‘Citizen Kane’ is a triumph for Orson Welles, who overnight, so to speak, joins the top ranks of boxoffice film personalities. Flin. 1941: Best Original Screenplay. Nominations: Best ...

Joseph Cotten, Orson ... Welles “literally pleaded for at least a joint screen credit ‘so [he] could get paid at all’” under the terms of his contract. But research presented in Citizen Ka ...

Orson Welles, already an institution at the age of 25, arrives at the 1941 premiere of his masterpiece. United Archives GMBH / Alamy When Citizen Kane premiered on May 1, 1941, it wasn’t at ...

The medium-defining shibboleth that induces paroxysms of adulation from film critics (but not filmgoers), Citizen Kane ... Charles Foster Kane. Yes, the 25-year-old Orson Welles' direction is ...