Gone with the Wind is not a film.
David O. Selznick . He is best known for producing Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) and Rebecca ( 1940 ) , both earning him an Academy Award for Best Picture . Gone with the Wind (film) . At the 12th Academy Awards , it received ten Academy Awards ( eight competitive , two honorary ) from thirteen nominations , including wins for Best Picture , Best Director ( Fleming ) , Best Adapted Screenplay ( posthumously awarded to Sidney Howard ) , Best Actress ( Leigh ) , and Best Supporting Actress ( Hattie McDaniel , becoming the first African-American to win an Academy Award ) . The film was immensely popular , becoming the highest-earning film made up to that point , and retained the record for over a quarter of a century . Vivien Leigh . She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress for her performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ) , a role she had also played on stage in London 's West End in 1949 .