The Most Seen Movie Ever
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American drama romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell’s1936 novel of the same name and directed by Victor Fleming (Fleming replaced George Cukor). The epic film, set in the American South in and around the time of the Civil War, stars Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, and Olivia de Havilland, and tells a story of the Civil War and its aftermath from a white Southern viewpoint.
It received ten Academy Awards, a record that stood for twenty years. In the American Film Institute’s inaugural Top 100 American Films of All Time list of 1998, it was ranked number four; although in the 2007 10th Anniversary edition of that list, it was dropped two places, to number six. In June 2008, AFI revealed its 10 top 10 — the best ten films in ten American film genres—after polling over 1,500 persons from the creative community. Gone with the Wind was acknowledged as the fourth best film in the Epic genre. It has sold more tickets in the U.S. than any other film in history, and is considered a prototype of a Hollywood blockbuster. Today, it is considered one of the greatest and most popular films of all time and one of the most enduring symbols of the golden age of Hollywood. When adjusted for inflation, Gone with the Wind remains the highest grossing film of all time in North America and the UK.
Awards and honors
Gone with the Wind was the first film to get more than six Academy Awards nominations. Of the 17 competitive awards which given at the time,Gone with the Wind had 13 nominations. The Academy did not award Gone with the Wind Best Supporting Actor which was won by Thomas Mitchell and Best Music (Song)
It was the Winner of 10 Academy Awards. (8 regular, 1 honorary, 1 technical)
| Award | Result | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Production | Won | Selznick International Pictures (David O. Selznick, Producer) |
| Best Director | Won | Victor Fleming |
| Best Actor | Nominated | Clark Gable Winner was Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
| Best Actress | Won | Vivien Leigh |
| Best Writing, Screenplay | Won | Sidney Howard Awarded posthumously |
| Best Supporting Actress | Won | Hattie McDaniel Received a miniature “Oscar” statuette on a plaque |
| Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | Olivia de Havilland Winner was Hattie McDaniel - Gone with the Wind |
| Best Cinematography, Color | Won | Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan This received the “Oscar” statuette |
| Best Film Editing | Won | Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom Received a miniature “Oscar” statuette on a plaque, replaced with a regular statuette in 1962 |
| Best Interior Decoration | Won | Lyle Wheeler |
| Best Special Effects | Nominated | Fred Albin (Sound), Jack Cosgrove (Photographic), and Arthur Johns (Sound) Winners were Fred Sersen (Photographic) and E. H. Hansen (Sound) - The Rains Came |
| Best Music, Original Score | Nominated | Max Steiner Winner was Herbert Stothart - The Wizard of Oz |
| Best Sound Recording | Nominated | Thomas T. Moulton (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department) Winner was Bernard B. Brown (Universal Studio Sound Department) - When Tomorrow Comes |
| Award | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Irving G. Thalberg Award | David O. Selznick For his career achievements as a producer. |
| Honorary Award | William Cameron Menzies (Miniature “Oscar” statuette on a plaque)[39] For outstanding achievement in the use of color for the enhancement of dramatic mood in the production of Gone with the Wind. |
| Technical Achievement Award | Don Musgrave and Selznick International Pictures (Certificate) For pioneering in the use of coordinated equipment in the production Gone with the Wind. |
