1972 awards

Academy Award for Best Picture

Winner The French ConnectionPhilip D'Antoni

Academy Award for Best Director

Winner The French ConnectionWilliam Friedkin

Academy Award for Best Actor

Winner The French ConnectionGene Hackman

Academy Award for Best Actress

Winner KluteJane Fonda

Golden Globe Awards

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Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

Winner The French Connection

Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Winner Fiddler on the Roof

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama

Winner The French ConnectionGene Hackman Winner Fiddler on the RoofChaim Topol

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama

Winner KluteJane Fonda Winner The Boy FriendTwiggy

BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Winner The Go-BetweenMichael Gough

BAFTA Fellowship

Grand Prix du Festival International du Film

In Competition

Winner The Working Class Goes to Heaven Winner The Mattei Affair

Grand Prix Spécial du Jury

Winner СолярисAndrei Tarkovsky

Best Director

Winner Red PsalmMiklós Jancsó

Best First Film

Winner My ChildhoodBill Douglas

Winner Les deux saisons de la vie

Career Golden Lion

FIPRESCI Prize

Winner The Cruel Sea

Winner SeemabaddhaSatyajit Ray

Best Foreign Film

Winner A Clockwork OrangeStanley Kubrick

Golden Bear

Winner I racconti di CanterburyPier Paolo Pasolini

Silver Bear for Best Director

Winner The Old MaidJean-Pierre Blanc

Silver Bear for Best Actress

Winner Hammersmith Is OutElizabeth Taylor

Silver Bear for Best Actor

Winner WhyAlberto Sordi

Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film

Winner Execution in Autumn

Golden Horse Award for Best Director

Winner Execution in AutumnLi Hsing

Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor

Winner Execution in Autumn

Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series

Outstanding Variety Series – Talk

Ariel Award for Best Actress

Ariel Award for Best Direction

David di Donatello for Best Film

David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress

Winner Zee and Co.Elizabeth Taylor

David di Donatello for Best Director

Winner Brother Sun, Sister MoonFranco Zeffirelli

German Film Award for Best Screenplay

German Film Award for Best Feature Film

Winner Ulrich Schamoni

Winner Händler der vier JahreszeitenRainer Werner Fassbinder

German Film Honorary Award

German Film Award

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film

Winner The French ConnectionWilliam Friedkin

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Television Film

Winner Brian's SongBuzz Kulik

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film

Winner The GodfatherFrancis Ford Coppola

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Television Film

Winner That Certain SummerLamont Johnson

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay

Winner Sunday Bloody SundayPenelope Gilliatt

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay

Winner The HospitalPaddy Chayefsky

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner The French ConnectionErnest Tidyman, Robin Moore

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner KotchJohn Paxton, Katharine Topkins