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An American in Paris
1951
· Movie
· 114 min
B
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1467
- IMDb #2060
- Rotten Tomatoes #940
- Metacritic #1144
- Letterboxd #1599
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #409
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1853
- Metacritic Critics #518
- Metacritic Audience #2957
- Criticker #1399
- Kinopoisk #3553
- AlloCiné #993
- Trakt #2241
Every rating
53–95
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 53, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 95. Critics average 89, everyone else 72.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A former American soldier remains in Paris after the war to pursue his dream of being a painter. He struggles financially but finds inspiration in the city and in a beautiful local girl he meets. His life is complicated by his friendship with a wealthy patron who is also infatuated with the same woman, creating a romantic dilemma.
Details
- Director
- Vincente Minnelli
- Writer
- Alan Jay Lerner
- Based on
- An American in Paris
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Released
- 26 September 1951
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, French, German
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $5.6M
- Box office
- $7.0M
- Awards
- 10 wins, 7 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 17 →9 major awards won · 10 wins from 17 nominations across 7 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1951 | Best Motion Picture | Arthur Freed | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1951 | Best Story and Screenplay | Alan Jay Lerner | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1951 | Best Art Direction – Color | Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and E. Preston Ames ; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and F. Keogh Gleason | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1951 | Best Cinematography – Color | John Alton and Alfred Gilks | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1951 | Best Costume Design – Color | Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett and Irene Sharaff | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1951 | Best Scoring of a Musical Picture | Saul Chaplin and Johnny Green | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1951 | Academy Honorary Award | Gene Kelly | Winner |
| Golden Globe Awards 1951 | Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Winner |
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Academy Awards
9 nominations, 7 won
| Academy Honorary Award | Gene Kelly | Winner |
| Best Art Direction – Color | Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and E. Preston Ames ; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis and F. Keogh Gleason | Winner |
| Best Cinematography – Color | John Alton and Alfred Gilks | Winner |
| Best Costume Design – Color | Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett and Irene Sharaff | Winner |
| Best Motion Picture | Arthur Freed | Winner |
| Best Scoring of a Musical Picture | Saul Chaplin and Johnny Green | Winner |
| Best Story and Screenplay | Alan Jay Lerner | Winner |
| Best Director | Vincente Minnelli | Nominee |
| Best Film Editing | Adrienne Fazan | Nominee |
Golden Globe Awards
3 nominations, 1 won
| Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Winner | |
| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Gene Kelly | Nominee |
| Best Director – Motion Picture | Vincente Minnelli | Nominee |
Writers Guild of America Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Written American Musical | Alan Jay Lerner | Winner |
Cannes Film Festival
1 nomination
| Grand Prix | Vincente Minnelli | Nominee |
Directors Guild of America Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Vincente Minnelli | Nominee |
National Film Preservation Board
1 nomination, 1 won
| National Film Registry | Winner |
British Academy Film Awards
1 nomination
| Best Film from any Source | Nominee |