29th Annual Golden Globe Awards Nominations (1972)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Sunday, February 6, 1972
  • For films released in: 1971
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Here is the complete list of nominations for the 29th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Motion Picture - Drama

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

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

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

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

  • Klute
    Jane Fonda
  • Mary, Queen of Scots
    Glenda Jackson
  • Mary, Queen of Scots
    Vanessa Redgrave
  • Play Misty For Me
    Jessica Walter
  • Such Good Friends
    Dyan Cannon

Best Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy

  • The Boy Friend
  • Fiddler on the Roof
  • Kotch
  • A New Leaf
  • Plaza Suite

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy

  • Fiddler on the Roof
    Topol
  • Harold and Maude
    Bud Cort
  • Kotch
    Walter Matthau
  • The Million Dollar Duck
    Dean Jones
  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
    Gene Wilder

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy

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

Best Directing

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

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

  • Carnal Knowledge
    Art Garfunkel
  • Fiddler on the Roof
    Paul Mann
  • Going Home
    Jan-Michael Vincent
  • The Last Picture Show
    Ben Johnson
  • Nicholas and Alexandra
    Tom Baker

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

  • Carnal Knowledge
    Ann-Margret
  • The Hospital
    Diana Rigg
  • The Last Picture Show
    Ellen Burstyn
  • The Last Picture Show
    Cloris Leachman
  • Plaza Suite
    Maureen Stapleton

Best English-Language Foreign Film

  • The African Elephant
  • Friends
  • The Go-Between
  • The Raging Moon
  • The Red Tent
  • Sunday Bloody Sunday

Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film

  • Chaykovskiy
  • Claire's Knee
  • The Conformist
  • Ha-Shoter Azulai
  • Mourir d'aimer

Best Original Score - Motion Picture

  • The Andromeda Strain
    Gil Melle
  • Le Mans
    Michel Legrand
  • Mary, Queen of Scots
    John Barry
  • Shaft
    Isaac Hayes
  • Summer of '42
    Michel Legrand

Best Original Song - Motion Picture

  • The African Elephant "Rain Falls Anywhere It Wants To"
    Laurence Rosenthal [Music by], Alan Bergman [Lyrics by] and Marilyn Bergman [Lyrics by]
  • Honky "Something More"
    Quincy Jones [Music by] and Bradford Craig [Lyrics by]
  • Kotch "Life Is What You Make It"
    Marvin Hamlisch [Music by] and Johnny Mercer [Lyrics by]
  • The Raging Moon "Long Ago Tomorrow"
    Burt Bacharach [Music by] and Hal David [Lyrics by]
  • Shaft "Theme from Shaft"
    Isaac Hayes

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture

  • The French Connection
    Ernest Tidyman
  • The Hospital
    Paddy Chayefsky
  • Klute
    Andy Lewis and David P. Lewis
  • Kotch
    John Paxton
  • Mary, Queen of Scots
    John Hale

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorites) - Male

Henrietta Award (World Film Favorites) - Female

  • Ali MacGraw

Most Promising Newcomer - Male

  • Johnny Got His gun
    Timothy Bottoms
  • Nicholas and Alexandra
    Tom Baker
  • Red Sky at Morning
    Desi Arnaz Jr.
  • The Seven Minutes
    John Sarno
  • Shaft
    Richard Roundtree
  • Summer of '42
    Gary Grimes

Most Promising Newcomer - Female

  • Billy Jack
    Delores Taylor
  • The Boy Friend
    Twiggy
  • The Last Picture Show
    Cybill Shepherd
  • The Million Dollar Duck
    Sandy Duncan
  • Nicholas and Alexandra
    Janet Suzman

Best Television Series - Drama

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

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama

  • Cannon
    William Conrad
  • Columbo
    Peter Falk
  • Ironside
    Raymond Burr
  • Mannix
    Mike Connors
  • Marcus Welby, M.D.
    Robert Young

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama

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

Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy

  • All in the Family
  • The Carol Burnett Show
  • Flip
  • Mary Tyler Moore
  • The Partridge Family

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy

  • All in the Family
    Carroll O'Connor
  • Arnie
    Herschel Bernardi
  • Flip
    Flip Wilson
  • The New Dick Van Dyke Show
    Dick Van Dyke
  • The Odd Couple
    Jack Klugman

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy

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

Best Movie made for Television

  • Brian's Song
  • Duel
  • The Last Child
  • The Snow Goose
  • The Waltons
    Note: For the episode "The homecoming: A Christmas Story".

Best Supporting Actor - Television

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

Best Supporting Actress - Television

  • All in the Family
    Sally Struthers
  • Arnie
    Sue Anne Langdon
  • Gunsmoke
    Amanda Blake
  • Mannix
    Gail Fisher
  • Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
    Lily Tomlin