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29th Golden Globe Awards

1972 · 71 nominations · 14 winners · 13 categories

Best Motion Picture - Drama 5
The French Connection poster

The French Connection

French Connection, The

Winner

A Clockwork Orange poster

A Clockwork Orange

Clockwork Orange, A

The Last Picture Show poster

The Last Picture Show

Last Picture Show, The

Mary, Queen of Scots poster

Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots

Summer of '42 poster

Summer of '42

Summer of '42

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy 5
Fiddler on the Roof poster

Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof

Winner

The Boy Friend poster

The Boy Friend

Boy Friend, The

Kotch poster

Kotch

Kotch

A New Leaf poster

A New Leaf

New Leaf, A

Plaza Suite poster

Plaza Suite

Plaza Suite

Best Director 5
The French Connection poster

The French Connection

William Friedkin

Winner

Fiddler on the Roof poster

Fiddler on the Roof

Norman Jewison

The Last Picture Show poster

The Last Picture Show

Peter Bogdanovich

Summer of '42 poster

Summer of '42

Robert Mulligan

A Clockwork Orange poster

A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick

Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama 5
The French Connection poster

The French Connection

Gene Hackman

Winner

The Hospital poster

The Hospital

George C. Scott

Carnal Knowledge poster

Carnal Knowledge

Jack Nicholson

A Clockwork Orange poster

A Clockwork Orange

Malcolm McDowell

Sunday Bloody Sunday poster

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Peter Finch

Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama 4
Klute poster

Klute

Jane Fonda

Winner

Such Good Friends

Such Good Friends

Dyan Cannon

Mary, Queen of Scots poster

Mary, Queen of Scots

Glenda Jackson, Vanessa Redgrave

Play Misty for Me poster

Play Misty for Me

Jessica Walter

Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy 5
Fiddler on the Roof poster

Fiddler on the Roof

Topol

Winner

Harold and Maude poster

Harold and Maude

Bud Cort

$1,000,000 Duck

$1,000,000 Duck

Dean Jones

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory poster

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Gene Wilder

Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy 5
Twiggy

Twiggy

Winner

Bedknobs and Broomsticks poster

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Angela Lansbury

Elaine May
Harold and Maude poster

Harold and Maude

Ruth Gordon

Sandy Duncan
Best Supporting Actor 5
The Last Picture Show poster

The Last Picture Show

Ben Johnson

Winner

Carnal Knowledge poster

Carnal Knowledge

Art Garfunkel

Going Home

Going Home

Jan-Michael Vincent

Fiddler on the Roof poster

Fiddler on the Roof

Paul Mann

Nicholas and Alexandra poster

Nicholas and Alexandra

Tom Baker

Best Supporting Actress 4
Carnal Knowledge poster

Carnal Knowledge

Ann-Margret

Winner

The Last Picture Show poster

The Last Picture Show

Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn

The Hospital poster

The Hospital

Diana Rigg

Plaza Suite poster

Plaza Suite

Maureen Stapleton

Best Screenplay 5
The Hospital poster

The Hospital

Paddy Chayefsky

Winner

The French Connection poster

The French Connection

Ernest Tidyman

Mary, Queen of Scots poster

Mary, Queen of Scots

John Hale

Best Original Score 5
Shaft poster

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

Winner

The Andromeda Strain poster

The Andromeda Strain

Gil Mellé

Mary, Queen of Scots poster

Mary, Queen of Scots

John Barry

Summer of '42 poster

Summer of '42

Michel Legrand

Best Original Song 5
Best Foreign Language Film 11
Israel, Ephraim Kishon
United Kingdom, John Schlesinger
France, André Cayatte
France, Éric Rohmer
Italy, Bernardo Bertolucci
Italy, Mikhail Kalatozov
United Kingdom, Bryan Forbes
United Kingdom, Joseph Losey
United Kingdom, Lewis Gilbert
United Kingdom, Simon Trevor
United Soviet Socialist Republics, Igor Talankin