39th Golden Globe Awards

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The 39th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1981, were held on January 30, 1982.

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Actor - Drama

Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond

• Warren Beatty - Reds
• Timothy Hutton - Taps
• Burt Lancaster - Atlantic City
• Treat Williams - Prince of the City

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy

Dudley Moore - Arthur

• Alan Alda - The Four Seasons
• George Hamilton - Zorro, the Gay Blade
• Steve Martin - Pennies from Heaven
• Walter Matthau - First Monday in October

Best Actress - Drama

Meryl Streep - The French Lieutenant's Woman

• Sally Field - Absence of Malice
• Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond
• Diane Keaton - Reds
• Sissy Spacek - Raggedy Man

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy

Bernadette Peters - Pennies from Heaven

• Blair Brown - Continental Divide
• Carol Burnett - The Four Seasons
• Jill Clayburgh - First Monday in October
• Liza Minnelli - Arthur

Best Director

Warren Beatty - Reds

• Milos Forman - Ragtime
• Sidney Lumet - Prince of the City
• Louis Malle - Atlantic City
• Mark Rydell - On Golden Pond
• Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark

Best Film - Drama

On Golden Pond

• The French Lieutenant's Woman
• Ragtime
• Prince of the City
• Reds

Best Film - Musical or Comedy

Arthur

• The Four Seasons
• Pennies from Heaven
• S.O.B.
• Zoot Suit

Best Foreign Film

Chariots of Fire, UK

• Atlantic City, Canada/France
• The Boat (Das Boot), West Germany
• Gallipoli, Australia
• Pixote: The Law of the Weakest (Pixote: A lei do mais fraco), Brazil

Best Original Song

"Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" performed by Christopher Cross - Arthur

• "It's Wrong For Me to Love You" - Butterfly
• "Endless Love" - Endless Love
• "For Your Eyes Only" - For Your Eyes Only
• "One More Hour" - Ragtime

Best Screenplay

On Golden Pond - Ernest Thompson

• Absence of Malice - Kurt Luedtke
• The Four Seasons - Alan Alda
• The French Lieutenant's Woman - Harold Pinter
• Reds - Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths

Best Supporting Actor

John Gielgud - Arthur

• James Coco - Only When I Laugh
• Jack Nicholson - Reds
• Howard E. Rollins, Jr. - Ragtime
• Orson Welles - Butterfly

Best Supporting Actress

Joan Hackett - Only When I Laugh

• Jane Fonda - On Golden Pond
• Kristy McNichol - Only When I Laugh
• Maureen Stapleton - Reds
• Mary Steenburgen - Ragtime

Television

Best Actor - Drama Series

Daniel J. Travanti - Hill Street Blues

• Edward Asner - Lou Grant
• John Forsythe - Dynasty
• Larry Hagman - Dallas
• Tom Selleck - Magnum, P.I.

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy Series

Alan Alda - M*A*S*H

• James Garner - Bret Maverick
• Judd Hirsch - Taxi
• Gavin MacLeod - The Love Boat
• Tony Randall - Love, Sidney

Best Actor - Miniseries or TV Film

Mickey Rooney - Bill

• Dirk Bogarde - The Patricia Neal Story
• Timothy Hutton - A Long Way Home
• Danny Kaye - Skokie
• Peter O'Toole - Masada
• Ray Sharkey - The Ordeal of Bill Carney
• Peter Strauss - Masada

Best Actress - Drama Series

Linda Evans - Dynasty
Barbara Bel Geddes - Dallas

• Joan Collins - Dynasty
• Linda Gray - Dallas
• Morgan Fairchild - Flamingo Road
• Stefanie Powers - Hart to Hart

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy Series

Eileen Brennan - Private Benjamin

• Loni Anderson - WKRP in Cincinnati
• Bonnie Franklin - One Day at a Time
• Barbara Mandrell - Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters
• Loretta Swit - M*A*S*H

Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Film

Jane Seymour - East of Eden

• Ellen Burstyn - The People vs. Jean Harris
• Glenda Jackson - The Patricia Neal Story
• Jaclyn Smith - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
• Joanne Woodward - Crisis at Central High

Best Series - Drama

Hill Street Blues

• Dallas
• Dynasty
• Hart to Hart
• Lou Grant

Best Series - Musical or Comedy

M*A*S*H

• Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters
• The Love Boat
• Private Benjamin
• Taxi

Best Miniseries or TV Film

Bill
East of Eden

• Masada
• A Long Way Home
• Murder in Texas

Best Supporting Actor - (Mini)Series or TV Film

John Hillerman - Magnum, P.I.

• Danny DeVito - Taxi
• Pat Harrington, Jr. - One Day at a Time
• Vic Tayback - Alice
• Hervé Villechaize - Fantasy Island

Best Supporting Actress - (Mini)Series or TV Film

Valerie Bertinelli - One Day at a Time

• Danielle Brisebois - Archie Bunker's Place
• Beth Howland - Alice
• Marilu Henner - Taxi
• Lauren Tewes - The Love Boat

See also

• 54th Academy Awards
• 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards
• 33rd Primetime Emmy Awards
• 34th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 35th British Academy Film Awards
• 36th Tony Awards
• 1981 in film
• 1981 in American television