Gigi

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.