29th Golden Globe Awards

29th Golden Globe Awards
Date	February 6, 1972

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 – $1,000,000 Duck as Katie Dooley Cybill Shepherd – The Last Picture Show as Jacy Farrow Janet Suzman – Nicholas and Alexandra as Alexandra Delores Taylor – The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean as Jean Roberts

Television

Best Series - Drama

Mannix

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

Best Series - Comedy or Musical

All in the Family

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

Best Television Film

The Snow Goose

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

Best Actor - Drama Series

Robert Young – Marcus Welby, M.D.

• 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