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Gone with the Wind
1939
· Movie
· 238 min
A
MEANRANK
84/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #178
- IMDb #145
- Google retired #1417
- Rotten Tomatoes #427
- Metacritic #56
- Letterboxd #914
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1035
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #305
- Metacritic Critics #37
- Metacritic Audience #326
- Criticker #485
- Douban #21
- Kinopoisk #33
- AlloCiné #378
- Trakt #473
Every rating
64–97
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 64, highest is Metacritic critics on 97.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The story follows the life of a spoiled Southern belle during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. She is determined to save her family plantation, Tara, using any means necessary. Her survival is intertwined with her turbulent and obsessive relationship with a roguish blockade runner.
Details
- Director
- Victor Fleming
- Based on
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Released
- 15 December 1939
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 238 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $4.0M
- Box office
- $402.4M
- Awards
- 10 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (136) →Awards & nominations
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| Best Actor 1939 | — | Clark Gable | Nominee |
| Best Actress 1939 | — | Vivien Leigh | Winner |
| Best Art Direction 1939 | — | Lyle Wheeler | Winner |
| Best Cinematography – Color 1939 | — | Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan | Winner |
| Best Director 1939 | — | Victor Fleming | Winner |
| Best Film Editing 1939 | — | Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom | Winner |
| Best Original Score 1939 | — | Max Steiner | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay 1939 | — | Sidney Howard | Winner |
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×15 awards — Gone with the Wind
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Best Supporting Actress
2 nominations, 1 won
| — | Hattie McDaniel | Winner |
| — | Olivia de Havilland | Nominee |
Best Actress
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Vivien Leigh | Winner |
Best Art Direction
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Lyle Wheeler | Winner |
Best Cinematography – Color
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan | Winner |
Best Director
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Victor Fleming | Winner |
Best Film Editing
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom | Winner |
Best Screenplay
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Sidney Howard | Winner |
Outstanding Production
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Selznick International Pictures | Winner |
Special Award
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | William Cameron Menzies For outstanding achievement in the use of color for the enhancement of dramatic mood in the production of Gone with the Wind . | Winner |
Technical Achievement Award
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Don Musgrave and Selznick International Pictures For pioneering in the use of coordinated equipment in the production Gone with the Wind . | Winner |
Best Actor
1 nomination
| — | Clark Gable | Nominee |
Best Original Score
1 nomination
| — | Max Steiner | Nominee |
Best Sound Recording
1 nomination
| — | Thomas T. Moulton (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department) | Nominee |
Best Visual Effects
1 nomination
| — | Jack Cosgrove, Fred Albin and Arthur Johns | Nominee |