture Show as Jacy Farrow Janet Suzman – Nicholas and Alexandra as Alexandra Delores Taylor – Billy Jack as Jean Roberts

Television[]

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

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 Actor – Comedy or Musical 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 – Comedy or Musical 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 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

References[]

IMdb 1972 Golden Globe Awards

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