The 29th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1971, were held on February 6, 1972.
William Friedkin, Best Director, winner
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
The French Connection (film)
The French Connection is a 1971 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider and Fernando Rey. The screenplay, written by Ernest Tidyman, is based on Robin Moore's 1969 non-fiction book of the same name. It tells the story of fictional NYPD detectives Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo, whose real-life counterparts were narcotics detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, in pursuit of wealthy French heroin smuggler Alain Charnier.
Theatrical release poster