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The film's 10 Academy Award wins
posted by genplant29STAFFMOD on September 23, 2019 at 5:52 PM
- Best Picture: Selznick International Pictures
- Best Director: Victor Fleming
- Best Writing, Screenplay: Sidney Howard
- Best Actress in a Leading Role: Vivien Leigh (see this thread)
- Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Hattie McDaniel (see this thread)
- Best Cinematography, Color: Ernest Haller, Ray Rennahan
- Best Film Editing: Hal C. Kern, James E. Newcom
- Best Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler
There were also two Honorary Academy Award wins: (1) William Cameron Menzies, for outstanding achievement in the use of color for the enhancement of dramatic mood; (2) R.D. Musgrave and Selznick International Pictures, for pioneering in the use of coordinated equipment.
Not a bad take!
Reply by Asharah
on September 23, 2019 at 8:36 PM
Olivia de Haviland was nominated for best supporting actress and she expected to win. When it went to Hattie McDaniel instead, she ran out of the room crying. David O. Selznick's wife followed her out and scolded her. She told her (accurately) that she would have other chances to win and not to spoil the biggest moment of Hattie's career by making her feel bad.
Reply by rudely_murray
on September 23, 2019 at 8:48 PM
Hattie McDaniel was required to sit at a segregated table against the back wall. The hotel in which the Oscars were held that year has a strict no-blacks policy but allowed her to attend as a favour.
McDaniel's acceptance speech remains, 80 years on, surely one of the most moving in Academy Awards history.
Reply by genplant29
on September 24, 2019 at 12:37 AM
There certainly was a lot of backwards thinking still very much in effect during those times.
It's therefore really saying something that Hattie was not only nominated, but that she also actually managed to win.