Gone With the Wind


3h 39m 1939
Gone With the Wind

Brief Synopsis

Classic tale of Scarlett O'Hara's battle to save her beloved Tara and find love during the Civil War.

Film Details

Also Known As
Autant en emporte le vent, Borta med vinden
MPAA Rating
Genre
Epic
Adaptation
Drama
Historical
Period
Romance
War
Release Date
1939
Distribution Company
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS INC. (MGM )/NEW LINE CINEMA (NEW LINE); New Line CinemaMGM Pictures (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)Turner Entertainment Company (TEC)

Technical Specs

Duration
3h 39m

Synopsis

Classic tale of Scarlett O'Hara's battle to save her beloved Tara and find love during the Civil War.

Film Details

Also Known As
Autant en emporte le vent, Borta med vinden
MPAA Rating
Genre
Epic
Adaptation
Drama
Historical
Period
Romance
War
Release Date
1939
Distribution Company
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS INC. (MGM )/NEW LINE CINEMA (NEW LINE); New Line CinemaMGM Pictures (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)Turner Entertainment Company (TEC)

Technical Specs

Duration
3h 39m

Award Wins

Best Art Direction

1939

Best Picture

1939

Best Supporting Actress

1939
Olivia De Havilland

Best Supporting Actress

1939
Hattie Mcdaniel

Award Nominations

Best Sound

1939

Quotes

Trivia

Miscellaneous Notes

Released in United States Winter December 15, 1939

Re-released in United States June 26, 1998 (restored version)

Released in United States 1978 (Shown at FILMEX: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Special Programs - "Salute to Oscar" - Filmex Marathon) April 13 - May 7, 1978.)

Released in United States August 1989 (Shown at Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund (Norwegian Film Institute Golden Anniversary) August 19-25, 1989.)

Released in United States September 28, 1989 (Shown at Tokyo International Film Festival September 28, 1989.)

Re-released in United States January 31, 1989

Re-released in United States May 5, 1989

Re-released in United States June 26, 1998

Released in United States 1978

Released in United States August 1989

Released in United States September 28, 1989

Released in United States December 1990

Shown at Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund (Norwegian Film Institute Golden Anniversary) August 19-25, 1989.

Shown at Tokyo International Film Festival September 28, 1989.

Shown at International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema December 4-17, 1990.

"Gone With the Wind: the Screenplay" by Sidney Howard, based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell, edited and with an introduction by Herb Bridges & Terryl C Boodman. A Delta Book, published by Dell Publishing, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

The triumvirate of RHI Entertainment, the Kirch Group and Silvio Berlusconi paid a record-breaking $10,000,000 for film & tv rights to "Scarlett," Alexandra Ripley's widely panned but enormously successful sequel to Margaret Mitchell's novel. CBS will have U.S. broadcast rights of the planned eight-hour miniseries, to be aired in 1993.

Selznick International Pictures paid $50,000 for the motion picture rights to the Margaret Mitchell novel "Gone With the Wind" on July 30, 1936.

Selected in 1998 as one of the AFI's list of 100 Greatest American Films of the century.

Selected in 1989 for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.

"'Gone With the Wind' on Film: A Complete Reference" by Cynthia Marylee Molt, with a foreword by Butterfly McQueen, McFarland Publishers, Jefferson NC, 1990.

Original network broadcast February 11-12, 1979.

Released in United States Winter December 15, 1939

Re-released in United States January 31, 1989 (New York City)

Re-released in United States May 5, 1989 (Los Angeles)

Released in United States December 1990 (Shown at International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema December 4-17, 1990.)