Lists
- ranked 2 in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions
- ranked 4 in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
- ranked 8 in Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time
- ranked 9 in My Favourite Film
- ranked 18 in Empire 100 Greatest Movies (1999)
- ranked 23 in WGA 101 Greatest Screenplays
- ranked 31 in Empire 500 Greatest Movies (2008)
- ranked 32 in The Guardian Top 100 Films
- ranked 44 in Empire 100 Greatest Movies (2003)
- ranked 75 in Channel 4's 100 Greatest War Films
- ranked 81 in Chicago Tribune 100 Best Films of the Century
- ranked 88 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (December 2006)
- ranked 88 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (March 2006)
- ranked 90 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (August 2005)
- ranked 97 in BBC 100 Greatest American Films
- ranked 159 in The IMDb Top 250
- one of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
- one of 101^w102 Movies You Must See Before...
- one of AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies Nominees
- one of AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions Nominees
- one of Alliance of Women Film Journalists Top 100 Films
- one of Best Director Academy Award Winners
- one of Best Picture Academy Award Winners
- one of Guardian 1,000 films to see before you die
- one of Leonard Maltin's 100 "Must See" Films of the 20th Century
- one of The New York Times Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made
- one of AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies, 10th Anniversary Edition
Rip
In Washington Irving's classic story, Rip Van Winkle falls asleep beneath a tree and wakes thirty years later to find that the civil war is over. Watching Gone With the Wind, I fell asleep for thirty years, only to wake and find that, on screen, the civil war was over. And the second act was just starting.
The best thing I can say about it is that I need never fear seeing it again; I'd almost certainly die of old age before it finished. :)