Did the classic film “Citizen Kane” win any Academy Awards?
Academy Awards – 1941 Citizen Kane, with 9 nominations, was the 16th film to get more than six Academy Awards nominations. It was nominated for: * Outstanding Motion Picture – RKO Pictures (Orson Welles, Producer) * Best Director – Orson Welles * Best Actor – Orson Welles * Best Writing (Original Screenplay) – Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz * Best Art Direction (Black-and-White) – Perry Ferguson, Van Nest Polglase, A. Roland Fields, Darrell Silvera * Best Film Editing – Robert Wise * Best Cinematography (Black-and-White) – Gregg Toland * Best Music (Score of a Dramatic Picture) – Bernard Herrmann * Best Sound Recording – John O. Aalberg The only category it won was Best Writing (Original Screenplay). Boos were heard almost every time Citizen Kane was referred to during the Oscars ceremony that year. Most of Hollywood did not want the film to see the light of day, considering the threats that William Randolph Hearst had made if it did. In December 2007, Welles’ Oscar for best ori
The fresh, sophisticated, and classic masterpiece, Citizen Kane (1941), is probably the world’s most famous and highly-rated film, with its many remarkable scenes and performances, cinematic and narrative techniques and experimental innovations (in photography, editing, and sound). Its director, star, and producer were all the same genius individual – Orson Welles (in his film debut at age 25!), who collaborated with Herman J. Mankiewicz on the script (and also with an uncredited John Houseman), and with Gregg Toland as his talented cinematographer. [The amount of each person’s contributions to the screenplay has been the subject of great debate over many decades.] Toland’s camera work on Karl Freund’s expressionistic horror film Mad Love (1935) exerted a profound influence on this film. The film, budgeted at $800,000, received unanimous critical praise even at the time of its release, although it was not a commercial success (partly due to its limited distribution and delayed release
Citizen Kane, with 9 nominations, was the 16th film to get more than six Academy Awards nominations. It was nominated for: Outstanding Motion Picture – RKO Pictures (Orson Welles, Producer) Best Director – Orson Welles Best Actor – Orson Welles Best Writing (Original Screenplay) – Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz Best Art Direction (Black-and-White) – Perry Ferguson, Van Nest Polglase, A. Roland Fields, Darrell Silvera Best Film Editing – Robert Wise Best Cinematography (Black-and-White) – Gregg Toland Best Music (Score of a Dramatic Picture) – Bernard Herrmann Best Sound Recording – John O. Aalberg The only category it won was Best Writing (Original Screenplay).
