Gone with the Wind (movie) Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Gone with the Wind
An early Gone with the Wind poster
Directed by	Victor Fleming George Cukor (uncredited) Sam Wood (uncredited)
Produced by	David O. Selznick
Written by	Margaret Mitchell (novel), Sidney Howard (adapted screenplay), Ben Hecht (uncredited), David O. Selznick (uncredited), Jo Swerling (uncredited), and John Van Druten (uncredited)
Music by	Max Steiner
Cinematography	Ernest Haller Lee Garmes (uncredited)
Studio	Selznick International Pictures Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date(s)	December 15, 1939
Running time	222 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$3,900,000 (estimated)

Gone with the Wind is the 1939 American movie based on Margaret Mitchell's book with the same name. The movie premiered in Atlanta, Georgia. It stars Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, and Olivia de Havilland. Gone with the Wind told the story of the American Civil War from the perspective (view point) of a young southern woman named Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh).

Recognition
- Awards
- Impact
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Recognition

Although Gone with the Wind premiered in 1939, it is still remembered today as one of the greatest American movies of all time. When it was released in Atlanta, a parade came before it, plus three days of parties in which the stars of the movie wore costumes and many stores in the city redecorated to look like they would have in the Civil War.

Awards

Gone with the Wind received 10 Academy Awards in 1940.

Best Picture - Selznick International Pictures (David O. Selznick, producer)
Best Actress in a Leading Role - Vivien Leigh
Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Hattie McDaniel
Best Cinematography, Color - Ernest Haller, and Ray Rennahan
Best Director - Victor Fleming
Best movie Editing - Hal C. Kern, and James E. Newcom
Best Writing, Screenplay - Sidney Howard
Best Art Direction - Lyle Wheeler
Honorary Award - William Cameron Menzies - for "the use of color for the enhancement of dramatic mood"
Technical Achievement Award - Don Musgrave

It was nominated for five more.

Best Actor in a Leading Role - Clark Gable
Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Olivia de Havilland
Best Effects, Special Effects - Fred Albin (sound), Jack Cosgrove (photographic), and Arthur Johns (sound)
Best Music, Original Score - Max Steiner
Best Sound, Recording - Thomas T. Moulton (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)

Impact

Gone with the Wind was named the #4 best movie of all time by the American movie Institute. It has become the movie that made the most money of all time, after taking inflation into account.

Although the film has been criticized as historical negationism, glorifying slavery and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy myth, it has been credited with triggering changes in the way in which African Americans were depicted cinematically. The film is regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, and in 1989 it became one of the twenty-five inaugural films selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.