1972 30th Golden Globe Awards

Best Picture - Drama
Deliverance - John Boorman
Frenzy - Alfred Hitchcock
The Godfather - Albert Ruddy
The Poseidon Adventure - Irwin Allen
Sleuth - Morton Gottlieb

Best Picture - Comedy or Musical
Avanti! - Billy Wilder
Butterflies Are Free - M.J. Frankovich
Cabaret - Cy Feuer
1776 - Jack Warner
Travels with My Aunt - James Cresson, Robert Fryer

Best Actor - Drama
Marlon Brando - The Godfather
Michael Caine - Sleuth
Laurence Olivier - Sleuth
Al Pacino - The Godfather
Jon Voight - Deliverance

Best Actor - Comedy or Musical
Edward Albert - Butterflies Are Free
Charles Grodin - The Heartbreak Kid
Jack Lemmon - Avanti!
Walter Matthau - Pete 'n' Tillie
Peter O'Toole - Man of La Mancha

Best Actress - Drama
Diana Ross - Lady Sings the Blues
Cicely Tyson - Sounder
Liv Ullmann - The Emigrants
Trish Van Devere - One is a Lonely Number
Tuesday Weld - Play It As It Lays
Joanne Woodward - Effects of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds

Best Actress - Comedy or Musical
Carol Burnett - Pete 'n' Tillie
Goldie Hawn - Butterflies Are Free
Juliet Mills - Avanti!
Liza Minnelli - Cabaret
Maggie Smith - Travels with My Aunt

Best Supporting Actor
James Caan - The Godfather
James Coco - Man of La Mancha
Joel Grey - Cabaret
Alec McCowen - Travels with My Aunt
Clive Revill - Avanti!

Best Supporting Actress
Marisa Berenson - Cabaret
Jeannie Berlin - The Heartbreak Kid
Helena Kallianiotes - Kansas City Bomber
Geraldine Page - Pete 'n' Tillie
Shelley Winters - The Poseidon Adventure

New Star of the Year - Male
Edward Albert - Butterflies Are Free
Frederic Forrest - When the Legends Die
Kevin Hooks - Sounder
Michael Sacks - Slaughterhouse Five
Simon Ward - Young Winston

New Star of the Year - Female
Sian Barbara Allen - You'll Like My Mother
Marisa Berenson - Cabaret
Mary Costa - The Great Waltz
Madeline Kahn - What's Up Doc?
Victoria Principal - The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Diana Ross - Lady Sings the Blues

Best Director
John Boorman - Deliverance
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
Bob Fosse - Cabaret
Alfred Hitchcock - Frenzy
Billy Wilder - Avanti!

Best Screenplay
Avanti! - I.A.L. Diamond, Billy Wilder
Cabaret - Jay Presson Allen
Deliverance - James Dickey
Frenzy - Anthony Shaffer
The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo
The Heartbreak Kid - Neil Simon

Best Score
Frenzy - Ron Goodwin
The Getaway - Quincy Jones
The Godfather - Nino Rota
Lady Sings the Blues - Michel Legrand
The Poseidon Adventure - John Williams

Best Song
"Ben" - Ben - Walter Scharf, Don Black
"Carry Me" - Butterflies Are Free - Bob Alcivar, Randy McNeill
"Dueling Banjos" - Deliverance - Arthur Smith, Steve Mandell, Eric Weissberg
"Marmalade, Molasses and Honey" - The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean - Maurice Jarre, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman
"Mein Herr" - Cabaret - John Kander, Fred Ebb
"Money" - Cabaret - John Kander, Fred Ebb
"The Morning After" - The Poseidon Adventure - Joel Hirschhorn, Al Kasha
"Take Me Home" - Molly and Lawless John - Johnny Mandel, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman

Best Foreign Language Film
Cries and Whispers - Sweden
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - France
The Emigrants / The New Land - Sweden
Fellini's Roma - Italy
Mirage - Peru

Best English Language Foreign Film
Images - United Kingdom
Living Free - United Kingdom
The Ruling Class - United Kingdom
X, Y, & Zee - United Kingdom
Young Winston - United Kingdom

Cecil B. DeMille Award
Samuel Goldwyn

World Female Film Favorite
Jane Fonda

World Male Film Favorite
Marlon Brando