Die 30ste Golden Globe-toekenningsaand, wat uitnemendheid in die rolprente en TV-programme van 1972 vereer het, is op 28 Januarie 1973 gehou. Beste rolprent – drama The Godfather Deliverance Frenzy The Poseidon Adventure Sleuth Beste rolprent – komedie of musiekspel Cabaret 1776 Avanti! Butterflies Are Free Travels with My Aunt Beste regisseur Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather John Boorman – Deliverance Bob Fosse – Cabaret Alfred Hitchcock – Frenzy Billy Wilder – Avanti! Beste akteur in ’n drama Marlon Brando – The Godfather Michael Caine – Sleuth Laurence Olivier – Sleuth Al Pacino – The Godfather Jon Voight – Deliverance Beste akteur in ’n komedie of musiekspel Jack Lemmon – Avanti! Edward Albert – Butterflies Are Free Charles Grodin – The Heartbreak Kid Walter Matthau – Pete 'n' Tillie Peter O'Toole – Man of La Mancha Beste aktrise in ’n drama Liv Ullmann – The Emigrants Diana Ross – Lady Sings the Blues Cicely Tyson – Sounder Trish Van Devere – One Is a Lonely Number Tuesday Weld – Play It as It Lays Joanne Woodward – The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Beste aktrise in ’n komedie of musiekspel Liza Minnelli – Cabaret Carol Burnett – Pete 'n' Tillie Goldie Hawn – Butterflies Are Free Juliet Mills – Avanti!