Īfter the Broadway success of Welles's Mercury Theatre and the controversial 1938 radio broadcast ' The War of the Worlds' on The Mercury Theatre on the Air, Welles was courted by Hollywood. Upon its release, Hearst prohibited the film from being mentioned in his newspapers. The quasi-biographical film examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a composite character based on American media barons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick, as well as aspects of the screenwriters' own lives. Citizen Kane is praised for Gregg Toland's cinematography, Robert Wise's editing, Bernard Herrmann's music, and its narrative structure, all of which have been considered innovative and precedent-setting. The film was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories and it won for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Mankiewicz and Welles. 100 Movies list in 1998, as well as its 2007 update. For 50 consecutive years, it stood at number 1 in the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound decennial poll of critics, and it topped the American Film Institute's 100 Years . Citizen Kane is frequently cited as the greatest film ever made. The picture was Welles' first feature film.

Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles.

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