"Gone with the Wind" was the big winner at the 12th annual Academy Awards, which honored the best in motion pictures for the year 1939. The awards ceremony was held on February 29, 1940.
"Gone With the Wind" won eight 1939 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and two special awards. The Oscars were presented at a ceremony on February 29, 1940.
The classic film Gone with the Wind won nine Academy Awards: Best Actress (Vivian Leigh), Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel), Best Director (Victor Fleming), Best Picture, Editing, Screenplay, Art Direction, and Cinematography. R.D. Musgrave won an award for Technical Achievement, as well. It was also nominated for Original Score, Sound, and Best Actor (Clark Gable). The movie also received two special awards for color and for equipment projection.
He was not nominated
Butterfly McQueen portrayed Prissy, a servant in the O'Hara household.
Hattie McDaniel.
Most Academy members believed is was a better movie and voted for it.
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1939's Gone with the Wind was the first color film to win the Oscar for Best Picture, but the 1937 short, Give Me Liberty, was the first color movie to receive an Oscar at all.
Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win the Academy Award for best-supporting actress in Gone With The Wind (1939)
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You probably are confusing Butterfly McQueen with Hattie McDaniel, who both appeared in the 1939 drama "Gone With the Wind." McDaniel won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Mammy in the film. McQueen, who played Prissy in the movie, was never nominated for an Academy Award.
The classic film Gone with the Wind won nine Academy Awards: Best Actress (Vivian Leigh), Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel), Best Director (Victor Fleming), Best Picture, Editing, Screenplay, Art Direction, and Cinematography. R.D. Musgrave won an award for Technical Achievement, as well. It was also nominated for Original Score, Sound, and Best Actor (Clark Gable). The movie also received two special awards for color and for equipment projection.
On February 29, 1940, "Gone With the Wind" was named Best Picture of 1939.
He was not nominated
Butterfly McQueen portrayed Prissy, a servant in the O'Hara household.
Yes. Hattie McDaniel was the first black person to be nominated for and receive an Academy Award. She won the Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind" (1939).
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