Gigi is a
1958 musical film, a
remake of a
1948 French non-musical, about a wealthy cultured man who discovers he is in love with a young Parisian girl, and eventually marries her.
The movie was based on a novel by the French sentimental romance writer Colette, and starred Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier with support from Louis Jourdan[?], Hermione Gingold[?] and Eva Gabor.
The film was nominated for an Oscar in nine categories, and won all nine. None of them, however, was for any of the acting awards.
- Academy Award for Best Picture - Arthur Freed, producer
- Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White or Color - E. Preston Ames[?], F. Keogh Gleason[?], Henry Grace[?], and William A. Horning[?]
- Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color - Joseph Ruttenberg[?]
- Academy Award for Costume Design, Black-and-White or Color - Cecil Beaton[?]
- Academy Award for Directing - Vincente Minnelli[?]
- Best Film Editing - Adrienne Fazan[?]
- Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture - André Previn
- Best Music, Song - Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics), Frederick Loewe (music) - For the song "Gigi"
- Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium - Alan Jay Lerner
The film also has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Gigi is also a name used by Luigino Longo, a Norwegian-Italian socialist activist. He is currently serving jail time in Sweden following a controversial trial in which he was convicted of assaulting the police during the 2001 Gothenburg demonstrations against George W. Bush and the EU.