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Based On Play Or Musical | Oscar's Best Picture Winner
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Best Music Original Song | 1959
Best Art DirectionSet Decoration BlackandWhite or Color | 1959
Best Film Editing | 1959
Best Costume Design BlackandWhite or Color | 1959 | Cecil
Best Picture | 1959 | Arthur
Best Cinematography Color | 1959
Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture | 1959 | André
Best Director | 1959 | Vincente
Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | 1959
Best Motion Picture Musical | 1959
Best Director | 1959 | Vincente
Best Supporting Actress | 1959
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1959 | Vincente
Best Soundtrack Album Dramatic Picture Score or Original Cast | 1959 | André
Top Ten Films | 1958
Best Foreign Production Migliore Produzione Straniera | 1959
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Best Written American Musical | 1959
Best Actress Comedy or Musical | 1959 | Leslie
Best Actor Comedy or Musical | 1959 | Louis
Best Film from any Source | 1960 | Vincente
Top Male Musical Performance | 1959 | Maurice
Top Cinematography Color | 1959
Top Song | 1959
Top Female Musical Performance | 1959
Budget 3,319,355 USD
Box Office Collection 13,200,000 USD
The day after the movie won nine Oscars, MGM telephone operators were instructed to answer all phone calls with "Hello, M-Gigi-M."
The cat in the movie reacted violently whenever it was in a scene with Leslie Caron, but director Vincente Minnelli insisted on having that particular cat, so it had to be heavily drugged. This is especially obvious during "Say a Prayer for Me Tonight."
When Alan Jay Lerner met Leslie Caron in London to discuss the film with her, he was surprised to discover that Caron, who was of French birth, had become so immersed in the English culture that she had lost her French accent.
The Broadway production of the stage play "Gigi" by Anita Loos opened at the Fulton Theater on November 24, 1951, ran for 219 performances and closed on May 31, 1952. The title role was portrayed by then unknown Audrey Hepburn who won the 1952 Theatre World Award for her performance.
When the film was originally completed, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe were unsatisfied; Lerner felt it was slow, and was twenty minutes too long. He proposed changes that would cost Arthur Freed an additional $300,000, which Arthur Freed was dead against spending. The songwriting team offered to buy 10% of the film for $300,000, and then offered $3 million for the print -- in order not to release it! Impressed with their conviction, MGM executives agreed to the changes, which included eleven days of considerable reshooting and put the project $400,000 over budget. However, the test screenings of the film changed from favourable (before the change) to affectionate (after the change), and Lerner felt the film was finally complete.
"Aunt Alicia: Love, my dear Gigi, is a thing of beauty like a work of art, and like a work of art it is created by artists. The greater the artist the greater the art. And what makes an artist? Gigi: Cigars and jewelry? Aunt Alicia: Gigi, you're from another planet."
"Gigi: I don't know what you want. You told Grandmamma... Gaston Lachaille: I know what I told your grandmother. We don't have to repeat it. Just tell me simply what you don't want... and tell me what you do want. Gigi: Do you mean that? Gaston Lachaille: Of course. Gigi: You told Grandmamma that you wanted to take care of me. Gaston Lachaille: To take care of you beautifully. Gigi: Beautifully. That is, if I like it. They've pounded into my head I'm backward for my age... but I know what all this means. To "take care of me beautifully" means I shall go away with you... and that I shall sleep in your bed. Gaston Lachaille: Please, Gigi, I beg of you! You embarrass me! Gigi: You weren't embarrassed to talk to Grandmamma about it. And Grandmamma wasn't embarrassed to talk to me about it. But I know more than she told me. To "take care of me" means that I shall have my photograph in the papers. That I shall go to the Riviera, to the races at Deauville. And when we fight, it will be in all the columns the next day. And then you'd give me up, as you did with Inèz des Cèvennes. Gaston Lachaille: Who's been filling your head with all these old stories? How do you know about that? Gigi: Why shouldn't I know? You're world famous. I know about the woman who stole from you, the Contessa who wanted to shoot you, the American who wanted to marry you. I know what everybody knows. Gaston Lachaille: These aren't the things we have to talk about together! That's all in the past, over and done with! Gigi: Yes, Gaston. Until it begins again."
