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