The Academy Award for Best Picture of 1939 went to "Gone With the Wind."
Hattie McDaniel won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1939.
Vivien Leigh won the 1939 Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
Richard Best - judge - died in 1939.
Gone with the Wind. However, while this film was released in 1939, it won the 1940 Oscar for Best Picture.
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.
Everything Happens for the Best was created on 1939-03-21.
gone with the wind 1939
The Academy Award for Best Picture of 1967 went to "In the Heat of the Night." The Best Picture winner for 1990 was "Dances With Wolves."
Hm..was it "The Grapes of Wrath (1939)"?
On February 29, 1940, "Gone With the Wind" was named Best Picture of 1939.
When did what happen? My best guess is sometime between 1939 and 1945.