33rd Golden Globe Awards

33rd Golden Globe Awards
Date	January 24, 1976
Highlights
Best Film: Drama	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Film: Musical or Comedy	The Sunshine Boys
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The 33rd Golden Globe Awards , honoring the best in film and television for 1975, were held on January 24, 1976. Nashville received 11 nominations; the most for a single film. As of 2025, the film still holds that record.

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Motion Picture
Drama	Comedy or Musical
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Barry Lyndon Dog Day Afternoon Jaws Nashville	The Sunshine Boys Funny Lady The Return of the Pink Panther Shampoo Tommy
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama
Actor	Actress
Jack Nicholson  — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Randle McMurphy Gene Hackman  — French Connection II as Det. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle Al Pacino  — Dog Day Afternoon as Sonny Wortzik Maximilian Schell  — The Man in the Glass Booth as Arthur Goldman James Whitmore  — Give 'em Hell, Harry! as Harry S. Truman	Louise Fletcher  — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Nurse Ratched Karen Black  — The Day of the Locust as Faye Greener Faye Dunaway  — Three Days of the Condor as Kathy Hale Marilyn Hassett  — The Other Side of the Mountain as Jill Kinmont Glenda Jackson  — Hedda as Hedda Gabler
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Actor	Actress
George Burns  — The Sunshine Boys as Al Lewis Walter Matthau  — The Sunshine Boys as Willy Clark Warren Beatty  — Shampoo as George Roundy James Caan  — Funny Lady as Billy Rose Peter Sellers  — The Return of the Pink Panther as Inspector Jacques Clouseau	Ann-Margret  — Tommy as Nora Walker Julie Christie  — Shampoo as Jackie Shawn Goldie Hawn  — Shampoo as Jill Liza Minnelli  — Lucky Lady as Claire Barbra Streisand  — Funny Lady as Fanny Brice
Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Comedy or Musical
Supporting Actor	Supporting Actress
Richard Benjamin  — The Sunshine Boys as Ben Clark John Cazale  — Dog Day Afternoon as Sal Charles Durning  — Dog Day Afternoon as Eugene Moretti Henry Gibson  — Nashville as Haven Hamilton Burgess Meredith  — The Day of the Locust as Harry Greener	Brenda Vaccaro  — Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough as Linda Riggs Ronee Blakley  — Nashville as Barbara Jean Geraldine Chaplin  — Nashville as Opal Lee Grant  — Shampoo as Felicia Karpf Barbara Harris  — Nashville as Albuquerque Lily Tomlin  — Nashville as Linnea Reese
Other
Best Director	Best Screenplay
Miloš Forman  — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Robert Altman  — Nashville Stanley Kubrick  — Barry Lyndon Sidney Lumet  — Dog Day Afternoon Steven Spielberg  — Jaws	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest  — Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben Dog Day Afternoon  — Frank Pierson Jaws  — Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb Nashville  — Joan Tewkesbury The Sunshine Boys  — Neil Simon
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Jaws  — John Williams Funny Lady  — Fred Ebb and John Kander The Man Who Would Be King  — Maurice Jarre The Other Side of the Mountain  — Charles Fox The Return of the Pink Panther  — Henry Mancini	"I'm Easy" (Keith Carradine) – Nashville "How Lucky Can You Get" (John Kander, Fred Ebb) – Funny Lady "My Little Friend" (Roy Budd, Sammy Cahn) – Paper Tiger "Now That We're in Love" (George Barrie, Sammy Cahn) – Whiffs "Richard's Window" (Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel) – The Other Side of the Mountain
Best Foreign Film	Best Documentary Film
Lies My Father Told Me (Canada) And Now My Love (France) Hedda (United Kingdom) The Magic Flute (Sweden) Section spéciale (France)	Youthquake! Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Gentleman Tramp Mustang: The House That Joe Built The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir UFOs: Past, Present, and Future
New Star of the Year – Actor	New Star of the Year – Actress
Brad Dourif  — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Billy Bibbit Roger Daltrey  — Tommy as Tommy Walker Jeffrey Lynas — Lies My Father Told Me as David Herman Chris Sarandon  — Dog Day Afternoon as Leon Shermer Ben Vereen  — Funny Lady as Bert Robbins	Marilyn Hassett  — The Other Side of the Mountain as Jill Kinmont Ronee Blakley  — Nashville as Barbara Jean Barbara Carrera  — The Master Gunfighter as Eula Stockard Channing  — The Fortune as Fredrika Quintessa Bigard Jeannette Clift  — The Hiding Place as Corrie ten Boom Lily Tomlin  — Nashville as Linnea Reese

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Title
11	Nashville
7	Dog Day Afternoon
6	Funny Lady
	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5	Shampoo
	The Sunshine Boys
4	Jaws
	The Other Side of the Mountain
3	The Return of the Pink Panther
	Tommy
2	Barry Lyndon
	The Day of the Locust
	Hedda
	Lies My Father Told Me

The following films received multiple wins:

Wins	Title
6	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
4	The Sunshine Boys

Television

Best Television Series
Drama	Musical or Comedy
Kojak Baretta Columbo Petrocelli Police Story	Barney Miller All in the Family The Carol Burnett Show Chico and the Man The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Best Performance in a Television Series Drama
Actor	Actress
Robert Blake - Baretta as Tony Baretta (TIE) Telly Savalas - Kojak as Lt. Theo Kojak (TIE) Peter Falk - Columbo as Lt. Columbo Karl Malden - The Streets of San Francisco as Mike Stone Barry Newman - Petrocelli as Anthony J. Petrocelli	Lee Remick - Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill as Lady Randolph Churchill Angie Dickinson - Police Woman as Sgt. Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson Rosemary Harris - Notorious Woman as George Sand Michael Learned - The Waltons as Olivia Walton Lee Meriwether - Barnaby Jones as Betty Jones
Best Performance in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Actor	Actress
Alan Alda - M*A*S*H as Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce Johnny Carson - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Various Characters Redd Foxx - Sanford and Son as Fred G. Sanford Hal Linden - Barney Miller as Captain Barney Miller Bob Newhart - The Bob Newhart Show as Robert Hartley, Ph.D. Carroll O'Connor - All in the Family as Archie Bunker	Cloris Leachman - Phyllis as Phyllis Lindstrom Bea Arthur - Maude as Maude Findlay Carol Burnett - The Carol Burnett Show as Various Characters Valerie Harper - Rhoda as Rhoda Morgenstern Mary Tyler Moore - The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Mary Richards
Best Supporting Performance in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Supporting Actor	Supporting Actress
Ed Asner - The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Lou Grant (TIE) Tim Conway - The Carol Burnett Show as Various Characters (TIE) Ted Knight - The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Ted Baxter Rob Reiner - All in the Family as Michael Stivic Jimmie Walker - Good Times as James "J.J." Evans, Jr.	Hermione Baddeley - Maude as Mrs. Nell Naugatuck Susan Howard - Petrocelli as Maggie Petrocelli Julie Kavner - Rhoda as Brenda Morgenstern Nancy Walker - McMillan & Wife as Mildred Nancy Walker - Rhoda as Ida Morgenstern

The following programs received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Title
4	The Mary Tyler Moore Show
3	All in the Family
	The Carol Burnett Show
	Petrocelli
	Rhoda
2	Baretta
	Barney Miller
	Columbo
	Kojak
	Maude

The following programs received multiple wins:

Wins	Title
2	Kojak

See also

• 48th Academy Awards
• 27th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 28th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 29th British Academy Film Awards
• 30th Tony Awards
• 1975 in film
• 1975 in television

References

• IMdb 1976 Golden Globe Awards