1941 1h 59m Orson Welles

Citizen Kane

Name: Citizen Kane
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Released: 1941
Rating: 8.2
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins

★ 8.2 IMDb

Drama Mystery & Thriller

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'

Writers Herman J. Mankiewicz, John Houseman, Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins

DP Gregg Toland

Production Designer Van Nest Polglase

Music Bernard Herrmann

Essays and Criticism

On Orson Welles

The Magic World of Orson Welles, by James Naremore by Shannon Scott, Alphaville Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture by Blair Davis & Paul Heyer, Screening the Past Orson Welles – Painter by Michael C. Riedlinger, Senses of Cinema

In conversation with other films

F for Fake: Mank by Andrew Tracy, Cinema Scope Cuore di Tenebra - Joseph Conrad e Orson Welles by Antonio Papa, La Furia Umana Jean-Paul Sartre, Hollywood,Citizen Kaneand the Nouvelle Vague by Sam Rohdie, Screening the Past

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Awards & Festivals

Won Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Nominated Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

Nominated Academy Award for Best Actor

Nominated Academy Award for Best Sound

Nominated Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score

Nominated Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White

Nominated Academy Award for Best Director

Nominated Academy Award for Best Film Editing

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