Awards and honors

Academy Awards

Wins
· Academy Award for Best Picture — Arthur Freed, producer
· Academy Award for Best Art — Set Decoration, Color — E. Preston Ames, Cedric Gibbons, F. Keogh Gleason, and Edwin B. Willis
· Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color — John Alton and Alfred Gilks
· Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color — Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, and Irene Sharaff
· Academy Award for Best Musical Score — Saul Chaplin and Johnny Green
· Academy Award for Best Writing, Scoring and Screenplay — Alan Jay Lerner

Nominations
· Academy Award for Best Director — Vincente Minnelli
· Academy Award for Best Film Editing — Adrienne Fazan

Golden Globes

Wins
· Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Nominations

· Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture — Vincente Minnelli
· Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy — Gene Kelly

Others
Gene Kelly received an honorary Academy Award that year for "his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film." It was his only Oscar.
The film was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
In 1993, An American in Paris was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

American Film Institute recognition
· 1998: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies - #68
· 2002: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions - #39
· 2004: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs - #32
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· 2006: AFI's 100 Years of Musicals - #9