Gone with the Wind (film) have been explicitly referenced, satirized, dramatized and analyzed on numerous occasions across a range of media, from contemporaneous works such as "Second Fiddle"—a 1939 film spoofing the "search for Scarlett"—to current television shows, such as "The Simpsons". "The Scarlett O'Hara War" (a 1980 television dramatization of the casting of Scarlett), "Moonlight and Magnolias" (a 2007 play by Ron Hutchinson that dramatizes Ben Hecht's five-day re-write of the script), and "Went with the Wind!" (a sketch on "The Carol Burnett Show" that parodied the film in the aftermath of its television debut in 1976) are among the more noteworthy examples of
Dark Victory Vivien Leigh in "Gone with the Wind". Max Steiner, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score for both this and "Gone with the Wind", lost to Herbert Stothart for "The Wizard of Oz". The film itself lost the Academy Award for Best Picture to "Gone with the Wind". "The New York Times" named "Dark Victory" as one of the "10 Best Films of 1939", as did "Film Daily", and the "National Board of Review" picked both Bette Davis and Geraldine Fitzgerald for Best Acting that year. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these