awards for An American in Paris on AllMovie

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Won	Best Color Art Direction Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason, Preston Ames, Cedric Gibbons	1951
Won	Best Color Cinematography Alfred Gilks, John Alton	1951
Won	Best Color Costume Design Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, Irene Sharaff	1951
Nominated	Best Director Vincente Minnelli	1951
Nominated	Best Editing Adrienne Fazan	1951
Won	Best Musical Score Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin	1951
Won	Best Picture Arthur Freed	1951
Won	Best Story and Screenplay Alan Jay Lerner	1951

American Film Institute

Won

100 Greatest American Movies

1998

Directors Guild of America

Nominated

Best Director Vincente Minnelli

1951

Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Nominated	Best Director Vincente Minnelli	1951
Nominated	Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy Gene Kelly	1951
Won	Best Picture - Musical or Comedy	1951

Library of Congress

Won

U.S. National Film Registry

1992

National Board of Review

Nominated

Best Picture

1951