Gone with the Wind won eight Academy Awards: Best Picture, Actress (Vivien Leigh), Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel), Art Direction (Lyle R. Wheeler), Color Cinematography (Ernest Haller, Ray Rennahan), Directing (Victor Fleming), Film Editing (Hal C. Kern, James E.
In 1940, McDaniel made history as the first Black person to be nominated for and win a competitive Academy Award for her supporting performance as “Mammy” in “Gone with the Wind” (1939).
FADEL: Following McDaniel's death in 1952, her Oscar was donated to Howard University, but 20 years later, it went missing. MARTÍNEZ: Last night, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave Howard a replacement. Here's the dean of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts, Phylicia Rashad.
Setting an Oscar record, the film swept 11 of the 12 categories in which it was nominated, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor (Charlton Heston). Wyler's 1959 film was the latest dramatic adaptation of the mega-bestselling novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, published in 1880 by Lew Wallace.
Hattie McDaniel winning Best Supporting Actress: 12th Oscars (1940)
Who turned down the role of Ben-Hur?
Several actors were offered the role of Judah Ben-Hur before it was accepted by Charlton Heston. Burt Lancaster claimed he turned down the role because he found the script boring and belittling to Christianity. Paul Newman turned it down because he said he didn't have the legs to wear a tunic.
Gone with the Wind, American epic film, released in 1939, that was one of the best known and most successful films of all time. It enjoyed a more-than-30-year reign as the all-time Hollywood box office champion, and it won eight Academy Awards (in addition to two honorary awards).
Littlefeather represented Marlon Brando at the 45th Academy Awards (better known as the Oscars) in 1973, where she – on Brando's behalf – declined the Best Actor award that he won for his performance in The Godfather.
The cemetery refused her burial because of her race, and she was instead laid to rest at the nearby Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery. (Many of her white friends and costars sent flowers to the funeral, including Clark Gable, but James Cagney was the only famous white actor to attend.)
Boseman College of Fine Arts, opened Sunday's ceremony at Howard's Cramton Auditorium by recalling how when she was a student at the university, McDaniel's award was prominently displayed. Later, in the 1960s or 1970s, the Oscar mysteriously vanished.
Did Clark Gable win best actor for Gone with the Wind?
Gable won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the romantic comedy It Happened One Night (1934). He was further Oscar-nominated for his roles as Fletcher Christian in the drama Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), and Rhett Butler in the historical romance drama Gone with the Wind (1939).
Mammy's Grave: The complicated legacy of the 1st Black Oscar winner, Hattie McDaniel. In true Hollywood fashion, she was a heroine facing insurmountable odds. As we approach the 95th Academy Awards, ABC7's FACEism series takes you back to the 1939 Oscars and focuses on an actress who shined bright in the spotlight.
Scarlett O'Hara uses the title phrase when she wonders if her home on a plantation called "Tara" is still standing, or if it had "gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia". In a general sense, the title is a metaphor for the demise of a way of life in the South before the Civil War.
Do Scarlett O Hara and Rhett Butler end up together?
She continues to marry Rhett Butler, for his money, again, although she admits she is “fond” of him. They have Eugenia Victoria, a.k.a. “Bonnie Blue” Butler; however, she dies after a tragic riding accident. Unable to reconcile, Rhett leaves Scarlett, although Scarlett ends the novel vowing to try to win him back.
Vivien Leigh, the tiny, frail actress from the Himalaya Mountains who won enduring fame for her fiery film performance as Scarlett O'Hara in “Gone With the Wind,” died Saturday in London.
Gone With the Wind gave Europeans hope that they too could overcome the fear and hardships of war. Gone With the Wind is an engaging story told well. The characters are complicated and stubborn, and their presence together creates a resonant emotional tension.
Was Charlton Heston's son in the Ten Commandments?
Charlton Heston with his son Fraser, playing the role of baby Moses, on the set of The Ten Commandments, 1955. Charlton Heston with his son Fraser, playing the role of baby Moses, on the set of The Ten Commandments, 1955.
Heston was an Episcopalian, and has been described as "a spiritual man" with an "earthy flair", who "respected religious traditions" and "particularly enjoyed the historical aspects of the Christian faith".
Charlton Heston got a flat tire on the way to the ceremony and arrived late. Clint Eastwood was grabbed out of the audience to briefly stand in for him.
