| Academy Award Nominations and Winners: |
| ✓ | Best Picture |
| ✓ | Best Director: Victor Fleming |
| ✓ | Best Actress: Vivien Leigh |
| Best Actor: Clark Gable |
| Best Supporting Actress: Olivia de Havilland |
| ✓ | Best Supporting Actress: Hattie McDaniel |
| ✓ | Best Screenplay: Sidney Howard |
| ✓ | Best Cinematography (Color): Ernest Haller & Ray Rennahan |
| ✓ | Best Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler |
| ✓ | Best Film Editing: Hal C. Kern & James A. Newcom |
| Best Original Score: Max Steiner |
| Best Sound: Thomas T. Moulton |
| Best Visual Effects: Jack Cosgrove, Fred Albin, and Arthur Johns |
| ✓ | Honorary Award: William Cameron Menzies |
| ✓ | Special Award for Technical Achievement: R.D. Musgrave |
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| Other Awards: |
| New York Film Critics Circle: Best Actress (Leigh) |