Yet, it is one of only a few films to have won the Best Picture Oscar without receiving a single acting nomination. The film received all nine Academy Award Oscars for its nine nominations, including Best Picture: a perfect nomination-to-win ratio. Vincente Minnelli of An American in Paris and Brigadoon directs. It stars Leslie Caron, who had performed the title role for the stage play in London, in Audrey Hepburn's 1951 title role from Broadway. It features the lyrics and music of Lerner and Loewe, and a screenplay by Lerner.
The American-produced film's English-speaking leads are played by French actors.
The film is adapted from a French, 1945 novel by Colette, a French and female author.
Gigi (1958) is set-and mostly shot-in Paris, France, and appears in the form of an impressionist painting.
