“Gone with the wind” means something is lost and can never be retrieved; it’s lost in the wind.
Awards were handed out Thursday, Feb. 29, 1940, for movies released in 1939.
GWTW won a total of nine Oscars:
1. Best Picture
2. Best Actress
3. Best Director
4. Best Supporting Actress
5. Best Screenplay based on another medium
6. Cinematography (color)
7. Art Direction
8. Film Editing
9. pioneering in the use of coordinated equipment in the movie’s production
Plus an honorary award ( a plaque) for outstanding achievement in the use of color
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Vivien Leigh won the Best Actress award for her incredible performance Southern Belle at the time of the Civil War.
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“Gone With the Wind,” which won nine Oscars...
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“Gone With the Wind” blew away the competition at the 1939 Academy Awards.
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A story about ill-fated lovers in the fading days of the Old South dominated this year’s Academy Awards. “Gone With the Wind” won a total
of nine Oscars, including Best Picture.
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“Stagecoach” ... road off with two Oscars.
“The Wizard of Oz” skipped down the red carpet to collect two Oscars.
“The Ugly Duckling” by Walt Disney was pretty enough to win...
“Gone With the Wind” wins nine Oscars
HOLLYWOOD “Gone With the Wind” swept through the Academy Awards presentation Thursday night, winning nine Oscars, including
Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Director.
The epic, which was produced by David O. Selznick, told the story of ill-fated lovers in the fading Old South. The film blew away the year’s
other top films, including the musical version of L. Frank Baum’s classic “The Wizard of Oz,” which won two Oscars for its music, and “Mr. Smith
Goes to Washington.”
The best actress and actor awards went to British performers. Vivien Leigh overcame relative obscurity and her English accent to win for her
portrayal of Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With the Wind.” Robert Donat took home an Oscar for the title role in “Goodbye, Mr. Chips.”
Leigh, 26, said she was happy to have an award for a film in which many in Hollywood questioned an English actress playing a Southerner.
Posters for the movie said “presenting Vivien Leigh” instead of “starring Vivien Leigh.”
“I hope this award gives me the proper recognition among my peers in Hollywood,” she told the star-studded audience at the Ambassador
Hotel’s Coconut Grove ballroom.
Donat, 34, won for his portrayal of Chips, a lovable British schoolmaster.
“Mr. Chips was the star of this film, not me,” Donat said in accepting his Oscar.
The Oscar for Best Supporting Actress went to Hattie McDaniel, who played Mammy in “Gone With the Wind.” McDaniel is the first African
America to win an Academy Award.
Thomas Mitchell won Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Dr. Josiah Boone in the John Wayne western “Stagecoach.” Mitchell also
played Scarlett O’Hara’s father in “Gone With the Wind.”
Victor Fleming was named Best Director of 1939 for “Gone With the Wind.” The film also won for best-adapted screenplay, cinematography in
a color film, art direction and film editing.
Fleming [use his name as transition to “Wizard of Oz”] also directed “The Wizard of Oz,” which won Oscars for Best Song “Somewhere
Over the Rainbow,” written by E.Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen and performed by newcomer Judy Garland and for Best Original Score.
The Best Original Screenplay award went to Lewis R. Foster, for “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” which is the story of scoutmaster appointed
to the U.S. Senate who battles corruption. It starred James Steward in the title role along with Jean Arthur and Claude Rains.
“Gone With the Wind’s” writer, Sidney Howard, won Best Screenplay based on another medium for his adaptation of the Margaret Mitchell
saga of the Civil War South. The movie also starred Clark Gable, who had been nominated Best Actor; Olivia de Havilland, who had been nominated
Supporting Best Actress; Leslie Howard; and Mitchell.
The academy gave an honorary award to William Cameron Menzies for outstanding achievement in the use of color for the enhancement of
dramatic effect in “Gone With the Wind.”
The movie’s technical crew also took home Oscars:
Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan for the color cinematography award.
Lyle Wheeler for art direction.
Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom for film editing.
Don Musgrave for pioneering in the use of coordinated production.
Other Academy Award winners were
The cartoon “The Ugly Duckling” by Walt Disney for Best Short Subject.
Richard Hageman, Franke Harling, John Leipold and Leo Shuken for the best score in “Stagecoach.”