Gia is a 1998 HBO television film about the life of supermodel Gia Marie Carangi starring Angelina Jolie, Mercedes Ruehl, Faye Dunaway and Elizabeth Mitchell. It was directed by Michael Cristofer and written by Cristofer and Jay McInerney. The original music score was composed by Terence Blanchard.

Plot summary

Gia Marie Carangi is a Philadelphia native who moves to New York City to become a fashion model and immediately catches the attention of powerful agent Wilhelmina Cooper. Gia's beauty and willingness to pose nude help her rise quickly to the forefront of the modeling industry, but her persistent loneliness drives her to experiment with mood-altering drugs like heroin. She becomes entangled in a passionate affair with Linda, a makeup artist, but when Linda begins to worry about how their relationship might reflect on her, she breaks off their affair. Failed attempts at reconciliation with Linda and with her mother Kathleen Carangi drive Gia to begin abusing heroin. Although she is eventually able to break her drug habit after much effort, she has already contracted HIV from a contaminated needle and dies of complications from AIDS in the year 1986 at the age of 26.

Cast

Actor	Role
Angelina Jolie	Gia Marie Carangi
Elizabeth Mitchell	Linda
Eric Michael Cole	T.J.
Kylie Travis	Stephanie
Louis Giambalvo	Joseph Carangi
John Considine	Bruce Cooper
Scott Cohen	Mike Mansfield
Edmund Genest	Francesco
Mercedes Ruehl	Kathleen Carangi
Faye Dunaway	Wilhelmina Cooper
Mila Kunis	Young Gia

Awards

Golden Globes

• Angelina Jolie - Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
• Faye Dunaway - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture

Emmy Awards

• Eric A. Sears - Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie

Screen Actors Guild Awards

• Angelina Jolie - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries

References

• Gia was recently promoted in the opening of the Family Guy episode " Blue Harvest", but merely because of its lesbian sex scene.

External links

GIA or Gia may refer to:

• Armed Islamic Group (GIA, from French Groupe Islamique Armé), a terrorist Islamist group in Algeria.
• Gaming Intelligence Agency, a now defunct videogame news source.
• Garuda Indonesia Airways, an Indonesian airline.
• Gemological Institute of America.
• Ghana International Airlines
• 1980s supermodel Gia Marie Carangi.
• Gia, a 1998 film about Carangi.
• Gia, a number one single on the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay chart from 2004, recorded by Greek/German singer Despina Vandi.
• Gia people, an Indigenous Australian people
• GIA Publications, Inc. (formerly the Gregorian Institute of America), a Roman Catholic music publisher.
• Glasgow International Airport, an airport in Scotland.
• Government Information Awareness, a website which collects information about government programs, plans and politicians from the general public and numerous online sources
• GIA - The artistic name for a Canadian art designer.